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NBA Rejects EA Deal

Posted by Zonk on from the one-sports-league-does-the-right-thing dept.

PuppiesOnAcid writes "Although the NFL buckled under EA's mighty stronghold in the video game football market (Madden), the NBA has chosen to reject EA's exclusive rights deal. Jon Robinson explains, 'One of the reasons is that the NBA Live series simply doesn't have a stranglehold on the market the way Madden has for years, so by signing an exclusive deal with EA, the NBA would actually be losing money.'"

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  1. Re:They should make a law against this. by Lord+Kano · · Score: 4, Informative

    Apparently, you don't know what a monopoly is.

    Anyone else is free to make a football game(and others do), it's just that EA has paid the NFL for the exclusive right to use team and player names in their games.

    Even IF the NBA signed a similar deal with EA, other people would be free to develop other basketball games.

    LK

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    "Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
  2. PuppiesOnAcid is SPREADING LIES by pappy97 · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Although the NFL buckled under EA's mighty stronghold in the video game football market (Madden)"

    This statement is not true. The NFL solicitied bids for video game exclusivity. The NFL now is preferring to do everything they possibly can with exclusive deals.

    I don't know how Slashdotters allow people like PuppiesOnAcid to spread such lies.