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"Major kick in Microsoft's Gonads"

10 EA sports and EA sports BIG games will feature online support exclusively for PS2.

Ouch. I heard a crunch. MS will have no more children.

Tóm wrote:
> Maverick42 wrote:
> Well hush my mouth.
>
> You got that off HIGNFY, right?

Yes.

The whole EA not supporting Live makes no sence to me. EA make popular games, and having them online makes them even more attractive. Do they not realise that putting Xbox Live support in their titles will greatly increase sales?

More money will be created by sales of thier titles, who cares if they have to give MS some royalties for Xbox Live support. As long as they make money from it, they should support it.

And thier defient stance seams stupid. MS have set up Xbox Live, and done an excelent job too. Do EA really expect MS has to change the whole set up to everything they want it to be?

I dont think that a lot of casual gamers would bother with online games. And most serious gamers dont bother with EA games. So it isn't that big a loss. But I would still like to have seen EA support live.

I like the way gonads gets a capital letter.


But seriously, no kick is big enough for Microsoft's gonads. Their gonads are so big no foot could possibly be felt. They're so rich they can back up any project they like until the Apocalypse.

Maverick42 wrote:
> Well hush my mouth.

You got that off HIGNFY, right?

Maverick42 wrote:

>
> Well hush my mouth.

*Cracks up*

as long as xbox gets a new buffy game and GOOD(?) bond games i don't care about EA online. something'll just take their place

Belldandy wrote:
> Microsoft licence out to developers the ability to use and integrate
> the game into Xbox Live, developers pay a fee to do so, but benefit
> from increased sales. Hence if EA don't want to benefit from the sales
> being a Live game brings - look how Live! enabled games stormed up the
> Xbox sales charts on it's official release - then it's EA who lose
> out.
>
> In addition, NFL Fever on the Xbox is a Microsoft Game Studio's
> product - correct me if I'm wrong here someone - and they also do NFL
> and NBA fever. Hence if EA are not making their sports games available
> online to Xbox owners then the money goes straight to MS, or a game
> licensed for online play, which MS have made money with. The lack of
> EA on the online sports scene for Xbox opens up a massive oppurtunity
> for both MS and Sega to exploit sales.
>
> Ta-da!

Well hush my mouth.

Edgy wrote:
> Electronic Arts is the collective name for all the developers that
> they 'own'.
>
> And so, to claim that Electronic Arts suck is a very big claim indeed.

And Eurocom are rather decent.

Electronic Arts is the collective name for all the developers that they 'own'.

And so, to claim that Electronic Arts suck is a very big claim indeed.