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revlob

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22 players in a multiplayer game isn't anything special, especially if you're a PC gamer. Battlefield 1942, released nearly five years ago, could easily throw 64 players onto a single map. Starsiege: Tribes, almost a decade old, could theorectically support up to 128 players online. And do I really need to mention the scale of today's MMORPGs?

So why do I bother bringing up this news item from Eurogamer:

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=77192

Electronic Arts hopes that FIFA will be able to support 11-versus-11 play in time for the 2010 World Cup - so that its "Virtual World Cup" will consist of each country's best 11 players competing side by side.

Few videogame franchises have run for so long, with so many incarnations, and remain as popular as FIFA. Could the attraction of full multiplayer football really sell online play to the masses? I've never been a fan of football games, but I could see myself getting excited over this. I believe it has the potential to transform the world of professional gaming.

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I'd agree it's interesting, and has the potential to be great. It also has the potential to be boring as fuck to play.

Theoretically, you could see a lot of the action, but you may also see almost none of it. If I was playing and only got to kick the ball a couple of times in a match, I would get pretty bored of it, real soon. Be interesting to see how they counter that.

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I'd agree it's interesting, and has the potential to be great. It also has the potential to be boring as fuck to play.

Theoretically, you could see a lot of the action, but you may also see almost none of it. If I was playing and only got to kick the ball a couple of times in a match, I would get pretty bored of it, real soon. Be interesting to see how they counter that.

Mini-games while you wait?

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The trouble is, wouldn't you spend a lot of time just standing around not doing anything, or running back and forth waiting for the ball?

It's surely another of those 'clever' ideas that aren't really 'good' ideas.

It depends, theres the danger of that but then againif youre playing with people you know with voice chat then it could be a great laugh.

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The trouble is, wouldn't you spend a lot of time just standing around not doing anything, or running back and forth waiting for the ball?

It's surely another of those 'clever' ideas that aren't really 'good' ideas.

You don't play football do you? :(

It would make each role very tatical, marking up, making good runs, creating space for yourself or a team mate etc.

If you get a bunch of people who are football minded this would be excellent, if you get a bunch of non football minded gamers you'll probably end up with a kids match with twenty players chasing the ball around.

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If you get a bunch of people who are football minded this would be excellent, if you get a bunch of non football minded gamers you'll probably end up with a kids match with twenty players chasing the ball around.

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I can see it now. Just like in Battlefield, where you'd get a dozen noobs queuing for planes, when they should be OUT FIGHTING THE GODDAMN WAR, I'm picturing half chasing the ball, and the other half crowding the opponent's goal in the hope the ball comes their way.

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I think 11v11 would be really difficult to pull off - fair dos if they manage it.

Maybe it might be better to start off with a more arcade style 5v5... could be something they build into the next FIFA Street.

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I think if they were doing 11 player teams, each player would be playing as "themselves", with characters they'd build up like in Top Spin or something.

Well, when I say I think that would happen, I mean it would make sense for that to happen. It being a FIFA game might mean they want to use real players for absolutely everything, I suppose.

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It's a great idea, but will inevitably be ruined by idiots. Just one griefer on a team could spoil it for the other 21 people.

I think it'd be one of those things where it would be arranged beforehand. So there'd be a rllmuk team and we'd play other pre arranged teams at prearranged times, and so forth. I doubt you would get decent 11v11 matches by logging in and hoping for a game.

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EA have been trialing something similar in S. Korea for a while now, so it's not so much a new thing as it is the doors being flung open to the masses who'd greatly appreciate it.

The only problem (to be fair, a rather large one) is it won't have mass market appeal. It'll be the online equivalent of the school playing field, where the useless fuckers get put in defence whilst the vaguely talented stay up front waiting for a long ball that'll never come.

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I've just had a great/rubbish idea! Someone could play as referee, in first-person perspective.

How about having a couple of lineo's as well. You could just flag offside all the time. Brilliant.

Not sure I'd want to spend the match as the fourth official though.

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Sounds good if you could get 11 disciplined people together - but it's gonna be school boy football all over again, everyone chasing the ball!

I wanna be midfield general! (as everyone else who connects to your game, I'd imagine!)

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