EA Cites MS Bullying, Says No Xbox Online Games

beggs writes: "It appears that Electronic Arts will not have any games for the new Xbox online service Microsoft is rolling out this week. In this article over at the Times, people close to the negotiations for the service say that Microsoft was "trying to force software publishers to offer their online games on data-serving computers controlled by Microsoft, a move that could potentially give Microsoft access to information about customers." In the end EA said it will work with Sony and the PS2 online service."

Comments

Another Microsoft Bashing News

[i_luv_linux]

Can someone explain me,
even though there are bunch of anti-microsoft news each day why the hell these microsoft guys are still evil?

Can it be that, there is nothing particularly evil about them, or is it some of the news that I hear are actually nothing but crap!

Wake up guys, be REASONABLE. Yesterday there was news that says "Microsoft urged retialiation against companies which support Linux" If you read it, you see that, it is something which is proposed by a Microsoft employee, but it is not certain whether Microsoft adopted the policy or not. But the title says, no "Microsoft did it". !!!! There is no facts on most of these anti-Microsoft news. They try to twist the facts.

Code review

[KirkH]

You've got some unnecessary logic and code in there, buddy. Try this:

if (ThisArticle.about()==Music) {
Sony.opinion(hate);
Microsoft.opinion(neutral);
}
else {
Sony.opinion(like);
Microsoft.opinion(hate);
}

It accomplishes the same thing.

Signed: your friendly neighborhood code reviewer.

Can we say...

[CProgrammer98]

"All your boxen are belong to us?"

... I knew you could :)

Re:First Post

[CubicDDD]

hmm .. lightspeed is about 300000 km/s that is 300M m/s, not 0.3

it had to be said

[fabiolrs]

"all your costumer are belong to us"

:)) hahahhahaha

sorry people... sorry...

And without government intervention...

[dada21]

The free market continues to fix the problems that intervention caused...

As more and more third parties (whom Microsoft relies heavily on to promote and support their wares) get chagrined with Microsoft's control tactics, more and more of them will find reasons to dump MS for a competitor or two...
>

I know of a few (much much smaller, but significant for their developers) projects that said NO to Windows, only to support Mac and shortly Linux, because they're unhappy with MS, and hope their software is significant enough for their client base to make a switch to another OS, at least for the workstation in mind...

Let the government step back, and let the consumer and third parties decide which way the dice will land.

Re:Sega!

[big_cat79]

Sega's basketball kill EA's basketball games, but EA's cornered the market with Madden and it's NHL (insert year here) series. Better gameplay, more indepth, and just plainly superior. I have quite a few friends who bought PS2's just to play those 2 games.

Re:Online Sports Games

[Paradise Pete]

The early bird catches the worm, but the late bird sleeps the most

If you're a bird
be an early bird
and catch the worm for your breakfast plate

If you're a bird
be an early early bird...
But if you're a worm, sleep late.

Shel Silverstein