Happy Madden Day: We’ll See You In Court!
Posted by Seth in GAMING on 08-05-10 No Comments
The new version of Madden NFL football from EA Sports is hitting the streets, and a bunch of retired players are hitting back with a lawsuit.
This one has been brewing for a long time. For years, Madden games have included great historical teams from the NFL’s past. The current teams in each year’s Madden release have up-to-date rosters, including the players’ names. But EA Sports doesn’t have the rights to use the names of the players who were on those teams of yesteryear, so they do everything short of that. The player renderings include the guys’ heights and weights, and the player attributes are set to reflect the performances of the real-life players. To shroud things a little, they change the uniform numbers, but that’s it.
Some of us industrious gamers who have nothing better to do have gone in there and edited the names and uniform numbers on those historical teams in order to give them a greater sense of realism. But that is incredibly tedious. So, come to think about it, it would be nice if EA Sports would just cough up whatever dough is necessary to keep the ex-players happy. It has always felt pretty cheesy firing up the 1988 San Francisco 49ers and seeing Joe Montana wearing No. 19 instead of No. 16, or looking at Walter Payton on the 1985 Bears wearing anything other than No. 34.
So come on, EA Sports. You guys are the kings of sports video games. Surely there’s a little coin to go around, no?
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