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Sports fan and sports gamer, is there a difference? 
Posted on June 10, 2010 at 11:46 AM.
A sports fan enjoys a certain sport or sports. Some sports fans are ****** and others are die-hard. Some sports fans are very emotional. They get upset at a bad call or get excited when something is going right for their team or player.
The ****** sports fan watches a game here and there. The ****** fan more than likely will watch the World Series, A NBA Champion, a big fight, or any major event.

A sports gamer enjoys sports games hoping it captures the sport they love. You have some sports gamers who are die-hard and some who are ******.
The die-hard wants everything they see in a sports game to copy real life. Many ****** gamer could careless about depth and realism in a sports game as long as it says the name of the sport on the label.

I don't think there's no big difference between the two because they both have die-hard and ******s.

* I just wonder do one of them hurt game sells?
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# 1 malachijohn666 @ Jun 10
I think you summary of ****** sports gamers is too simplistic. Everything else is spot on.

What I mean by simplistic is that there are sports gamers, like myself, that want the realism and the depth, but realize that it is only a game and a simulation of the sport. If I wanted total realism then I would go out a play the sport.

When people gripe about games it is like looking a picture of a tropical beach and complaining that you can't feel the wind or smell the sea air. Each game copies or delivers a certain amount of simulation, but no game can completely simulate a sport. The main reason for this is because 'we' play them. Right there the user is influencing the outcome and therefore not realistic. This may be the only way the Maple Leafs will win the Cup!
 
# 2 stlstudios189 @ Jun 10
I get the whole ****** aspect. It's most of the consumers of sports that are ******. Look around at the crowd of a baseball game, you have families everywhere just enjoying their time eating good food and having fun and then you have 5 guys wearing headphones listening to the game and keeping score.

Same with sports games 80% of the gamers just play here and there while having friends over drinking a few beers (or sodas if under age) order a pizza and later hit the club etc.. Where the rest of us are on sites like OS and play as much as we can.

****** gamers and sports fans actually are good for business do to the volume of $$ they spend.
 
# 3 SHAKYR @ Jun 10
# 1malachijohn666, I agree with you to a point. The technology is their to give gamers a realistic experience. It's just that companies don't think fans want a fully sim/realistic game.

I say they stop marketing their games as realistic and sim when it's far from that. When a sports gamer reads or hear realistic or sim they automatically think the obvious.

No one knows if a sim/realistic-like game will sell if the game companies never fully tried it.
 
# 4 deaduck @ Jun 10
You raise some good points...as do the follow up posts.

Hardcore gamers in my opinion might be "pushing" with their expectations of what each new year should bring in sports gaming. They tend to hyper dramatize smaller details to the point of claiming "deal breaker" or "game changer" even when said detail is un-noticed by 80% of the ****** fans playing.
 
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