[anwserman]

I own NFL2K5, and when I actually play it I do enjoy it. Same for Madden, when I do occasionally play it I seemingly enjoy it.

Yet, EA decided to convince the NFL for the next five years to allow it to be the sole videogame maker to use and represent NFL properties, including every player, team and stadium.

So, bye-bye NFL2K series. Bye-bye competition, and welcome shoddy EA products that seemingly get worse year after year while the price gets higher and higher.

Gotta love the USA.
Fuck you EA.



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[lain2k3]

heh-heh.

Sports game suck issaprove:

them getting worse isnt good.

[Nai_Calus]

Heh.

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/20...mes/index.html

You'll need to click through a mind-numbing flash ad to read the whole thing, but it won't kill you.

[joluh]

I concur, Sport games sucks.

[AUTO_]

On 2004-12-13 21:22, joluh wrote:
I concur, Sport games sucks.

Yes, let us all hate what we don't understand.

[Solstis]

On 2004-12-13 21:51, AUTO_ wrote:

Yes, let us all hate what we don't understand.

I don't know what your sig is talking about, and thus, I hate it.

(where are we on Getintothegame's topic?)

Seriously, though, I haven't played any sports games in ages. However, Madden has that nice nostalgia factor - I would buy that over the ESPN version for those reasons alone.

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[Mixfortune]

On 2004-12-13 21:51, AUTO_ wrote:

Yes, let us all hate what we don't understand.

Then do you hate the reason he doesn't like sports games?
Someone can understand why they hate something, or understand something and hate it. Just because someone hates something, doesn't necessarily validate your statement.

Anyways, back on topic, I won't claim I know too much about the differences between the two franchises of NFL games (although, note, I don't care much for sports games, doesn't mean I don't understand them and the reasoning behind their creation), but something to the effect of a game company have sole rights to a sport sounds like a fairly poor choice for both sides. EA having no competition to help them build a sharper point and improve themselves, and the NFL (or perhaps whoever gets the money out of this deal) going for the quick money rather than what would be more beneficial to them in the long run.

[_Sinue_]

I can't stand sports titles. I've played them, but if I'm not interested in the real thing, why the hell would I care about a simulation of it?

Regardless, I can see why EA did this. Sega's $20 ESPN titles (which were every bit as high quality as EA's games) were set to trample EA's efforts with their $20 price tag. I can easily see EA trying to cover the NBA, NHL, and other sports in the same manner.

[AUTO_]

On 2004-12-13 21:22, joluh wrote:
I concur, Sport games sucks.

Then do you hate the reason he doesn't like sports games?

I guess I never saw a reason he gave why sports games suck.

Clearly, you see it.

[anwserman]

Leave it to the dumbasses that reside on the PSOW forums to fuck this topic over. What I was ranting about is how EA got the exclusive rights to everything NFL - lock stock and barrel.

That, in the video-game sports market, would be the rough equivelent of a console maker getting legislation passed prohibiting any other console to exist in the US for 5 years... they'd get a monopoly on the market, jack up the prices and create shit since people wouldn't have anything else to turn to.

Or better yet, McDonalds buying every fast-food joint in the world. Since, ya know, their food is crap. They'd just have to raise their prices.