Was the NFL even thinking about this

Those 2k games were ahead of the time over 10 years back. It has been with this exclusivity contract that is dreadful. Was really funny(sad) since 2k began selling their games for like $20 away iirc simply to tell everybody they had been so confident in their product, their motor and their franchise which they would use it basically in certain ways as a loss leader for a year at least simply to get people just to give them a chance. Then EA was like"fuck competition, we are going to cover the NFL so we can be the only game in town". If there it was this. To be fair then Sega did exactly what EA did with soccer to baseball, getting rid of this superior MLB franchise (MVP Baseball) to force their dreadful franchise on everybody. Competition is good, but these companies always find a way around having to compete fairly.

Is there a source on this? Not minding it, only that every press release was"EA pays the NFL $300 million to get exclusive rights are the only NFL video game" kind of stuff. Nothing regarding the NFL initiating the talks and being miserable. Seems as though it was Madden game companies with deep pockets seeking to subvert the contest. The MLB did this as well after without any discount shenanigans that are weird from MVP baseball.

You think I'm saying that they forced them ? They came up with this anti-competition strategy because 2K was looking great and jeopardized their cash cow by also offering their game considerably cheaper so they offered the NFL a boatload of money to do it. Sure blame the NFL, they probably realized they would get more royalties from it also but that does not make your narrative true that they arrived to EA or that it had been their idea.I wasn't commenting on who's idea it was, only the fact the when it comes down to it, the existence of the exclusive permit stays entirely about the NFL. 2K could have, if EA had not ponied up the cash. The license gonned na no matter who got it happen.

However from what I've heard/read over the years, a big part of why the NFL did it was because they didn't like 2K selling a"discount product" with NFL branding onto it. If EA hadn't ponied up the cash, 2K could have. The permit gonned na happen no matter who obtained it. Wasn't this kind? Was the NFL even thinking about this as a chance before EA was"lobbying for this for years" or anything? This might be the situation, but here is where I wanted some proof, as to me this does not seem inevitable with no EA going starting a line of dialogue and supplying hundreds of millions.

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