EA Sports Plans To Digitize Madden 11 Consumer (IGN)

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Quote: Originally Posted by coogrfan

Anyone who is going to be "bled dry" by an extra $4-5 per title probably shouldn't be spending money on something as trivial as video games in the first place. There isn't a business in America that isn't looking for ways to make more money. To pretend otherwise is hopelessly naive.

I never understood this line of thinking.

All businesses try to make money, of course. Nobody is suggesting otherwise.

I think the problem is though, the route the company is taking to achieve its goals.

You have publishers that are all about cut-throat immediate/shrewd profits, and then you have those who are interested in building an industry-quality product, and letting word of mouth and long-term rapport with customers stimulate their revenue/profits.

Obviously the latter is what we the consumers should be 100% behind. Awkwardly though, we have people who are apologists for the former.

[Segagendude]

Just release Madden as an Iphone app and be done with it. That's where it's headed anyway.


I kid......


I really don't know what this "digitize Madden" means. As long as M11 continues on the improvement path, I won't bother to pay extra $$$ for extra stuff I probably won't use, i.e. the AFL DLC.

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Quote: Originally Posted by Segagendude

Just release Madden as an Iphone app and be done with it. That's where it's headed anyway. I kid...... I really don't know what this "digitize Madden" means. As long as M11 continues on the improvement path, I won't bother to pay extra $$$ for extra stuff I probably won't use, i.e. the AFL DLC.

It means they eventually want to make you download the game to your system for 59.99. That way you can't trade it in on them.

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Moore is such a tool. If they want to find ways to make more money, then fine. But to say he wants to take further advantage of the consumer when these games ship bug-ridden with very little effective quality assurance is arrogant among other things.

[Goethe88]

We should have a "Madden Tea Party" movement.

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Quote: Originally Posted by splff3000

The problem I had with the comments had to do with the "taking advantage of" part.

He didn't say anything people haven't been speculating about that company for the better part of the last decade. I think you're putting too much weight on semantics, and might be taking that comment out of context. Many of the moves EA makes drives home Moore's "taking advantage of consumers" point w/o him actually needing to say anything.

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Quote: Originally Posted by Goethe88

We should have a "Madden Tea Party" movement.

Instead of the Tea Baggers, we could be known as the Tea Ballers.

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