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Cool card: EA Sports FC 25 game will appear in Russia at the same time as the world
EA Sports Football Club 25 game will appear in Russia at the same time as the international release date, domestic marketplaces confirmed to Izvestia. The international release of the project is expected on September 27. The most popular among gamers from the Russian Federation, according to sales data, virtual soccer simulator will be available in physical disk format for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4 and Xbox consoles. Experts predict a new round of success for the series, despite the change of name (until 2023 it was called FIFA). One of the factors of increased interest will be the fact that in the novelty will appear such stars of world soccer as Gianluigi Buffon and Eden Hazard.
When EA Sports FC 25 will appear in online stores
The Yandex.Market platform will open sales of EA Sports Football Club 25 on the day of the game's international launch, September 27. M.Video-Eldorado Group will bring disks with the game in the last week of September.
- The digital version of EA Sports FC FIFA 25 will be available for purchase on September 27. A couple of days later, the disk version will be available for customers. We believe that the demand for the novelty will be as high as for the previous ones. For example, sales of FC 24 FIFA for one year are already 40% higher than FC 23 FIFA for two years, - said the representative of the marketplace.
EA Sports FC 25 is a new installment of the famous simulation game developed by Electronic Arts. This is the second version of the product created by the American company after breaking relations with the international federation FIFA. Such famous footballers as Eden Hazard and Gianluigi Buffon will appear in it.
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The main innovations concern the key Ultimate Team mode ("Absolute Team"), where players can assemble their own team from their favorite players of the present and the past. The new game features an updated Rush mini-soccer mode, where players can play against each other in a five-on-five format. In addition, for the first time in the series' history, the animation of the opening of athletes' cards, which remains an important part of the user experience, has been improved.
The game will appear in the Wildberries assortment seven to ten days after the release of the premium edition, which took place on September 20 for owners, said Dmitry Borshevsky, an official representative of the marketplace. The soccer simulator will also appear on Ozon's online storefront, but only in October, when it will be brought by the platform's sellers, the company's press office said.
The ball is coming to us
According to Sergei Mezin, head of "Game Development and Gaming Community" department of M.Video-Eldorado Group, EA Sports FC series is very popular in Russia. Thus, in the period from 2013 to 2024, almost 800 thousand copies of this game were sold in the network of the united company.
- EA Sports FC 25 has all the prerequisites for success among Russian gamers. Despite the name change after parting ways with FIFA, the series retains a loyal fan base in Russia, where soccer remains one of the most popular sports. Improvements in graphics, gameplay and online modes, as well as the retention of important team and player licenses, make the game attractive to a wide audience. The combination of these factors is expected to generate strong sales and player engagement in the online community," commented XYZ, an online school in game development.
Скриншот из игры EA Sports Football Club 25
Electronic Arts has accustomed its players to buying the updated version every year, even if to an outside observer it seems that the changes are not very significant. 2023 showed that no amount of restrictions on buying from console online stores will stop virtual soccer players from buying the next iteration, said Yaroslav Meshalkin, managing partner of digital communications agency Heads'made. He predicts a high sales figure for EA Sports FC 25 in Russia.
Sports simulators like NBA, NHL and Football Club remain one of the most stable sources of revenue for EA Arts, added Svyatoslav Pegov, director of the Center for Sports Programming, Algorithmic Robotics, Cybersecurity and Cybersport.
Скриншот из игры EA Sports Football Club 25
- Sports simulators are one of the revenue pillars of global game publishers. In 2021, EA earned $1.62 billion on Ultimate Team mode, which accounted for 29% of the company's total revenue. And that's just in-game purchases! In 2023, revenue from the sports simulation segment rose to $1.712 billion. Reputable market analysts say that EA is one of the few companies immune to the economic storms raging at the moment," he said.
The Football Club series owes its success with the Russian audience to the "absolute team" mode, and as long as it remains in the game, we should not expect a drop in interest, said Maxim Zalilov, head of the cybersport direction of the Moscow Center for Educational Practices.
- An important factor will be the timely delivery of the game on September 27. Let me remind you that last year it took Russian stores almost three weeks to deliver the EA Sports FC 24 video game to store shelves due to logistical problems. This year we are not lagging behind the global release," Maxim Zalilov said.
Скриншот из игры EA Sports Football Club 25
According to Alexander Gorbachenko, Director of the Intercontinental Cybersports League, FIFA fans will enjoy EA Sports FC 25 in any case, and the sales figures will set new records, including in the Russian Federation.
