These people have no shame whatsoever.

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I didn't know that EA are that greedy!!!

Looks like EA has become the WALMART of PC game publishers.

Like any other developer/publisher will stand a chance, if someone else by chance get the license to make a NBA game, then EA will probably make a clone and own this other company with their marketing. EA is so big, it would probably take a century for other companies to get big.

NBA!!!

All EA really needs to do now is pour unlimited funding and resources into Live 2006 so it does become the dominant hoops franchise on the shelves (assuming they can't simply absorb the competition). Like they said, this deal isn't happening only because the NBA won't be profiting from it...yet.

This is absolute genius on EA's part. The whore that is professional sports is lying with its legs spread for any and all takers, as long as the price is right. It should have been obvious to anyone who's bought a ticket to a game at the American Airlines Center or Lincoln Financial Field that this was inevitable and imminent. EA just happened to be the first to seize on the opportunity.

Didn't EA do this with NASCAR, effectively cutting out Sierra's fantastic Papyrus group from further development of their NASCAR series?

the NBA would actually be losing money.

The NBA is doing that quite effectively on their own; no help from EA is required. That's what happens when both the players and the fan base have reached the lowest (or lowbrow) common denominator. Their Neilsen numbers since the Pacer debacle have made CBS News look like a powerhouse.

/shrug. Doesn't matter to me; every NBA player on Earth could simultaneously cease to exist, and I'd not notice anything had changed unless someone called it to my attention. EA and the NBA can both rot for all I care.

What a bunch of whores... I would like to see a roundtable discussion of this with some of the big game developers.

EA are doing themselves no favours in the gaming community, infact it seems their last 12 months have been a nightmare for public relations. Greedy suits, thats all they are now, I remember when EA used to be a seal of quality, not anymore it seems.

EA seal of Crap !

Let me tell you something..

Madden SUCKS. Madden 2005 has all inds of issues in gameplay and the graphics and annimation are just WEAK in comparrison to ESPN 2k5.

ESPN 2K5 has its own problems with way to many "Cheap" tricks that you can do to Cheat. But the Smoothness of the gameplay is far far far far superior to Madden 2005.

Why the NFL would completely screw over the public is beond me. The only reason more people are not playing ESPN is becuase they just havent tried it. I am just dumbfounded that the NFL would be so assinine as to screw over these other developers for no reason. They are just going to lose more money in the long run.

I freaking HATE madden 2005 the more i play it and it is only compounded with this licencing crap they pulled. So much for competition and creative competition.

Go NFL you freaking morons.


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What I hate about EA is that they do so many deals you have to sit through about 40 seconds of 'commercials' before you can start LotR: Battle for Middle Earth. They seem to be unskippable...

edit: YAY, just found this:
esc is disabled on the first couple of movies, here is an easy and affective way to make the game start up directly at the menu screen and bypass all those annoying ads.

go to the program folder and then into your
\data\movies
folder

Create a new folder in there and name it whatever you want.
Now move the following movie files into the new folder
EALogo.vp6 , Intel.vp6 , NewLineLogo.vp6 , THX.vp6 and 242.vp6


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I laugh in EA's general direction.

How long though, before enough people realize that something needs to be done about EA. As in, lawsuits, antitrust laws, whatever came be tried to curb them. This is dirty, dirty pool they're playing.

Warez an EA game EVERYDAY. It's your civic duty.

EA has been one of the most active game publishers I can ever remember. Up until a couple months ago I had no idea what EA was up to but all of a sudden there the most actively-moving name in gaming.

ALL SPORTS GAMES SUCK EXCEPT TECMO BOWL AND RBI BASEBALL.

There. I said it.

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Warez an EA game EVERYDAY. It's your civic duty.

Only if it's a game MADE by EA, not just published (like Battlefield). I've always been strictly against all warez, but the way EA has been trying to monopolize the video game industry lately, I wouldn't feel bad about stealing their games. The video game industry has always seemed to be different from the rest of scummy corporate America, until EA came along. Crushing the competition, monopolizing the industry, treating their own workers like shit, mass-producing clone after clone after clone of the same crap over and over, and (soon) outsourcing their jobs to Asia, India, etc...EA is everything that's wrong with the video game industry.

Good thing all sports games suck. (Except Base Wars for the NES, where futuristic robot players "tag out" by fighting to the death with blasters and lightsabers).

I just wish EA would pump out another Feiry Tale Adventure.

The whore that is professional sports is lying with its legs spread for any and all takers, as long as the price is right. It should have been obvious to anyone who's bought a ticket to a game at the American Airlines Center or Lincoln Financial Field that this was inevitable and imminent. EA just happened to be the first to seize on the opportunity.

And as an old whore, we must try to dose her with mercury-pills and clean her out from top to bottom! She has become so ultra-fucked by filthy pricks.

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They are just going to lose more money in the long run. [...] So much for competition and creative competition.

No. Actually, EA and the NFL are going to make a lot of money off of this deal, in both the short term and over the long haul. The concept of capitalism is based on the procurement of as much of the economy's available wealth as possible for your own benefit alone, not the benefit of the society which generates that wealth (that's us). This is exactly what EA and the NFL/PLAYERS INC. have done.

Creative competition actually stands in the way of that goal and so it is in their interests to cripple it, which they have also achieved. Diversity in the market may be good for the consumer, but not for those at the top of the corporate hierarchy.

Bottom line, your notion that the NFL actually stands to suffer financially is absurd.