EA Sports Plans To Digitize Madden 11 Consumer (IGN)

[CreatineKasey]

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If they sell M10 for $30 electronically I'd be okay with that. Unfortunately I don't have much HD space so I couldn't get a lot of games this way.

[Valdarez]

Re: EA Sports Plans To Digitize Madden 11 Consumer (IGN)

If I understand this article, they are wanting to make Madden a download only option. The only thing I see that doing is taking away our trade in credit, and making everyone pay $60 for the game, as long as EA decides to charge it.

Make it a $20 download, and Im all for it. Anything over $30 for a download Madden, NO WAY!

I have collected games since the original Pong game. Personally, I want a game I own, not digital content. I want something I can hold and own.

[Perfect Zero]

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If everybody would look toward NCAA Football last year, the teambuilder feature was partial a ruse to stop people from trading in the game. You got the code if you bought the game new, but you had to pay for it if it was used. EA has been "taking advantage of that consumer" for many years, and with the advent of DLC, it's going to be $60 to buy the physical game, and much more to play it with features.

In a way, I can't blame them. Putting out an inferior product for so long makes it to where they have to overcharge for common features does help the bottom line. This is in contrast to SCEA which has put a lot into their baseball program year after year and people still flock to it.

[Valdarez]

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They spend WAY too much money marketing Madden. It's the ONLY NFL game out there. You don't need to spend $$$ marketing it. Take that money and put it back into the game. Their business strategy is flawed from top to bottom, and Peter Moore is only making it worse.

[Flamehead]

Re: EA Sports Plans To Digitize Madden 11 Consumer (IGN)

and Peter Moore is only making it worse.

I have to agree. While I'm sure there are individual developers that care a great deal and do the best they can, I think the Madden brand in general will continue to suffer under his direction. I'm sure he believes he's all that and a bag of chips, so what do we, the consumers, know?

Hopefully the developers can turn around the Madden franchise in spite of him.

[REDRZA]

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I have collected games since the original Pong game. Personally, I want a game I own, not digital content. I want something I can hold and own.

Thats why you can carry your HDD with you (on 360 anyways). I'm all for digital download especially at a price break and getting the game at launch without standing in lines.

ntot to mention tired of the clutter. Downloadable games are a WELCOME advancement in technology. I could care less about bi corporate places like gamestop RAPING people on used games.

[tktnuri]

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I have no problem with paying for downloadable content as long as I can reload it if something were to happen to my hard drive and the store markup isn't there. $30 I am okay paying $5-20 extra for additional content is okay as well. But having to pay $60 when there is no brick and mortar mark up is hard to justify.

I rather pay $60 and be able to load the game to HDD and never use the disc then pay $60 for download only.

[KBLover]

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I could care less about bi corporate places like gamestop RAPING people on used games.

I could care less about them.

I DO care about being able to re-sell the game on say Amazon or E-Bay when I'm tired of it.

I get something out of it and help some other gamer get a game they wanted at a lesser price (or at all in some cases).

[splff3000]

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You guys don't seriously think that Madden will become a download only game this generation do you? Do you know how much money EA would lose by doing that? There are people with 360's that have no hard drive and some with only a 20gb hard drive. Those people without hard drives would not be able to download the game and those with the 20gb hard drive would probably choose not to since it would probably fill 1/3 to 1/2 of their hard drive. Not to mention the people that don't even have internet, believe me there's more than you think. That's a lot of sales loss. Now there may come a day where EA offers a digital download of Madden as an alternative to buying an actual disc, but I seriously doubt that it will ever become a download only deal in this generation of consoles.

[Tick32]

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"it allows me to be able to take further advantage of that consumer over a longer period of time"

That comment scares me. Those were the worst choice of words imo. "Take advantage of." They already have the NFL License. Moore seems to think we trade the game in because we are bored of it. Not true. There are a lot of ppl use who still plays or is looking for 2k5 and find ways of updating the roster on the game. I wasn't a fan of 2k5 back when it was new. I liked madden 05 and the rest of the last gen Madden's over it, but I asked my bro to let me borrow his to see what all the talk is about. Now i see that ESPN 2k5 even at its age. Plays a lot better than all of the Nxt Gen Maddens. If they want us to keep there game, they have to make a better quality game. With realistic football gameplay, and no glitches showing up everywhere in the game.

Here's a video Ryanmoody made about this article.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wyUN869Yxo

[kjcheezhead]

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You guys don't seriously think that Madden will become a download only game this generation do you? Do you know how much money EA would lose by doing that? There are people with 360's that have no hard drive and some with only a 20gb hard drive. Those people without hard drives would not be able to download the game and those with the 20gb hard drive would probably choose not to since it would probably fill 1/3 to 1/2 of their hard drive. Not to mention the people that don't even have internet, believe me there's more than you think. That's a lot of sales loss. Now there may come a day where EA offers a digital download of Madden as an alternative to buying an actual disc, but I seriously doubt that it will ever become a download only deal in this generation of consoles.

Think about how many sales Madden is losing now to gamestop trade-ins. Weigh the loss of 360 owners who wouldn't upgrade there systems to be able to download vs the sales losses they are losing on all their games right now. Going digital probably would make them more profitable.

[Pringles]

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ohhhhhhhhhhh no i see it now they offer you to digitally download it
a week prior to it's regular release date on disc. to gain more permanent sales

[econoodle]

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Anyone who willingly gives EA Sports their money after that article has serious problems.

I LOL'd

[roadman]

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Here's a video Ryanmoody made about this article.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wyUN869Yxo

9 minutes on one comment.

No thank you.

I already don't appreciate the comment and how it was used. I don't need to listen to 9 minutes of someone that agrees with me.

Just my opinion.

[Valdarez]

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Think about how many sales Madden is losing now to gamestop trade-ins. Weigh the loss of 360 owners who wouldn't upgrade there systems to be able to download vs the sales losses they are losing on all their games right now. Going digital probably would make them more profitable.

Very few. Most folks that buy the game used would not be willing to buy the game brand new.

Instead of worrying about used sales and trying to penalize the used / aftermarket, EA should focus on the quality of the game. The aftermarket, is AFTER the game is no longer a viable new buy.