UFC vs EA - FIGHT Update: EA's Peter Moore responds!

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: kabob983

Originally posted by: Queasy
Update: EA's Peter Moore responds!

I also saw the first playable of EA SPORTS MMA while at Tiburon last week. We have a team of incredibly hardcore fans of the sport working hard and making excellent progress, and we look forward to delivering a title in 2010 that we believe will provide further focus and attention to the sport.

I know there has been some recent discussion about EA SPORTS bringing a challenger to this sport. I love mixed martial arts, and we?ve been working on a game concept since I came to EA two years ago. I have great respect for the organizations and individuals that have invested in the sport?s growth over the past decade ? so this is one that is near and dear to me and I?m excited to see such good progress to date. I trace my MMA video game roots back to my support of Crave?s UFC title on the Dreamcast in 2000, and have been a fan ever since. Our title will bring both innovation and further authenticity to mixed martial arts, not to mention a strong global publishing network that will help spread the sport?s popularity around the world.

Not much of a response as he doesn't even address the attacks/claims of White.

Nope. I don't expect them to ever respond directly to White's allegations. That's just not how the game is played by EA.

 

[Fingolfin269]

EA should just buy THQ.

 

[R Nilla]

Originally posted by: Fingolfin269
EA should just buy THQ.

:laugh:

 

[Q]

I hope UFC dominates EA

 

[Onita]

Originally posted by: kabob983

Originally posted by: FuryofFive
thats what i was trying to say. EA is a company that sees dollar signs. They didnt see dollar signs. thats typically what drives them..them and activision. Im suprised we didnt see them come out wiht something

Umm, Activision didn't tell them no once. I fail to see your arguement in favor of EA.

Simple facts:
-White takes idea to EA
-EA says "no thanks, not now not ever, your sport sucks"
-White takes idea to THQ
-THQ says yes and makes a good selling game
-EA says "wait, when we said "screw you" we meant "yes," let us use your fighters for a game now that we saw someone else do it"
-White gets upset

Yeah, EA is a company, sure, and as such they should handle this like a professional company needs to. Realize you messed up and try to find the next idea instead of going back to the guy you threw out once.

A professional company would do exactly as EA is doing - trying to make money. I see nothing wrong with what either side is doing.

 

[mmnno]

Originally posted by: FuryofFive

Originally posted by: tdawg

Originally posted by: FuryofFive
Dude EA is a massive company. They told him no from a professional stand point. This happens all the times with companies. If successful of course there will be more versions that come out of the wood works. I sometimes think dana white forgets he is part of a business and not some backyard club. EA is not in this "game" to lose money. and They felt they would. I can see dana's side. But professionalism should be key

According to Dana's post, EA didn't turn it down because they thought it'd be unsuccessful, EA turned him down because "mixed martial arts disgusted them". If that's the reason that you turn him away and then get all hypocritical once you see $ signs at the end of the rainbow, he has every right to be pissed about it. Especially since there was probably more potential money up front from EA.

Personally, I'm glad that EA turned him away and THQ picked it up; they did a great job recreating the sport and the atmosphere of the telecasts of UFC bouts.

thats what i was trying to say. EA is a company that sees dollar signs. They didnt see dollar signs. thats typically what drives them..them and activision. Im suprised we didnt see them come out wiht something

No, they didn't care about dollar signs at that point. EA was run by Larry Probst then, who didn't want anything to do with games he considered too violent or deviant. They could easily have seen an addition to their sports monopoly if they considered it at all, but that's not how EA's leadership saw it back then.

 

[iluvdeal]

Originally posted by: Onita
A professional company would do exactly as EA is doing - trying to make money. I see nothing wrong with what either side is doing.

You are right, most corporations out there, especially the huge ones, do what EA does, they don't take a chance on something new or different, they just stick with what's been done before. They got shareholders to answer to, who wants to put their ass on line for something that is not proven? That's why the majority of EA's titles are sequels. When a company out there does take a chance on something and it proves successful, then the other guys follow along. That's how it usually goes in business. Personally I like to see the companies that took the chance first to be rewarded.

There's no way Peter Moore would diss Dana or the UFC as fans of the UFC are his target audience for their game. I'm also sure he wants to keep the door open to negotiate with UFC as well so EA can buy an exclusive license from them. EA will come at the UFC with a fat check sooner or later, but I hope Dana remembers which company supported the UFC when others did not.

I do find it funny EA has to resort to doing what other companies who want to make sports games do because EA holds the monopoly on most sport licenses.

BTW, someone is lying here. Peters says EA has been working on an MMA game concept for two years while Dana says he approached them 1.5 year ago and was not even let in the door. If you are EA and are actively developing a game for two years, you don't refuse to meet with the biggest MMA organization in the world. What I'm guessing Peter means is someone proposed an MMA game 2 years ago but it never got past that stage as one of the EA bean counters probably said "So how much money have MMA games made?" and after that the idea was put in the file cabinet cemetery of other video game ideas that never got made at EA.