The NFL Sues Madden ! ! ! !
Former Bengals running back Tony Davis has filed a class-action suit against EA on behalf of some 6,000 retired NFL pros over the use of player likenesses in Madden NFL 09, reports IGN.
The plaintiffs argue that EA never compensated thousands of retired players whose likenesses were used to fill the rosters for the game’s historic teams.
The suit states that EA “knowingly and intentionally” included the stats, positions, height and weights of retired players, but removed player names and uniform numbers to avoid paying anyone.
Thr lawsuit also reads:
“The only significant detail that EA changes from the real-life retired NFL players is their jersey number.”
“Despite EA’s ‘scrambling’ of the retired NFL players’ numbers, the games are designed so that consumers of the Madden NFL video game franchise will have no difficulty identifying who the ‘historic’ players are.”
Wow…being that iDont play football, or Madden (infact iH8 Madden, iLiterally had to compete with the damn game over my Ex…) iReally don’t know what to say about this.
I’m sure the NFL will win the suit though. It was wrong of EA sports to do that to the players, iJust wanna kno why did they wait so long to do it?
Madden NFL 2011 hits shelves next week though (so I’ve been told).
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