FIFA 17 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here

[Krebstar]

Quote: Originally Posted by GR5Noles

anybody else having trouble finding the demo on PS4?

Yes. It's just nowhere to be found if you're on the PS4 looking at PSN.

If I try and queue it up using the link from the first post it just sits as waiting for a long time with nothing happening even though I'm looking blankly at my PS4 waiting for the download to start.

[Necrosis]

Quote: Originally Posted by Brahvocado

The plus side of the demo being bad is it almost assures that the launch version of the game will be good. The game changes pretty drastically from demo to launch, and has pretty much always been the opposite of how the demo played. FIFA 12(or was it 11?)/13/14 were the best recent Fifa games and their demos were garbage. 11/15/16 had great and super promising demos but the full games took 7 months of slider tweaking to make them playable. Just something to keep in mind, the demo is basically one last beta test by EA, and they always end up changing things, drastically even.

That's not the case. A demo is almost always a build from months ago. That is why the final game usually can feel drastically different. They don't change anything in these final 2 weeks based off the demo.

[Krebstar]

Couldn't find the demo in the US PSN at all, finally switched over to my UK account and boom there it is featured right on PSN.

[BSDShoes]

Been playing the PC demo, holy crap it's such a good game, I hated FIFA 15 and 16, 14 was a bit bad but tolorable but FIFA 17 is where a modern soccer game should be. Let's hope EA doesn't mess with it from here on but I know they will.

[KG]

It brought me a lot of joy to stop Zaza's penalty as Handanovic.


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[Moses Shuttlesworth]

I'm enjoying the game. It's not any revolutionary change, though I don't think that's required. I think the only necessary improvements are more crisper controls and fewer cheesy shielding tactics. Only played 1 match so far but it felt good.

[Brahvocado]

Quote: Originally Posted by Necrosis

That's not the case. A demo is almost always a build from months ago. That is why the final game usually can feel drastically different. They don't change anything in these final 2 weeks based off the demo.

It is the case.

You are correct, in the sense that the demo is not the same build as the launch version. However, the demo is always a very specific build that EA wants played en mass. The first gameplay patch of a new Fifa release is based off feedback and data from both the launch version and the demo.

They talked about it a few years ago, with 14 I think. Unless this changed with 17, this has been their approach for a while now as far as I'm aware.

[Brahvocado]

Quote: Originally Posted by Josam27o7

RIP Fifa, the king is back -- LONG LIVE PES 2017!

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