EA is the devil of third party software. It's official. They are more concerned with making money than making games. Considering most of there money is made from taking the same sports games and releasing them every year with a few small updates, you'd think that I would say something like my topic sooner. But no, as of 2 years ago, I was perfectly ok with what EA was doing. I remember when they signed their deal with the NFL to be the only game to makefootball games but around that time I was ok with it. I remember buying my Xbox around that time and playing Madden 06 as much as possible. Despite being the only football game that year, they had one huge feature on the xbox game, online play. I thought that even with the lack of competition, EA would still put a few improvements into the game every year. Over the course of time between Madden 06 and Madden 07, I bought a 360 and looked forward to having a madden game for it since the system was not BC with madden 06 for xbox. When I bought Madden 07 I was even happier. And then I played it and to my surprise, the game had less features than 06. How could a game actually take a giant step backwards in terms of features and expect to make money. Then I realized that it was because people had no choice. They couldnt buy Blitz(the real one with NFL teams, not playmakers video game), they couldnt buy a game from the 2k series. So we had no choice. This began my thoughts that they were evil. But hey, at least they still had online play and you could still play your friends from across the country. Boy was I wrong, apparently, now not only are they gonna start releasing the same game every year and hoping youll buy it again, but theyre going to make you buy it if you still want to play online.

Well, if anyone hasn't heard the news, EA is pulling the plug on a good number of their online games as of September I believe. Most of the games are their '06 sports titles like madden and tiger woods '06. However, some of their games aren't even a year old and while most of the games have new iterations, Fight Night Round 3 for the Xbox and PS2 do not. I have fight night round 3 for the 360 so this does not effect me but I can understand how this would piss me off. This whole thing is a ploy to get more money. I can't believe they would do something like this. Like I said, I have a 360 and I also have xbox live, how can they tell me that I have a game which is supposed to have online play but doesnt even though I pay 50 a year for that exact reason. Now they will try and force me and everyone else to buy the new versions of their games even though they put no effort into improving them.

I say we as gamers need to act and not buy EA games anymore until they realize they are being complete idiots. I know at least I won't ever buy madden again and can not wait for the return of the NFL 2k series (the real one with actual teams and players, I could really care less about playing as OJ Simpson and the assassins).