Nothing over there that I posted was even intended as bait, it was me simply stating my honest opinion that the RLL games have a long way to go to even be compared to what 2K and EA produce. That somehow managed to hook the head of the bloody studio.
Well to be fair that's not strictly speaking true...
EA Rugby 2004 was the worst sports game in history - even worse than Rugby 15, where as Sidhe's simply titled "Rugby League" was half decent.
Comparisons with EA FIFA or Madden aren't really reasonable; you have economies of scale at play that just mean it's no contest as soccer and NFL titles generate literally hundreds of times the revenue that a League game can, and so the investment in them is vastly larger.
It's like comparing an Avengers movie with a niche Aussie film made by independent studios.
People keep saying they wish 2K or EA would "make" a Rugby Union or League game, but the fact is EA never used any of their big devs to do it when they were making rugby titles, and their efforts were therefore generally pretty half arsed and piss poor... indeed, Rugby League Live 2 shits on pretty well all the old EA Rugby titles in terms of playability (obviously in graphics too, but given the gens are different that's kind of a given).
So in effect, what people are asking for is for these massive and profit driven companies to knowingly make games for NRL fans at a loss, which they just ain't gonna do... if they do jump on board, they'll do it on a shoe-string budget with some unknown dev in North America that probably doesn't even know the rules of the game.
