i doubt this will get any strong footing, but its good to see that the issue has been brought to the forefront...i doubt EA will do anything about the quality of their Madden games...each year they hype one minimal "improvement" and claim it warrants a $60 purchase....and i put improvements in quotation marks, because some of the changes arent seen as positives when looking at the feedback the recent Madden has gotten...EA bought the ESPN license, yet they continue to ram that annoying "EA ITS IN THE GAME" every chance they get at us as though we are mentally challenged to figure out that EA made the game...such a wasted opportunity imo

There's no denying that these guys have a compelling argument. There really should be some limits to acquisition and exclusivity at some point. It was very dirty of EA to pay for an exclusive lisence just because they were too lazy to produce a product that would be worthy of the 60 bucks gamers paid each year for Madden's annual release. The one factor that could hurt EA in this case is the fact that after purchasing the exclusive lisence, they hiked the retail price for Madden back up after the competition was no longer an issue. Believe me, if they could have afforded to buy the NBA license, they would have. NBA2K11 from 2K Sports is so good that EA had to cancel it's own long running NBA Live (aka Elite) franchise. This information could benefit the plaintiffs.

i agree with you, but the NFL came to EA with exclusivity rights...back then EA had the money to lock down the license...if Take 2 would have taken such a large gamble, it would have been detrimental to the company if the sales didnt pan out, plus they couldnt even compete with the money that EA was shelling out

look at the competition in the NBA games....EA cancelled their game due to 2K just outshining them every year...2K11 is the biggest improvement in the series....when was the last time you saw EA do that....they expected yearly roster updates to compete with a game that kept improving...no wonder Madden has become stale...the only reason Fifa has become credible again is because PES handed it to them last gen plus there isnt enough money to lockdown both the NFL and all the European Premiere Leagues

Ummmm....people have this all wrong. It wasn't EA or EA's idea to pay off the NFL for rights. It was the NFL that came to EA and said "if you want to make games with our content, pay for it" which lead to an exclusive deal. Then 2k went and did the same to the MLB, thus MVP baseball was lost (thankfully Sony made The Show so we were not stuck with 2k's crap). Then both companies tried to get the NHL but the NHL sold both of them contract to use their content, same with the NBA.

So in otherwords the NFL greedy style busines (which is wideley known beyond video games) is what you should be mad at. Its their business structure that sucks, not EA's.

Either way 2K was good competition to make EA strive harder, but their games suck. Look at how their NHL titles cant compete with EA, how their baseball titles slump compared to The Show, and so on. Only thing they can compete at is Basketball. I will admit I liked the ESPN game but thats because it was sold for like 30 bucks the first day it came out. No I'm not saying Madden doesnt suck, as we know it does, but still its not that we want 2K games, its that we want the competition to make Madden better.

@ above, you obviously haven't played the new Fifa or any recent NHL titles. Madden is the only sports title EA is sucking at updating, the rest are improving each year.

You have twice the comments as me (I got 200) on a video game website. We all need to get lives. Your point? We're all gamers here.

It's always so bizarre when studios announce something super early in development under the suggestion of forming the game to player feedback, and then they push against all feedback heading straight for the cliff while everyone is warning them along the way

No. There were elections and some of the scum were replaced.