A Short Commentary on EA

[Dahne]

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*bows*

[SoulBlazer]

:roll:

[kainemaxwell]

Love the use of Invader Zim in your commentary. LOL

[Sotenga]

Sooooooooooooooo... does that mean the only organ EA had to start with was a squeedily spooch? :hmm:

[petewhitley]

Has EA come around full circle to become cool again? No? Ok, I'll check back in a month.

[Dahne]

Sooooooooooooooo... does that mean the only organ EA had to start with was a squeedily spooch? :hmm:

It's a definate possibility.

[Griking]

Give it more than a month, IMHO they haven't been "cool" since the 80s.

[Dahne]

Hey, I hated EA before it was cool.

[SoulBlazer]

I just can't hate a company that published MULE. No, sorry, can't do it. :D

[Ed Oscuro]

Amusing reference, as the famous picture of M.U.L.E. itself was just a bunch of photographs spliced together!

[le geek]

Has EA come around full circle to become cool again? No? Ok, I'll check back in a month.

Wait for when the CEO shaves his head, wears a grey one-piece jumpsuit, and EA purchases Starbucks...

[Djfinny]

I just can't hate a company that published MULE. No, sorry, can't do it.

Amen brother - but don't forget Mail Order Monster and 7 Cities of Gold !! I hope I can someday find all those cool "album cover" style software packages that EA used in the 80's.

[SoulBlazer]

Plus Heart of Africa and Archon and many other great games. :D

Remember -- don't hate the company, hate the games! :)

[cr0n0]

I have never before hated a company until now. EA saw a rival company making a game that competes (and in some parts, surpasses) their technology and overall package, selling it for half the price and what do they do? They go ahead and BUY OUT the rights to the NFL, killing the competition. That's good, from their point of view, but it just pisses me of as a consumer . They went ahead and killed them and killed my choice in the process. I no longer have a choice of what NFL game to get. I HAVE TO GET Madden. They have limited my choice because they saw a THREAT and just brought out the wallet since they saw no other way of beating them. Now most Madden fanboys here are going to reply hate messages and telling me that "You don't have to buy it you know" but that's far from the point. Where do we as consumers stand when our choices are limited. Competition is good. When big companies start pulling shit like this, then quality is the next thing to go, because they have nothing to fear, there's no one to challenge their product. Bring on the hate replies. I AM PISSED!

[SoulBlazer]

As has been said in the other thread:

Do not blame EA. Blame the NFL for offering the deal in the first place. EA did what any other company would do.

Carry on. :)

[Captain Wrong]

As has been said in the other thread:

Do not blame EA. Blame the NFL for offering the deal in the first place. EA did what any other company would do.

Carry on. :)

That's kind of the whole issue, isn't it? You can't buy something that no one is willing to sell. People seem to think that just because someone has lots of cash they can buy everything they want, but that's not necessarly so.

Plus there's the whole issue of the fact that the NFL offered this deal. This wasn't EA sniffing around, this was the NFL's idea.

Think about it. If you are a business and you're dealing in a franchise and the licensor offers you an exclusive, which will pretty much shut your competetion down, wouldn't you take it? I guarantee if the NFL offered this and EA said no, someone else would have stepped up and said yes.

If people want to be pissed off, be pissed off at the NFL. They're the money grubbing bastards who sold you out football fans. They made the offer and if EA hadn't taken it, someone else would have and you'd all be bitching about being forced to play Sega's game or, even worse, how you have to buy an Xbox now to play football because Microsoft bought the rights.

I know, I know. Why bother? People are just going to go on about "EA SUX0RZ!!!!!111!!!" even when the facts are it takes two to tango.

[Hep038]

I cannot bring myself to even blame the NFL. I am guessing they could care less who makes NFL games. They might have looked at it as a chance to sign 1 contract and make more money than they did selling the rights to multiple companies and not have to worry about it for another X many years. 1 lawyer 1 deal more money for something that has no effect on them what so ever. To them is easy money and no headache. The deal will not effect their bottom line no matter what. I dont like what has happend, but from my stand point if I was either company I would have made the same deal.

[ubersaurus]

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*bows*

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