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Quote: Originally Posted by JonM

"Any honest sports video game developer has every right to create their own game of American football to sell on the market because you can't monopolize an idea." No you can't monopolize an idea, but you sure as hell can come close. Just buy up all the major league licenses. NFL, NCAA, Arena. The only one left (I believe) is canadian football, but the market there is so small you may as well go generic. Now your average joe walks into bestbuy looking at his football game choices. Hmm, what will he buy? A game about football? Or a game about NFL/NCAA football?

True. You cannot monopolize an idea, this idea being football. What EA has technically done painted the rest of market into a corner. No sports video game developer stands a chance against EA Sports when it comes to developing an American-football title. They know that and they exploited a loophole in the system because they have not actually broken any monopoly laws.

I'm still going to label the agreement between EA Sports and the NFL as collusion.