EA buys NFL Rights... There will be no games except Madden.

[I30T]

Quote »Electronic Arts, the leading maker of sports video games, signed an exclusive five-year contract with the National Football League and the NFL Players Association, deals that will give the company sole possession of the licensed football video game business.

But the Madden 2005 game was seriously challenged by NFL 2K5, thanks to good reviews and a pricing war. NFL 2K5 was available in stores in July for $19.95. For three months, the Madden game was priced at $49.95, until the company finally relented on Nov. 8 and lowered it by $20.

[/quote]Regardless of which you prefer, this is bad news. Competition is always a good thing, and now EA has none. Even less motivation for them to improve, and they can charge whatever they want now that there is no alternative.

http://www.petitiononline.com/....html

[slow s13]

man this is some BS im a big fan of the 2k series and like was stated competition is always good and the 20$ price is great to, you can kiss that goodbye because now that maden has the rights theres no chance of that happening.

[NIGHTfall_240sx]

that always sucks... now there will be no good football games because there will only be one

what crap is that... now if anyone is to make a new game, it will be no name teams or junk like backyard football..

[madbouncy]

Maybe they'll bring back mutant league football or whatever it was called, the old game for sega genesis. You can't honestly say you don't enjoy getting to rip off arms and legs while playing football.

[MainEvent212]

god yes that game was awesome

[nismofly]

nfl blitz

[f1seb]

god yes that game was awesome

Sadly that game was made by EA as well. Now many people will say that this is not that bad of a deal when a company like EA gets a hold of a license like that. For instance Sony has had the Formula 1 license and for only making a few PS1 games they haven't done anything with it. It's just sitting there collecting dust and nobody wants to step up and make a new simulator without that license cause they are affraid nobody will buy it. It's a damn shame. Plus with no competition they will be free to release any load of crap they will want and charge 49.99 and people will buy it cause theres nothing else out there. Competition makes extremely boring and hard work of programmers make a good product. Without it they can just make small improvements at the lowest possible expense to the company and release it to the public as a "new revelation in gaming." And im still pissed off about not having a new F1 simulator there hasn't been one since 2002. GHAY!!!!!

[nsrZ32]

That sucks....wonder if that will start developing into problems with other sports.

[[Zero-S]]

Extreme Waterpolo!!!!111

Bah who cares, I hate sports games anyways.

[slow s13]

as to other sports they are trying to buy the basketball rights also

[Zydeco]

EA has had a monaploly in the game market for a long time. I know they used to own the right to a lot car, for the eraly need for speeds seires.

[[Zero-S]]

Heavyhips, I know thats binary in your sig, but I'm too ufckin lazy to convert it back, so what does it say.

/end threadjack

[Zydeco]

]Heavyhips, I know thats binary in your sig, but I'm too ufckin lazy to convert it back, so what does it say.

/end threadjack

It might hold true to you then. It 420 in binary.

[[Zero-S]]

I should have known.