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EA Sports Could Lose NFL/NCAA/Arena License

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One thing's for sure: Electronic Arts' legal department won't be getting a lighter workload for Christmas. One day after the publisher was slapped with a $400 million lawsuit stemming from its alleged involvement in the firings of Infinity Ward heads Jason West and Vince Zampella, US District Court Judge Vaughn R. Walker certified a national class-action lawsuit against EA's Madden NFL, NCAA Football, and Arena Football licenses, which was originally filed in June 2008.



As a result of today's ruling, gamers who bought Madden NFL, NCAA Football, or Arena Football games published by EA after January 1, 2005, can join the lawsuit as plaintiffs. Gamers can join the suit through law firm Hagens Berman's website.
"Consumers now have a legal standing to demand that EA refund consumers millions of dollars it made from Madden NFL and other sports titles through what we contend was an illegal price-gouging scheme," said Steve Berman, managing partner of Hagens Berman. "We're gratified by the ruling, and believe it underscores how lucrative and exclusive agreements in the video game industry can come with an inflated price tag for consumers."
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Judge certifies EA football class-action suit
 
Madden was definitely an anti-trust situation. Not only did they run ESPN out of business when they were making them look bad with better physics, graphics & presentation, but they eventually absorbed the ESPN highlights & other features that they banned from existence with the exclusive NFL license.

2+ NFL & NCAA games would be outstanding for the consumer.
 
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I'm pretty happy with the college football games. While there hasn't' been a lot of groundbreaking additions in the last x number of years, how much more can you really cram into the game? One of the things I thought they'd never add was the school traditions like some famous band intros and campus landmarks, and they put that stuff in too. Then they added custom sounds, which kind of rounded it all out for me. Hell, when I play my season now non-gamers sometimes have no idea they're watching a video game at first.
I'm not sure how I feel about EA getting sued over this. For those that play online and complain about the scammers and bugs/exploitations I can understand frustration with the lack of support, but for those of us that play our single player seasons I think I'd miss not having EA put it together. I'm not sure anybody else could put out a better college football game, at least not without 3-4 years of polish.
 
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While there hasn't' been a lot of groundbreaking additions in the last x number of years, how much more can you really cram into the game?
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Sorry, that's exactly the problem. They would add fringe features and sizzle rather than addressing huge flaws in the gameplay. Note, this year was an exception to this pattern (they finally fixed things very well).

It is an absolute joke that the PS2 gameplay was better than the next gen version until the last year or so. They do not rest on their laurels and fail to address so many core problems if they have competition.

Why make fix the awful running motion when you can add custom stadium sounds?
Why fix the horrendous pursuit angles when you can add campus legend mode? For many years, you could wiggle back and forth and freeze an entire field's worth of punt coverage defenders.
Why make sure your player progression isn't completely screwed up when you can ... etc.

With competition, that never happens. They milked in huge revenue because they knew no one else could challenge that product.

Just when ESPN 2K5 was primed to push Madden (with a number of things that were superior to it), they set up a monopoly rather than innovate.
 
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jwinslow;1840191; said:
Sorry, that's exactly the problem. They would add fringe features and sizzle rather than addressing huge flaws in the gameplay. Note, this year was an exception to this pattern (they finally fixed things very well).

It is an absolute joke that the PS2 gameplay was better than the next gen version until the last year or so. They do not rest on their laurels and fail to address so many core problems if they have competition.

Why make fix the awful running motion when you can add custom stadium sounds?
Why fix the horrendous pursuit angles when you can add campus legend mode? For many years, you could wiggle back and forth and freeze an entire field's worth of punt coverage defenders.
Why make sure your player progression isn't completely screwed up when you can ... etc.

With competition, that never happens. They milked in huge revenue because they knew no one else could challenge that product.

Just when ESPN 2K5 was primed to push Madden (with a number of things that were superior to it), they set up a monopoly rather than innovate.
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+1000...

and I'm still finding the same stupid flaws in this year's NCAA that I have seen in past, so far my favorite is the CB's still don't run pursuit that well, if they are in zone or something, and the CPU runs, they cover their zone almost the entire freakin time instead of going after the RB (until they run right by them), so freaking annoying
 
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I wouldn't mind if they had some competition, but I don't want to see EA lose the rights to NCAA football completely. Even if another company can do it better, it won't be within the first year or even the second by my wager.
 
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osucollegebuck;1840273; said:
How are prices gouging the consumer? Aren't video game basically all the same price point? I think the best thing that could come out of this is more competition for EA.
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NFL 2K5 was cheaper and better than Madden. I think it was $20-30 new.
 
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ulukinatme;1840183; said:
I'm not sure anybody else could put out a better college football game, at least not without 3-4 years of polish.
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it's not like EA would stop making the game altogether. Other makers would be allowed to use the NCAA trademarked material that only EA had exclusive rights to. Look at the 2k and ea sports NBA games. They both have gotten way better.
 
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