Yet another reason to hate EA

loka · Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 8:36 pm Post subject:

eh who cares? I'm sick of playing sport games with corny ads like "Hurts Donit" with a Dunkin' Donut logo and "Mess" with the Hess logo on it.

Thats just corny
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all-star · Registered User Joined: 20 Jun 2006 Posts: 177

i agree with loka who cares??

if they make more a profit im all for it.

more profit cause they will get revenue from it = more developers\longer contracts for developers = possibly better and greater games to play

its not like people will be paying attention to them anyways

when im playing NFS i don't have time to look at the billboards passing by cause im going so damn fast

and for BF2142 im gonnna be looking at my target instead of staring at the walls with ads (unless im wallhacking)

Lt.Tango · Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 9:45 pm Post subject:

EA is not evil they are just doing everything they can to make money....I think that most of us will say that they will do anything to make money as long is was not against there personal beliefs. If some would would pay me i would drive around with ads on my car. Its just a way too make more money.
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Mike · Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 11:57 pm Post subject:

I agree that real ads should be placed where fake ads are normally placed, but they in no way should be added in when they're not saposed to in the first place. It shows that they don't care about thier customers that they would degrade the quality of thier final product to make some more cash.
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Mike · Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 11:52 am Post subject:

none of us have actually seen the ads ingame so we'll have to wait to see how well (or not so) they're implemented.

As for why I already hate EA, here's a copy and paste from what a told someone else.

all-star · Registered User Joined: 20 Jun 2006 Posts: 177

why are buying rights to corperations bad??? doesn't everyone do it?? didn't CBS or whatever broadcasting company bye the rights recently to have Hockey Night in Canada on there network? don't Coke and Pepsi continuoussly purchase the rights to a movie to be able to advertise their product in that movie and not any other product.

i see no problem in buying rights for names, its all buisness. now EA doesn't have competition, and if they spend money to make money im all for it.

EA in my opinion (and everyone has a right to here my opinion

) are one of the best companies to come out of canada. they put the gaming industry on the map, and they came out of Burnaby, BC Canada. They have had alot more Success then failures, everyone knows about EA games and their titles.

Do you know how developement contracts work? EA signs a contract and gives a specific time limit allowed for a developement team to create a product. at the end of that time and the developement team is succesfull in creating the product, EA pays the team. It was probably the teams fault who had to work over time in order to make the time limit.

Generally teams have about 9 months and more to develope a game

loka · Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 3:12 pm Post subject:

Adding to this...at one point EA Games had exclusive rights to MLB. Now MLB has a new affiliate with Take Two among other companies up to year 2009. To make up for there lack of baseball games they came out with the NCAA College Baseball game.

The way I see it is everything out there has a reason to make profit off of something. Sports is a highly lucrative market in which you can make money in almost everything. Clothes, video games, board games, auto accessories, sporting equipment, domestics, novelties...list goes on and on.

It's a no win in trying to solve "the man" in America except...if it works for you...and you get rich...think of it first.
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Mike · Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 4:48 pm Post subject:

What's bad about buying exclusive rights? you've got to be kidding me. They then have compelete control of the market for whatever they buy. Now no other publishers can make an NFL game, if you want to play an NFL game you have to play madden. they can make the game as crappy as they want because there is no one to compete with. It's basically a mini monopoly. If I want to race porsches in a racing game I have to play need for speed which is the crappiest excuse for a racing game i've ever seen. I can no longer play an even semi-realistic racing game with a porsche in it thanks to them. Any time anyone has exclusive rights to anything they have a miniture monopoly of that market. Your tv stations example is fine because you dont have to pay for the station and Its not like their product's quality can vary, its just broadcasting of an event. If CBS could only sell canadian hockey night merchendise then it would be a different story. I don't get what you're saying about the coke and pepsi thing.
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ROOFCUTTER · Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 6:17 pm Post subject:

I like the ads but it should be optional because some will like it and some won't.

How far are they going with this? Are they clickable? game pauses while you step out and buy the latest headbanger MP3 file.

But if I do get ads...as a bone to us... I want to have my likeness on the game character. It is about time we can really make our character persoanable thet everyone can see.
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all-star · Registered User Joined: 20 Jun 2006 Posts: 177

its in your own opinion that the games EA produces are bad, its not buying exclusive rights to the NFL is bad.

if i remember NFL2k by sega was the only competitor, and i think it lost to Madden, and NFL2k never came to PC, which is another reason why Madden was better. So in a way EA did a favor for Sega by telling them to stop wasting time on NFL and concentrate on other titles like bringing back Sonic!!!!!!

Aren't there porche's in Project Gotham Racing? thats by Microsoft isin't it? I love Need for Speed, i think one of the best and most fun games to play. I loved underground and underground 2, Most Wanted was ok, but the newest one "Carbon" which comes out NOvember is gonna wicked

back to the point, Buying exclusive rights isin't bad, its good for buisness. its your dislike of EA titles that are ruling your judgements/comments

=SG=ComptonEMT.TVR · Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 6:56 pm Post subject:

all i gotta say is this is something that should be added into sports games... no more tiburon and EA signs all over the stadiums... lets get some real things in there
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Mike · Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 7:06 pm Post subject:

rANCOR hUNTER · Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 7:32 pm Post subject:

Hehehe my favorite fake ad was in MLB allstar baseball 2005 at Comerica Park where in real life there is a big General Motors ad in the back but they replaced it with a sign that said Mineral Water.
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