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	<title>Comments on: EA Extends Exclusive NFL License To 2013 &#8211; &#8220;Ain&#8217;t Life A Bitch?&#8221;</title>
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	<description>All Your Geek Are Belong To Us</description>
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		<title>By: Ex Madden Player</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ex Madden Player</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:25:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I blogged about this today. This news is like reading about a funeral of somebody you knew and cared about. Except in this case it&#039;s much worse.

I won&#039;t buy another Madden title because they&#039;ve simple gotten too sloppy, too greedy, and too lazy to design a game for the fans anymore. It has become more about their bottom line and the rest of us that love the sport will continue to suffer.

Well, make that one less that will suffer.

We (the gamers) have been more than patient in waiting for them to get their act together. But now it has become abundantly clear they don&#039;t plan on it; probably never had in the first place.

There is no incentive for EA to do anything but update rosters and re-release the same game year after year until WE as gamers say: &quot;no, we won&#039;t be buying this trash, enough.&quot;

I&#039;ve been playing Madden since it came out. And it was something I used to look forward to every year. No longer, the buck stops here. 

If this had been microsoft trying to lock up a license on linux, their lawyers would be buried in paperwork and legal suits forever.

In this case that just won&#039;t happen. This is what you get when you allow one company to be a monopoly without any serious rivals to design NFL branded games and allow the fans of the game a choose in what they can play.

We are the onces suffering now, not them. Their wallets are filled with your hard earned cash. And guess what? They don&#039;t give a rats *** about us.

Peace....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I blogged about this today. This news is like reading about a funeral of somebody you knew and cared about. Except in this case it&#8217;s much worse.</p>
<p>I won&#8217;t buy another Madden title because they&#8217;ve simple gotten too sloppy, too greedy, and too lazy to design a game for the fans anymore. It has become more about their bottom line and the rest of us that love the sport will continue to suffer.</p>
<p>Well, make that one less that will suffer.</p>
<p>We (the gamers) have been more than patient in waiting for them to get their act together. But now it has become abundantly clear they don&#8217;t plan on it; probably never had in the first place.</p>
<p>There is no incentive for EA to do anything but update rosters and re-release the same game year after year until WE as gamers say: &#8220;no, we won&#8217;t be buying this trash, enough.&#8221;</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been playing Madden since it came out. And it was something I used to look forward to every year. No longer, the buck stops here. </p>
<p>If this had been microsoft trying to lock up a license on linux, their lawyers would be buried in paperwork and legal suits forever.</p>
<p>In this case that just won&#8217;t happen. This is what you get when you allow one company to be a monopoly without any serious rivals to design NFL branded games and allow the fans of the game a choose in what they can play.</p>
<p>We are the onces suffering now, not them. Their wallets are filled with your hard earned cash. And guess what? They don&#8217;t give a rats *** about us.</p>
<p>Peace&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: Gunny Highway</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gunny Highway</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>After the last Madden, I will NEVER buy a Madden  game again.  Just way too much crap was taken out.  There were like 10 people in the sideline, and if you watch, you will see them all do the same Animation, it makes it look line dancing.

Then not putting a net behind the goal posts, while having the ball stop dead in mid air once it goes through is just lazy.

All in all, I was very disappointed in this Madden, and the next one has to be really special for me to buy it, and my confidence is not high.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After the last Madden, I will NEVER buy a Madden  game again.  Just way too much crap was taken out.  There were like 10 people in the sideline, and if you watch, you will see them all do the same Animation, it makes it look line dancing.</p>
<p>Then not putting a net behind the goal posts, while having the ball stop dead in mid air once it goes through is just lazy.</p>
<p>All in all, I was very disappointed in this Madden, and the next one has to be really special for me to buy it, and my confidence is not high.</p>
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		<title>By: Krispy Demon</title>
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		<dc:creator>Krispy Demon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Isn&#039;t this one of the signs of the apocalypse?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Isn&#8217;t this one of the signs of the apocalypse?</p>
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