When you've got a competitor like Take-Two on the sports side, and they launch a football title using some of the industry legends, you want to make sure that ends up being a blip and is not repeatable, because we like to defend our franchises aggressively. - ElectA's CEO John Riccitiell
This surely isn’t surprising news, but it is interesting to actually hear clarification that EA is attempting to be as monopolistic as possible. When they first bought the rights to exclusively make games based off of the NFL and its current players there were many companies that decided it was there job to combat it in any way they could.
They all failed.
All Star Football was not but a blip just as the CEO hoped, but with its mediocre reviews all around the web it doesn’t seem it was EA’s doing. The same goes for
Blitz: The League. How can any company compete? We will see in due time. It is only a matter of time before EA either changes and improves
Madden instead of simply updating rosters, or they will be overtaken by a new brand. If companies want to they better try and do better than the last few…
