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[MJenness]

Quote: Originally Posted by thelasthurtknee

when the nfl and ea originally did this it had nothing to do with ea. the nfl wanted to just have one license out so it was easier to regulate what was going on in the game. the ncaa and other pro sports followed the lead. they proposed to the game makers to make an offer of royalties that they they would make off the game. ea won. 2k didnt try. they wanted to go in the direction of other sports. ea was still kicking there but in sales and profit. this is the same reason ea didnt make a pro baseball game for a while. this makes things very easy for the pro sports legal depts. of course they took ea's offer. it was more, they have a bigger marketing dept and the nfl and ncaa same greater potential in ea. it wasnt game making ablity they were looking at. i know that ncaa paid over 100,000 in royalties to FSU last year to have them in the game. these games are a good source of money for the teams that are in it and its not ea keeping them from letting other companys make games, this is what the govering heads of these sports want.

Ea OUTBID 2k....2k "tried", but didn't have the deep pocketbooks that EA does.

And 2k DOES allow other developers to make baseball games, it is only EA that they don't allow....this was their way of striking back at EA over what they felt was an injustice done to them with the NFL license, plus the remarks made by a senior EA executive upon the release of NFL 2k5. What he basically said was that "NFL 2k5 can sell for 20 bucks, and even if they tape a ham sandwich to it, it will never rival Madden".

Just trying to clear up some of your remarks.