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FirstCuts: Gamers Sue EA Over Football Games

Jun 12, 2008, 8:45 PM UTC

The seemingly never ending deadline for EA to acquire Take-Two Interactive continues to get pushed -- making it seem more and more inevitable it’ll happen eventually -- but now they’ve got a few angry gamers to deal with.â†µâ†µA class-action suit filed by two gamers in Washington, D.C., and California alleges “blatantly anticompetitive conduct” on the part of EA Sports, according to Gamespot.â†µ

â†µâ†µâ‡¥“This vigorous competition benefited consumers,” according to the suit. “Electronic Arts could have continued to compete by offering a lower price and/or a higher quality product. Instead, Electronic Arts quickly entered into a series of exclusive agreements with the only viable sports football associations in the United States: the National Football League, the Arena Football League, and NCAA Football.”â†µâ†µ

â†µâ†µMuch of the talk seems to focus around the price point for the companies' respective NFL franchises. NFL 2K5 sold for $19.99, which forced EA to drop its price to $29.95 from the regular $49.95 price, according to the story.â†µ

â†µâ†µ(Now in chant form) What do they want? Restitution and damages! Who do they want it for? Everyone who purchased an EA football game since August of 2005.â†µ

â†µâ†µI think I’ve got a better chance of completing 100 percent of Grand Theft Auto IV than this being resolved in any way that favors the consumer.â†µ

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