He was offered 10% of EA back when they were worth 30 million quid. EA is currently worth 37 billion.Originally Posted by Spikey M
He was offered 10% of EA back when they were worth 30 million quid. EA is currently worth 37 billion.
I'm not sure being responsible for FIFA should be considered a good thing, they've pioneered some of the worst practices in the entire industry.
Madden isn't responsible for the FIFA games.
Fifa came about as a result of the Madden games.
I think FIFA games would still have come out regardless.
That's why I said "Or atleast they wouldn't be as they are now". They would have made some kind of game, but god only knows how good or bad it would have been and what road they would have taken from there.
We could have ended up in an International Superstar Soccer dominant universe.
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I wish we had. Pro Evo's gone to shit now. I bought FIFA this year but I'm bollocks at it.
FIFA is basically a big sticker album now that has a side soccer game built in. Absolute magnet for idiots.
Sadly so. The Alex Hunter thing was good, but I think I'm right in that it's now gone back to just the dull career mode if you want to do anything other than the Untimate Team shite?
The Alex Hunter thing was shit, the story was far too boring.
The main modes are career (I think it's just a reskin every year, with no changes), Ultimate Team and VOLTA (street 3v3 football thing for the kids).
"Go on Alex. 'cor blimey, you can football." Goal had a more impressive plot and that starred a 45 year old Anna Friel trying to play a teenager.
A very, very weak soccer game at that.
You wouldn't know it's a billion dollar company who've been doing this for decades other than the license.
I have FIFA this year for the first time in over a decade. It's a good game in terms of the actual football. The Ultimate Team stuff is incomprehensible garbage, probably aimed at exploiting children as far as I can see. As an average to poor player I enjoy the career mode playing on 'professional' AI, gives me the sometimes-win-sometimes-lose challenge that makes it fun.
When I say it was good, you have to read "good" with the understanding that I bought it every year for about 4 years and must have played each version for about 10 hours over the year.
The Alex Hunter Stuff had me playing every evening for a couple of weeks, then I got bored again. I miss my childhood ability of being able to play "Road to the World Cup" for a solid year without tiring of it.
Fuck Fifa and Fuck EA Sports
I won't go into it again as I vented my spleen enough in the relevant thread but I thought the most recent version of FIFA I played was a really quite poor football game. Even taking aside all the horseshit they've draped around it which is now basically the game and it's all built for gambling addicts.
Agree with the view that Fifa is a bit shit these days, but I think this is more to-do with us getting old rather than the game itself.
It’s because it’s nothing like actual soccer, and has become further from it as the years have passed.
I went back to PES today and bumped it up to Superstar. The thing that kind of takes the wind out of my sails is how Top Player now feels a touch too easy. Superstar still feels like a fuck you. Losing games on the counter whilst you've not got enough space to put chances away. In the absence of a proper new one, this will have to do.
I got quite into ultimate team for a few years there, but a couple of years away is enough to look back and think what the fuck was I thinking. I remember my IRL mate telling me in detail how easy it was to make money if you just spent about 5 hours a day on the web app tracking players like a stockbroker and I thought I might have to get him sectioned.
If I had a child and I caught them watching FUT pack opening videos I'd put them up for adoption.
I'm more than happy to admit when I realise I'm just being a grumpy old shite, which is often, but in the case of FIFA I think I'm actually right.
People buy it because there is literally no competition and they want a football game.
Even if there was credible competition, you're asking them to break the habit of a lifetime. If you grow up playing FIFA, you expect FIFA things. Vice versa with Pro Evo.
Betty White
I thought she died a couple of years back.
Cursed her they did.
No points for her anyway, so who cares.
1 point.
Her 100th wasn't for another 2 weeks.
We doing a dead pool for 2022? I've a Notes, er, note that I've been adding to all year.
Gotta a) check none of them are dead and b) whittle the list of 12 down to 5.
I'm a twit
I look forward to you skimming through wikipedia articles and seeing if they're referred to in the past tense.
I'm pretty sure that Bernanke won unless someone died on that list since big Phil.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...t?usp=drivesdk
My original 2022 list wasToggle Spoilerbut I’ve whittled it down to:
Rob Burrow
Denis Law
Jeff Bridges
Tony Slattery
R-Kelly
I'm a twit
It's only fair I go early as the winner. 2022:
Dick Cheney
Ghislaine Maxwell
Gary Glitter
Woody Allen
Soros
June Brown
William Roache
John Lydon
Shigeru Miyamoto
Alain Prost
Ghislaine's not going near my list. She's not a talker and she keeps marrying rich blokes.
Prince Harry
Harvey Weinstein
Shane MacGowan (I swear I've picked him for the last 10 years)
Pele
Bam Margera.
Ozzy Osbourne
Keith Richards
Sir Garfield Sobers
HM the Queen
Jimmy Carter
Ric Flair
Doddie Weir
QE2
Gene Hackman
Bernie Ecclestone
The Queen
Attenborough
Bobby Charlton
Rob Burrow
Pele
Bam Margera
John Howard
Olivia newton-john
The Queen
Ghislaine Maxwell
Anthony Joshua
Ray Mears
Paula Abdul
Dwayne Johnson
Sienna Miller
His funeral today. My oddball brother in law is watching the live stream and posting blow by blow commentary and screenshots into the family group chat despite everyone ignoring him. Probably turn out he is doing it in work and be another contributing factor in his eventual dismissal (he turned up last Monday an hour late with his daughter in tow
My 2022 picks:
Charles Dance
Sheridan Smith
Joe Biden
Alan Sugar
Ron Jeremy
Billie Eilish
Drake
Lewis Hamilton
Gianni Infantino
Lil Uzi Vert
Pete Doherty
Morrissey
Glenn hoddle
Andrew Neil
Paul Simon
Bob Saget gone.
Damn, I was actually close to including Robert Durst in mine.
He looks about 98.
Shebby Singh.
Apoarent heart attack whilst out riding his bike. 61.
Former Malaysian national team player and sports broadcaster. Probably best known in the UK as being involved in the Blackburn Chicken takeover.
Thoroughly decent bloke.
Ronnie Spector, former lead singer of The Ronettes. 78.
Gary Waldhorn off've Vicar of Dibley yesterday too. They're running out of original cast members.
Meatloaf.
What a fucking weirdo he was. RIP.
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