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IMMA CHARGIN MAH FIFAH

In this eloquent blog entry by EA Sports’ Peter Moore, he critisized good, wholesome sites like Eurogamer for not bothering to put FIFA’s latest cloned offering in their Christmas top 50 games of 2008. Seriously, I think the man is delusional. So delusional I’m going to actually answer all the angry questions he put in that entry myself, and highlight some of the worst mistakes you can make as a public-recognised games figurehead. Here goes.

Firstly, happy holidays to everyone in EA SPORTS Nation. I hope you all have had a restful few days and have been able to get your sports fix in front of the TV without your wife/girlfriend/mom/mum giving you a bad time…

Okay, no, no, no. Apparently, according to one of the figureheads of EA Sports, men are the only people who play sports related video games, and furthermore, women are more than simply obstacles to playing videogames at Christmas. In fact, I’m hoping you’re not in a relationship, because if you are you better hope she’s not reading your blog ;)

I scrolled quickly all the way to the number one spot…Huh? WTF?? As in WHERE THE HELL IS FIFA 09???

Oh boy. You’ve gone from middle aged man to twelve year old Halo player in the space of half a line. Nice FIFA acronym. I like mine more than yours, though.

Now I get that the sports genre is the Rodney Dangerfield of games when the awards are handed out. But c’mon, one of the best sports games of recent times not even in the Top 50? This title will sell in excess of 10 million units when all is done and dusted, but doesn’t even rank a mention?

I’m sorry, since when did random games not in a list get mentions in a list? Are you seriously suggesting that Eurogamer add a PS to their top 50 saying “Oh, by the way, we like FIFA 09′?

Really? Seriously? Is it not cool to include a so-called mass market game? Bangai-O Spirits (no disrespect Treasure) makes it and FIFA 09 doesn’t?

Bit hard not to mean any disrespect to a developer reading your blog if you’ve just stated your game is better than theirs. Though, interesting irony here, as he’s comparing two games that couldn’t be less similar.

Eurogamer – you are and always will be one of my favorite gaming web-sites, but you were waaaay offside on this one.

No sense of humour, no sense of humour… oh wait! A football joke! But I liked the bit where you told a website that its collective opinion was wrong. I think “opinion”‘s dictionary entry needs to be broadcast all over the Internet, sometimes.

Rant over – Happy New Year to all.

(storms off to raise money for Steven Gerrard’s legal defense)

If it were me, it’d be EA’s legal defense I’d be thinking about after publically acting this immaturely.

There’s passion, and then there’s arrogance. I expected it from people commenting on the article on Eurogamer. I didn’t expect this from one of the people involved with one of the titles millions around the world purchase every year. Maybe the reason it didn’t get in might have something to do with the fact it was the best game of, say, 2005, but since then, nothing has actually changed? If you’re not willing to make anything original, what’s the point in advocating your product as such? Best games series of all time, yeah, I’d think you’d definitely deserve a mention, and I don’t even like football that much. But even Sonic Unleashed was a more original take on a stagnating series of games than FIFA ’09 was, Pete. Lay off, and grow up.