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."

Comments

Re:Lovely.

[mad.frog]

A lot of people expect their bosses to read their minds - if you work an 80 hour week without giving "feedback," they assume you're OK with working 80 hour weeks.

Unless you've actually worked at EA -- and clearly, you haven't -- you should probably shut the fuck up about it, since you clearly don't know what the hell you are talking about.

Yeah, this is a troll. But it's worth it.

F*ck Sega and NFL2k*

[sirmikester]

Maybe its because of all of the bad karma Sega got when it turned its back on Gamecube owners. I'm glad this happened to them... Since NFL2k4, they have boycotted the gamecube as a platform. Furthermore, the previous game NFL2k3, shipped with critical bug that caused the game to freeze at random. The worst thing about the whole mess was that Sega wouldn't even admit that there was anything wrong with the game! I enjoyed the 2k* series, but after that I told my self that I would never buy another sega game again.

Furthermore, this behavior is not unique to EA. While it certainly is not a good thing that EA has a monopoly over the NFL license, Sega definitely would do the same if it were in EA's position. Companies will always be looking out to feed their bottom line, that's the way business works. At least EA has released a product that doesn't crash at random.