EA’s at it again.
Posted on October 1, 2008 - Filed Under Gaming, NFL, Sports
To think I’d been opening up to EA a little bit lately. They are starting some new IPs rather then churning out everything as a yearly sequel or movie tie in. I felt beyond keeping DRM in their future games, they did a farily good job handling the spore issues.
However it seems now their desire to create a monopoly in the football industry includes screwing over Hall of Famers. At least these guys are fighting back. As some of you may or may not know, 2k sports tried to reenter the NFL world with All Pro Football 2k8. The premise of this game was you had a hundred or so Hall of Famers or legends of football and you would select 11 of them total(for both offense, defense, and special teams) then you would be able to go online and play or play a single season in a league made up of these hall of famers.
The Quality of APF 2k8 was as high as 2k5, however it really suffered by not being able to offer many of the features football fans have come to expect, namely a franchise mode. However the game was still fun and many felt it was simply a way for 2k to stay ‘fresh’ in the football market until the NFL deal was supposed to run out.
Being the cowards that EA is, they made an offer of $200k to grab the rights to Hall of famers for the madden series. An offer that was millions below what 2k was spending on getting Hall of famers. Yet somehow the NFLPA had no problem saying sure why not, sounds like a good deal. A good deal that left an EA person saying this in an E-Mail back to the NFL, “[I Owe him] a huge favor” because a deal struck with the Hall of Fame “was enough to persuade Take-Two to back off its plans, leaving EA as the only professional football videogame manufacturer out there.”
So congrats EA, 1 step forward and 2 steps back. Way to go.
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