Soccer online plx

Dudadei

I'm from Brasil, I really love soccer, but all the games of soccer online that I found were korean  , do you all don't think that a soccer game in english would be great?

RemyVorender

It would have to come from a European or South American company. North America would rather watch paint dry then soccer. Don't kill the messenger, I only speak the truth. Now, of course there are exceptions to the rule, but they are the vast minority.

acmtalk

 

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Originally posted by remyburke
It would have to come from a European or South American company. North America would rather watch paint dry then soccer. Don't kill the messenger, I only speak the truth. Now, of course there are exceptions to the rule, but they are the vast minority.

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That's changing my friend,  Sure it won't be bigger then american football,baseball etc.., But soccer is getting bigger and bigger every day in US,   Most schools are playing it now, They are adding 3 more teams to the MLS next year,  Its just a questiong of time to soccer to become US 4th sport,  loosing to baseball/football/basketball..

ohh!!  NCsoft is creatting a "street soccer/fight mmo"....

MW2K

Aren't there enough MMORPGs out there now where you end with a scoreless draw and nobody's happy?

Darkchronic

Football. 

frkhot97

Can I solo?

Well I admit it would be fun to play, World Online Cups and so on. I'm sure it would be possible to handle lag in a skillbased soccer game and getting those lvl 2 adidas sneakers. But forming two 11 player teams might be too hard, or managing a team with more players and only using the best players in the actual match.

Knightblast

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Originally posted by remyburke
It would have to come from a European or South American company.

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That's basically wrong.

The very succesful (I mean both in North America and elsewhere) FIFA series is made by Electronic Arts, very much a North Ameican company.  Not all North American companies are so myopic as to only consider the US/Canada market when thinkiing about what games to create and market.  True, they may sell more units outside North America, but the market for soccer games internationally is mind bogglingly huge.

nomadian

Pro Evo if you want soccer online.

Suitepee

I'm sure there is a Half-Life mod that involves soccer/football.

OmegaLet

I don't think soccer will ever become popular in the US. or at least it will take a long time. The national news shows a soccer game about once a year, (world cup is an exception). I think once its actually on TV more it will be accepted more in America. Theres also the aspect of the soccer mom, which I have no fuckin clue how that became an idea. Soccer all throughout the world is a fan crazed sport, almost a religion. In America its a sport that if you put ur kid into it they will learn the various skills of teamwork, social skills, and just have a fun time. It disgusts me how Americans view soccer. I play soccer (have since I was about 5, 17 now) and I hate the attitudes parents have towards it. I can't stand being on the sidelines of a game with parents watching. They all yell out things thinking they will know what is going on, when most often there wasn't even the option to play soccer in their day, and then you have the soccer moms. Now I'm not just talking about females here, its just a phrase. The soccer mom has ruined the game of soccer for Americans. Its just not the same.


I rambled too much


Soccers good though.

Gameloading

Its called football. not Soccer.

NCsoft is working on a football title, you might want to check that out.

Darkchronic

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Originally posted by Gameloading
Its called football. not Soccer.

NCsoft is working on a football title, you might want to check that out.

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Blame the Americans.

Skidbag

Soccer isn't queer.

MW2K

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Originally posted by Gameloading
Its called football. not Soccer.

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Depends where you're from, and if there's more than one code of football being played. There's four where I'm from, all they're all called football by their fans.

Amarao

Wait till NCsoft brings our Soccer Fury.

Knightblast

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Originally posted by OmegaLet
 I think once its actually on TV more it will be accepted more in America.

Well, MLS actually IS on TV a lot.  The problem is that there are a lot of other sports that displace soccer/football in the US.  The US sports calendar is full: baseball from spring to fall, football in fall to early winter, basketball frm late fall to early summer ... there is no time of year when there isn't another major sport happening, and that more than anything else hampers the popularity of professional soccer/football in the USA and Canada.

 Soccer all throughout the world is a fan crazed sport, almost a religion.

There is a tribal element to soccer that just really isn't present in American sport to the same degree.  Some of our older cities have quasi-tribal sports allegiances, but there are so many new teams all the time, and North Americans are generally so mobile in general, that the kind of tribalism that supports soccer/football around the rest of the world is largely absent from American sport.

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Having said all of that, soccer/football video games do tend to sell well in the US ... at least the ones that are twitch-based like the FIFA series and Winning Eleven.  The more "manager-based" ones seem not to be a hit in Canada and the US, however.

galapagos

I'm thinking of all the roleplaying possibilities for the Hooligan class.

apertotes

[quote]Originally posted by Novaseeker

Originally posted by remyburkeIt would have to come from a European or South American company.

That's basically wrong.The very succesful (I mean both in North America and elsewhere) FIFA series is made by Electronic Arts, very much a North Ameican company.[/b][/quote]

well, it is true that FIFA is very succesful. but it is just as true that it is a very bad football game.