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Joe Montana NFL Football 16... AKA NFL 2k16... Madden's tyrannical monopoly coming to an end?

RelaxImaPro

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No doubt in my mind 2K can make a better football game than EA Sports, the only problem I see is that since 2K has been out of the loop of football games for an extended period of time, they might need a year or two before it can go above and beyond Madden.

 

Of course if it's true it's exclusive to Xbox 1 and PC only, I might need to invest in a new PC.

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Unless EA gives someone else permission (not going to happen) to make an NFL game, Madden will stay the only game in town. EA renewed it's exclusive agreement with the NFL. 

 

That's what I was thinking. Seems the rumor is the game can have NFL teams, players, stadiums, etc. if they only keep it from being a multi-platform game by releasing it on the Xbox 1 and PC only. Seems kind of farfetched. Until we get more details, I think this might be another All Pro Football or Backbreaker type of game.

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Just sucks current teams/players won't be playable. That, outside of the hardcore fans, will be its downfall for the masses. 

 

What they could do is release the game without the licensed stuff and give free reign of customization to the user. I believe Backbreaker allowed for 30 or so created teams for this specific purpose.

 

When the NCAAF franchise was being threatened with schools pulling out of the licensing agreement because of the Ed O'Bannon case, the developers were planning on doing this instead before NCAAF was scrapped altogether.

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What they could do is release the game without the licensed stuff and give free reign of customization to the user. I believe Backbreaker allowed for 30 or so created teams for this specific purpose.

When the NCAAF franchise was being threatened with schools pulling out of the licensing agreement because of the Ed O'Bannon case, the developers were planning on doing this instead before NCAAF was scrapped altogether.

That's smart if they make it completely customizable. Then all you need is downloadable user made rosters and a whole bunch of guys from pasta padre or operation sports to tweak on each roster. That'd be pretty cool.

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You guys know this is BS right (in terms of using the NFL license)? EA will continue to be the only NFL game because that's what the NFL wants.  For the record, Madden 2005 was a damn solid title that held it's own with 2K's installment that year. It's just when they went next gen (360) everything went to poo.

 

But here's the thing....IF (and it's a huge IF because most developers hate developing for PC because of the very positive I'm about to mention) this game is released for PC it won't matter that it's generic. The game will be modded like crazy by the first month and we will have full authentic NFL teams/uniforms/rosters/stadiums/video packages etc. So here's to the game actually releasing on PC, which I doubt. 

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The agreement has a loophole that 1st party titles CAN use the NFL license... just not multi-platform ones.

 

I have no fuging clue why they wouldn't use the NFL license if this really is a Microsoft exclusive.  It makes zero sense to go all out to contract 2K to create a 1st party football game (which they know would poo on EA's Xbox shares) and then just turn around and make some generic Arena League Football type game.

 

They know it's the NFL brand that sells.

 

I don't know.  I know it's pure false hope and naivety by this point, but maybe it's a smoke screen.  They have been keeping this whole thing rather close to the chest.  It wouldn't be hard at all to release some images with some misleading skins of gameplay before the game's release.  That happens a lot actually.

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"Lame ass trading card game"

"Even madden ultimate team is better than FUT"

Ok yeah you just lost all credibility. You're done.

 

Lol well luckily no one on this board gives a flying fug about your opinion, despite how delusionally highly regarded you may think it is.

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