BACKGROUND
Originally posted by shpankey
Actually, he said "and no one is saying fifa is going to suck or that pes is better.. so I think you may want to apply your grandpa's phrase to yourself."
Which is what I was replying to.
I cannot believe I earned my DD-214 for slack-jawed prokaryotics like you. You are, definitively, what I am forced to hear about everywhere I go in this world; and, like a fool, I keep saying "Americans aren't like that, we aren't like that!" Apparently, these folks must all go right to your hometown, and return to places known and unknown and say "MAN! Americans..."
Bottom line it for us, Maynard:
(1) Might the fact that EA's promotion and marketing engine continues to tell us things that the concomitant games fail to provide provide us with reasonable insights into what future games - and their accompanying claims, might mean?
(2) Might it in fact be true that each nad every one of these previews take place among EA Canada/EA Marketing personnel, all armed with media packs from which the vast majority of preview content is drawn, like every other major game launch on the ****ng planet?
(3) Might game previews in general, hype as arule, and large corporate hype from corporate gaming entities be part of the overall strategy of these magazines, websites, etc. to keep themselves relevant? Or do you think that the mags and sites would make oney by telling us the truth; that 95% of what's produced in the industry is crap you'll have on your drive (or in your console) for less than ten days, that the industry is modeled in such a way as to force the production of such feculence in order to lift the rarefied %5 o their shoulders, giving us what we in fact deserve by a process that's just as much stumble-bum luck (Tetris) as it is rigourous, creative thought (Half-Life)?
(4) I've been in game development with Sega GameWorks (opening gaming venues for them in Dallas/Grapevine, Ontario CA, and South Maimi FL), The Walt Disney Company (ESPNZone, opening venues in New York City/Times Square and Washington D.C. while also honing game development and flow concepts in the original Baltimore unit), and was also GM of Games and Attractions Development for WWF New York (and the now defunct concept of WWF Las Vegas). At those venues I worked with companies like Hyperware, Namco, Midway, SEGA (of course), and systems engineers like Clair Bros, SOUNDELUX and Iguana systems to create attractions like "Vertical Reality," and many many others, while providing for the development of console-based gaming to augment the attractions, all pre X-Box...
After that, I became Head oF Special Projects for the Confederation of North, Central American, and Caribbean Association Football, CONCACAF for short. As you're an idiot who also happens to share my citizenship, CONCACAF is the (realtively failed) version of UEFA; there are six confederations of FIFA, one for each continent where there is football played on a regular basis. There I became a lead member of the e-FIFA program, a CONCACAF delegate to the 2002 World Cup, and intimate with ISL (the original license manager for FIFA endeavours) and the newly-launched FIFA Marketing AG. I've SEEN yearly license contracts between ISL and Electronic Arts, mooncalf. Unlike you, I've taken the time to actually read EA's Annual Reports...I know Stu Cristal, who licenses MLS to EA for the FIFA series...After discovering that CONCACAF's leadership was as committed to the development of football in our region as you are to authentic knowlege regarding gaming and gaming development, I left to pursue this PhD in SPorts Studies at the Univ. of Stirling, here in the Kingdom, while also writing a book about the whole time, curretnly entitled
POLITICAL ANIMALS: 30 months among the heroes and villians of world football.
I said all that to say that probably more than anyone here, I can speak to both notions of authentic football gaming in terms of both development and licensing and the actual competitions.
All that, coupled with the very easily knowable, searchable, Google-able, info regarding EA's history, simply has lead me to submit that (1) their claims, and the claims of their friends in the magazine industry, are less than worthless, and (2) that they DESERVE healthy skepticism.
For you to submit anything else means that you are looking at the facts of the evidence that's in front of you, and reacting to it in relation to an entirely different stimulus than myself. And that's okay; looking at your resultant posts, I can see how you and I might have a different chromosome or two.
Just don't tell me I don't know what I'm talking about; if I don't know than you are, informationally-speaking, breaking nuts with stones and still hoping to discover fire. Iggy.
Now let's keep the conversation above the Cro-Magnon level, shall we?