We May Not Have a Choice

We May Not Have a Ch

Hey for all of you saying that you refuse to pay to play Madden online, and would much rather have a ESPN NFL 2K5 league here at Leaguegaming, looks like you are out of luck.

EA MAKING A HUGE DEAL

You have to be a member in order for you to read the whole thing, which I am not so this is as much as I could post of it. What it basically means though, is that ESPN NFL won't even be able to come out, as it will have to use all fake names, which would be a pretty lame name. Scratch that, the deal states that nobody would be able to use fake names either. Geez that would suck for Sega Sports .

Direct quote from the article:

 

If this all goes down then EA really sucks. Greedy bastards.

 

Can you say monopoly? Stupid Bastards.

EDIT: I seriously hope this isn't true, I thought there were laws against his kind of stuff. It's like the industrial revolution all over again.

 

LOL, can you say money? Thats what the video game publishers/developers are all about.

It is a smart move for EA, paying $1 billion that will get them more in the long run money wise, as they will have the only football game, not only on-line, but all together. I see this as the end of Sega Sports NFL game for 4 years (Obviously :roll: ), but it will give them time to invent new technology and all so in four years, its all back to normal, unless an extension is reached .

 

This shit better not happen to the NHL game. EA hockey sucks balls.

 

That is one point I see out of this. I doubt it will though, as the hockey game doesn't market as much as the football game does.

If I were to see this happening to any other sports game out there, I would probably have to say ESPN NBA, which wouldn't bother me a whole lot, as I really like NBA Live, its a great game.

But, NHL would piss me off. At least we don't have to worry about it happening with the college football game, as Sega doesn't have one anymore.

 

Wow! That's huge news. Great move if you're EA, but bad news if you're a gamer that likes to have a choice.

I hope this doesn't go through.

 

Seriously I'm kind of in denial about this. How can this happen?

 

Don't forget Indigo, that the keyword in this whole little post here, is that they are close to signing a deal. We all know very well that something easily could happen to delay/cancel this whole operation.

 

Didn't EA sign the same type of deal with F-1?

 

That is correct sir. 8) Bastards.

EDIT: Actually it was Sony, Oops.

 

That would explain why there aren't any good F1 games out. There seriously needs to be some sort of law to help stop these monopolies.

 

Here's the G2 regarding the F1 deal:

http://www.gamespydaily.com/news/pressrelease.asp?id=2052

Old news basically but I know some of you guys didn't believe it so I will be the bearer of bad news. :cry:

EDIT: The deal (old news) EA signed with NASCAR also:

http://wire.ign.com/articles/451/451756p1.html

 

Who is gonna get more time to invent new technology? Certainly not SEGA. This would give EA an edge with having the names and all but they still wont come close to having as great gameplay that ESPN offers.

BTW this strategy by EA happened with FIFA also. That's the only thing holding back Winning Eleven Franchise by Konami because EA has the other player names locked up. Hopefully the gaming industry, gamers, and law enforcement would see this as a monopoly and put and end to this type of crap. The gaming industry should start pushing EA aside for this type of crap and gamers should really not buy games from companies that do this type of crap.

Might have the names but they still dont have the gameplay.

 

IMO, as far as gameplay goes, ESPN NFL can't hold a candle to Madden.

I also just cannot see this happening though. ESPN just signed a huge new television contract with the NFL and I can't see them allowing anything like this to happen.

 

Well pop, honestly, what could Sega Sports/ESPN do to stop it? I can only think of a things and I doubt it will be happening:

• 1.) Sega Sports promise a lot of their profit to the National Football League Player's Association.

I mean, I doubt the NFLPA is about to just say no, we aren't going to sign it because Sega Sports say please don't do it, that is unfair.

 

I don't think that is legal it would be considered a monopoly.

This is stupid to even argue about.

 

No where in there does it say EA is getting exclusive rights to the players, so SEGA should still be allowed to use them. Just not market them or anything to that sort I think?

 

Not if you read the whole thing. Somebody over at IGN posted this 2 days ago, and now I can't find the thread. And I mean they posted the whole article, and it went into clear details.

 

Someone from OS cleared this up also. Taking the time out of his day to call the NFLPA office saying he was part of the espnvideogame.com website. The article was just screwed up anyways. SI was not suppose to print i but they still did and everything was taken out of context. We'll just have to wait and see since one of the moderators of OS locked the thread because their was no significant proof he called the NFLPA office. The only reason this sounds right to me though is because another magazine was suppose to print the same article with the same type of info were no one was really sure what they were writting about. I think it was the 'Times'.

In conclusion we'll just have to wait for an announcement from the NFLPA to clarify on the SI mag article.