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Quote: Originally Posted by Gotmadskillzson

EA Season Ticket been known for a while.......Just bad timing for Madden. 1. College kids went back to school last week and this week. Average college kid not looking to drop $25 when they got buy several hundred dollars worth of books. Probably cost them 1/4 of their potentials. 2. Hurricane Irene on the east coast probably cost them 1/4 of their potentials. People leaving the coast line and buying up supplies. Season Ticket don't come to mind when you got a hurricane coming towards your area. 3. Season Ticket just isn't that big of a lure either just to get a game 3 days early, then have to turn around and STILL go to the store and buy the retail version of it. Now if they allowed you to buy the game early if you had season ticket, then yeah I think a lot more people would have jumped on.

Kinda right on Irene - I think it was the threat of losing power in a lot of areas on the East coast that could have hindered impulse buys.

In general this is a greedy move by EA - they are continually looking for revenue streams on the backs of gamers - first the used game market with the online pass coupon for new copies only and now the street date chase gamers. Just be glad they don't own a sports franchise - or else fixed ticket pricing would go out the window and they would make every seat auction only. Surprised they didn't do a early release launch and just sell the game early for X number of people at a premium price - I wouldn't rule that out in the future.