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greenmedic88 on 02 August 2009
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Slimebeast said:
Kantor said:
Slimebeast said:
Kantor said:
After reading what the head of the UFC said, I hope EA Sports MMA flops. And remember, he said any UFC fighter who signs a license to be in EA MMA will be permanently banned from the UFC.


Why u hope it flops? Isnt it very unfair by UFC to ban the guys who decide to be in the EA game? Or is it something with 'signing a license' that is immoral?

See, the UFC originally wanted EA to publish their game. But EA said it wouldn't sell, or there was no marketability or something, and waved them away. Desperate, the UFC went to THQ, who agreed to publish it. Now, after seeing the success of UFC, EA want in on it, and have decided to make their own game. The UFC are now pissed, and rightfully so.


Ahhh... what a drama! Exciting. I indeed hope the EA game will flop. It's gonna be fun to follow this story and the game sales.

Btw, do you mean that the UFC president himself said these players would be banned?

Dana was also responsible for the ban on Affliction clothing within UFC events after Atencio and company decided to go from being sponsors to direct competitors with their Affliction promotion (recently defunct).

Now that Affliction is strictly back to the T-shirt/sponsor business, White announced "Ban Over."

White stating UFC fighters who sign with EA Sports (who wants to be a direct competitor for the UFC franchise of games) will not be fighting in the UFC is really no more unreasonable than say a WWE Pro Wrestler taking his likeness and signing with a competing non-WWE wrestling game franchise and expecting to be able to still be in the WWE.

As for EA Sports, it wasn't so much that they arbitrarily decided that MMA wasn't marketable enough, it's that their official reason for not even considering taking the UFC license was a blunt "MMA is not a sport."

So for them to turn around and say now that the market (and demand) is clearly there that MMA is a sport so it's now okay to justify starting our own game franchise, is hypocritical. But it's too big a plum to leave solely to the UFC.