I think it was the channel 4 coverage, and people being stupid traitors who lap anything up if it's from america even if we have something way way better over here.

Not that Madden wasn't a good game. It didn't have adverts every 7 seconds.

Quote: roofaldo2 "I'd be interested to see exactly how many order's that play has for that game. I'd not be surprised if the number of pre-orders and the number of total sales wasn't that much different.'" ringsidereport.com/?p=25296 wouldnt be able to give you the total pre order numbers but going off this release it sounds as if it is going to do a fair few sales.

Quote: roofaldo2 "I'd be interested to see exactly how many order's that play has for that game. I'd not be surprised if the number of pre-orders and the number of total sales wasn't that much different.'" ringsidereport.com/?p=25296 wouldnt be able to give you the total pre order numbers but going off this release it sounds as if it is going to do a fair few sales.

Generally people outside rl completely underestimate its popularity. Bad PR.

Know this is an old thread now but didn't some game stores open at midnight for it in places like Warrington and Wigan? Surely there was a lot of Pre-orders/sales if that happened.

I think EA would sell a lot if they made it and it would help the sport. As a few have pointed out the games helped NFLs popularity here. I had never watched NFL and I picked up an older madden a year or 2 ago for about £1 in CeX and used it to learn the sport and it got me interested. A RL game could do the same for our sport if someone like EA got involved. The huge strides that the NRL are taking might make that happen. I know that we are a tiny league now in comparison but if we get a great game on the back of the NRLs success then who are we to complain?

I don't get why they're worried. I have built games using an EA F1 Engine in the past and the engine they used in Rugby 08 was great so they'd only need to modernise that and modify it to RL not Union and boom sorted, smashing game relatively low costs.

Get it sorted then, lol