EA Sued Over Madden 06 Feature

von_blapp writes "EA is being sued over the Super Star feature that is included in Madden '06. Pernell Harris, owner of Virtual Jam is suing EA over a confidentiality violation. Harris claims when he met with EA in '03 he discussed a game called Heart Of A Champion, in this game players take high school athletes from the schools to the pros insuring their grades are kept up and even picking their parents for the optimum gene pool. This is the same feature as in the current game released by EA."

Comments

Slight correction

[Pluvius]

The part where you take your athlete through college is simulated in Madden's sister game, NCAA Football 06. You export your college character to Madden 06 if you decide to enter the draft (usually at the end of your senior year, but you can cut a year off if you win a Heisman). Not that anyone here cares, but I thought I'd point it out.

Rob

Re:They sort-of deserve it.

[HunterZ]

Just because somebody has a cool idea and shares it doesn't mean if anybody implements that idea they can sue.

He can (and should) file suit if EA signed documents saying that they wouldn't use this idea without licensing it from him first. The article alludes to a confidentiality agreement/contract but isn't specific, so there's no way to know what the deal is that they had.