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EA’s CEO John Riccitiello, in a teleconference with shareholders, discussed rival football game All-Pro Football 2K8. As you may know, All-Pro Football 2K8 is the first football game produced by Take Two’s 2K Sports since 2005, when EA secured an exclusivity agreement with the NFL. In a bold move, Take Two made exclusive deals with recently retired players such as Jerry Rice and Troy Aikmen among others, to be included in the game.Specifically, Riccitiello stated:

“When you’ve got a competitor like Take-Two on the sports side, and they launch a football title using some of the industry legends, you want to make sure that ends up being a blip and is not repeatable, because we like to defend our franchises aggressively.”

He then said that their plan was to go to every Wal-Mart in the country and draw frowny faces on every All-Pro Football game in stock!

Defend your franchise aggressively? What is this guy talking about? They’ve put out the same game every year since the graphics went 3D twenty freaking years ago. Save your hit stick and quarterback vision comments, fanboys….

I haven’t played a good football video game since 2k5 and until something changes, IMO, EA is just defending mediocrity.

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