EA Sports settlement offers up to $20 payout for past football game purchases
The payment amounts for the monopoly settlement EA reached in July have been tripled, due to a lower-than-expected number of claimants.
An EA monopoly settlement has tripled its payout size. Electronic Arts agreed in July to pay a pool of $27 million among customers who bought Madden, NCAA Football, or Arena Football games, but fewer-than-expected claimants means more of a payout per claim.
Kotaku reports that the pool itself is remaining at $27 million, with varying payment amounts depending on which platform you bought the games on during the period between January 1, 2005 and June 21, 2012. If you bought a new copy for the Xbox, PlayStation 2, PC, or GameCube, you get $20.37 per game, for up to eight games. If you purchased them on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, or Wii, you just get $5.85 per game. You can check out the litigation site for more details.
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replySteve Watts posted a new article, EA Sports settlement offers up to $20 payout for past football game purchases.
The payment amounts for the monopoly settlement EA reached in July have been tripled, due to a lower-than-expected number of claimants.-
SCORE. I was a claimant!
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too bad we can't just have competition in the market. Stupid NFL.
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Madden is certainly far better than that game at this point. They could still desperately use some competition, especially as the generation shifts.
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baby steps, I didn't get this year's but I actually love the idea of runners tripping over blockers sometimes. Of course they need some sort of logic to make runners automatically make the subtle steps to try to avoid that (at which point they can probably fully remove the hurdle button) but even still it's far more realistic than ever before. Running up the middle was always so silly looking, now it's finally starting to look like the stumbling chaos it should be with legs and arms flying at runners.
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It can't be all that. They are going back to PS2 era games. I claimed like 5 games I think
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its just sad that when a company says they're going to try to improve their image that they get slammed again and again and again for anti-consumer ploys(DRM), monopoly that everyone knew way back in 2005 when NFL went all Madden exclusive, they knew monopolies are against the law and did it anyways. EA, I hope you change, but it is very unlikely.
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it takes two to tango here remember. The NFL happily gave up exclusivity for big money. Other leagues did not, knowing what would result. I suspect the NFL also wanted to make it easier to control their image by only having one partner instead of many (ex no hits after the whistle, ensuring concussions in game result in the right sort of recovery time, etc)
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And yes, very much this. They wanted to have a single product to manage their image through.
I think the NBA handled it better - IIRC every company involved is allowed to make the 'main' NBA game, while the offshoot games (like NBA Street) were being handed out in a rotating fashion per-year to encourage more competition.
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It is the NFL handing out the monopoly - note that even with this settlement, nothing at all happens to the NFL licensing :(
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