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    Default Ea gets the video games rights to Monopoly (joystiq.com)

    http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/10/ea...y-on-monopoly/

    It is ironic EA has the rights since they mastered "Monoply" by having exclusive sports game deals with the NFL and Nascar.

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    Wow. Monopoly... [/sarcasm]

    EA expects this to be a huge seller? Considering it's been on almost every console since the NES/SMS days?

    Way to waste that Money, EA! Perhaps you'd like to meet an old friend of mine named 'Atari'. They, too, like to blow money on played out franchises.

    Oh wait, Atari is dead... My bad!

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    This could be interesting. It's a safe bet that EA will take Monopoly, Scrabble, and Yahtzee online, and if they don't mess it up, the opportunity to play those online could be sweet, especially on the 360 (and I can just imagine the achievements).

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    Wouldn't mind listening to the latest rap/pop punk bands as I land on Reading Railroad.

    The bling tax will be insane, but I'll learn to cope.

    Do you think EA will bring out a new version each year, kind of like the actual monopoly? (star wars monopoly, lotr monopoly etc)

    also, will they change the car to a street racer, the dog to a pitbull, thimble to a pimp cup etc?

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    Quote Originally Posted by DigitalSpace View Post
    This could be interesting. It's a safe bet that EA will take Monopoly, Scrabble, and Yahtzee online, and if they don't mess it up, the opportunity to play those online could be sweet, especially on the 360 (and I can just imagine the achievements).
    That would be nice. They are classic board games that NEVER get old. The only problem with scrabble is that people use PC word creators with their tile sets (on current online PC versions, with the word creator as a separate program). You just have to type in your seven tiles and it tells you all the obscure words that you didn't know in the first place. It's just as pointless as playing trivia games online. Now, Yahtzee and Monopoly would be virtually cheat proof and thus more suitable for online play.
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    It was only a matter of time. Atari held the rights to produce Monopoly and other Hasbro games, but couldn't afford to keep it. Thats why the Monopoly DS bundle is so hard to find, they lost the liscense shortly after the first printing.

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    Frankly, these games would be killer on XBLA. And I'm not just saying that because I stand a very good chance of being top 10 (or better) on the Scrabble leaderboard- the multiplayer aspect of it is too much to ignore. It worked for UNO, it might work for spyglass board games, it'd deffo work for Monopoly and friends.

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    Now if only someone would snatch up the exclusive rights to and produce a killer version of "The Game of Life". I haven't played a decent videogame version of it yet

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    yeah, there used to be a site where you could play online monopoly free and I loved it.. coworkers were hooked on it too. We'd have lunchtime tourneys. Could do well online if done right.

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    ugh. When you have Catan and Carcassonne online, why would you want to play this crap?
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    Quote Originally Posted by roushimsx View Post
    Now if only someone would snatch up the exclusive rights to and produce a killer version of "The Game of Life". I haven't played a decent videogame version of it yet
    You mean like EA just did?
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    Quote Originally Posted by scooterb23 View Post
    ugh. When you have Catan and Carcassonne online, why would you want to play this crap?
    Well I love Catan and Carcassonne, I would kill for an online version of Monopoly on XBLA


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    Quote Originally Posted by GarrettCRW View Post
    You mean like EA just did?
    Oh hey, misleading title for the loss. Well a blanket exclusive license for all of Hasbro's products sucks, because that further decreases the likelihood of a decent Game of Life game (or any other board game that doesn't get a Simpsons, Star Wars, or Sports edition released of it) coming out. Son of a bitch.

    ...and here I thought they just had Monopoly, Scrabble, and Yahtzee. Way to shit in my corn flakes and ruin my day

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    "Monopoly" is more fun to play at home anyway.

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    Monopoly huh? Great.

    I guess we can expect yearly installments with monumental upgrades such as roster changes, and um, well that's it.

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    they'll just whore it out the same way all the cardboard versions are being whored out now... so it's a perfect franchise license for them to aquire... now if they would apply that Hasbro license to giving us a PC version of Aquire to play online, that would be something... Aquire pisses all over Monopoly... and there hasn't been an electronic version of it since AH released Computer Aquire way back in the DOS days... the time has come... give me Aquire Online, and I'll have a new addiction... but Monopoly? fuck that... not unless they make a version of it that teaches how all of EA's licensing monopolies are killing the industry... I'd buy the fuck out of that... I'd also buy the fuck out of something like NASCAR VS NFL... a 2 in 1 game which lets you have NASCAR drivers play football against NFL players or have NFL players race against NASCAR drivers... complete with blood and gore...
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    I would like to see several board games come to XBL. Monopoly, Scrabble, maybe Battleship, Hungry Hungry Hippos... umm... yeah, scratch that one.
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    I know it's cool to hate on EA, but I agree with the folks who'd love to see XBLA versions of Monopoly, et al. I use my 360 exclusively for XBLA, and the more games, the merrier!

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