Is Online Dynasty the Future of Sports Gaming?

[bowdown2shadi]

Now we are waiting for a FULL Franchise online for Madden... And yes we deserve to trade out own damn players.

[sixtydashone]

MMORPG?

Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game

[youALREADYknow]

Re: Is Online Dynasty the Future of Sports Gaming?

"I would love a world where we create a person and join a league. the league has a draft and every player has a position and team."

The online sports MMORPG.

That is the real future of not only sports gaming, but all gaming.

Having users at most of the skill positions eliminates "cheese" as long as the game is developed to give the same abilities to OFF/DEF.

[rynecandy]

It might be the future but not for awhile. The audience you are preaching to isn't the most unbiased. We all here have internet and some (if not a large %) have a LCD/Plasma tv. I don't know the numbers but I'm sure the % of houses with this kind of tv technology is still low. People might not get online either because they are timid (when having to play strangers) or just don't have the ability to do so right now.

[wco81]

The hardcore sports gamer niche like it but most people won't stick with it, even if they sign up for it.

Multiplayer online games have the potential for a broader audience.

[Bobolini]

I'm not a fan of it because old "farts" like me have eroded hand to eye skills and can't compete. I enjoy the aspect of calling plays and having it played out based off of skill sets and timely play calling. I would enjoy a "Coach" only mode of online-dynasty play.

[gjb01]

I think dynasty sim leagues are going to get more and more popular. People don't have time to sit and play 30-60 minute games, but they enjoy the management aspect of things. I know I'm working hard to expand pennantchase.com to provide dynasty like features for baseball.

[jwmw9207]

I'm not a fan of it because old "farts" like me have eroded hand to eye skills and can't compete. I enjoy the aspect of calling plays and having it played out based off of skill sets and timely play calling. I would enjoy a "Coach" only mode of online-dynasty play.

thats why you find a group of other "old farts" and create a team, you have fun but realize thjese young whipper snappers would of lost back in the day ...haha..... i played an over 40 team in fifa one time in clubs..... they were good because they understood the game better then the younger kids.....

[Cardot]

I have played in a couple online leagues with OS people. Real nice folks and good sim players. But even amongst an OS crowd, it seemed 25% of the people would disappear in the middle of the season. And some of the guys were always tough to schedule games with. Meh, I suck enough that the CPU is plenty of challenge for me.

[TheShizNo1]

Re: Is Online Dynasty the Future of Sports Gaming?

I'm not a fan of it because old "farts" like me have eroded hand to eye skills and can't compete. I enjoy the aspect of calling plays and having it played out based off of skill sets and timely play calling. I would enjoy a "Coach" only mode of online-dynasty play.

why not try Head Coach?

[carlivar]

THANK YOU for this article. I am so tired of game reviews completely ignoring the fact that most games cannot do the following:

Form a multi-season league.
Add a small handful of REMOTE human players.
Have the rest of the teams managed by CPU.

It boggles my mind that I can't do this in 2008 when I was doing it with my friend in 1999 with High Heat Baseball by simply sharing the league file between our two (remote computers).

Actually if games would just support more than one human-controlled team in a dynasty league and permit an online selection if human teams pop up on the schedule, it's done. Leave it to the players to pass the league file around. On today's consoles that can easily be done. Better would be to build it all in like NCAA or NHL.

I REALLY hope NBA 2K or Madden finally wise up and add this functionality.

[ShowtimeSpicer]

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I've yet to fully experience an online dynasty, but I guess you could say I'm used to being "in the past". I didn't get a PlayStation 3 until this summer, and up to that point I'd never played a game online in my life. It's all new to me, but I will check it out sooner or later.

I hope it isn't so futuristic into a game's significance that the producers give up on Human v.s. AI gameplay to focus on Human v.s. Human online play.

[Skyboxer]

I'd be all over and online Head Coach mode with multiple seasons... I'm an old fart too....

However the game would have to improve a tad on the gameplay visual side.

[ab2c4]

I sure hope Online Dynasty is NOT the future of gaming. If it is I will probably give up sports gaming. I have zero desire to play online because very few, and I mean very few people actually play "real" football online. They are all cheesers looking for gimmick plays to run over and over. All they care about is winning, not playing a realistic game of football.

Along with that I am a definitely an introvert which is yet another reason I have zero desire to play online against other people.

I just want to play a good game of football against the cpu, is that too much to ask? Gaming shouldn't have to be a social event and if they try to force gamers in that direction then it will be game over for me. We should always be given the option of gaming being a solo experience where a person can relax and unwind in their own home while playing against the computer.

[pjpants]

Re: Is Online Dynasty the Future of Sports Gaming?

my friends and i love being able to play the four of us on a team. we have 1 things we look for.1)player lock 2) ability create or edit players to be us and play a couple years. recently we created 4 lbs and played a 3/4 defense at airforce. we simed the offense and just played the defence 4 years. it was great. but if we could have an online way to do it that would be outstanding