I HATE EA...F**kin\' BASTARDS...

[Living-In-Clip]

Originally posted by JP
I\'m sure there\'ll be lots of other games but without the licenses of course. Pro Evolution Soccer has never, until the most recent edition, had any licenses but has had the best gameplay by far. FIFA is crap compared to PES even if it doesn\'t have the licenses etc that FIFA does.

Licenses aren\'t everything, gameplay >> licenses IMHO.

Tell that to Joe Blow who wants to play as T. O . While a lisence may not make everything, in this genre it does make up a huge amount of the sales.

Yea, soccer is a bit different here in the states, people who play soccer games don\'t play them to play as people they play it to have fun over there, but here people want names, that includes any sports, would you play basketball, football, or even some stupid nascar game if you couldn\'t be a certain icon or figure in the game.

Originally posted by Knotter8
Now, they\'re busy killing any potential what\'s left in any Bond story game. EA\'s kinda like parasite harvesters. It\'s not even the individual EA employee, but that buncha management suits that\'s \'arranging\' all this.

oh btw check this :

new EA employees article

I agree for the most part and EA butchered the Goldeneye name by making that terrible FPS with the same title but only because the main character had a golden eye - lame. I must say though, that the other bond games like nightfire and epecially Everything or Nothing have been pretty good.

About football games - The only one ive been hooked on was blitz on N64 - what a rush.

Now there is NO competition for Madden, and they can continue to put out the exact same game every year with updated rosters and charge $50 for it.

madden > *

the sales have always reflected this

EA buying Sega so there wont be any NFK2k*
now thats a M$ tactic
:rolleyes:

nice try tho

Originally posted by Living-In-Clip
Tell that to Joe Blow who wants to play as T. O . While a lisence may not make everything, in this genre it does make up a huge amount of the sales.

I know, which is why that turd FIFA sells as much as it does as well. I just think people have the wrong priorities.

Originally posted by mm
madden > *

the sales have always reflected this

I\'ll remember this next time you go off about how bad some musician/movie is.

Titanic > *

Look at the numbers. Sales prove me right.

Originally posted by GmanJoe
...And there was also a Nintendo football game where it had these alien looking monsters. They\'d poop on the field and if anyone stepped on it, it would blow up like a claymore mine. You could even bribe the ref! What\'s the name of that one again???

It was Mutant Football League.......I think. They had a hockey game too.

Originally posted by Black Samurai
I\'ll remember this next time you go off about how bad some musician/movie is.

Titanic > *

Look at the numbers. Sales prove me right.

Bingo.  Exactly the point.  I knew mm would spout off on some stupid sales idea to prove his "point" when that has nothing to do with anything.  Hey, mm, how\'s that copy of Enter the Matrix doing?  It sold over a million in 18 days, it must be good!

This is a terrible thing for the football gaming industry.  EA will have no competition from now on and will make fewer and fewer changes each year to Madden then they already do.  EA has done the worst possible thing.  I don\'t understand why they can\'t just both benefit and share ideas and such and produce the best football game out there.  Not get one with good stuff and the other with good stuff, but there is no way to have both with both the good stuff...s.....  

oh man this is so gay.  Competition benefits consumers period.  If you think anything else you\'re wrong

[Titan]

Originally posted by Magoo
oh man this is so gay.  Competition benefits consumers period.  If you think anything else you\'re wrong

I agree for the most part. Look at Microsoft. No real competition for Windows (except for maybe Mac). They dominate the computer market.

Titanic was actually a great film, regardless of how you feel about it.

it set a new standard for large budget hollywood films.

enter the matrix?  thats a whole new genre.
name another football game that came anywhere near maddens sales.  none?  oh, i wonder why.

certainly didnt have anything to do with the licensing of names, stadiums, ect

and your point is?

I don\'t see why you base everything off of sales numbers.  People are sheep and buy what their friends play / buy.  Just because it\'s the most popular dosen\'t make it the best.

[Evi]

And movies have jack-diddly-crap to do with this thread. We\'re talking about the affect of EA\'s gay decision on the NFL game genre as a whole and all it\'s developers, not how great you think Titanic was. That\'s a mute point relevant to nothing.