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EA Sports FC 24 player count soars to over eleven million

That FIFA name was, after all, just four letters on a box

Marco Wutz

EA Sports FC 24 player count soars to over eleven million
EA Sports FC 24 player count soars to over eleven million /

The player count for EA Sports FC 24 is looking healthy: Since the soccer game launched on September 29, 2023, over 11.3 million players have been registered as logging into the game, according to GamesIndustry. Almost as many, 11.2 million users, have played EA Sports FC Mobile in a similar time frame.

“In addition to welcoming back millions of our longtime players, new players in FC 24 are up nearly 20% year over year, showing the excitement of football fans everywhere to join the Club,” the publication cited EA Sports president Cam Weber.

EA FC 24 pack opening animation with a player dancing.
That's how I imagine EA Sports FC's crew to greet those numbers / EA Sports

That should put any remaining doubts about the future of EA Sports’ soccer simulations to rest. While the company’s decision to ditch world soccer association FIFA as a partner, which had lent its name to the iconic game series for decades, certainly was a bold and shocking one, it’s also been a massive success. Without any rival product with the FIFA name – something the association apparently had no time to put together with another studio – that could have brought some confusion into the whole matter for the most casual fans, it was easy for EA Sports FC to bring its players over without any great losses.

EA Sports is now saving billions of dollars it'd otherwise have to pay for World Cup rights that are only relevant every four years and “four letters on a box,” as EA’s chief Andrew Wilson reportedly put it at one point. The studio also has more creative freedom and – going by how many in-game advertising deals it has made for this iteration – can more freely exploit the title as well in that regard.

For more on the game, you can read our EA Sports FC 24 review, check out the best EA Sports FC 24 wonderkids in career mode, and learn everything you need to know about EA Sports FC 24 Ultimate Team Evolutions. EA Sports FC 24 is now out on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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