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EA Signs College Football License Deal
Yet another license falls into the hands of the EA sports game crafters. The Business Wire is reporting that EA Games has signed a six year agreement with the Collegiate Licensing Company. This allows EA the exclusive use of teams, stadiums, etc, etc. From the article: "Our NCAA football franchise is a key element in our EA SPORTS brand lineup and we are pleased to have secured the NCAA license...There is an unrivaled loyalty our fans have for the game, and this agreement with CLC allows EA to continue to deliver to fans the best, most innovative college football experience now and for years to come."
Now for college sports! woot!
Who buys this crap anyway?
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and enemy of growth. -JFK
Pick your applicable Slashdot response here:
1. EA is evil
2. This is a monopoly, aren't monopolies illegal?
3. OMG isn't someone going to do something about this?
3a. Let's boycott EA!
4. Blah blah blah, just don't buy the game, you have this right as a consumer, blah blah.
5. Random Nostalgia Comment about playing some football game with mutants, and how there still a possibility for innovation (hint, not very likely at all).
6. Comment about all Madden games after '92 sucking ass.
Am I missing anything?
...I'm reminded of the fact that I never have, and never will, play a sport simulation game. Then I smile. Then I shed a tear over the crushed Crunch bar.
And then I smile again.
Apparently EA is showing what happens when you try to undercut them at retail (as in Sega lowering the price of their games to $20).
In other news EA has signed an exclusive licensing deal with Italy, for the exclusive rights to the likeness of short, fat, mustached, Italian plumbers.