Sports Games Toy With Pay To Play

Posted by simoniker on Saturday July 26, 2003 @05:12AM from the professional-madden-players-ahoy? dept.

Thanks to CNN Money for their article discussing videogame plans for the forthcoming football season, particularly focusing on the fact that "publishers are interested in discovering exactly how dedicated electronic football fans are to the online element." EA president John Riccitiello explains: "The online connected console is a brand new concept. We do not want to set a long term precedent that it's a free benefit, but we don't think we can get paid for the simple act of matching two consumers to play against one another. So what we've been doing is looking at alternatives." According to the article, EA will be trying pay-to-play tournaments (but only in NBA Live for now, not Madden), and the opportunity to purchase downloadable content, as EA learns "what the consumer is willing to pay for."

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fu ea by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-26 05:17 · Score: 0, Troll

New concept? Sega's Dreamcast was doing it for years (for free). I won't even count the x-band.

Oh, and now we all know why EA doesn't want their sports titles online on the xbox. They want a big piece of the pie. No surprise.