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Why Are There No Sports MMO Games?

Posted by Zonk on from the mmo-madden dept.

Brian P. writes "With the online gaming market growing at a remarkable rate and new games being announced frequently, why have developers and publishers shied away from creating an MMO sports game? Online fantasy leagues are bigger than ever and online sports games such as Madden '05 are huge franchises. It seems to me that a logical evolution of this trend would be a gaming experience that lets a player start out as a street-baller and work their way up to virtual super-athlete status. The possibilities are endless...but obviously there's something seriously wrong with the concept because all we keep getting are tiresome sword and sorcery games and online adaptations of megafranchises such as Star Wars."

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  1. Two Links... by xaqar · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.ultimatebaseballonline.com/

    - and -

    http://www.justfuckinggoogleit.com/

  2. Why does no one search /. before submitting story? by Kleedrac2 · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you look here there's an MMO baseball game I played during Beta last year. It's actually alot of fun. Give it a try.

    Kleedrac

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    Sure we wang, can.
  3. Ultimate Baseball Online by Mike+Rubits · · Score: 2, Informative

    Has no one ever heard of this game before?

    http://www.ultimatebaseballonline.com/ (Warning: Very IE biased)

    All the "technical limitations" mentioned elsewhere in this story aren't present - very rarely do you drop a catch from lag, or miss a pitch because of the same. Of course it helps if you're on broadband.

  4. Re:Neat concept but... by 91degrees · · Score: 3, Informative

    Soccer is a contraction of "Association football". Of course, almost everyone in the rest of the world call this game football.

  5. Re:Where's the other MMORPG's? by JavaLord · · Score: 2, Informative

    How about a Western based MMORPG? Gunfights, bank and train robbers, miner 49ers, saloons, gambling, Deadwood....on and on and on.... Just wondering. Probably not much call for it

    Actually there is one in development. Fronteir 1859 is a western based MMORPG which is also going to feature PvP that is policed by the players. It should be interesting.