(Full disclosure, I also added something to the "What if Frontier made a football game" thread, so don't call me a hater
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Chris Roberts is a legend. He once made a very successful game of "Pong", which somewhat resembles the real spot of Tennis, but of course computers were limited back then. The first Pong was amazing for its time, and there was a successful sequel. Since then however, he started adding live-motion video of crowds cheering and other nonessential fluff and further sequels proved more and more unpopular. He also tried his hand at other sports games after that, promising the same level of technical advancement as back when his first Pong game wowed the crowds. One such project took over 5 years and what came out was a boring, if pretty, game that didn't run well on any computer of that time. Another game called "Rugby" basically bancrupted the development company and a big partner had to swoop in and buy the whole lot, removing Chris Roberts from the team for "Rugby", and then releasing a solid, if vastly different and downscaled game where the "ball stitching simulation" and other grandiose ideas had been removed.
He had a brief stint in the movie industry, but his attempt at making a sports movie, "Air bud", was panned by critics and fans alike.
Now, he's busy working on his magnum opus, a game called "Football Manager", where not only can you play as a normal player but also as manager, security, ticket salesman and even hotdog vendor. He's promised ultra-fidelious stadiums in which you can play with all your friends, assuming various roles on and off the playing field. However, right now there's only a single stadium, it's basically a grass meadow and there's no ball to kick yet. The running feels awkward. Scorekeeping isn't in yet either. The game received several "substantial upgrades", for example it now persists (=remembers) which shirt you were wearing. The other big addition is a clothes shop, because of course. The upcoming "Football Manager 3.0" patch, which promises to add all the gameplay features missing, like a soccer ball plus physics, goals, scorekeeping, a match timer, and a championship progression system, was scheduled to come out in December 2016 but has now been pushed back into 2017 along with the stand-alone singleplayer campaign "LockerRoom 42", but he has only told a small group of his backers yet and points to an NDA.
At random points during the game, your football player may suddenly run around naked like a streaker.
Meanwhile, a small UK developer has long since released their own football game, which started out as a pure football game without any management, ticket selling or hotdog vending. That competing game has a few problems of its own but the running around and ball gameplay is great, and they're slowly adding management aspects and there's talk about not only a security guard element being implemented, but also a full hot dog cooking simulation being in the pipeline for future seasons.
Contrary to Chris Roberts' "Football Manager" which still doesn't keep score or have a ball in the game, the UK competitor already simulates all football stadiums on earth.
