sports games are mostly published by EA ranging from fifa to ufc or nhl, nba. if you use Origin you will get to know more of them.

Great examples of non-origin sports game on pc is virtua tennis (though I prefer top spin on 360).

I mostly took to playing simulators, like OOTP, Eastside Hockey Manager, Front Office Football, Football Manager, and about a billion others. There just aren't many good games right now.

The problem started with EA knowing they didn't have the best Football game back in 2004. They grabbed the Football license, which then meant the best Football series could no longer be made, which was the 2k one. In retaliation, 2k Sports got the 3rd-party baseball license, but made awful baseball games ever since. The EA, MVP series, was way better. Now, the 2k series is so awful that they won't even release it on PC. They are contractually obligated to release on consoles, but they barely develop it anymore because they are so bad at it.

After that, some more licenses were scooped up, like the NCAA one, creating way less competition among sports games. The big three left to compete on were soccer, hockey, and basketball. EA was awful at making basketball games, so they actually took their own series, NBA Live, off the market and it hasn't been heard from since. It was supposed to come back, under a different name, but never did. That leaves hockey and soccer.

Soccer games are all over because the sport is very popular around the world. Hockey, not so much so. With no real sales to be made and piracy, they just don't make them for PC anymore.

Basically pick new sports. You can get last years MLB 2K game, a lesser than the console version of NBA 2K, a crapload of soccer games, cycling, racing, fighting, and some random other sports, like cricket and tennis. Pretty much your best bet would be to get a ps3 and play MLB The Show and the other sports games on it. Otherwise, take up playing simulators.

Blame piracy, poor companies, and bad licenses.

Well we have this.

Rugby
Baseball
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FIFA is going to be on the PC, but they're not using the new IGNITE engine, which pisses me off.

Want sports games on PC? take this

I must say, not having sports games on the PC has never bothered me. If I ever feel like playing a sport, I tend to go out and play it in real life.

I want some Skateboarding games on PC. The only good recent one I've seen is Skate 3 which came out a few years ago, but that's only for consoles :'c

I'm pretty frustrated by it myself, it's one of the main reasons I keep getting playstation consoles as a companion to my pc. What sucks the most is nba2k is apparently leaving the pc space...

I agree. And I think one of the main problems is the licencing model. Sports leagues and associations should not require payment or give exclusive rights for representing them in games. That only causes monopolies of the rich publishers that don't give a damn about gamers.

Of course, this is ultimately the fault of gamers themselves, most of whom can't be bothered to download and install a 'real names patch' before playing a game, and so sports games without licences tend to fail.

No, I am frustrated as well. As much as I like NHL 09, an update would be great.

Would be awesome if SSX ever got ported to PC ^^

I'd quite like to see a UFC game on PC

I'd like UFC and Fight Night get a release on pc