| Cobretti2 said: 90% of the population even real moves that a few elite athletes can do are only possible in a game lol. People need to stop thinking they are Brady, Lebron in real live and the games are fun to play. |
| Ka-pi96 said: Are you suggesting that you could personally win any professional sports competition in the world? Well for most of us (and almost certainly you too) that is definitely something that's only possible in games |
I respect that. I know I can't play at the level that professionals do, but I still feel like it's the same basic thing. And I'm not against all traditional sports games. Things I kind of want to do in real life but would be afraid to/it would be illegal to, like racing and fighting, I can appreciate as video games. So I do still enjoy racers that aren't Mario Kart and fighters that aren't Street Fighter/Smash. To me though, games like American football, soccer, basketball, and the like are things I'd rather do in real life if I wanted to play them that much. Obviously I don't speak for everyone, and wasn't trying to. With that comment, I was just trying to say that while I agree with OP that it's pretty fucked up that EA ported FIFA but not Madden, as if FIFA was profitable enough to get the next year's installment then Madden should be as well, I personally am not that devastated as OP because it's not my style of game. I'm certainly not trying to speak for you guys.
That said, I also feel like EA's business model for their sports games is BS. Of all their franchises, the sports games are the ones that would benefit from an "as a service" model. With how few changes they make, you should be able to just buy one game from any year, and just pay to have the roster updated each year, models updated, and any new features they add. You'd only have to buy a new game when they make an all new engine for a new system or something. Rather than buying FIFA 14,15,16,17,18, etc, just buy FIFA. A generic FIFA that can be updated each year for a cost, or you could skip as many years as you feel like. Instead, they go for the annual release business model for EA Sports, and use the games as a service model for Star Wars, which deserves a standalone game release with a proper campaign and a single price point, and DLC that doesn't make the main game feel incomplete, and no microtransactions. Anything small enough to be a microtransaction deserves to be included in the $60 price tag.
But like OP said, EA is annoying. Understatement of the year.
