Class Action lawsuit against EA Sports

[D-Dogg]

I don't know anything about the video game market, but I doubt that buying up a company that I've never heard of would make EA a monopoly. As for not improving the product, that's their business decision.

Oh, and they DID compete for the business--they competed to get that exclusive contract.

Take Two is enormous. And I know the video game market. It is a major, major player.

 

[Pariah]

EA's take over would be like Ford and Chrysler merging

Which still wouldn't be a monopoly.

Staples just bought Corporate express. That basically leaves Office Max as the only remaining office supplies procurement company...should we be ringing the monopoly bell?

 

[Pariah]

The size of the offer that EA made was at that time larger then any exclusive contract every paid to league for exclusive rights.

Um, this IS called competing in the business world.

Clearly 2K had the upper hand with critics and was making a better product then EA.

And, here's the crux of what's wrong with what you guys are claiming--the quality of the game doesn't matter in the eyes of the law; I could've made football game on my apple II and bought the NFL rights and it still wouldn't matter.

EA bought the rights far and square--unless the contract stipulates they have to win some kind of gamer poll, they have every right to sit on their haunches.

It sucks for those of you who don't like the game, but I'm afraid there is no legal recourse. The market has determined the game is okay as-is--everyone buys it. It was a brilliant business move to bid more than any other company could.

 

[Gaddabout]

Pariah, do you feel the same about Microsoft?

 

[SuperSpck]

Um, this IS called competing in the business world. And, here's the crux of what's wrong with what you guys are claiming--the quality of the game doesn't matter in the eyes of the law; I could've made football game on my apple II and bought the NFL rights and it still wouldn't matter.

EA bought the rights far and square--unless the contract stipulates they have to win some kind of gamer poll, they have every right to sit on their haunches.

It sucks for those of you who don't like the game, but I'm afraid there is no legal recourse. The market has determined the game is okay as-is--everyone buys it. It was a brilliant business move to bid more than any other company could.

I've already stated my bias, but Pariah has a point.However, good points are usually ignored in most lawsuits. Think of all the silly one's you've heard about.
This has some legs just because our justice system is dumb as all get out.
... and I'm fine with it.
The only sensible thing to do would be to have everyone stop buying the game to send a clear message.
That's not going to happen, so failing that, if a goofy lawsuit will get me a video game that doesn't suck than I'm not going to complain.

 

[Covert Rain]

Um, this IS called competing in the business world.

There is competing and there is eliminating the competition. I guess in a perverted way you could call that competing but make no mistake. This is a "if you can't beat, buy em" scenario. If this was really about competition then EA would simply make a better product.

EA has alway been and always will be a "churn and burn" software company. They eventually run every franchise they run into the ground.