Easports lawsuit

[ripp1p]

Has anyone gotten an email from Galardi & co, llc about some copyright lawsuit against easports?

[B_MYLES]

Yes i did. Can someone explain this in basic terms?

[theV]

from what i understood u can get a whole 3-5 bucks back per game u bought of madden or a few other ea titles within the past 8 years or so . but to me its justa waste of time. i dont want 5 bucks back, i want EA to have to give up exclusive rights, until they do that , things wont really change. 5 bucks might get me a gallon of gas. wow.... not even worth my time. when they include taking away EA exclusive rights, like the last one did for ncaa , then count me in , until then , i think its just a dumb lawsuit.

[californ14]

Essentially, as I understand it after i browsed the meat of its contents, The exclusive rights deal EA has with the NFL and players association has allowed them the exclusive right, obviously to be the only software company to use the players and team identities from the NFL, and because of that are charging more per game than they could without the exclusive right agreement because with other competition in the football genre the price would be lower to attract customers....

Fact is though, EA charges the base price for their Madden game as any other New released game at the time of release.....Fact also, EA and Activision both produce and sell First person shooters with military influences in COD and Battlefield, and regardless of the competition between the two, neither software producer is lowering their prices to try and attract more customers....They both charge the current new game standard of $59.95....

Therefore, it is my opinion this is a bogus lawsuit and will lose in front of a judge if it is in reality even granted a day in court....Competition or not, games sell at a base standard price....

[utorde]

Quote: Originally Posted by californ14

Essentially, as I understand it after i browsed the meat of its contents, The exclusive rights deal EA has with the NFL and players association has allowed them the exclusive right, obviously to be the only software company to use the players and team identities from the NFL, and because of that are charging more per game than they could without the exclusive right agreement because with other competition in the football genre the price would be lower to attract customers.... Fact is though, EA charges the base price for their Madden game as any other New released game at the time of release.....Fact also, EA and Activision both produce and sell First person shooters with military influences in COD and Battlefield, and regardless of the competition between the two, neither software producer is lowering their prices to try and attract more customers....They both charge the current new game standard of $59.95.... Therefore, it is my opinion this is a bogus lawsuit and will lose in front of a judge if it is in reality even granted a day in court....Competition or not, games sell at a base standard price....

It's true most games do sell for a base price of $59.99 (I have seen a very few sell for a bit cheaper). However, NFL & NBA 2K5 both sold for $19.99, which at the time games were $49.99 I believe. So who knows, if someone else were allowed to produce an NFL game it might be cheaper.

I couldn't care less about price myself. There needs to be competition. Then we would probably get a much better football game, whether it be from EA or anyone else.

[JaymeeAwesome]

I don't want competition. It'll make me spend $120. I would rather only one choice and live with that choice I make.

[californ14]

Quote: Originally Posted by utorde

I couldn't care less about price myself. There needs to be competition. Then we would probably get a much better football game, whether it be from EA or anyone else.

I agree 100%....The Exclusive rights has really hurt the game quality....Competition creates a greater drive to excellence....

[Dempseylicious23]

Quote: Originally Posted by jaymee13

I don't want competition. It'll make me spend $120. I would rather only one choice and live with that choice I make.

I wish my brain didn't hurt so badly after reading this post.

You know, you wouldn't have to buy both games, you could do just what you describe in the last sentence and make a choice, then live with that choice.