EA takes hockey license.....?

Joshua Stubbles

Not that hockey is as popular as it used to be, but STILL.

EA: "I know! Let's get an exclusive license for EVERY DAMN SPORT ON EARTH".

It's just getting silly now.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/06/24/news_6128105.html

KDR_11k

When do they get the exclusive license to the US Army?

ElysiumGX

I hope they never get the license to synchronized swimming.

Doubt I'll play a sports game again unless it's made by Nintendo.

Jeff Parrott

I hope there's even a season next year.

pogonip

Ehh I don't get hyped up about this stuff . If the other game companies has been as smart and aggresive as EA they would be doing the same damn thing . I just wish EA would make a decent game with those licenses

MoP

Substitute "smart and aggressive" for "stinking rich and omnipresent" there, and you'd probably be closer to finding out the reason why other games companies don't do this sort of thing.

ElysiumGX

Question: do other companies care to make sports games based on current teams and stats? i mean, how much can you evolve with that? same shit, different numbers. in that perspective, let 'em have it and rot.

KDR_11k

The customer base for sports games is more interested in playing with their favourite team than innovative gameplay or anything.

Osme might argue that this is perfectly fine capitalism, I'd say capitalism wasn't designed to handle IP trade.

ElysiumGX

pogonip

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Substitute "smart and aggressive" for "stinking rich and omnipresent" there, and you'd probably be closer to finding out the reason why other games companies don't do this sort of thing.

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How did they get stinking rich and omnipresent ?? Maybe they have a magic money tree in the basement gaurded by a 3 headed dog ??

danr

whats the problem here?

One of the best games of all time (and i'm sure 99% of the non-mental population will agree with me here) was "EA Hockey" on the megadrive from, what was it, 1992? This was made before any sort of licence deal (hence the name, a la Sensible Soccer) and pioneered the fantastic auto-aim-on-goal-depending-on-the-predefined-attributes-of-the-selected-character-combined-with-the-players-skill-in-positioning-and-bang-on-timing gameplay that was the model for almost every team/goal sports game since.

to my mind, EA and hockey are syononinonmous, and good luck to them

AstroZombie

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Cubik

EA Hockey? Was that AKA. Fucking Goalie is Stuck in the right goalpost again? For me it's NHL 94 all the way. One-timers and five players.

thnom

Guys it seems to have being a typo or some form of miss-communication.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/06/24/news_6128105.html

MoP

Ahaha... good going, EA.

Joshua Stubbles

Lol. Brilliant.