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Dynasty Boy
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Michigan
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![]() Let's set the wayback machine to August 2000. Imagine that instead of what actually happened:
* FOF2001 was released on time and not abruptly yanked, * A demo was placed on each Madden CD-ROM, and * FOF Online proceeded on schedule What would the landscape of football sims look like today? I have my own ideas, but I don't want to influence things just yet. Discuss. |
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Banned
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Placerville, CA
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* FOFC becomes hell, with all the popularity making the board more crowded than ever.
* SkyDog becomes bitter and jaded. We never see the patriotic undies. * HornsManiac never gets banned - his noise is never anything more than static in a hurricane of FOF fanboys. * Osama bin Laden gets hooked on his FOF online league. Al quaida plot to destroy the WTC is foiled due to lack of organizational support. 9/11 never happens. We still invade Iraq. Colin Powell resigns in protest, and beats W. in the 2004 election as an independent. * EA pumps more money into the text sim business. FOF now cost $49.95 every year. Online leagues require subscriptions. Comfortably wealthy from his cut, Jim splits from EA to pursue his dream of creating a text-based dwarf tossing sim. Fritz petitions for the inclusion of midgets (because they're not the same as dwarves). * FODTC is born. It's not much different than what we have here right now, except in the true spirit of independent, rebellious thinking, we still have a QOTM. |
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Coordinator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: NJ
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* I get all the graphical spiffyness I want.
* The game goes steadily downhill. |
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General Manager
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: The Town of Flower Mound
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I'm a broke ass mofo having to spend $20/month on each of my six on-line FOF leagues...
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Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Seven miles up
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Quote:
brilliant ![]()
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Coordinator
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Jacksonville, FL
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Quote:
$20 HA!!!
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Retired
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Fantasyland
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SkyDog doesn't even get the site. I wouldn't have had the falling-out with EA and Jim and would still be a fanboy.
![]() So I'd get paid to run FOFC, turn it into a personal full-time blogg and retire rich and famous. |
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College Starter
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Henderson, Nevada
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I didnt think FOF has that much of an impact on the world. ![]()
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Dynasty Boy
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Michigan
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Neat thoughts so far; keep 'em coming.
One outsider's look at what might have happened: * Madden's career options would look more like FOF's * FOF would be more graphically pleasing (thanks to Gigawatt, the Madden folks & others) while retaining most of the same managerial options (thanks to Jim) * Future FOFs would continue to be produced by EA & Jim; not so sure if Gigawatt would still be around * FOF2001 would have gotten a patch, but probably just one * No free updates to future FOFs (other than the patches); if you want the latest & greatest, you'd have to pay * TCY would still be a Solecismic product, but probably the only one until Jim's next game (maybe) * FOF Online still wouldn't have worked, because the subscription-based model (which I think was the idea at the time) wouldn't have generated enough revenue |
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Banned
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Astoria, NY, USA
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there wouldn't have been an "Attack of the 5 year olds" thread because this place would be heavily moderated by EA's people.
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FOF2 Guy
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Paris, France
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I'd do PR stuff for FOF in France !
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