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I cannot forgive EA for the NFL Licensing deal that ended NFL 2K. You shut down better games to push inferior products. I believe gaming would be in a much be

I cannot forgive EA for the NFL Licensing deal that ended NFL 2K. You shut down better games to push inferior products. I believe gaming would be in a much better place overall if EA did not exist, despite many early hit titles. The overall effect on gaming as a whole has been negative.

djKianoosh 14y ago
specifically in this case with Madden and NFL2K you are absolutely right. It's not even that nfl2k was any good or not. It's just that the loss of competition gave the various madden dev teams over the years ZERO motivation to do what the hardcore madden gamers wanted them to do to improve the game. yes they (we) are a minority and they want to sell as many copies as possible, but seriously, even in their own house Madden is subpar compared to FIFA. FIFA had online multiplayer a good 3 years before Madden. It took Madden about 7 years into "Next Gen" consoles (PS3/x360) to revamp online franchise even though they actually promised it every year. instead they focus on "Presentation" like hand warmers. please. And they justify their decisions by "Telemetry" aka usage stats, but those are extremely misleading. A couple years ago they put out a half-baked online franchise with horrible bugs. Their "telemetry" told them very few gamers used that game mode, so they decided to scratch it and try to completely redesign online franchise from scratch, again. Well of course nobody used that game mode! It was broken!... ay ay ay, dont get me started...