Fifa 16 gets female teams - Sexist and angry rants follows

I love soccer, i really do. But i don´t love people that hate on women just because they want to be a part of sports as well. And sadly enough, that´s the case with EA Sports Fifa 16.

Because when EA Sports has introduced female soccer players (12 teams) for the first time ever in the history of the Fifa series. A hate and sexist storm took shape.

And both EA Sports and female soccer players were targeted because of this (the announcement of female soccer players in Fifa 16). So this is my (Robin Ek The Gaming Ground) take on this matter.

[wheresmymonkey]

You'll find its pronounced football!

[TGG_overlord]

US Vs UK English. And if you read the Youtube comments, you will find a lot of comments that states the right opposite xD

[wheresmymonkey]

Actually its not. It stems from the differnce between what the working class and upperclass called he sport in Britain.

the term Football won. on top fo that Fifa stands for Fédération Internationale de Football Association.

Its known as football pretty much everwhere else except the US.

[pompombrum]

I'll never understand that.. usually out of respect I'll refer to it as soccer to North Americans but how did it even get the soccer name? It's a little disrespectful tbh. We don't name your Football something different, we refer to it as American Football.

[zeal0us]

Quite funny given the fact the UK were known to use the term "soccer" before it came popular with the US.

[Spotie]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Didn't start with Americans. Used by far more than Americans. Don't start that nonsense.

[DragoonsScaleLegends]

The word soccer was created and used by the British yet Americans are blamed for it... just more anti-americanism fanatics because we don't have enough of that already.

Learn something:
http://www.usembassy.org.uk...

Also what's wrong with having female soccer players?

[TheJacksonRGN]

Aussies call it soccer as well.

[3-4-5]

Soccer is actually an English term created by the brits.

They actually called it soccer at one point....THAT is where we got it from

They smartened up at some point and went with football and we never made the adjustment in the US, but yea Soccer is a British term.

[Anthotis]

Unless SJWs buy the game in bulk, it's a waste of time and resources which could've been used on something that actually matters.

Perhaps, the breast physics will be good enough to encourage players to try out the women's teams, but not for anything more than performing various jumping maneuvers repeatedly.

Still, if someone really wants to prove the demand is there, they should release a women only football/soccer game.

[pompombrum]

Being honest, it probably isn't really a time sink and it's not like the graphic's department have much to do on Fifa anyway. It also doubles up as fantastic PR to kickstart the advertising.

[Timesplitter14]

So what's your definition of a SJW? A person who accepts the existence of women?

Also I just noticed your avatar says "Straight Pride". It definitely sounds like you're the type of guy who has a problem with social progress in general

[Pastorfuzz]

@timesplitter14.I am also proud I am straight. Does that mean I also have a problem with social progress? No it does not!

[Timesplitter14]

@Pastorfuzz

on paper, there's nothing wrong with being proud to be straight.

But i'd say 99.999% of the time, when someone does Straight Pride activism and label themselves as such, it's because they have a problem with homosexuality, women's rights and racial equality. It's a childish "me too" reaction to gay pride, because they feel threatened by the social acceptance of homosexuality

Gay pride is different, because unlike heterosexuality, there is an actual need to declare that being gay is not something that should be shameful, hence the expression "gay PRIDE"

[Pastorfuzz]

@timesplitter14. Where I come from, Straight pride activism is not about having a problem with Women's rights or Racism. It's only standing up for their sexual orientation, Just like the gay folks stand up for theirs.

[cogniveritas]

Do you really think demand always comes before supply in the modern economy? You'd be surprised to hear about the risks and rewards of the "first to market" concept of trying something before your competitors.

Why create a female only soccer game to "prove" demand? They probably already know there isn't enough demand for an all female soccer game, but there is apparently enough to add them to an established franchise. Soccer is the most popular sport in the world.

[Gwiz]

In more languages than English(UK)(US) it's pronounced as football.

[chrisx]

Nice publicity for ea. Instead of listening to the fans about updating the buggy and scripted fifa games,they do this. Expect this game to be a fifa 15 copy and paste,now with added boobs

[MitchellK]

What if i told you that the people who develop character models and graphics aren't the same people who work on bugs, gameplay, and physics...

[carlingtat]

anyone who thinks that fifa games are "scripted" are clearly idiots.

[chrisx]

your an IDIOT in every sense of the word. dumb head

[masterfox]

hate/angry comments ? more like hilarious comments XD

[Apoca1ypse]

How is women's teams being added a bad thing? Considering that it's EA first of all means that regardless of what they add there is going to be a few glitches.

Playing a women's team is optional, you don't have too and if you ignore it, it's likely it'll be like it was never included in the game.

Every year they get the same complaints of it just being a recycled game, so this time around when I first heard it I thought. "Hey seems like they are trying to do something kind of big." Personally if they would do "big" I would like it in a way that would benefit me more, instead of a function I won't use but I acknowledge there attempt.

There are women's teams for most sports, if they can get a few more people to purchase those games to support the players from those teams it's not a bad thing. I'm sure the women players would appreciate being apart of the game and if they are informed enough about it in the first place, show it off.

This decision could have zero feminist influence and have been implemented. It's not changing the function of a game, the story of a game, the characters of the game or is a tact on thing to just to appeal to feminists.

I say again, for a change it's not a big deal.

[SegaGamer]

I don't think it's a bad thing, more like a waste of time.

If they want this to be realistic, then the women players will need to be rated between 35-40 because they are no better than English Conference footballers. That isn't me being a misogynist or sexist, that is just the facts.

Women's football is below average in terms of quality.

[yezz]

:D It's ridiculous that people disagree with me. Nice to know you like that this franchise is being ruined. Adding womens national teams is NOT a way to make people buy this game more.. How about adding Champions league and Europa league, that's what football fans REALLY want! This has just taken time from their development time and it's not doing any good for the game.

This is exactly what's happening to games like Call of duty. Snoop dogg DLC and other stupid stuff that are not going to make the game any better. There are other things that should be taken care of first.

@Apoca1ypse

There are million leagues and cups that people would want before womens national teams and new game mechanics are also needed. It's the fact that they introduce this game with this. It's all there is to know at the moment and that's ridiculous.

[Gwiz]

I have only one complaint and i described it in an other article.

If they want to add women football.all power to them,why they cut out essential content from the game to sell it in general is just
BS.They didn't dare to make it DLC,while they have no issue doing it when it has no political background.

It's just bollocks.

[Bass_fisherman]

I think this is pretty cool

[ThunderPulse]

Fifa 16 is going to suck now.

[higgins78]

Erm, ok?

[KingKevo]

You know what is a little hypocritical to me is that it seems like the guy who wrote this doesn't seem to know a lot about football or women's football in particular.

You know I do love more diversity in games, but that is mostly in games where it makes sense (games like Sims and any game with a story or games where the female sport is really relevant). As for football, it doesn't really make that much sense.

Women's football simply cannot keep up with men's football and the best female teams are just as good as the average men's teams, that's just how it is. So him bringing up the idea of male teams playing against female women is just pointless. It's not sexist, it's just how it is. There are sports where it makes sense and where there is something like mixed matches (tennis comes to mind) but it doesn't make sense for football.

Also, I've been a fan of football for my entire life. When I was playing at a club there where some girls playing (but obviously actually playing it is more popular among males). And also, I got to question if the author has ever been at a football match, because if so he'd know that the fans are split up into about at least 33% female and 66% male. There are a lot of female fans out there and all they want to see is the best football and the truth is that the best football is played by men. It's not sexist or anti-feminist, it's just the way things are.

In the end football should be about the game, not about which sex the player has, and if all the best players are male, then focus on that. It has worked for many years now and it just makes sense too keep it that way because by implementing female's you're just asking for a part of your player base to split up as I don't see females playing with men in a team, as it does not happen in reality either.

I know that FIFA is here to represent football in all of it's facets and obviously women's football is a part of that, but in the end what we are talking about is just a game and when it comes to that you are better off making decisions that help the game; and by implementing women's football EA does not add anything meaningful to the game that improves it, it's just something that sounds good in marketing. I honestly think that it is pretty sexist to ignore all the females that do love football and the FIFA games even if they can only play as men, because tbh, that's who most want to play with, play with their favorite clubs, players, etc., they want to play with those players that they like irl.

Now one thing I am curious about is if EA will just copy over the men's AI and controls (because then it'd be really cheap and the female players would just be male players with female "shells", just a different character model, or if EA will make the effort to develop all new AI and animations and so on to properly represent women's football. Because anyone who watches football regularly and who also watches women's football knows that the way they play is very different. Imho it reminds me of how men's football was played in the 90s for the most part.

/con

[KingKevo]

/con

And last but not least, I get that many people post comments that are inappropriate, but it just annoys and shocks me every single time that if you say that you do not like something like this or that you are against it there will always be these people who think they know you and read between the lines and then brand you as a misogynist and write you opinion off that way. And especially with something like this they do not know sh*t about football or the FIFA games and then want to defend females and show how much of a great feminist they are without even knowing anything about the actual subject. They just see the headline and then want to defend it whereas those who do actually care about football and the FIFA series (that still has its issues that'd EA should better work on) know that implementing women's football is not necessarily the best thing to ever happen; even those who are supportive of it get why many do not care, or are against it or are at least not happy or excited about it. Perspective and insight is something really important in this conversation. Maybe some of the hardcore, blind and stupid-acting feminists should know that. Blind and absolute feminism is just stupid.

[Tex117]

It makes alot of sense to include women FIFA teams. Women play for a world cup, lots of young women play soccer, many young women are interested in soccer.

Really, I'm surprised it has taken EA that long to make this inclusion. Glad they have!

[TGG_overlord]

I agree with you to 100% mate. I´m just sad to see that so many people are angry over this. So "if" Fifa 16 still turns out to be a great game (bug fixes, better gameplay ect ect), then i don´t understand why people are so upset over this?

[Spotie]

Still not seeing anybody genuinely angry. Seeing a lot of people questioning the point, though.

[ShaunCameron]

And yet it gets about as much fanfare most women's sports in general which is marginal.

[carlingtat]

EA more than likely didnt make this inclusion before because lets face it the core demographic for FIFA is men. They probably weighed the cost of making it against what they could make back by extra sales from female gamers who would buy it because of it and it didnt make financial sense at the time.

They probably came up with the idea to slowly bleed it in so the cost is not as big. Thats why we'll get international womens teams this year, clubs next year, ultimate team/online play the year after etc. etc.

I reckon its also because they're running out of ideas of new added features besides just a roster update and a gameplay update and this is a quick fix.

[higgins78]

Gaming will forever remain shallow, trite and in the gutter - at least on Sony and Microsoft platforms. Time will not change this demographic. PC and Nintendo owners are a different breed, much more open to innovation and new directions.

[Tankbusta40]

Is Madden going to add lingerie football next?

[Pastorfuzz]

Just imagine the blowback they would get if they did that!

[Lng101010]

/shrugs

Good for whoever will be playing with women's teams. But for the rest (99%), it won't change a thing.

[brettski]

Where's the transgender teams!?!?!?!?

[mopground]

did they add ghana international team?