Holy crap. EA...

http://money.cnn.com/2005/01/17/comm...ming/index.htm

To sum it up, EA now has exclusive video game rights to ESPN and all it's properties for fifteen years.

Goddamn. I hate that company.

Gah, I know. This really ticks me off. EA's getting their asses whipped by Sega in the sports game category, so what do they do? Buy the goddamn rights to the game that's beating them. No more $20 ESPN games for me...

That's gonna be interesting. Let's see how EA handles the ESPN games.

I would be a bit more angered if I liked sports games. I like some of their stuff, but do not agree with their approach to the gaming market or the work environment they put their employees through.

I don't care much about sport's games but EA is probably the worst company out there. Isn't EA also buying Ubisoft? EA is one power hungry company and I'm ashamed to own one of their games...so it's 15 years of EA's crap sport's games...I guess their's always mario golf.

I never really cared for sports games, but EA is going insane with buying all these companies and licsenses.

Originally Posted by jehuty

I don't care much about sport's games but EA is probably the worst company out there. Isn't EA also buying Ubisoft? EA is one power hungry company and I'm ashamed to own one of their games...so it's 15 years of EA's crap sport's games...I guess their's always mario golf.

No, EA is not buying Ubisoft. They just bought a huge share. Even if they did make a move to buy Ubisoft, other major French gaming companies and even the French government stated that they'd intervene to protect Ubi.

I don't really care about this EPSN thing. I don't really like sports games, except for extreme sports. Plus, I don't know why this is such a bad thing. EA excels at sports games.

Indeed. Racing games like Need For Speed series are simply beautiful. While EA sucks in all other areas, they seem to do the best in sports genre.

Originally Posted by lord-of-shadow

http://money.cnn.com/2005/01/17/comm...ming/index.htm

To sum it up, EA now has exclusive video game rights to ESPN and all it's properties for fifteen years.

Goddamn. I hate that company.

Doesn't mean a damn thing. Sega can still make the "2k" series. It just won't be called "ESPN" anymore. And EA will still make thier SAME sports games...they just won't be called madden.

All they really bought was a name.

I hate EA Games and I've always hated them, they make the crappiest games ever, just look at what they did to the James Bond games, god.

Hopefully someone will buy EA and fire everyone that work there and change their name to something else.

The more they expand, the more I feel like blowing their headquarters in pieces. I want to nuke these bastards.

EA is the second most evil game corp. Microsft takes #1. EA doesn't even make any good games... the LotR series would work better coming from Capcom and that's saying something...

In the end, I think we can agree on one thing:

"Less complicated organization makes better games"

Take Goldeneye 64 for an example. The last time that I heard about it, was that only eight people were working on GE 64. Eight people. And Goldeneye 64 is the best game for years to come, until the new generation consoles. Then, take Goldeneye: Rogue Agent for an example. Though the game is good, it's lacking that certain feeling which you get when you play GE 64. Rogue Agent has more than 100+ people working on it, but why it isn't as good as the old Goldeneye?

well we should have expected it. EA have been ruining the game industry for years.

I hate EA sooo much, they are buying everything they can get there damn greedy hands on right now.

Their only game I tolerate is the need for speed series, those games rule you gotta admit!

Doesn't mean a damn thing. Sega can still make the "2k" series. It just won't be called "ESPN" anymore. And EA will still make thier SAME sports games...they just won't be called madden.

All they really bought was a name.

In case you missed it, EA also got a 5-year exclusive deal with the NFL. EA now has a virtual monopoly on football games.

Sega COULD make games about college football or something, but it'd be doomed from the start. EA now has NO competition whatsoever in the football area.

Now, I don't give a damn about football games, but it's the principle of the whole thing, combined with EA's business tactics as a whole, that annoy me.

Well, I don't really blame them at all. If I were able to do it, I would to.

I have no problem with this seeing as EA makes fantastic sports games and games in general for that matter. They're the biggest stateside company for a reason.

It's buisness. Eliminate the competition fairly if you can. That's also common sense.

Basically, I see alot of you saying "Hey! That's not fair!". Well, I'm
almost certain sega would've done the same thing if they could've. Or at least if they have half a brain they would've. There's no such thing as playing fair when it comes to this.

Ahaha, big ups to 'em.

Well, I don't really blame them at all. If I were able to do it, I would to.

Of course. In their position, I would do the same thing.

They're a business, and this sort of thing is what they do. The problem is, they're damned good at it, and considering the nature of big business... that is NOT a good thing