Electronic Arts tinkering with the idea of progressive career modes that carry over from game to game instead of always having to start from scratch with each new game.
Most likely FIFA or Madden will be the 1st game to include this feature but it isn't expected to occur with this year's set of games (2012 set). It is also rumored should EA bring back the MVP baseball series, this would be the first game to use it to counter The Show's features on the PS3.
EA is calling this plan a Persistent Player Profile and would affect any career or My Player mode found in their sports games.
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"It's no longer 'buy Madden 11 and then buy Madden 12 and start from scratch,'" Peter Moore, the EA Sports president, told the MI6 video game marketing conference in San Francisco. "It is 'take everything that you've done and migrate it and move it along.'"
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The plan is not meant to replace the standard of buying $60 games into being a DLC roster/game update but as a extra feature to their customers who buy their annual games and want to save some time from redoing their careers each year.
EA did try something similar in the past with the EA Sports Bio that tied games from the same sports series or all EA Sports games into a single account. Back then it was used to unlock stuff in other EA Sports games and not continue a career mode.
http://kotaku.com/#!5790020/ea-sport...atch-each-year
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Big rumor right now involves Microsoft planning a Free-to-Play Games service for Xbox Live to arrive next year as a way to capitalize games on the PC and iPhone/iPad that are free to play but require payments for extra weapons, maps, and stuff.
If done correctly, it opens the Xbox 360 for potential ports of F2P games already on the PC and to MMOs.