EA Extends NFL Exclusivity License till February 2013 - Ouch!

[quote name='-Never4ever-']Gameplay wise, APF > Madden 08. Yeah it lacked in extras and notable improvement. But I believe that's because of the limited time, man power and money spent on the game.

If it was NFL 2k8, it would've blown Madden away in every conceivable way.

Anyhow this news makes me :cry:

Everytime I'm on the cusp of being a big Football fan, EA has to do everything in there power to try and ruin it for me.[/quote]
You have to be kidding yourself if you think APF was better than Madden in the gameplay department. The one thing 2K fanboys (not calling you one unless you admit your are one) chant incessantly about their games are that they're so much more realistic, but the turbo button is not realistic at all. This is football, not Track and Field. APF improved it a bit, but money plays in 2K5 were the stupidest part of the gameplay. All I needed was a great receiver, which was coincidentally already available in the Free Agent pool, and I could easily get 250 yards and at least 3 TDs per game like I was really playing Blitz. There are just as many little bad quirks in the 2K games as there were in Madden.

It's the fanboys actually accepting the poor excuse for single-player modes that makes two years of work too little time to keep a franchise mode in the game. That would easily make people give a shit about the no-names that fill up your roster outside of the legends. There are standards for sports games these days and APF only sticks to the standards of Madden 98.

If APF was actually named NFL 2K8, it'd be called the most amazing experience videogames can offer.

I'm surprised people are ignoring the NFL factor, as they obviously like what EA's doing or else they wouldn't have extended the exclusivity agreement.
 
I personally prefer 2k5 to Madden (and in fact I still play 2k5), but I don't think it was God's gift to videogames. But, I do think it was a superior product to that of Madden, even this year's one.

Either way, the fact of the matter is that competition inspires competition, and I think the same problem is true with the MLB games, they went to crap as soon as MVP Baseball got knocked out. If these games had competition, we'd see better games with more inspired improvement each year.
 
The worst example of EA laziness is that despite several years and the ESPN license, they have not come anywhere near NFL 2k5's presentation and atmosphere. Christ, they don't even use the same graphic overlays like NFL 2k5 did, and that would take basically zero effort as compared to recording ESPN announcers.
 
[quote name='ElwoodCuse']The worst example of EA laziness is that despite several years and the ESPN license, they have not come anywhere near NFL 2k5's presentation and atmosphere. Christ, they don't even use the same graphic overlays like NFL 2k5 did, and that would take basically zero effort as compared to recording ESPN announcers.[/quote]


That is one of the few legitmate arguments. One I have made myself in the past. 2K5's biggest asset was its presentation and was the one area in which they were CLEARLY superior to Madden.
 
[quote name='schuerm26']How will it not generate enough revenue? Are you kidding? A playoff like March Madness? Revenue wouldn't be a problem.

There is a guy on St. Louis talk radio who has a theory about it (he's based in Atlanta, just has a St. Louis show). He thinks that if it went to a playoff there would be to MUCH money, thus making it more difficult to justify not giving any to players. Say what you want about a free education, that is just his theory.

A playoff would generate much more revenue than there is now. Imagine Super Bowl ratings of this year, ever year. It would be enormous. They can still get the bowl sponorships. Just label each game in the rounds with the seperate bowl names. I don't see why this would be a problem. The championship game each year at the end of the playoffs would just rotate, the exact same way it does now.

As it is, the championship game is something like 55 days between when the last regular season game is until the championship game. That is absolutely absurd.[/quote]

There's more than 30 bowl games... and that's more than 60 teams that attend those bowl games.

so there would be a lot fewer schools left home, or football playoffs would last until June.
 
[quote name='daminion']There's more than 30 bowl games... and that's more than 60 teams that attend those bowl games.

so there would be a lot fewer schools left home, or football playoffs would last until June.[/QUOTE]

They could still keep the loser bowl games for the teams that don't make the playoffs

Everything about a playoff makes sense but "sense" has no place in the minds of thick-headed conferences and school presidents. Hell, if the Pac 10 and Big Ten had their way, there wouldn't even be a BCS; they'd still be locked into the Rose Bowl every year.
 
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