$27 Million Settlement Announced in EA Madden Price-Fixing Lawsuit

[TheTruth437]

Train wreck? A bit on the barebones side, sure, but on the field, that game is the best playing representation of football ever made.

Yes, I would agree with APF2k8 having the best overall gameplay of any football game. But I believe many people overrate NFL2k5 and APF2k8. Either way, I hope that we finally get competition again, which I firmly believe will help with the all-around quality of football games.

[pinksheets]

Re: $27 Million Settlement Announced in EA Madden Price-Fixing Lawsuit

Sounds like they sued for the kitchen sink, but were willing to settle for everything but the kitchen sink, which EA gave.

I'll gladly accept some money from EA, but I consider this whole thing an entirely pointless failure.

[cattlekiller]

If we ever get another NFL game by someone other than EA, I just hope they bring NFL football back to the PC.

[truintellectplaya]

Cool, I hate what the exclusive mess has done to the sports gaming industry. I lost two of my favorite games to the exclusive mess. NFL 2K and MVP Baseball. I hate EA because they killed my joy of playing football games. They are simply horrible. On the other hand, 2K was and is more of a inventor of new ways to play games than EA or Sony or any of the other names. That is why 2K did not kill my will to play baseball games. There pitching and batting interaction is far greater than anything "The Show" can give you. So, that is the reason why most of us think 2K when we talk about someone that could bring the interest back to football gaming because EA never even tries to do anything other than marketing and Sony has never exceeded on a high level with any sports game other than the Show. They failed with Shootout and all there football games. 2K destroyed real competition with NBA 2K and was well on there way with NFL 2K.

I will take anyone but 2K is the most qualified to do the job of directly competing and defeating a marketing giant like EA. Hopefully we want be let down with no-one jumping in to NCAA. I personally think the saga will continue. 2K will make College Football and EA will bring back baseball next gen. Hopefully we will all love both products.

[Goffs]

Re: $27 Million Settlement Announced in EA Madden Price-Fixing Lawsuit

If we ever get another NFL game by someone other than EA, I just hope they bring NFL football back to the PC.

I would love to see EA sports line up on the PC side of things....I can finally use Origins other than BF3 and Mass Effect 3.

[marcbitw1992]

im just hoping for some 2k college hoops and nfl !

[poopoop]

Re: $27 Million Settlement Announced in EA Madden Price-Fixing Lawsuit

I guess we should start suing anyone that has exclusive deals. Sue Sony for making games only for their console, Microsoft too. Oh, let's sue DirecTV for being the only people the NFL Sunday Ticket too.

It's not feasible to sue everyone with exclusive deals, but seeing one of them get taken down via lawsuit is a win. DirectTV being only company with Sunday Ticket is a bad thing, unless you happen to love direct tv.

[Stampede_94]

Re: $27 Million Settlement Announced in EA Madden Price-Fixing Lawsuit

A drop in the bucket for EA, but a step in the right direction for consumers that feel cheated by a sub-par product and showing from a company that is holding an exclusive license hostage just to make sure other companies can't compete.

I understand Goodell had a huge hand in this exclusive deal, but i'm sure EA put up a nice mix of smoke and mirrors to impressive the chief.

[Bull_Dozer]

I hope this means no more exclusive rights for EA with the NFL.

*crosses fingers*

[reddogmaddogbul]

Re: $27 Million Settlement Announced in EA Madden Price-Fixing Lawsuit

This is very sad news guys ,we've lost this fight.
Dont be suprised if you never see another company make
a NFL game in your life span.

[Yeah...THAT Guy]

Re: $27 Million Settlement Announced in EA Madden Price-Fixing Lawsuit

Wait, so how exactly will getting our money back? Sorry if this has already been posted.

I gotta find out how many of these games I bought for the original XBox/if I still have them laying around.

[kjcheezhead]

Re: $27 Million Settlement Announced in EA Madden Price-Fixing Lawsuit

This is basically nothing. Doesn't change anything. $27 million may sound like a lot, but in the grand scheme of things EA's position is more or less unchanged. They still got their prized NFL license all to themselves, and will likely fight tooth and nail to keep it that way.

Yeah. When EA and the NFL renegotiated the license before the 2011 season the NFL cut them a $30 million break. So now they just lost that $30 million and a couple of licenses they were letting expire anyways.

[reddogmaddogbul]

Re: $27 Million Settlement Announced in EA Madden Price-Fixing Lawsuit

Yeah. When EA and the NFL renegotiated the license before the 2011 season the NFL cut them a $30 million break. So now they just lost that $30 million and a couple of licenses they were letting expire anyways.

Took the words right out of my mouth.

[MJHSpanda57]

I love me some 2K Football, but my only issue with this is that 2K's College Football game sucked. Here's to hoping they could get it right this time around if 2K decides to go in that direction.

They should just let the guys that made 2k5 do the College series.

[scoonie05]

Re: $27 Million Settlement Announced in EA Madden Price-Fixing Lawsuit

Yeah. When EA and the NFL renegotiated the license before the 2011 season the NFL cut them a $30 million break. So now they just lost that $30 million and a couple of licenses they were letting expire anyways.

Yeah, I agree with this. Now that they wont have an exclusive NCAA license, I think they'll go all out to keep the NFL license since they wont have to pony up for the other licenses.