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

[Cre8]

Quote: Originally Posted by PVarck31

I don't think it's sad at all. I don't see them renewing the NFL license. They don't even want to be put anywhere near a legal situation with that. Not to mention all the money they lost with it in the first place.

I really hope you are right.

[PioneerRaptor]

Sounds like a stupid lawsuit and another reason our judicial system is messed up.

The NFL shopped out their license, if EA didn't buy it another company would have done so. Yet, of course, we have to blame EA.

The same goes for NCAA and AFL. These companies wanted to go exclusive to make more money and if EA didn't buy those rights then someone else would have.

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.

Also, the argument of the price of games is irrelevant. Or else we should sue all publishers who price their games at the normal value of 59.99.

PS: I highly doubt 2K has the money to bring back a franchise that it hasn't worked on in years, though I would love the competition.

[SageInfinite]

Quote: Originally Posted by b2th3m1th

and it will be terrible like college football 2k3...I doubt 2k will have the money to make an NCAA game. hell they had to drop MLB and NHL games the past two years.

That game was terrible, but that was before NFL 2k was even great. Now that they aren't developing MLB, I can't see why they wouldn't attemp this.

[Profit89]

Quote: Originally Posted by PioneerRaptor

Sounds like a stupid lawsuit and another reason our judicial system is messed up. The NFL shopped out their license, if EA didn't buy it another company would have done so. Yet, of course, we have to blame EA. The same goes for NCAA and AFL. These companies wanted to go exclusive to make more money and if EA didn't buy those rights then someone else would have. 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. Also, the argument of the price of games is irrelevant. Or else we should sue all publishers who price their games at the normal value of 59.99. PS: I highly doubt 2K has the money to bring back a franchise that it hasn't worked on in years, though I would love the competition.

Peter Moore is that you ?

[mestevo]

Quote: Originally Posted by JerzeyReign

No more exclusive deals. And I'll still hold out hope that this will dissuade EA from renewing the NFL contract -- hopefully.

What about a settlement that doesn't bar them from renewing the NFL license exclusively dissuades them from doing just that?

[NikeBlitz]

2K Sports has only NBA 2K13 planned for this year (and the coming years). They already approached the NFL two years ago ... and they have room for. it's obvious that they'll be back soon.

[mestevo]

Quote: Originally Posted by PioneerRaptor

Sounds like a stupid lawsuit and another reason our judicial system is messed up. The NFL shopped out their license, if EA didn't buy it another company would have done so. Yet, of course, we have to blame EA. The same goes for NCAA and AFL. These companies wanted to go exclusive to make more money and if EA didn't buy those rights then someone else would have. 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. Also, the argument of the price of games is irrelevant. Or else we should sue all publishers who price their games at the normal value of 59.99. PS: I highly doubt 2K has the money to bring back a franchise that it hasn't worked on in years, though I would love the competition.

If anything the NFL originally being the one shopping it's license as exclusive could be why only NCAA and AFL were covered in this and the NFL wasn't as far as not renewing exclusivity. The NFL deal was kosher, the way they went about cornering the market on other similar games and kept the price up of all of them wasn't apparently.

[TreFacTor]

Quote: Originally Posted by NoLimits77

gimme my $30 for Madden 04, 06, 07, 08 on PS2 and 10 on PS3 eheh

Actually your looking at about $10 for all of them according to the settlement sum of $1.95 a copy. I got more from my Ipod class action involvement.