EA's at it again...

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Read it and weep:

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/01/17/news_6116473.html

EA's got a lot of balls, that's for sure.. it's one thing to suck up a license, but for fifteen years? I don't think there's any doubt now.. EA plans to be the only publisher making sports games, period.

At what point does this sort of behaviour stop being profitable? How much money can they make on these games when they have to pay many millions of dollars just for the name?

And going back to GT, do you really think that EA.. this EA... is going to simply let PD have Ferrari, Porsche, and Lamborghini? I don't think so. Not when Scrooge McDuck has all the licenses locked up for the next century.
 
I say thank God for Winning Eleven and it´s patchs. And thank God for me liking only soccer games when it comes to sports. :)
 
Jedi2016
And going back to GT, do you really think that EA.. this EA... is going to simply let PD have Ferrari, Porsche, and Lamborghini? I don't think so. Not when Scrooge McDuck has all the licenses locked up for the next century.
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Well didn't Forza get their licenses? There are Ferraris on the final car list.

Or does EA just make the Ferrari and Lamborghini licenses more expensive to buy? I'm confused.

Also, when was the last time EA put Ferrari and Lamborghini in a game anyway? Need For Speed Hot Pursuit 2? What was that, like 2001?
 
I think their exclusive deal is only for the PS2. Anyone who wants to use those cars in a PS2 game have to go through EA first, then to the manufacturer. Even though EA's not currently using those licenses, I think they're happy to continue paying for them just to make sure PD doesn't get them.
 
Hiya! :D :embarrassed: :lol: Meow! (='.'=)

I personally do NOT like the games that EA Games make...

Aslong as people keep on buying their sport games, they will just use the money to buy whatever they want. EX. Just like how they bought 20% of Ubi-Soft's stock I believe! :nervous: Can these game companies just share? :guilty:
 
If Sega wasn't screwed enough...

Wasn't it a good thing that Sega had exclusive rights to ESPN? So, why isn't it a good thing for EA to have the same?

I love the smell of bias in the morning air.
 
I don't really care about ESPN, but when EA starts buying exclusive rights to make NFL(I believe they already have), NBA(I heard they already tried once) and MLB games, that's scary.

I already started boycotting EA when I heard about the NFL licensing deal, but if they start buying rights to cars/manufacture names, that would really upset me as an GT Fan.
 
Jedi2016
I think their exclusive deal is only for the PS2. Anyone who wants to use those cars in a PS2 game have to go through EA first, then to the manufacturer. Even though EA's not currently using those licenses, I think they're happy to continue paying for them just to make sure PD doesn't get them.
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That just does not make sense... EAs NFS is closer to a Arcade game than anything else... I mean Look back on HP2... That was not realistic at all... It isn't in direct competition with the GT series... To me... NFS seems to be for a younger audience (Look at the U series and you know what I mean) While GT is for older gamers because of realistic physics that make driving harder and in need of more practice... I don't think EA is thinking of making their own GT in the future either... EA does not have a reason to stop PD specifically...
 
McLaren'sAngel
Hiya! :D :embarrassed: :lol: Meow! (='.'=)

I personally do NOT like the games that EA Games make...

Aslong as people keep on buying their sport games, they will just use the money to buy whatever they want. EX. Just like how they bought 20% of Ubi-Soft's stock I believe! :nervous: Can these game companies just share? :guilty:
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EA is a company... A huge corporation with many smaller companies that actually develop the games... (Criteron (sp?) from Acclaim for example) Their goal is to make profit and thats what they are doing... And that also shows on the developers they buy... They create games that will sell to most of gaming... Which is a younger audience btw... But that also means that their games should come up to a standard that can sell well... The younger audience know their games and it would not be a good idea to make a sloppy one and expect it to sell... Most EA games are in good quality (most but not all) that pleases the audience they are selling their games to... (I just noticed I digressed further away from what I was saying :dunce: )
Arg.. Sorry double post
 
animateria
That just does not make sense... EAs NFS is closer to a Arcade game than anything else... I mean Look back on HP2... That was not realistic at all... It isn't in direct competition with the GT series... To me... NFS seems to be for a younger audience (Look at the U series and you know what I mean) While GT is for older gamers because of realistic physics that make driving harder and in need of more practice... I don't think EA is thinking of making their own GT in the future either... EA does not have a reason to stop PD specifically...
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While that's true, I don't think EA sees it that way. They're looking to dominate the market as a whole, and they only see "racing games", they don't see "arcade racers" and "sim racers". I don't think it's a secret that they view PD as a direct competitor in the racing genre. If it were anyone else, they would have simply bought them up years ago, but PD is out of their reach.

Unfortunately, we'll probably never know for sure unless someone can somehow dig up the specifics to the license agreements with those three manufacturers.
 
:sly: With EA having brought the ESPN license for not 5, not 10, but 15 years, I can safely say that I will officially begin the boycott of their games altogether. Well, maybe just their sports games (God knows I love me some Burnout action), but nonetheless, the boycott begins. This move on EA's part may seem like a harmless thing or just another acquisition of a major license on the outset, but, trust me folks, the move will seriously hurt the entire industry down the line. Just think about it. With EA being the sole NFL game makers out there (well, pretty much), their actions could inspire other publishers or even developers to take similar actions. For example, it could inspire Sony or Microsoft to acquire car manufacters exclusively for their games, or, even worse (though on a much smaller likely possibility), provoke a game company to obtain exclusive rights to virtual-reality or other video game technology. Now I know what you're probably thinking. "How is any of that stuff bad?" Well, folks, here's why. It's bad because such actions limit the field of competition, which, in turn, drives down the creativity process. Even worse, it means that smaller studios just wanting to get a little dough for all their efforts will instead end up getting jack ****, and future would-be developers and publishers may not even attempt to do anything creative in the fear of upsetting such money-greedy giants like EA, and since such takes case, those same big money-greedy studios can rest easy, and use their money, not their talent, to stay at the top of which they do not deserve to be at. Truly a sad, sad, sad thing. :sly:
 
That's great... they can screw up all the sports games they like because I don't play them anyway but leave the car area out of it! :irked:
 

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