An Electronic Arts partner can't use Porsche?

CarlosX360 Writes: "Electronic Arts blocked Porsche from Forza Motorsports racing for Xbox 360. This is a company that has been supporting Xbox since the first console landed on retail. Microsoft and EA Sports have made contracts over Madden, NASCAR, and other sports games. Turn 10 is a company created by Microsoft to create a simulation game competing against Gran Turismo. I think blocking Porsche from Turn 10 will just piss off Microsoft more than it has the gaming industry as a whole."

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[aviator189]

EA's falling back into their old habits again. They're getting bigger with battlefield 3 among other titles and they're just pissed their NFS titles can't seem to pick up more sales than their predecessors.

[Chocoboh]

Yep.. it really shows that EA is blowing it out their ass with the upcoming Battlefield 3. Many of the kids praising EA now a days obviously weren't around pre 2006 and the last NFS game I played that I enjoyed was Most Wanted on the PS2

Sometimes I hate Activision but hot damn I hate EA just as much with their introducing of the online pass and cutting off content from the games and more

[iamnsuperman]

All the companies go round in circles. I remember when ubisoft were great then sucked (far cry 2 era) now are great. EA were great, then really really awful, then great and now they are childish. They seem to go through cycles of being great and then not so. EA need to get there act in order. We all know BF3 looks great but there is no need or comments like "rot to the core". I am starting to dislike EA all over again.

[Army_of_Darkness]

well at least EA is trying to push boundries unlike MS holding back developers from wanting to possibly do more on other platforms!

I say, Good job EA for pissing them off;) serves them right!

[Lazy_Sunday]

The reason nobody's buying NFS is because it's missing a "U"
I miss open world NFS, and for whatever reason, when they decided to start yearly production, they cheapened the brand. Make a good damn open world NFS game--nobody wants to play NFS Shift when we have GT5, Forza, and F1 doing the same damn thing. Be yourself damn you NFS. Be your fucking self.

[Gray-Fox-Type0]

EA are being scumbags they use to be. Wow restricting a car from Forza, if they did give it will make many racing fans happy and will increase the rep of EA for not being a greedy money making coperation.

[Brutallyhonest]

Oh okay. So EA are scumbags for not allowing Turn 10 to include Porsche in Forza 4 than what is MS for holding this industry hostage?

http://www.eurogamer.net/ar...

Whats good for the goose

[Miths]

I still can't believe EA has been the sole company sitting on the Porsche license for so many years now. Either they must be paying a fortune for it, or the EA lawyers conned the Porsche lawyers back when the deal was made. Probably the latter :).

[dark-hollow]

And people say activision are bad.

EA almost gonna hit Bobby kotic's douchebagery level.

[theEx1Le]

They passed that level years ago, then toned it down, but seem to be picking up pace again.

[ilikegam3s]

sigh

[toxic-inferno]

EA should really drop Need For Speed. It's gone past its "Best Before" date, and needs to be dropped in favour of something that more easily matches today's market, rather than just revamping an old series.

[Quagmire]

Shift 2 is a blast to play, Hot Pursuit was great, and The Run looks really impressive.

Not sure how you could think its worse than their previous Carbon/Pro Street/Undercover record.

[Skate-AK]

"Electronic Arts hurt the football “competition,” from other game developers via complete industry monopoly, then comes a lockout of the entire NFL ecosystem, then a rivalry gone bad. Not too long afterwards, a murder takes place."

Did this guy just blame EA for the NFL lockout and a murder!?
Like WTF!!!

[CarlosX360]

No I didn't. I am just stating that there's a decline associated with NFL currently. This downward spiral begun with EA monopolizing everything associated to NFL license.

[KingPin]

you guys cant blame EA alone. why isn't Porsche fighting EA to get their license so they can share it with more devz and turn in more revenue. the fact is, its not only EA to blame, sure they hold the license, but why not blame Porsche for not waking up already. i'm sure turn 10 isn't the first nor the last gaming dev that's going to approach them

LOLZ AT THE DISAGREES
EA ARE EVILS AND PORSCHE ISN'T TO BLAME.
the bully took my sweets now im not gonna fight with him to get my sweets back so i can share it with my friendz. boooo hooooo!!

[dark-hollow]

I don't think Porsche gave a shit about that.
If they get their money from EA, that's when they won't care what EA will do.
From a business stand point, if EA got the license then they can do whatever they want and Porsche can't do anything about it.

It's all EA and EA's fault. They don't want money from developer for the license, they just want to keep it for themselves.

EDIT: if they have a deal, then it is a deal!
They can't change there minds for more cash!

[KingPin]

I understand what you guys are saying, but look at the other car companies (mazda, ford, mitsubishi, subaru, nissan) you honestly think they getting less than what EA is paying Porsche?

to me Porsche is losing a ton of cash!! Devz like Turn 10 and Polyphony Digital would pay good money to have their cars in the game.

[bigboss911]

Trust me, the last thing porsche is worried about is videogames.

[newleaf]

Still very saddened about this. To the gt5 fans that are asking why there was no outrage when this happened to gt5, well it isn't our fault that you gt fans care more about saving face than you do about great cars. You denied caring about it so why bring it up now?
EA are douche bags and they won't see my money anymore...well not after ME 3 anyway...he he he

[ginganinja]

It's happened in all GT games, not just 5. People moaned a bit after 1 and 2 but it wasn't as vocal because;
A. sites such as this weren't around for folks to bitch on.
B. the practically identical RUFs meant we weren't really missing anything.

[Gran Touring]

If you knew anything about RUF, you'd know other than the body, they are nothing alike.

[stu888]

I hate EA! They never support their games for more than a month. and they big up their games while making them shit.

Dragon Age 2
Shift 2

[Agent_hitman]

So guys do you still want to buy Forza 4?

[dark-hollow]

Of course!
Why punish turn 10 for EA's douchebagery?

[TheEatingVodka]

Yep since I don't give two fucks about Porsche..

[kingslayer1000]

nope

[Chocoboh]

I already have GT5 but I will ;)

[munish23]

Hell yes, LCE paid for.

[rattletop]

omg no porsche!! meh who cares..

[kazuma56]

seriously, i will never buy any EA racing games from this day.

[petko23]

so forza 3 had porsche and 60 fps and forza 4 doesn't have porsche and it is 30 fps? definitely step up

[iamgoatman]

Forza 4 runs at 60FPS.

Troll harder next time.

[Peppy la Moca]

Don't see how EA is doing anything wrong. They are protecting their own interests. They have a viable competitive product that they are trying to promote, and they certainly shouldn't want to help their competition. Makes perfect sense to me.

[ginganinja]

Can't see the problem.
If you pay good money for an exclusive license, then why shouldn't you use it as you see fit and for your own interests first ?

[NYC_Gamer]

This is why I'm against the whole exclusive license thing

[The_Quiet_Man]

Why don't Turn 10 do what PD did & just use RUFs instead. An RUF is a modified racing Porsche just without the Porsche badge, problem solved you get a Porsche in your game & EA gets nothing for it.

RUF don't have any exclusive licence deals that I know about? They've been in GT games for years now.

[green]

RUFs are in Forza 4

[Emilio_Estevez]

This is purely a buisiness decision, and any shareholder would be ok with this as it may help their racing games. BUT, it really only affects the consumer(us). Companies don't get huge by playing nice, you gotta step on peoples toes sometimes. Still sucks tho.

[Pyscho_Mantis]

This is both Microsoft and EA's fault....they have only themselves to blame

[dumahim]

Has anyone ever heard how long the EA deal is for?

[Raven_Nomad]

Why is anyone surprised? EA hates competition, it's why they bought the license in the first place. Now that Forza is the number 1 racing sim in North America they have an issue with a previous agreement.

They also bought out the NFL license when the NFL 2K Football games were so much better then the Madden games. They ruin franchises and force their developers to rush games ie. Dragon Age 2 and Mass Effect. Thank god Mass Effect 3 got delayed until next year.

Let's not forget their online passes, which is something not even Activision does. Let's also not forget this "season pass" subscription that they are trying to milk out of people, it let's you download a game 3 days in advance.

EA has always been cancer to the industry. Forza wont need those cars to be amazing and outsell EA's crummy games..

[BLAZNBUDZ420]

I for one will miss the Porsche brand in Forza4 and putting in RUF cars will not be the same or better. So we may get three or four RUF's that mimmick some base model Porsche cars but what about the loads of real world R-class cars and classic Porsche's that will be missing. RUF has none of these to offer. As for Microsoft holding the industry hostage, they have nothing to do with this and the fact is Turn10 was reasonable enough to let EA still use the Ferarri brand in their games so EA needs to man up and do the same. I for one will be making a stand and boycotting all further EA titles until they do! Lets see what exclusivity gets them when their sales plummet from millions of pissed off Forza Fans who would normally buy their games.