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

[Big FN Deal]

Quote: Originally Posted by RGiles36

Man, I made this point 7 months ago in Big's 'Beware the Ides' thread and he argued me up & down LOL!

LOL, that's cause everything seems wrong to me coming from a Cowboys fan!

Seriously though, I think you may be recalling that "discussion" differently than how it actually went. If I remember correctly, I was disagreeing with the premise that just because NCAA is a secondary or spin off product to a company already making a NFL game, that somehow made events surrounding the NCAA exclusive license, like it being allowed to expire, irrelevant to what could happen with the NFL exclusive license.

[RGiles36]

Quote: Originally Posted by Big FN Deal

Seriously though, I think you may be recalling that "discussion" differently than how it actually went. If I remember correctly, I was disagreeing with the premise that just because NCAA is a secondary or spin off product to a company already making a NFL game, that somehow made events surrounding the NCAA exclusive license, like it being allowed to expire, irrelevant to what could happen with the NFL exclusive license.

Yep, you recall correctly. I thought you were finally coming around on that line of thinking considering you co-signed KJ.

[Big FN Deal]

Quote: Originally Posted by RGiles36

Yep, you recall correctly. I thought you were finally coming around on that line of thinking considering you co-signed KJ.

Nah, I was just co-signing with KJ about a NCAA game being secondary but I still think there can be some parallels drawn between events around the exclusive license for both. IMO, it's all moot anyway because I think the NFL exclusive will end by March of 2014 too, so that would leave companies free to buy the open rights to produce both a NCAA and NFL game.

[RGiles36]

Quote: Originally Posted by Big FN Deal

IMO, it's all moot anyway because I think the NFL exclusive will end by March of 2014 too, so that would leave companies free to buy the open rights to produce both a NCAA and NFL game.

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Ha!

[scoonie05]

Lol, if EA doesnt have to pay for an ncaa license, wouldn't they have more money to spend on KEEPING the NFL license?? Lol

[mestevo]

Quote: Originally Posted by scoonie05

Lol, if EA doesnt have to pay for an ncaa license, wouldn't they have more money to spend on KEEPING the NFL license?? Lol

Still have to pay for a license if they want to continue making the game, just can't buy exclusivity. That's likely to happen unless other lawsuit(s) don't go their way.

[StrawHat Patriot]

Can all of us here just create a petition to ask the NFL to stop having the exclusive license.

Like some people create sites, advertise it. Like, anyone with access to EA/NFL should ask this. Like stuff like that.

[TreFacTor]

Quote: Originally Posted by StrawHat Patriot

Can all of us here just create a petition to ask the NFL to stop having the exclusive license. Like some people create sites, advertise it. Like, anyone with access to EA/NFL should ask this. Like stuff like that.

It's been done a few times, and has had no result.