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EA VP Says Apple Paid EA a 'Truckload of Money' to Delay Android Version of Plants vs Zombies 2
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Why? This is how business operates.
What's really happening here is that Frank Gibeau is letting everyone know that he can be bought so others will "contribute" in the future, and perhaps create a bidding war.
Except the game was already done and ready to launch. With 360 and PS3 they pay for exclusivity well before the game is about to launch.
This is a non-story. It seems MacRumors is getting a little to heavy in sensational journalism lately.
Why would anyone pay for exclusive rights to a "free" game that requires a crap ton of in-app purchases to play? It costs money to promote bad user experiences these days?
Yeah. But Apple fails to deliver us real stories, so we have to deal with non-stories.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Halo being developed for the Mac (and windows), until MS bought bungie, so the xbox would have an exclusive flagship title?
Is this much different?
Not really. It's not cool, that's for sure, but it's not unprecedented behavior in the content realm. And it's not like EA didn't agree to it in the end.
Lame practice for Apple as well as EA. Think of what can happen legally.
And this is news because?
Companies pay for exclusivity all the time!
How shorter term memory do you guys have? Remember when iPhone was only available on AT&T in the US? Or only O2 in the UK? Wonder how many 'truck loads of cash' were paid by those carriers to get exclusivity back then...
Companies pay for exclusivity all the time!
How shorter term memory do you guys have? Remember when iPhone was only available on AT&T in the US? Or only O2 in the UK? Wonder how many 'truck loads of cash' were paid by those carriers to get exclusivity back then...
I REALLY wish there was some kind of law against exclusitivity agreements of products to single distributors / platforms, but there is not so everybody does this. I'm not the biggest fan of Apple practices, but they've done nothing that everybody else isn't doing already, including themselves with other things.
Not to say that I AGREE with their actions, mind you - just not illgal or even unusual.
Not to say that I AGREE with their actions, mind you - just not illgal or even unusual.
If it's true, that's hilarious because I'm never even going to play that game anyway. The first one got boring after 10 minutes.
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Not Apple, at least not for apps.
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Not Apple, at least not for apps.
The difference would be that this is secret. I'm still mad that stupid Microsoft bought Rare. DirectX can also go ***************************** and **** a **** for all I care.
