EA’s Xbox Live Marketplace Rip-off
EA has released some strategy guides for Madden NFL 07 and NCAA 07 Football for 160 MS points ($2.00). Each guide is a 5 minute video instruction in how to pass, run, play defense and so on. Basically stuff that should have been in the game manual in the first place.
EA also released two new Madden NFL 07 stadiums, each costing 300 MS points. When Xbox Live blogger Major Nelson posted the news, he was, correctly enough, bombarded with replies from angry users, usually saying (what we’re all basically saying): “Rip-off”.
EA said they are thinking of bringing more content to Madden, new game modes, uniforms and strategy guides, for a premium price, naturally.
October 5th, 2006 at 9:16 pm
Screw EA. They are worse than any console maker by far. I just hate that I know I will not be able to resist Crysis and some other titles they are publishing. But they still suck … there is no getting around that.
October 6th, 2006 at 4:28 pm
All those extras they charging should have been available from the start. How the hell are you gonna charge extra for a damn tutorial, some new uniforms, and stadiums. ESPN 2K5 killed Madden with presentation and its a shame those greedy bastards at EA had to get that NFL license.
October 7th, 2006 at 2:44 am
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October 8th, 2006 at 9:10 pm
it’s EA what do u expect a deal? support 2k games maybe they’ll start patching
October 9th, 2006 at 3:58 am
In this case … football .. supporting 2K sports (which I definetly do) is not a factor.
October 9th, 2006 at 7:23 pm
look how about this everyone should just boycott EA but, people still go crying and buying.
October 25th, 2006 at 9:54 am
It’s impossible to boycott EA but wouldn’t it make more sense to boycott the XBOX Live MarketPlace… Why pay for game content twice? I payed an outrageous sum for my games only to find that the really “cool stuff” is contained within their silly @$$ marketplace… Not cool at all!!! BRING ON PS3!!!
November 2nd, 2006 at 3:05 pm
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