after this, Games like NFL 2K, NFL Gameday, NFL Fever, NFL QB club and NFL Blitz could no longer exist, only Madden.
A quote form on Old Forum website when this news broke 20 years ago:
"5 more years of Glorified Roster Updates
EA is the biggest cancer to the Industry, they put out mediocre games and nobody says anything bad about them because they have the reviewers paid off
not to mention the numerous ways they find to spit in the face of people who buy form them"
It’s pretty damn accurate, even 20 years later . both EA and their games have gotten worse over the last 20 years
It’s also worth remembering that EA did this because they freaked out over Sega making a better game that they were selling cheaper than Madden.
I remember that shit. Honestly, madden 2005 and NFL 2K5 were both fire football games and it was a pretty close split over arguing which was better at the time. EA and the NFL went pretty hard on sucking cock with going exclusive. Really trashed making anything creative or new from that point on.
Honestly the NCAA football games from 05 (2004 on) onwards have always been much more interesting football games over madden. 2K5 is a really good nfl game, but I honestly rather dick around in the NCAA football’s dynasty mode than 2k5’s franchise mode.
Where are the capitalists screeching about the free market?