Ripten: "I went to play some more of my Madden 2010 franchise this morning after not having played it since prior to writing the review up a few weeks ago. The PS3 flashes a notice that the game requires a 182 mb update, so I hit accept and start to watch the bar fill up. About a third of the way through, I grabbed my laptop to browse the web for some info on the update contents.
While reading up I saw a forum thread about the update listing gameplay related fixes (which sounded good), but it also featured a few comments stating that it added more in-game ads (which sounded bad). Unfortunately, before I could stop the download to read up some more, it had already completed. I pressed start thinking to myself … "how bad could it be?"
How bad could it be? How bad? It's pull the hair from your head bad. It's toss the game out your window bad. It's "I'd rather have a buffalo take a diarrhea dump in my ear" bad. "
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A jury in U.S. District Court today ruled in favor of Robin Antonick, the original designer and developer of Electronic Arts’ (NASDAQ: EA) best-selling Madden NFL Football games.
ouch, how many millions do EA owe Robin Antonick?
$200 million in revenues for games released between 1990 and 1996
Damages relating to 1997-2013 games will be tried in a subsequent phase of the trial. (I suspect $600 million more, just averaging out)
That is ALOOOT OF MONEY
EA is going to have to compensate 800 million dollar's worth!. Who wants to bet the next big EA title would be pay to win?
Antonick might be seeing hundreds of millions of dollars with this.
This is a perfect example of the bad of in-game advertising. EA should be ashamed of themselves for this stunt.
EA makes it hard to like them. They do great stuff with Electronic Arts Partners, but then they do stuff like this. It is a shame that they can get away with trash like this.
I understand that it costs money to support online play but what good does it do to constantly tell a person to play Madden Arcade? You obviously already payed $60 for Madden 10. EA should just let the customer play the game in peace.
Need to boycott the game.
Our lack of $$$ will send the message.
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