Do You Think Competition Would Solve Alot Of Our Complaints With EA?

[TMJOHNS18]

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you're wrong. Back in 2005 EA signed an Exclusive deal with the NCAA basically making them the only ones who could make an official NCAA game. That deal ran out in 2011 so the exclusive deal between the NCAA & EA Sports is over (i've never read or heard that they re-did a new deal, i did hear that with EA & the NFL but not the NCAA). So another gaming company can make an NCAA Football game as long as they do what they need to do normally to be able to use the rights of the schools.

Problem is trying to take on EA in the NCAA Football market is a risk. EA has the name recognition so anyone on the fence will tend to lean with the familiar product. A college football game probably wouldn't profit in year 1 or maybe even year 2. It's just not worth it for a company like 2k to jump out and try making a college football game to compete with EA, when they are already cutting back on the games they make.

It sounds like a nice idea and we all love to bring up NFL 2k and hope that 2k will just step up and make a football game and save us all but that doesn't appear to be happening anytime soon and what other game company would you trust right off the bat?

Very true, plus with EA having the rights for so many years it ain't like 2K could just keep the 2K8 guys on hold until the licenses were up. I'm sure they didn't draw a big circle around the date that EA's exclusive rights were done and wanted a game to go out the day after.

Plus, companies want to make money, and after so many years of only EA games it would be hard for 2K to just step on in and take a portion of the market. Heck, when 2K was around making NFL games I never gave it much thought because I was used to EA, only if I knew better .

I have no idea what 2K has been doing since All Pro, if they've tried to keep up to date or not, but it's not like they can just take their NFL 2K game and slap a new coat of paint and bring it up to speed. And I don't know if bringing back college or pro football is in their future, but I what I do know is that if 2K was still producing games the last few years we would see an improvement in Madden and NCAA.

The only question the impact of competition would be how much would NCAA and Madden be improved? The real answer... who knows? People like to bring up MLB The Show... well, that's a great game. A hell of a game but it is also alone at the top of it's genre. MLB 2K is terrible in comparison, so there is no real way to say MLB The Show is better because of competition or because of the makers themselves.

Could Madden and NCAA be better? Sure, why not. But to me, they'd only be better if the dev's themselves wanted them to be the best representations, because regardless of competition, if they don't put the work into being the best, they'll never reach it.

[ghettogeeksta]

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You dont think it's a coincidence that NCAA and Madden was so good last generation and this gen they have been down right underwhelming.

[merchant1874]

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Competition is always better immn my opinion. It gives you motivation to be better than that other guy.

You just need to look at EA themselves.

For years on ps1 and ps2 Pro Evoloution soccer was the best soccer game you could buy. Even though FIFA had exclusive rights to teams and leagues while PES had to have made up teams etc.

EA took note of this and has now bypassed PES in being the best soccer game.

Although 2k was the best football game in my opinion I also think this was when madden was at its best. Main reason? Competition

[dreezymac]

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Would competition solve a lot of our complaints? No. Just like any other product, no consumers are gonna be all on one side the fence - there's always gonna something people dont like about the game. All competition would do is give people an out and honestly, with this group, make them a little more pretentious towards EA because they have another option.

Would competition help the overall product EA puts out better? Yes. Goes without saying but it takes two things: Games with longevity that will make EA feel the burn and for us not to immediately bury a new attempt at a game just because it's not perfect out the box.

[CRIP4LIFE]

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when companies fight, the consumer wins.

period.

[JerseySuave4]

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The reason The Show is such a great game is because it's a PS3 only game. They have people working with the 1 system utilizing it's capabilities to the max. What we get with games on multiple platforms is a watered down version of what it could be. If NCAA were built only on the PS3 i'm sure the quality of the game would be much better. But they need to account for what each system offers.

[ghettoqball]

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No. Not al all, period.

why do you say that?

[TheBinnzer]

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Thoughts?

[Aranor]

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The reason The Show is such a great game is because it's a PS3 only game. They have people working with the 1 system utilizing it's capabilities to the max. What we get with games on multiple platforms is a watered down version of what it could be. If NCAA were built only on the PS3 i'm sure the quality of the game would be much better. But they need to account for what each system offers.

You say that but economically speaking they'd lose more money by only limiting it to one system and we all know they'd never do that. More the problem is the horrid programming itself. Line play has never been good in this generation and one horrid thing after another.

[Three Seed]

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Competition is always good. I also think a ton of people who don't like the game should stop buying it year after year. You can critique a game and still enjoy it but there are tons of people buying every year who play for a very short time and then say they won't do it again next year. Then they do. There isn't any reason for the game to be improved if people are already buying. Competition helps with this as well.

[dreezymac]

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http://bit.ly/Pta2BL

Thoughts?

So once the settlement is approved, any developer is free to negotiate a contract with the NFL/NCAA and produce games after 2014?

Damn shame we have to wait another two years but by then hopefully we'll have new blood ready to compete on the next gen consoles.

[JerseySuave4]

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You say that but economically speaking they'd lose more money by only limiting it to one system and we all know they'd never do that. More the problem is the horrid programming itself. Line play has never been good in this generation and one horrid thing after another.

I understand that, i was actually defending NCAA there by saying that not too many games will be at The Show's level because they have the advantage of focusing on 1 system.

[ghettoqball]

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Competition is always good. I also think a ton of people who don't like the game should stop buying it year after year. You can critique a game and still enjoy it but there are tons of people buying every year who play for a very short time and then say they won't do it again next year. Then they do. There isn't any reason for the game to be improved if people are already buying. Competition helps with this as well.

I did my part this year. As much as I'd like to be playing a college football game right now, I'm just tired of the same BS every year.