EA Sports... giving game companies a bad name

Wow... I knew EA Sports was into some shady deals.. but then to completely deny it.. geez. First they buy out the monopoly of the NFL video game franchise... which would then require any would-be sports gamer to only buy EA's games if they wanted to play a football game with real teams... which in turn gives EA the "right" to make their football games as good or as crappy as they want because they know they are the only game in town... Now, with the release of their newest iteration of the same damn game they have been selling for years (ok..I stand corrected, this year's game has an '06 in the title, so its not technically the same) they completely abuse the XBox Marketplace by charging for shit that, in other (non XBox 360) versions of the game are free. So if you want the full game, you have to keep spending money to get all the stuff that the PS2 players already have... and got for free when they paid the $60 bucks for the game! Now I am not a sports gamer, and prolly never will be, but this kinda of crap still pisses me off. This company is taking a really great feature, the XBox marketplace, and abusing it... (and then their Vice President goes on a radio shows and denies it!!) there are some really great things being done in the Marketplace, and several companies are making some really cool stuff available.. but this bull that EA is pulling is ridiculous... I guess this is the inevitable outcome of videogaming becoming mainstream... the companies get too big and powerful, and get too full of themselves *cough*cough*SONY*cough*cough*... oh well...

The guys at Penny Arcade do a better job of explaining it...in both blog and comic format...