[elstatec]

[quote:dd4e2]NBA rejects EA exclusivity proposal - report
Tom Bramwell 11:29 23/12/2004
EA has yet to confirm or deny the reports, but would you be at all surprised if it were true?

America's National Basketball Association (NBA) has rejected an approach by publisher Electronic Arts over a possible exclusivity arrangement, according to gaming website IGN. EA and the NBA have yet to confirm or deny the report.

After EA secured an unprecedented, and hugely expensive five-year exclusivity partnership with the National Football League (NFL) and its players association last week - effectively eliminating direct competition in the American football genre - IGN suggests that the NBA has rejected an initial offer from EA gunning for a similar arrangement, arguing that EA's relative lack of domination in the basketball genre may have been a significant factor.

Whereas EA's Madden NFL series is unquestionably the dominant American football franchise in the US, despite strong competition from Take-Two/SEGA's budget-priced ESPN Videogames efforts this year, EA's NBA Live series doesn't enjoy the same degree of domination with strong competition from ESPN NBA, NBA Ballers and 989's basketball games on various formats, says IGN.

The effect of EA's deal with the NFL is still being felt this week, as rival sports publishers now find themselves not only worrying about EA's relative marketing power, but its newfound ability to pull the rug out from under them completely when forced to react to any genuine threat to its own sales.

As such, this rejection - if indeed it did happen - will be encouraging for EA's rivals, but perhaps only in the short term. If the NBA has rejected an initial offer, it's worth considering that a second, larger offer might find the organisation more agreeable. Only time will tell; EA and the NBA are unlikely to comment one way or the other until one or both parties become either contractually bound or intractably averse to the proposal.

Last week publishers, including Take-Two, voiced their concern over lack of choice for the consumer in light of the NFL deal, and Midway boldly announced that it will release an unlicensed, more brutal American football game called Blitz: Playmakers in 2005 despite the arrangement, which will effectively sew up any official statistics and data until some way into the next cycle of console hardware.

Electronic Arts UK did not return our request for comment on Wednesday.[/quote:dd4e2]

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=6064


HAH ea fuck nuts, i dont like basketball really at all, but i love seeing ea fail at things, its become a tradition

[geRV]

This is getting to be a fucking joke, these wankers just want to buy out eveyone they can so they can dilute what were good games into their own brand of badly produced barely tested shite.

People cry about ms being a monopoly, well ea is headed the same way and nothing much is being said about it.

[Swill]

Originally Posted by geRV

This is getting to be a fucking joke, these wankers just want to buy out eveyone they can so they can dilute what were good games into their own brand of badly produced barely tested shite.

People cry about ms being a monopoly, well ea is headed the same way and nothing much is being said about it.

Hey if they have the money to do this then why the hell not?

[[DAS REICH] Blitz]

Old news....But still EA getting denied never gets old.

[Short Hand]

Originally Posted by elstatec

HAH ea fuck nuts, i dont like basketball really at all, but i love seeing ea fail at things, its become a tradition

Fail at what ? Making billions of dollers ?

[geRV]

Originally Posted by Swill

Hey if they have the money to do this then why the hell not?

oOo:


So youd like the games industry to turn into only one company? Ea and their "ship it now finish it later" philisophy. Yeah id so look forward to that oOo:

[Swill]

Originally Posted by geRV

oOo:


So youd like the games industry to turn into only one company? Ea and their "ship it now finish it later" philisophy. Yeah id so look forward to that oOo:

Hey I dont mind.. as long as they produce good quality games that we gamers wont shit on in a month or two after we`ve played it then I`m entirely ok...

[Short Hand]

Or we could look forward to .................................................. ...........













































































IRISH CUNT S !!!!!!!!!!!1111

[geRV]

Originally Posted by Swill

Hey I dont mind.. as long as they produce good quality games that we gamers wont shit on in a month or two after we`ve played it then I`m entirely ok...

Its ea, good quality games from them are few and far between. Would have though most would have that figured out by now.

[Swill]

[quote=geRV]

Originally Posted by Swill

Hey I dont mind.. as long as they produce good quality games that we gamers wont shit on in a month or two after we`ve played it then I`m entirely ok...

Its ea, good quality games from them are few and far between. Would have though most would have that figured out by now.[/quote:5d46a]

I figure if dice is such a great company ... the people who work for dice with be with EA so that gives EA some more help on your bad oppinions on EA rolleyes: biggrin:

[[DAS REICH] Blitz]

Well, EA is going to fire most of DICE's guys in replace for some of there boons.

[geRV]

LOL swill you are truely clueless, why would anyone want one fucking company to produce all the games for pc? At the moment it looks like thats what ea has in mind by buying over anyone it can that has produced decent games. The smaller companies usually bust their balls to put out good games because they know thats what will get them a start in the games industry, companies like iD started off tiny and are now well established.

EA basically seem to be pretty lazy, games get bits chopped off just so they can ship it on time, even bf-1942 there was a patch for that before the game was released ffs. The whole point of so many companies is having a choice, if ea's american "football" game sucks then maybe this other companies will be better or if theres isn't that good maybe this other companies will be better. Having that choice taken away by a company that wants to rule the market isn't good for the industry or the gamers.

[tomxtr]

I read in yesterday's Wall Street Journal, that EA bought 20% of Ubisoft's outstanding stock secretly through some unconventional means. Ubisoft considers it the first steps in an attempted hostile takeover. annoy:

[yODa]

Originally Posted by tomxtr

I read in yesterday's Wall Street Journal, that EA bought 20% of Ubisoft's outstanding stock secretly through some unconventional means. Ubisoft considers it the first steps in an attempted hostile takeover. annoy:

its a blitzkrieg!

[Duke_of_Ray]

Die EA! LONG LIVE ESPN FOOTBALL!!!!