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06-12-2008, 05:25 PM
I was seriously disappointed when the NFL decided to give exclusive right to NFL football to EA Games because I new it meant years of mediocre football games and that is exactly what we got.
http://au.gamespot.com/news/6192409.html
Pair of Madden purchasers going to court over "blatantly anticompetitive conduct" by locking down NFL, NCAA, and Arena Football licenses.
I was excited about Football games again when 2K5 came out. It was a better product than Madden and cost less.
The class-action complaint focuses on Electronic Arts' actions since 2004, when Take-Two Interactive's NFL 2K5 was released at a $19.99 price point and sold more than 2.9 million copies in the US, according to NPD figures. Take-Two's previous football game, ESPN NFL Football, sold fewer than 450,000 copies in the US. Meanwhile, EA dropped the price of its Madden 2005 from $49.95 to $29.95 in response
I actually blame the NFL as much as EA Games. I knew EA Games was all about buying other peoples good names and producing a crap product to make easy money simply because they know it will sell well, but I didnt expect the NFL to sell out to the slime of the video game world and turn its back on fans for an extra billion dollars.
I owned both NFL 2K5 and Madden 2005 that year buying Madden first and realizing it sucked bought 2k5 and really liked it. I have been seriously thinking about purchasing this years version simply because Favre is on the cover and I am a sucker for anything Packers related. I think this years version is the last year of the deal the NFL struck with EA Games. Hopefully this is the end of crappy games with minimal updates every year and an outrageous price tag. $20 is about right when you hardly change anything except the roster, not the $45-55 they are currently asking.
http://au.gamespot.com/news/6192409.html
Pair of Madden purchasers going to court over "blatantly anticompetitive conduct" by locking down NFL, NCAA, and Arena Football licenses.
I was excited about Football games again when 2K5 came out. It was a better product than Madden and cost less.
The class-action complaint focuses on Electronic Arts' actions since 2004, when Take-Two Interactive's NFL 2K5 was released at a $19.99 price point and sold more than 2.9 million copies in the US, according to NPD figures. Take-Two's previous football game, ESPN NFL Football, sold fewer than 450,000 copies in the US. Meanwhile, EA dropped the price of its Madden 2005 from $49.95 to $29.95 in response
I actually blame the NFL as much as EA Games. I knew EA Games was all about buying other peoples good names and producing a crap product to make easy money simply because they know it will sell well, but I didnt expect the NFL to sell out to the slime of the video game world and turn its back on fans for an extra billion dollars.
I owned both NFL 2K5 and Madden 2005 that year buying Madden first and realizing it sucked bought 2k5 and really liked it. I have been seriously thinking about purchasing this years version simply because Favre is on the cover and I am a sucker for anything Packers related. I think this years version is the last year of the deal the NFL struck with EA Games. Hopefully this is the end of crappy games with minimal updates every year and an outrageous price tag. $20 is about right when you hardly change anything except the roster, not the $45-55 they are currently asking.