we should go back to the middle ages where you were inslaved if you owed someone money


by Ted Grant

Pity the poor fan of sports video-games. Already duty-bound to spend $60 a year on the same game over and over and over again, in some perverse preview of their Purgatorial tedium, now it transpires that the very athletes whose likenesses, names and game statistics make their favorite games possible are suing the makers of those games for using their likenesses, names and game statistics with neither permission nor compensation.

This is, of course, an insult to the real victims. The fans:

I’ve always hated lawsuits about people being upset about being in a video game. They should be honored it’s not like it ruins their reputation and makes them evil or anything. Just a bunch of old money grubbers.

Suing happens to be one of the easiest ways of making money in the US. Trust me, they’re proud, but greed is a mofo.

wow, bitter old jerks much?

seems that they spent all of their money, and they need more

Huh, so this is what happens when you retire without any proper real world job skills. Lazy douches.

i hate lawsuits, we should go back to the middle ages where you were inslaved if you owed someone money.

Football players have enough money. EA has enough money. I don’t know who to hate more. I find American Football to be the worst sport ever, curling is better. On the other hand, EA is a terrible developer and generally published crap.

hi, im a nfl player and earn millions upon millions of dollars from my contract and endorsments alone, now i dont think thats good enough and want to sue a computer game company for using my likeness which improved my fans experience when playing such games as nfl made by ea, Having millions of dollars and getting into places for free isnt just as good as it used to be

Holy moly shit toad get off your enormously high horse and give us little guys some happiness

Gotta love the nfl players who make millions of dollars and then sue for maybe 20,000$. If they spent there money better then they wouldn’t even bother doing something like this.

Yeah…those darn retired athletes who were cheated out of money owed them by collusion between a video-game company and their union! Don’t they know they’re hurting the fans! Why, if EA had to pay the retired players fair compensation, MADDEN 2010 might cost a whole $65!



1 Comment

  1. Seriously, fan entitlement on this case is absolutely baffling. You have legendary players, who made a relative pittiance compared to modern players (and often had to hold down off-season jobs) – many of whom are now destitute, cripppled, or suffering from concussion-induced dementia, and whose *own union* clearly collaborated to structure agreements in a way so they didn’t have to pay out royalties, and then had the balls to write out how exactly they wanted to screw over *their own* (poorest) membership in a memo.

    Why shouldn’t videogame fans feel somehow cheated?

    The most important thing is that we respect the constitutitional amendment enshrining the right to use likeness and representation of professional atheletes in video game recreations.

    Won’t someone think of the children? Or Tecmo Bowl? Or Children playing Tecmo Bowl? Is that what we want again? IS IT?

    #1 Brad

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