12 Women's National Teams are in FIFA 16, Releases September 22nd - Trailer Included

[TheLetterZ]

Re: 12 Women's National Teams are in FIFA 16, Releases September 22nd - Trailer Inclu

You're a little late to the party mate. The facts surprised me I admit, but it does look as if they're the facts. I'm a big boy, I can admit when I'm wrong, and I was here.

I see I am!

Good on you then, mate. Cheers.

[orion523]

Re: 12 Women's National Teams are in FIFA 16, Releases September 22nd - Trailer Inclu

I retread through this entire thread again this morning, and I must admit, I'm ashamed and embarrassed by my comments and behavior. They were wrong, on every level, and tongue in cheek or not, I shouldn't have made them. Worst of all I tried to defend them by disparaging someone else, and again Zoom Zoom to you I apologize personally.
What I said was stereotypical, sexist, and boorish. There is no excuse, I was wrong and I apologize.
It will not happen again.

[TheLetterZ]

Re: 12 Women's National Teams are in FIFA 16, Releases September 22nd - Trailer Inclu

We all know you're passionate about the game. You got fired up.

Speaking for myself only (obviously), apology accepted.

[orion523]

Re: 12 Women's National Teams are in FIFA 16, Releases September 22nd - Trailer Inclu

We all know you're passionate about the game. You got fired up.

Speaking for myself only (obviously), apology accepted.

I am passionate about the game, but there is no excuse and I refuse to give one, I acted like a clown. The reality is women's sports are woefully underrepresented and kudos to EA.

[zoom zoom]

Re: 12 Women's National Teams are in FIFA 16, Releases September 22nd - Trailer Inclu

I retread through this entire thread again this morning, and I must admit, I'm ashamed and embarrassed by my comments and behavior. They were wrong, on every level, and tongue in cheek or not, I shouldn't have made them. Worst of all I tried to defend them by disparaging someone else, and again Zoom Zoom to you I apologize personally.
What I said was stereotypical, sexist, and boorish. There is no excuse, I was wrong and I apologize.
It will not happen again.

Good on you! Apology accepted, and no hard feelings.

Your willingness to reread and reassess shows you have a pretty good heart.

[bxphenom7]

1. Women are not a species lol. It's a gender.
2. As of a year ago...

http://www.dailydot.com/geek/adult-women-largest-gaming-demographic/

This isn't to say that this should be their big feature of the year or that it was executed well (the fact that you can only use them against each other seems weirdly restricting), but there's a lot of misinformation about who actually plays video games.

Even if adult women do make up the majority of gamers (and I'm not against this being a feature, I think it's pretty cool), that doesn't tell you whether they're playing sports games, or console games in general. I wouldn't be surprised if this was related to mobile gaming.

[dubcity]

Re: 12 Women's National Teams are in FIFA 16, Releases September 22nd - Trailer Inclu

Yeah, finding a female gamer - as in console gaming - is tough, but finding a female gamer who plays sports games seems like it would be impossible. Maybe this game will help. Who knows.

[buckeyezombie]

Re: 12 Women's National Teams are in FIFA 16, Releases September 22nd - Trailer Inclu

It'd be nice if they take the time to fix handballs first. If not, then take the animation out of the game.

[Cavani161]

Re: 12 Women's National Teams are in FIFA 16, Releases September 22nd - Trailer Inclu

What about player/team ID? That should have been in the game for years now. And I know some people have talked about the womens game but the USWNT lost to a U17 boy's team back in 2012 by the score of 8-2. The US womens national soccer team U20 challenged the Blast U14 boys team and lost 3-0. There have been other instances where the USWNT have lost to U15 boy's as well.

I'm just hoping to see that FIFA adds in team/player ID, makes the AI a bit better and then I would really wanna sit down with this game for a long period.

[orion523]

Re: 12 Women's National Teams are in FIFA 16, Releases September 22nd - Trailer Inclu

Good on you! Apology accepted, and no hard feelings.

Your willingness to reread and reassess shows you have a pretty good heart.

Thank you, I truly do appreciate it.

[geisterhome]

Re: 12 Women's National Teams are in FIFA 16, Releases September 22nd - Trailer Inclu

What about player/team ID? That should have been in the game for years now. And I know some people have talked about the womens game but the USWNT lost to a U17 boy's team back in 2012 by the score of 8-2. The US womens national soccer team U20 challenged the Blast U14 boys team and lost 3-0. There have been other instances where the USWNT have lost to U15 boy's as well.

World Champions Germany have lost 2:0 against U16 boys few years back, a 13 year old scored both goals...
I'm pretty sure that womens soccer in FIFA will be a very unrealistc representation of the sport just cos they'll give those teams a severe boost in ratings and skill. And that's probably the best cos otherwise nobody but some sim guys would want to play those teams.

[goillini03]

Re: 12 Women's National Teams are in FIFA 16, Releases September 22nd - Trailer Inclu

When the rest of the new information breaks, most people that have issue with the women's teams being added will move on. If the rest of the gameplay news is weak, the argument will rage on.

[JHedges2]

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Right, because activism is such a bad thing. It's pretty sad that adding Women's Soccer teams to a video game is viewed as negative by some people.

Sigh.

It's NOT that people are upset that they've added women's soccer. It's that there are other things that are deemed far more important than adding this (for all intensive purposes) useless 'feature'.

I think people will be less 'caught up' in this, when more news is released, and if/when they discover if bugs/glitches have been addressed--which, for the record, is FAR more important than adding some 'extra teams' (men, women, or kids--doesn't matter) to the game.

[aholbert32]

Re: 12 Women's National Teams are in FIFA 16, Releases September 22nd - Trailer Inclu

Sigh.

It's NOT that people are upset that they've added women's soccer. It's that there are other things that are deemed far more important than adding this (for all intensive purposes) useless 'feature'.

I think people will be less 'caught up' in this, when more news is released, and if/when they discover if bugs/glitches have been addressed--which, for the record, is FAR more important than adding some 'extra teams' (men, women, or kids--doesn't matter) to the game.

How is adding more teams useless?

What does adding more teams to the game have to do with fixing bugs/glitches when different teams work on those things?

[JHedges2]

Re: 12 Women's National Teams are in FIFA 16, Releases September 22nd - Trailer Inclu

How is adding more teams useless?

What does adding more teams to the game have to do with fixing bugs/glitches when different teams work on those things?

The additional teams don't really provide anything. You can't use them in MM. I assume that you won't be able to use them in a 'co-ed' (if you will?) tournament? The players aren't available in FUT.

I just don't see the point.

Again, there's no hidden agenda here attacking women. Like I said in a previous post--it'd be like Madden allocating resources to add SOME Canadian teams for exhibition mode ONLY. Neat feature, but no real point.

Another point, why not add more mens international teams first? Ones that can actually be used in CM? Not saying that that isn't the plan anyway, but I would deem that to be more 'valuable' (at least from a replay standpoint), than adding some 'fun' teams for ex. mode only.

Just my .02