EA Sports MMA Patch #2 Details, Available Tomorrow

[bkfount]

Re: EA Sports MMA Patch #2 Details, Available Tomorrow

It probably wasnt the UFC doing this but the individual fighters. The UFC doesnt own the fighters likenesses...they just license them from the fighters.

it was all the UFC. They take their stuff seriously and even temporarily cut fighters because they wouldn't sign over their rights to a videogame. EA probably caved too easily and went a little overboard with the censorship, even taking out common as hell names like Silva and Sanchez.

EA MMA is a fine game, but it didn't sell that great and won't get another release until 2012. EA would probably love to get the UFC license at some point, so the UFC probably got them to bend over on this easily. There's really nothing legally wrong with what EA had in the game, as UFC Undisputed has the names and nicknames of a number of SF fighters.

[aholbert32]

Re: EA Sports MMA Patch #2 Details, Available Tomorrow

it was all the UFC. They take their stuff seriously and even temporarily cut fighters because they wouldn't sign over their rights to a videogame. EA probably caved too easily and went a little overboard with the censorship, but they chose to pick their battles.

EA MMA is a fine game, but it didn't sell that great and won't get another release until 2012. They might as well give in to the UFC's complaints now, and keep the dream alive of ever getting that license down the road.

The UFC wouldnt have the grounds to sue. Each fighter never "signed over their rights" to the UFC. They licensed their rights while they are under contract. If they "signed over their rights" the UFC would own their likeness rights in perpetuity. Both games currently have Arlovski, Werdum, Sylvia and Henderson so its clear that fighters werent signing over their rights.

Each individual fighter does have the right to sue over their likeness and EA was looking at several potential lawsuits from individual fighters. EA didnt want to deal with another likeness lawsuit (They are dealing with one for Madden and one for NCAA). Especially for a game that sold so little.

[TheShizNo1]

Crazy actually seeing EA back down to someone.

[CaptainZombie]

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I just wish they would have kept the common names in the database and not remove those. Maybe patch #3 will bring some of that stuff back, if we ever get one.

[daniverson1973]

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bottom line

they shouldnt have agreed to take the names out

i can somewhat understand some of the faces, stances, and tattoos, but names??? thats ridiculous and pathetic and we all know that, even EA

they mustve had SERIOUS PRESSURE

and obviously kept this very discrete, but heres betting they were on the verge of a huge lawsuit that in this day an age, economy-wise, could not afford to contest, so probably, without any costs (except to us, the consumer) they just had to make agreeable/imperative changes in the patch.

anyway, i still love the game

i actually have both mma games, and still prefer eamma

[speedtrucker]

Re: EA Sports MMA Patch #2 Details, Available Tomorrow

Hey guys I've been trying to find an answer but I can't seem to locate one.

I am looking to buy this game this week and I have a question about the patches.

If I buy the game and create a fighter using say "Hawaiian Prodigy" stance(i just saw this in another thread while searching) before I go online with it but I name him John Doe, after the update will his stance be changed back to a default or something else since it was removed in Patch #2?

I was actually hoping to be able to create my own version of Penn and when I saw Hawaiian Prodigy in the game but removed after Patch #2 I was a little disappointed.

thanks in advance.