Author Topic: EA Signs 15-year deal with ESPN (Read 15509 times)

Ian Sane · « **Reply #25 on:** January 17, 2005, 05:42:41 PM »

"You want to rebel against EA for killing the competition, but you're not sacrificing anything since you wouldn't have bought their games anyway. That teaches them nothing."

So what do we do then? Bootleg their games for spite?

A fair bit of people here became interested in NBA Street when Mario was added. How about those people not buy the game? EA's whole plan obviously is to use Nintendo's characters to boost their own sales. We don't have to let them benefit from that. No matter what Nintendo related extras there are don't buy EA's Cube titles. There's a negative side effect that it will hurt Nintendo a bit since EA won't be pleased with poor sales but it will also show that Nintendo fans won't buy something just because Mario is in it. We could tell EA to go f*ck themselves and tell Nintendo to not rely on their franchises so much at the same time.

Plus there are major EA games like the new Timesplitters game coming out that a fair bit of people here are very interested in. Don't buy it. Then you ARE making a sacrifice.

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #26 on:** January 17, 2005, 06:05:02 PM »

Wow. No TimeSplitters 3. That really is a sacrifice...

edgeblade69 · « **Reply #27 on:** January 17, 2005, 06:05:49 PM »

EA's Agenda for the Week of January 16th, 2005

Today: ESPN

Tomorrow: The World!

So what's next? EA buys Microsoft? Sony? Nintendo? Sega? Surely EA will get into hardware sooner or later.

Knoxxville · « **Reply #28 on:** January 17, 2005, 06:38:32 PM »

Heh...they already have!

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/fi/pr/40593.jpg

Seriously though, this is kinda lke how people really can't get into a fist fight anymore....somebody has to get shot or else the one you didn't shoot will hold a grudge and one day come back and shoot you.

Case. In. Point.

P.S. In other news, Resident Evil 4 is too sick to be missed! Use your EA money and GET IT NOW!!

*glances over at Burnout 3*

....I refuse to part with my preciouuuuuuuuuuuusssssssssss............

Hostile Creation · « **Reply #29 on:** January 17, 2005, 07:59:26 PM »

I wonder how quickly EA would go under if they were to release a console, if they did go under. Wouldn't that be a blessing?

oohhboy · « **Reply #30 on:** January 18, 2005, 03:45:06 AM »

I can walk away from TS3. 15 years is 3 generations. Absolutle overkill. Whats next?

Arbok · « **Reply #31 on:** January 18, 2005, 06:49:12 AM »

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Originally posted by: Ian Sane
It's bad enough they ensured that Sega couldn't use the NFL. It's bad enough they ensured that Sega couldn't use the arena football league as an alternative. But now they're taking away the Sega Sports line's current brand name as well? This is just sick. It's like stabbing someone in the gut, killing the local doctor to prevent them from getting medical attention, and then cutting off their face for a mask so you can impersonate your victim as they slowly bleed to death.

That's a signature worthy quote right there, and a pretty good summing up of the current events.

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Originally posted by: oohhboy
I can walk away from TS3.

Sorry but I can't. Timesplitters 2 was one of the better FPS games I have played in some time, and it's the best one on the Gamecube by some yards. I can't wait for the third one, either, as it fills a good void in my Gamecube's collection (now all I need is Fire Emblem to fill that strategy void...).

KDR_11k · « **Reply #32 on:** January 18, 2005, 07:35:13 AM »

And Larry Probst laughs and caresses his white cat a little while feeding another lazy employee to the sharks. Heute die Welt, Morgen das Sonnensystem!

vudu · « **Reply #33 on:** January 18, 2005, 07:36:57 AM »

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Timesplitters 2 was one of the better FPS games I have played in some time, and it's the best one on the Gamecube by some yards. I can't wait for the third one

Perhaps you should consider Geist instead?

Pale · « **Reply #34 on:** January 18, 2005, 09:06:37 AM »

The thought of boycotting ea being easy usually points to people not realizing what ea has a hand in. For example.... You going to boycott ubi? I mean, 20 percent is nothing to scoff at...they definately benefit from ubi's success... On top of that, think of all the companies they have swallowed up. Granted, Maxis is a shread of its former glory, but I still enjoy sim city and I also had planned to pick up the Sims 2. I'm just not sure anymore. What do we do if tomorrow they announce a massive partnership with Nintendo?

I guess what I'm getting at is, do we stop buying EA games completely? Or do we try to only buy the games they do right? (if thats possible)

matt oz · « **Reply #35 on:** January 18, 2005, 09:32:52 AM »

Actually, the French government is trying to halt EA's partial acquisition of UbiSoft, last I heard. Infogrames (I refuse to call them Atari) is also planning on helping to keep EA away. I'm not certain, but I believe they've come up with a solution where the Guillemot family will retain a higher stock share.

In any case, EA is still claiming that the takeover is/was not hostile, while I was under the impression that buying out a company that doesn't want to be bought out was hostile. Semantics...

Bloodworth · « **Reply #36 on:** January 18, 2005, 03:55:50 PM »

Yeah, I don't see much use in boycotting EA. Judge the games on their own merits.

Caillan · « **Reply #37 on:** January 18, 2005, 04:09:46 PM »

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Actually, the French government is trying to halt EA's partial acquisition of UbiSoft, last I heard.

The latest rumour is that Ubi Soft's former mobile division, which had split from them, will list itself and sell all it's shares to Ubi Soft for cheap. Then the two companies will merge, leaving Ubi Soft with enough power to veto anything EA puts foward.

I'll be missing TS3 as well.

foolish03 · « **Reply #38 on:** January 18, 2005, 05:39:45 PM »

How about Sega partner with madden(is he with espn now). This way all those who love madden will be tricked into buying segas game. I dont know what they could call it seeing as how it can only be a college football game. madden football 2k6 maybe???

Jonnyboy117 · « **Reply #39 on:** January 18, 2005, 06:52:58 PM »

A few rabid Nintendo fans boycotting EA will accomplish nothing except those people not getting to play one or two games they might have wanted to play. If you have any hope of affecting EA's path of destruction, which would be a pretty foolish hope, you'd need to involve EA's real userbase: casual sports gamers. Good luck.

Ian Sane · « **Reply #40 on:** January 18, 2005, 07:18:05 PM »

"How about Sega partner with madden(is he with espn now). This way all those who love madden will be tricked into buying segas game. I dont know what they could call it seeing as how it can only be a college football game. madden football 2k6 maybe???"

The first Madden game was just called John Madden Football and didn't have an NFL licence. There's nothing stopping them from doing that again it just would likely have a harder time competing in today's market without the NFL.

KDR_11k · « **Reply #41 on:** January 19, 2005, 05:44:52 AM »

Pale: I'm already boycotting Ubisoft. I had them on my list even before I added EA (both for overbroad copy protection systems, thank you but I'd like to be able to play a game I bought instead of having to download it anyway). Perhaps they shouldn't call me a criminal when I put down 60 Euros for their products. Judging games on their own merits my rear end, I'm not going to give my money to a corporation that is working against me. Doesn't matter that I'm not getting those games, that's the point of a boycott. I'm showing those bastards that I can live without them and that THEY need to appeal to ME, not the other way around! Doesn't matter if they don't care, that's like saying there's no point in voting because your vote won't make the election. Hell, yes, but somebody's gotta do it and if everyone looks away and says "I can't do it alone" we'll never change anything!

Bloodworth · « **Reply #42 on:** January 19, 2005, 06:03:20 AM »

Again, the way to change their tactics is to buy however few games they do right. But if they publish something like Timesplitters 3 and none of you buy it, I'll guarantee that it will only give them more incentive to make the next one more "mainstream" to increase sales.

On top of that why doesn't someone do a bit of research and tell me the last time a successful boycott was made against a major corporation? It generally takes a legal battle to change anyone's mind. You may be justified in wanting to make a difference, but it's a complete waste of time if you don't have a strategy that works.

A boycott doesn't send a clear message to what you want to change either. I'm not sure how you expect a marketing department to determine that sales are dropping because you don't approve of their business tactics, rather than thinking that people are just losing interest in a series or that they didn't advertise to the right groups.

Renny · « **Reply #43 on:** January 19, 2005, 06:16:28 AM »

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Originally posted by: Bloodworth
Again, the way to change their tactics is to buy however few games they do right. But if they publish something like Timesplitters 3 and none of you buy it, I'll guarantee that it will only give them more incentive to make the next one more "mainstream" to increase sales.

On top of that why doesn't someone do a bit of research and tell me the last time a successful boycott was made against a major corporation? It generally takes a legal battle to change anyone's mind. You may be justified in wanting to make a difference, but it's a complete waste of time if you don't have a strategy that works.

They whore out and destroy franchises whether they're popular or not. Success just encourages behavior like this, and gives them the cash to do it. I've never been a fan of EA, though like a lot of people here I'm interested in a couple of their upcoming games. But at this rate, I couldn't justify buying the next Zelda from them. If they're going to destroy the industry, I at least won't have helped them. That's a personal boycott, and if it doesn't make a difference then I won't worry because I did my part anyway.

One of us needs publish a medical study that says EA-published games give you cancer. That's always reliable.

Vrgin X1 · « **Reply #44 on:** January 20, 2005, 09:27:33 AM »

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Originally posted by: Silks
I have new mottos for EA:

Instead of "Challenge Everything" --> "Buy Everything"
Instead of "It's In The Game" --> "It's in the game, but it doesn't matter if it isn't, because there are no other games LOL"

silks

It's already been done...

http://www.boomspeed.com/vrginx/ea_purchaseeverything.jpg

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Author Topic: EA Signs 15-year deal with ESPN (Read 15509 times)