Stereotyping abound, as video gaming is blamed for yet another unfavourable event.
The assistant manager for 'popular' football (that's soccer to the yanks out there) team Bolton Wanderers, Chris Evans, made the bizarre claim that England's national football team lost their recent qualifying match because of video games.
Most of the English team are in their late 20s and early 30s; hardly the typical age for hardcore video gamers. And hey, if they're going to stereotypically blame video games, how about blaming the stereotype of the "play boy" life style these professional divers lead?
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A look into the sad trajectory of indie games from high successful releases to complete irrelevancy in just a few weeks or months.
That's the thing with gaming there's always new experiences to have why spend months or years playing a single game when there's a new experience right around the corner.
Indie or AAA if your building your game expecting long term player counts you'll probably be disappointed as gamers often enjoy something for a few weeks and move on only to return if it's truely a classic.
Out of all the generations I've experienced there's games from 30 plus years ago I still dust off and play like super Mario bros, earthbound, vice city and san Andreas being games I treasure and revisit every few years but I'm not going back to play a game designed to keep me engaged for months on end because it's also designed to milk my wallet in most cases.
Build a great game that people love make it playable offline and ask does it matter if the concurrent player count is under 100 a year post launch more often that not it doesn't
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What a poor article. And yes the BWFC coach makes a good point. Video Games although they themselves havn't coursed the england defeat directly (a poor manager did) they have effected the amount of people who are taking up the sport at younger ages. Alot of kids now play computer games rather than going out and playing football in there spare time. This has effected the amount of people coming through the training system and thus there is less and less new young england players each year.
When the article writer says
'Most of the English team are in their late 20s and early 30s; hardly the typical age for hardcore video gamers. And hey, if they’re going to stereotypically blame video games, how about blaming the stereotype of the “play boy” life style these professional divers lead? '
Shows how little he knows and has taken the wrong approach to what was said. He seems to think video games has effected the actual current england players, when that isn't true it actually has effected some of the people who COULD be england players right about now and that could have made an impact. Also calling football players divers and claiming that they all have 'play-boy' lifestyles shows that he doesn't give a dam about the sport anyway and thus will always show a negitive light towards the sport
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this is a joke man...blaming my lovely video games for the stupidty of the england team. we lost just because the boys thought it will be a stroll in the park kmt. media+england footie=total shate
Why don't they blame it on the fact that they havent put enough money into football academies in this country Brazil spend the most and have some of the worlds best players.
they dont even have many good soccer players. Look it up. They have Rooney and thats about it.
They will be lucky to even make the world cup
The Premire League is made up of non english players
David Beckman is a bum
lost that's it.