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EA class action lawsuit settled ($20 per gm purchased)

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GEOFFREY PECOVER and ANDREW OWENS v. ELECTRONIC ARTS INC.

U.S. District Court (N.D. Cal. - Oakland Div.)

Case No. 08-cv-02820 CW


If You Purchased Certain Electronic Arts Brand Football Video Games

Between January 1, 2005 to the Present

You May Be a Class Member.
Membership as a class member in the Electronic Arts Litigation is the result
of a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California,
Oakland Division (Case No. 08-cv-02820 CW).


What Is This Class Action About?
The class action lawsuit alleges violations of California's antitrust and
consumer protection laws in connection with the sale of certain football video
games. Plaintiffs, purchasers of Electronic Arts' football video games, claim
that Defendant Electronic Arts entered into a series of exclusive licenses
with the National Football League (NFL), National Football League Players'
Association (NFLPA), National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA), and
Arena Football League (AFL), which Plaintiffs claim foreclosed competition
in an alleged football video game market. Plaintiffs allege that this series
of exclusive licenses caused customers who purchased certain football video
games to be overcharged.
Defendant Electronic Arts has denied any liability and all allegations of misconduct. The Court has not decided whether the Defendants did anything wrong, and this Notice is not an expression of any opinion by the Court about the merits of any of the claims or defenses asserted by any party to this litigation.

Who Are Class Members?The Class includes all persons who, during the period January 1, 2005 to the present, purchased the Madden NFL, NCAA Football, or Arena Football League brand video games published by Electronic Arts with a release date of January 1, 2005 to the present. Excluded from the class are purchasers of software for mobile devices, persons purchasing directly from Electronic Arts, persons purchasing used copies of the relevant football video games, and Electronic Arts' employees, officers, directors, legal representatives, and wholly or partly owned subsidiaries or affiliated companies.

What Should I Do? (Getting Further Information)If you believe that you may be a class member (see above "Who Are Class Members"), you should get more detailed information about the class action and its potential effect on you and your rights. Further information can be obtained by going to the following website: www.easportslitigation.com. Additional information about the lawsuit may be obtained from Plaintiffs' Counsel website at www.hbsslaw.com, or by calling Plaintiffs' Counsel at 1-206-623-7292.

To Remain a Class MemberIf you are a class member and you do nothing, you will be bound by the court's rulings in the lawsuit, including any final Settlement or Judgment.

To Exclude Yourself from the Class(Deadline to Request Exclusion: June 25, 2011)If you are a class member and you want to exclude yourself from the class and keep your right to sue Defendant, you must take further action before June 25, 2011. By that date, you must request exclusion in writing to this address:
Electronic Arts Litigation Exclusion

P.O. Box 8090

San Rafael CA 94912-8090
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No lawyer here. How can the claim be made they overcharged? They are the same price (save special edition versions) as every other popular game that is released. Maybe if there was a premium on the products and they sold for 100 bucks I could see it. What am I missing? Isn't a better case to say a monopoly is created? Even that one is a non-starter.

Now, if they want to say they are putting out an inferior product each year and that I still don't have a freaking custom playbook and play creator, then I am with you.
 
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Monopolizing NFL 2k5 out of business, stealing their highlight model and insulting their customer base with half a decade of releases behind the previous gen console's gameplay was a joke.

Glad to see this.
 
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fanaticbuckeye;1904052; said:
No lawyer here. How can the claim be made they overcharged? They are the same price (save special edition versions) as every other popular game that is released. Maybe if there was a premium on the products and they sold for 100 bucks I could see it. What am I missing? Isn't a better case to say a monopoly is created? Even that one is a non-starter.

Now, if they want to say they are putting out an inferior product each year and that I still don't have a freaking custom playbook and play creator, then I am with you.
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I am no lawyer either but buying an exclusive license with the NFL made if impossible for anything but a monopoly to result, at least in layman's terms.
 
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I understand, but it's the entities right to choose an exclusive partner, in this case NCAA and the NFL with EA. Nothing (other than economics) is stopping the other game manufacturers from creating football games, they just cant use NCAA or NFL rights. This isn't a public service or other commodity that needs government regulation (growing government joke omitted).

Now I hope beyond hope that other gaming companies are able to make NCAA and NFL games like in BBall, other than coordinating with the PS3 super best friends on which version to buy.
 
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I wonder if EA's second and third attempts to muscle Take Two studios out of business will come into play.

A few years after buying their way out of competing, aka catching up, against 2k sports in football, they tried to buy the entire gaming studio.

When take two rejected their "insulting" offer, EA tried to buy out their shareholders instead.

http://www.businessinsider.com/2008/4/take-two-shareholders-approve-board-compensation-plan-ttwo-

That is probably fair game too, but it certainly isn't helpful to consumers when EA shows little interest in quality titles without competition.

That contract didn't just save their bottom line, it crippled ten football games in a row after that.
 
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Buckeyeskickbuttocks;1905027; said:
You know, Gator, with my anglo-saxon law prowess and your french law prowess we could literally own the world.
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AND MY AXE

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fanaticbuckeye;1904060; said:
I understand, but it's the entities right to choose an exclusive partner, in this case NCAA and the NFL with EA. Nothing (other than economics) is stopping the other game manufacturers from creating football games, they just cant use NCAA or NFL rights. This isn't a public service or other commodity that needs government regulation (growing government joke omitted).

Now I hope beyond hope that other gaming companies are able to make NCAA and NFL games like in BBall, other than coordinating with the PS3 super best friends on which version to buy.
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^^^

This

The NFL licensing out the rights to use its property is no different from the way it licenses it's TV contracts or apparel or anything like that.

The NFL is the monopoly here and we know the government isn't getting involved with that (ditto with the NCAA). The lack of gaming competition in those genres is a result of said monopolies.
 
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