Comments on: RPS in Paris: Empire Of Sports

By: Matthew Blake

Matthew Blake — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:01:06 +0000

@Coherent: Because this will hopefully get more people to try out MMOs and break the fatass WoW gamer stereotype. Either way, it’s broadening what an MMo can be, and that can only be a good thing.

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[...] to pay for all the development cleverness? F4 Group have mentioned that they would like to make Empire Of Sports entirely ad-funded, and it makes sense to do so, given the [...]

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Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:29:58 +0000

[...] publishes my preview of Empire of Sports from the same trip Jim described here. Being a preview, I talk about the game a wee bit more, starting like this… You knew that, [...]

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Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:37:09 +0000

[...] when we talked about Empire of Sports, the upcoming altheticism-based MMO? No, of course you don’t. You never remember anything. [...]

By: Coherent

Coherent — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:59:46 +0000

Oh yeah, and this is an incredibly stupid idea for an MMO that just perpetuates the fatass gamer stereotype. Why play a sports MMO when you can just go outside and play sports for real?

By: Coherent

Coherent — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:57:16 +0000

Eating bunnies is like eating cats and dogs. Bunnies are pets and companions, not food! It’s only excusable if you’re actually starving to death and have no other protein source. :( :( :( for bunny-meat dinners!

I’m not much of a francophobe, but this is a good reason to hate the french.

By: Zeno, Internetographer

Zeno, Internetographer — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:39:38 +0000

World of SportsCraft

By: tom

tom — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:26:55 +0000

Surely they could double the membership by making it orc tennis or elf rugby..

By: F'yth

F'yth — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:44:51 +0000

I can’t say I’m too fond of the “Its a sports game!” thing. On the other hand, their hub system is intriguing to say the least. I could see a match-based FPS, such as UT, making good use of something like that..

Therefore, while I’m not overly excited about a sports MMO; if succesfull, it might be able to change our perceptions of what an MMO is. This in turn could lead to further innovations (like the fore-mentioned hub-based FPS complete with character customistation).

Here’s hoping they succeed.

By: Zeno, Internetographer

Zeno, Internetographer — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:25:32 +0000

Well, sports games were never my cup of tea, but it is good to see a developer doing something new with the MMO model. What really needs to happen is for this to lead to Empire of Errand-Running and Empire of Small Claims Court.

By: vasagi

vasagi — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:13:47 +0000

sports mmo nah

you need a very good match making service in there or people with time to grind are gonna pwn every one, with the equal of sports style ganking!

will be interested to see how this pans out.

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:48:08 +0000

One of the things which they’re talking about is, down the line, supporting it solely off advertising, which kind of increases its casual credentials even more.

(And, of course, heavy advertising in a sports game is the one game type advertising thing we WOULD accept without blinking)

Their approach to the games is, via the controls, making the sports game completely different in terms of how they play to the traditional model. Yeah, it’s not FIFA… but it’s something else, which hopefully justifies itself. Hopefully.

(My piece should go live over at EG sooner or later)