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Pretty telling excerpt of the business BS going on from Wikipedia: ESPN NFL 2K5 was the first in the 2K series priced at $19.99 the day it shipped, much lower
by bobbles 8y ago
Pretty telling excerpt of the business BS going on from Wikipedia:
ESPN NFL 2K5 was the first in the 2K series priced at $19.99 the day it shipped, much lower than market leader Madden NFL at $49.99. This greatly reduced Madden sales that year; one EA Sports developer recalled that "[i]t scared the hell out of us".[1] EA reduced Madden NFL 2005's price to $29.95. In December 2004 EA Sports acquired an exclusive rights agreement with the NFL and NFLPA to be the sole creator of NFL video games.[2] The deal terminated 2K Sports production of any further NFL games. The ensuing season, Madden 2006, saw pricing returned to the $49.99 MSRP.
In December 2010, a U.S. district court judge certified a class action anti-trust lawsuit against Electronic Arts for anti-competitive practices to proceed.[3] Electronic Arts settled the class action suit in July 2012 for $27 million, and retained its exclusive NFL license.[4][5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESPN_NFL_2K5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESPN_NFL_2K5
- anoncoward111 8y agoI remember when this happened when I was just a kid of maybe 10 or 11. Around the time this was happening, you still had NFL blitz, street, fever, QB club, etc all duking it out for king of the sports games, especially. It was a time before social media, so we only really heard rumors about what happened. We all began to hate EA, even back then. We knew it was about money. 2k6 wasnt perfect and it was clunky at times, but it was way more cost effective to play, considering how much you had to pay for a new roster every year