NFLers are protesting against the players | |
After you've completed playing the NFL Tour mode, you are able to play the minigames available (Smash and Dash is similar to the classic game of "kill the person with a ball" and Red Zone Rush, where you're trying to score your opponent in one-on-1 combat and stop him from scoring). You'll most likely be spending the remainder of your time playing the game on Xbox Live against real-life opponents. It's scheduled for release on January 1, NFL Tour will be trying to please football fans wanting to scratch their post-08 and pre-09 Madden scratch. We'll bring you an in-depth review of the game when it's on the shelves. The NFL Players Association is facing an action in a class-action suit brought by retired players, while NFLPA licensing partner Electronic Arts is on the edge as the two groups meet in the courtroom. An ex-group of NFLers are protesting against the players' union over licensing agreements it entered into specifically an arrangement in partnership with EA Sports to include Hall of Fame players within the Madden collection of sports. According to a blog post in the NFL Retired Players United blog (as reported by Game Politics) emails from NFLPA representatives revealed evidence that the union signed an arrangement with EA which cost Hall of Fame players royalty revenues. The blog publishes an excerpt from an email to an attorney of the NFLPA's Players Inc. marketing arm that NFLPA Executive Clay Walker talks about securing certain rights of players at a lower price than the market value. "The per-player cost for the majority of these players was several tens of thousands dollars less than the price they were offered through Take Two Interactive so it's an absolute win that we could accomplish this feat so inexpensively," the e-mail read. "You must remember that the total cost of EA is only $200,000 a year. We are aware the fact that Take Two offered six-figure deals to numerous former NFL players, so the total cost is lower than market prices." In a different e-mail, supposedly from Walker The executive claims that EA is due "a massive favor" due to a deal that was struck by the Hall of Fame "was enough to convince Take-Two from its plans and leave EA as the sole professional football videogam | |
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