EA Obtains Exclusive NFL Licensing Rights 597
Grub writes "EA has signed a 5-year agreement with the NFL that gives them exclusive rights to use NFL players, teams, and stadiums in their products. CEO Larry Probst, 'The five-year agreement will usher NFL fans through the console technology transition with new ideas and innovative game play experiences.'
This is a crushing blow to competitors and an enormous victory for EA, who will undoubtably make sure everyone knows that only they have NFL players and teams come next year's football game advertising bonanza."
Damn (Score:5, Funny)
It's about time (Score:5, Funny)
Great, now NFL games will run 16 quarters (Score:2, Funny)
Re:It's about time (Score:2, Funny)
Whatever (Score:4, Funny)
Perfect (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It's about time (Score:5, Funny)
This is great news! (Score:3, Funny)
Cyberball 2072 was the only football-type game I ever found to be fun.
C'mon! Giant robots? Playing football? My pals and I spent many a quarter on that, beating each other senseless.
Screw EA and the NFL. No giant robots, no care.
€A is evil (Score:2, Funny)
Actually, M$ should be replaced by €A.
Re:NFL? WFD! (Score:1, Funny)
Who the hell watches porn anyway... I'd much rather have SEX than watch sex.
Re:Madden 64... (Score:4, Funny)
Apparently it did well enough to rate a sequel called Super High Impact Football.
I'm waiting for Super High Impact Tennis. A game like that would be the shit.
Translation Follows (Score:5, Funny)
"Hi. Sega? Remember that $19.99 price undercut? Yeah. F*** you."
licensing culture and community (Score:3, Funny)
I mean, what's left to commercialize after this? Is the next frontier to commercialize transactions within families? Honey, a roll in the hay will be $500, and do take note of the Coca Cola logo (a licensing exclusive) on the bra before your remove it. If you want a hug from your kids, that will be $5 a hug. (Well, sadly, we may be pretty far along down that road already.)
XFL Extreme Football! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Damn (Score:2, Funny)
Nobody cares about Canada.
KFG
Penny Arcade fans please read this (Score:4, Funny)
The $ in M$ doesn't just signify childish accusations of greed. Microsoft started out as a developer of BASIC interpreters for home computers. Notably, Microsoft developed the "Applesoft" BASIC interpreter in the Apple II Plus through IIGS computers. In that early line-numbered era of BASIC, the name of every string variable ended in a dollar sign. Thus, M$ was a valid name for a string variable, and 10 LET M$ = "Microsoft" was perfectly valid BASIC code. Sometimes people have to make such abbreviations to fit things into Slashdot's short comment subject lines.
Re:It's about time (Score:3, Funny)
-fren
Re:This is just an opportunity (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Translation Follows (Score:4, Funny)
Minor nit (Score:5, Funny)
Should read: "Michael Vick"
Money makes the world go 'round! Money money money (Score:5, Funny)
You know, everytime I read about the hockey teams of Florida or California, I die a little inside.
Re:Competition goes bye bye (Score:3, Funny)
Yeh, seriously. They should have just stopped at Madden 94 [consoleclassix.com], when football on a console was perfected. That is the only football game I ever play, and you know what? It looks amazing projected onto a 100" screen, you wouldn't believe the graphics they had back in 1994. I don't even know why anyone else tries, they should just bow down to Madden 94 and give up.
Re:Ahhh. . . innovation (Score:3, Funny)
I don't know when exactly anymore, but the game was Caveman Uglympics!
Re:Ahhh. . . innovation (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah you can. Morpheus says so.
The game will never be as smart or as fast as you.