EA bought the rights to NFL legends, too

[ChicagoSparty]

Quote: Originally Posted by LIGHTNING

The government needs to step in and stop EA. We need a socalist activist government that will bring corporate justice and reform. All the corporate corruption and deception must end and government must deny some freedom and rights. I think a government imposed revenue tax would be welcome. Take 50% of EA total revenue and sales and redistrute a third of it to competitors and use the rest to pay off the government decifit. I think a corporate revenue tax is coming in the not too distant future.

Yeah, the government needs to step in and create a socialist economic system for video games. Good plan. After all, with so few things going on in the world today, I'm sure restructuring the video game industry is at the top of the government's list of things to do.

And please explain how these companies are "corrupt" or are being "deceitful" by purchasing exclusive licenses.

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To preserve competition the government should deny everyone from using any license.

Deny everyone from using any license? So we could never have any realistic sports games. Yet another winning idea.

[mercalnd]

Quote: Originally Posted by bergie56

They have had players from the past in before. This isn't the first time.

That's what I was about to say as well. I remember 2003 had former greats as unlockables through Madden cards, although there was no hall of fame feature.

[grunt]

Quote: Originally Posted by ChicagoSparty

Yeah, the government needs to step in and create a socialist economic system for video games. Good plan. After all, with so few things going on in the world today, I'm sure restructuring the video game industry is at the top of the government's list of things to do. And please explain how these companies are "corrupt" or are being "deceitful" by purchasing exclusive licenses. Deny everyone from using any license? So we could never have any realistic sports games. Yet another winning idea.

No need for big brother because the market will take care of EA.

[mercalnd]

Quote: Originally Posted by LIGHTNING

Take 50% of EA total revenue and sales and redistrute a third of it to competitors and use the rest to pay off the government decifit. I think a corporate revenue tax is coming in the not too distant future. To preserve competition the government should deny everyone from using any license.

By sustaining the weaker competitors (in financial terms at least) straight from the biggest companies revenues how in h*** do you figure these companies would be trying to have the better product? Basically, they'd fight NOT to have the biggest market share by cutting on dev costs and innovations just so they can have a portion of the biggest companies' revenues without spending the moneyand effort to get it. Maybe you envision companies like 2K really going balls out in sim stuff that are hardcore sim gamers but making a true sim game would entail high costs so really they'd have no incentive to do that at all since they could just put out a half-baked game and just wait for their government check from the other company's revenue.

This would be 100 times worse than EA not improving their games enough because they already have a stranglehold on the market.

Also, socialism tends to curtail competition, not encourage it.

[Spectre]

Quote: Originally Posted by aholbert32

Thats not entirely true.

Aaron, it seems you have to post this everytime capa posts on a thread about 2K and football

[luv_mist]

Quote: Originally Posted by grunt

No need for big brother because the market will take care of EA.

Basically, if they don't step up, they will slowly lose money one way or another. VC was the best thing to happen to EA. Every game that EA has competition in they do well in now. In this following generation of gaming, the games are more expensive and inflation is increasing because of gas and all the other things. You better believe that EA will lose more and more money if they don't step up. The gamers are starting to get more competent which is slowly going to be a factor in their future. I am so curious to see what it looks like this fall. And those legends being bought up probably wasn't on the same scale as it is now. I'm sure they only had a good 20-40 players they talked to. Can someone confirm the number of unlockable legends in previous titles fi there's enough time?

[luv_mist]

Quote: Originally Posted by Spectre

Aaron, it seems you have to post this everytime capa posts on a thread about 2K and football

However many times it takes.......

[spankdatazz22]

Quote: Originally Posted by ChicagoSparty

And please explain how these companies are "corrupt" or are being "deceitful" by purchasing exclusive licenses.

I think he's speaking more to the frustration many feel as an individual consumer that sees a problem possibly spiraling out of control. I agree that government regulation likely isn't the answer. The problem is this is an issue that hasn't reached the public consciousness yet, and by the time it does it'll likely be too late. This is a bad analogy, but if Burger King and Wendys suddenly ceased to be, it wouldn't affect me profoundly as I prefer McDonalds. But I'd be foolish to think that wouldn't affect McDonalds practices. Is there any need to have a $.99 dollar menu when people don't have a lot of options for fast food? And it's not like McDonalds does everything better than Burger King or Wendys.

Nobody's saying EA is lazy. But it's only human nature to not to push yourself hard when you don't have to. And it's competition that drives the economy. Competition drives innovation. These are undeniable. EA may not be able to position themselves as Microsoft has in the PC world, but they're not that far off. It wasn't long ago I read that EA is larger than all of the other top ten developers COMBINED. Meaning you merge Ubisoft, Take Two, Capcom, Konami, etc. into one company - and EA would STILL be bigger.