For whatever fucking reason, EA still insist on using their own servers for their games and typically the servers being used for FIFA 12 will crap out on you if you try to do anything from saving a replay to trying to play Ultimate Team.
Despite this, 271 million matches have already been played online by the game’s five million or so owners, making this the biggest selling sports game ever. Yep, even more than Ashes 2009 and Jimmy White’s Snooker.
Let’s hope EA reinvest some of those profits on a server that’s not made out of canabalised Amstrad CPC464s. Rich