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EA Obtains Exclusive NFL Licensing Rights
Grub writes "EA has signed a 5-year agreement with the NFL that gives them exclusive rights to use NFL players, teams, and stadiums in their products. CEO Larry Probst, 'The five-year agreement will usher NFL fans through the console technology transition with new ideas and innovative game play experiences.'
This is a crushing blow to competitors and an enormous victory for EA, who will undoubtably make sure everyone knows that only they have NFL players and teams come next year's football game advertising bonanza."
I thought if there was one site I could escape sports talk, it would be Slashdot. Now I get to read endless posts about football being soccer, etc.
I've been waiting for a CFL game to come along.
Random and weird software I've written.
...and play six days per week.
Oh well, I will just be the SF 48ers the computer can be the GB Hackers. Oh Bred Feasly you SOB run!
This would be a perfect time for the XFL to come back! Yaaay!!
Hacker Media
Cyberball 2072 was the only football-type game I ever found to be fun.
C'mon! Giant robots? Playing football? My pals and I spent many a quarter on that, beating each other senseless.
Screw EA and the NFL. No giant robots, no care.
Can we save some time and just repost all of the "M$ is Evil" posts from the last 5 years and just replace Microsoft with EA in each?
Actually, M$ should be replaced by €A.
Who the hell watches porn anyway... I'd much rather have SEX than watch sex.
Apparently it did well enough to rate a sequel called Super High Impact Football.
I'm waiting for Super High Impact Tennis. A game like that would be the shit.
Translation from EASpeak (TM):
"Hi. Sega? Remember that $19.99 price undercut? Yeah. F*** you."
This seems wrong to me. Do we really want a world in which every aspect of human activity is licensed or paid for? Sports is culture and community; we shouldn't commercialize that space.
I mean, what's left to commercialize after this? Is the next frontier to commercialize transactions within families? Honey, a roll in the hay will be $500, and do take note of the Coca Cola logo (a licensing exclusive) on the bra before your remove it. If you want a hug from your kids, that will be $5 a hug. (Well, sadly, we may be pretty far along down that road already.)
You could probably buy the rights to the XFL really, really cheap.
The $ in M$ doesn't just signify childish accusations of greed. Microsoft started out as a developer of BASIC interpreters for home computers. Notably, Microsoft developed the "Applesoft" BASIC interpreter in the Apple II Plus through IIGS computers. In that early line-numbered era of BASIC, the name of every string variable ended in a dollar sign. Thus, M$ was a valid name for a string variable, and 10 LET M$ = "Microsoft" was perfectly valid BASIC code. Sometimes people have to make such abbreviations to fit things into Slashdot's short comment subject lines.
Can a computer simulate the complete idiocy of the BCS? The computer component, sure, but what about the fickle voters?
"Michael Vick and the rest of the Atlanta Falcons"
Should read: "Michael Vick"
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -David Hume
CANADIAN Football League!? What next -- hockey in the United States?
You know, everytime I read about the hockey teams of Florida or California, I die a little inside.
You can't take the sky from me...
Yeh, seriously. They should have just stopped at Madden 94, when football on a console was perfected. That is the only football game I ever play, and you know what? It looks amazing projected onto a 100" screen, you wouldn't believe the graphics they had back in 1994. I don't even know why anyone else tries, they should just bow down to Madden 94 and give up.
when was the last time you played a truly innovative sports game?
I don't know when exactly anymore, but the game was Caveman Uglympics!
By their very nature they can't go beyond the rules of the game they're based on.
Yeah you can. Morpheus says so.
The game will never be as smart or as fast as you.