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usedmac · Dec 10, 2001, 09:18 PM

This a petition I am trying to get going. We need more sports games on the Mac. Please sign and help us out!

Sign Here!!!

[ 12-10-2001: Message edited by: usedmac ]

Tristrami · Dec 10, 2001, 09:30 PM

Erm...no we don't.

usedmac · Dec 10, 2001, 09:35 PM

We Don't need sports games? There are fun games besides first person shooters you know.....

Archangel · Dec 10, 2001, 09:50 PM

I would never buy one. Sorry.

juanvaldes · Dec 10, 2001, 10:17 PM

I'm with these guys...sorry. I haven't played a sport games since Ken Griffy Jr MLBB back on the SNES. If I played sports games I would, but I don't and even if they were available I would not buy them.

Good luck!

usedmac · Dec 10, 2001, 10:34 PM

Unfortunately (for me) this seems to be the opinion of the mac community. I don't understand it but I accept it. Maybe I should just get and XBOX or a PeeCee.

MinivanH8R · Dec 10, 2001, 11:12 PM

Sorry, I tried refraining myself from replying to this topic, but I couldn't help it

I think sports games are just completely retarded. If I want to play basketball, I'll get my ball and go shoot hoops in my driveway, or go to a local full sized court. Same goes for baseball.

This is why America is so fat and lazy. Instead of getting out and exercising by playing sports, we can just watch them on tv and play them on video games instead!

Adam Thomson · Dec 10, 2001, 11:13 PM

Sports games are cool! Just because you guys never played sports in "Real Life" Dosen't mean you can't enjoy them now.

usedmac · Dec 10, 2001, 11:32 PM

Thanks for signing. Tell your friends!!!

dvd · Dec 11, 2001, 12:40 AM

do those online petitions ever work?

Dec 11, 2001, 08:08 AM

Originally posted by dvd:
do those online petitions ever work?

I can't think of a single petition that has ever worked. I know for a fact that Mac publishers are aware of the desire for sports games on the Mac - they're all hardcore gamers themselves.

The lack of sports games on the Mac is twofold: Madden didn't exactly perform well in terms of sales (the licensing costs on these titles are a bitch, or so I've heard), and there are a number of technical hurdles that are outside of a Mac game company's direct control to bring EA sports titles to the Mac.

Personally, I think it's pretty unlikely that we'll ever see EA sports titles on the Mac again, but you never know. If it does happen, I'm guessing it'll be limited to EA sports titles done by Tiburon, e.g. Madden.

Brad

Stevie · Dec 11, 2001, 11:11 AM

Try Championship Manager from www.feral.co.uk it's by far the best sports game on the macintosh, and the best PC sport game too!

Feral are the mac publishers.

Macfreak7 · Dec 11, 2001, 02:42 PM

NEED FOR SPEED! (or a similar racing game, GT maybe?)

thats the only game i need now.

usedmac · Dec 11, 2001, 03:41 PM

Originally posted by Stevie:
Try Championship Manager from www.feral.co.uk it's by far the best sports game on the macintosh, and the best PC sport game too!

Feral are the mac publishers.

Games made by Feral are not available here in the US. I'm glad to see that they are bringing another racing (though it is 2 years late). It seems like importing a game from the UK is kind of a waste of money though.

CaseCom · Dec 12, 2001, 04:43 AM

Originally posted by <Brad Oliver>:
The lack of sports games on the Mac is twofold: Madden didn't exactly perform well in terms of sales (the licensing costs on these titles are a bitch, or so I've heard), and there are a number of technical hurdles that are outside of a Mac game company's direct control to bring EA sports titles to the Mac.

I can imagine ... first you have to pay the NFL for the rights to use the team names and logos, and then you have to pay the players union for the right to use the players' names.

I was among the select few who bought Madden 2000. It was okay ... but I prefer cerebral sports games to the hand-eye coordination ones. ... you know, the ones where you are the coach/manager, not the players.

I remember years ago playing a text-only NCAA college hoops game, I guess it ran on DOS ... You were the coach, and you set your own starting lineup and decided when to substitute players and call timeouts ... that was cool!

I'd love it if someone made a game like that for baseball or basketball ... of course I'd probably be the only one who bought it.

parallax · Dec 12, 2001, 09:04 PM

Bletch.

Sports games only appeal to a specific group of people, and these people are usually playing PS2 or X-Box anyway. It wouldn't be profitable or healthy for the players.

Play sports outside, the way they were meant to be played!

Tristrami · Dec 13, 2001, 01:07 AM

I agree!

If I want to play baseball or football, I get some people together and play.

However, if I want to frag robots, fly a WWII plane into combat, kill dragons or other similarly far-fetched scenarios, I play a game on a computer....

ddregs · Dec 13, 2001, 02:12 AM

I want sport games, I neither have PSX nor X-Box nor plant to purchase one.

I really love Formula-1, Soccer and BasketBall. And I actively play soccer and basketball with my friends every monday and friday night.
That isn't the point.

The point is those are games as well as the others, and loving that kind of games isn't forbidden yet...

Stan Jobson · Dec 15, 2001, 09:30 PM

I also want sport games...I want to see some Madden, Live, Triple Play...all the EA sport games...I don't have a PS2 or an X-Box, so I want these games on my mac...

Dec 15, 2001, 10:57 PM

Well some people don't get it:
1st person shooters, strategy games -> Mac/PC
sports games/good RPGs/fast paced racers -> console

sterlingapple#6 · Dec 18, 2001, 10:49 AM

I agree, i'm a macintosh owner and i love sports too, but i don't think the mac market is to interested. there' s a reason why we don't have very many, it's to bad :-(

i went out and bought a dreamcast for 50 bucks and nfl 2k1, nba 2k1. so i can use that for sports games. you should think about it.

unfortunatly we just like the "wrong" platform. buy a console. i agree, it would rock, but we just aren't going to see EA bring there entire catalog to the macintosh.

Jim

usedmac · Dec 18, 2001, 12:21 PM

Originally posted by sterlingapple#6:
I agree, i'm a macintosh owner and i love sports too, but i don't think the mac market is to interested. there' s a reason why we don't have very many, it's to bad :-(

i went out and bought a dreamcast for 50 bucks and nfl 2k1, nba 2k1. so i can use that for sports games. you should think about it.

unfortunatly we just like the "wrong" platform. buy a console. i agree, it would rock, but we just aren't going to see EA bring there entire catalog to the macintosh.

Jim

I've actually been thinking about the Dreamcast. How does it compare graphics wise with the PS2, XBOX, and gamecube?

Brad Oliver · Dec 20, 2001, 10:08 AM

Originally posted by usedmac:
I've actually been thinking about the Dreamcast. How does it compare graphics wise with the PS2, XBOX, and gamecube?

If you can pick up a Dreamcast for $50, it's a steal. A lot of people feel that graphically, it's in the same ballpark as the PS2. It's certainly leaps and bounds ahead of the original PSX. For $10 a pop, you can get some great games: Virtua Tennis, Jet Grind Radio, Space Channel 5, Crazy Taxi and a number of the Sega sports games. The key is to act fast - most places are clearing out their DC stuff right now, so odds are if you want something on the DC, it won't be around much longer.

Brad

Elvin · Dec 20, 2001, 05:42 PM

Sports games are a lot of fun...if they are your thing. Some of us may not be able to go find 17 other friends to go play ball. Anyone remember playing Hardball 1 or 2 on their Mac? Good stuff. Personally I would love to see the FIFA series on my Mac.

tfs76 · Dec 20, 2001, 11:46 PM

I would love it if there were sports games for the Mac. It sucks that Madden 2000 is the only legit one and it's two years old but I guess that's what the Playstation 2 and XBox is for.

waffffffle · Dec 21, 2001, 07:25 AM

As a non-gamer reading this thread this is really quite funny. I mean, you guys sound like girls! I personally don't know a thing about computer games, but any guy understands sports games. Playing sports games is a guy thing, a social thing, and I can understand why they won't do well on the Mac, but the fact that all of you have this personal distaste for sports games is quite funny.

Sorry for that, but it's true.

Dec 21, 2001, 03:14 PM

Originally posted by waffffffle:
As a non-gamer reading this thread this is really quite funny. I mean, you guys sound like girls! I personally don't know a thing about computer games, but any guy understands sports games. Playing sports games is a guy thing, a social thing, and I can understand why they won't do well on the Mac, but the fact that all of you have this personal distaste for sports games is quite funny.

Sorry for that, but it's true.

agreed

Dec 21, 2001, 11:03 PM

Some of you guys argue that sports games are "retarded" and people should play sports in real life, when then, why play first/third person shooters? Why not round up a couple of guys for paintball? Why not participate in the role playing elements of the Renaissance Faire than play a rpg computer game? Some of you guys tell other mac users who to get a PC or an xbox. If you put it that way, why bother with a mac at all? PC have more graphic card options, more games, more graphics programs, more business programs, and more valued from the eyes of the computer industry than Apple or the Mac. The point is that we should not say things that hurt the mac platform like, "If you like games go buy a PC not a mac." It's like saying the PC is better than the Mac because it's more versatile. That's pure B.S. The Mac is as capable as a PC, it's just than the amount of true mac gamers are lacking in numbers compared to the PC gamers. Cut the guy who started this post some slack.