ferrarimanf355
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It's Official...
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Bullets QB
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Good news for the industry, I guess.
Michael Yagami
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EA just bought the Superbowl. 
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Not saying it's completely right what SEGA did, but all they did was lock out EA from using MLB. This means that 989 and other first party companies can still make MLB games. I guess it's just a way of SEGA "getting back" at EA. I couldn't care less about the situation.abdul. said:
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989 Studios? That piece of shit still exists?
ferrarimanf355
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If you read the srticle, it said that there's a clause in there that lets Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony develop MLB titles as well. 989 Sports made a decent MLB game last year, Microsoft holds the rights to High Heat Baseball from 3D0's fire sale, and perhaps Nintendo can make Mario Baseball Featuring Ichiro or something like that.abdul. said:
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It could just be a big negotiating ploy.
If Take Two were to somehow corner the MLB and the NBA, perhaps EA would have to step the fuck off the NFL and allow others to make NFL-licensed games. Highly doubtful though. The only winners are the lawyers involved, and the gamers lose either way.
You still have to blame EA for initiating this new level of ultimate greed/idiocy.
If Take Two were to somehow corner the MLB and the NBA, perhaps EA would have to step the fuck off the NFL and allow others to make NFL-licensed games. Highly doubtful though. The only winners are the lawyers involved, and the gamers lose either way.
You still have to blame EA for initiating this new level of ultimate greed/idiocy.
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ferrarimanf355
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Hey, man, it could be good, and Ichiro is popular in both Japan and the US, so who knows?DashK said:
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ferrarimanf355 said:If you read the srticle, it said that there's a clause in there that lets Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony develop MLB titles as well. 989 Sports made a decent MLB game last year, Microsoft holds the rights to High Heat Baseball from 3D0's fire sale, and perhaps Nintendo can make Mario Baseball Featuring Ichiro or something like that.
Seriously,
Doesn't N still make baseball games?
The Ken Griffey Titles were some of the best liscenced games of there time.
Personally, I don't care because RBI II owns everything......
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abdul. said:
Are you even in the same room as everyone else? Do we need a loudspeaker and a magnifying glass?
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Uhm, check your link. It takes you to the VW commercial...ferrarimanf355 said:
ferrarimanf355
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Link fixed...slerch666 said:
In related news, I am Jack's complete lack of suprise... could the grass be greener on the other side?
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baseball sucks who cares.
::goes back to FFXI::
::goes back to FFXI::
Jedah Doma
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OrochiEddie said:
Yes, and hours of low level "rabbit" killing is ubber l33t ::goes back to REAL LIFE::
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Jedah Doma said:
I found that statement made by OrochiEddie was pretty ironic as well.
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Bobak said:
Says you. Damn lawyers I tell ya....
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jethrek said:It wasn't "right" when the Germans and Japanese attacked the Allied countries. But then, could they have not responded?
That is a stupid comparison, please make some educated posts for a change.
I like Ea's games, I dont care about the Nfl deal, etc. but I happen to think that if people keep bitching about what Ea is doing, and then praise take-two's mlb rights as a " win for the gamers" just hate EA for the sake of hating them.
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Well, it doesn't exactly seem even a fair comparison when EA's deal courts a monopoly, and Take Two's deal actually still allows competition. Unlike the other one, they didn't lock out every other developer. I hardly see this as "doing the same thing". I hardly care at all what game I think is better. Hoarding something as big as that for your own self, eliminating all competition in the same field of genre is a big 'no-no' in my book.
Heck, if SNK wasn't there, Capcom wouldn't see nearly as much incentive to improve. So in a big way, SNK is there to thank for giving us games like SF3: Third Strike, as any. Without competition, we wouldn't have seen the advent of the super move and multiple methods of manuverability as soon as we had.
Same goes for the sports industry. If Winning Eleven picks up in popularity, well over here, of course EA is going to have to rethink themselves and improve over the well-improved FIFA 2005. Something that was a very long time coming, but without the sales competition, from the rest, over here due to licensing, FIFA was very very slow to react to competition they didn't look at. EA doesn't make a bad game, but they are notorious for slow efforts when noone else is there to give them either a kick in the shins; or at least, a nudge in some areas, from behind. Instead, they would choose to ignore the fact that there can be some major fundamental changes to their game, that could improve the series ten-fold.
Heck, if SNK wasn't there, Capcom wouldn't see nearly as much incentive to improve. So in a big way, SNK is there to thank for giving us games like SF3: Third Strike, as any. Without competition, we wouldn't have seen the advent of the super move and multiple methods of manuverability as soon as we had.
Same goes for the sports industry. If Winning Eleven picks up in popularity, well over here, of course EA is going to have to rethink themselves and improve over the well-improved FIFA 2005. Something that was a very long time coming, but without the sales competition, from the rest, over here due to licensing, FIFA was very very slow to react to competition they didn't look at. EA doesn't make a bad game, but they are notorious for slow efforts when noone else is there to give them either a kick in the shins; or at least, a nudge in some areas, from behind. Instead, they would choose to ignore the fact that there can be some major fundamental changes to their game, that could improve the series ten-fold.
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