EA and Gameloft Games On Sale for iPhone 4S Launch

[anberlinairlift]

I wish EA would figure out a comprehensive way to release an iOS version of the NHL games. I know it probably won't happen, but a guy can dream.

 

[kemo]

worth a look or download for later "free download" and playing... Tiger woods 12 is for free now

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tiger-woods-pga-tour-12-for/id427703804?mt=8

 

[Westacular]

EA games definitely not on sale in the UK - even the scrabble icon is different as it's sold by EA Nederland BV.

Much as I love Macrumors, it is very US centric. I thought there war queues outside the apple stores yesterday, not lines

Not necessarily the case, Electronic Arts trades under the name Electronic Arts Nederland B.V. in a number of iTunes stores around the world and quite often we do not see US app sale prices.

To be fair, Apple doesn't offer any easy, transparent, or straight-forward way to check the regional availability of app store listings.

For EA's offering inside vs outside of North America, it's not a case of games being priced differently in different regions; it's a case of games with the same name being different apps entirely in different regions. Consequently: they can be in different pricing tiers.

It's a loophole, but arguably a necessary one, as licensing and publishing deals can vary by region.

In the case of Scrabble, the differences are particularly pronounced:

Scrabble on US App Store
Scrabble on UK App Store

Different icon, different version numbers, different languages. Even the board colour is different -- it's clear that while they use the same codebase, these are different apps with different rules. And, if you look at the copyright info, you can glimpse why: In the US and Canada, the Scrabble trademark and copyrights are owned by Hasbro. In the rest of the world, it's owned by rival toy company Mattel. (This is due to some ancient legal history.) The basic game remains the same, but certain aspects of the design, branding, (and perhaps finer points in the rules?) have diverged between the two.

EA was clever enough to secure the license to make iOS versions from both Hasbro and Mattel, but those differences (not to mention the accounting for the licensing agreements) require that they release different apps in North America and the rest of the world.

 

[416049]

Thanks, I will check other reviews if they are not that similar, I might as well purchase both of them.

Hey i am just wondering, so what did you end up doing? Did you purchase both of them?

 

[Melodeath]

Damn, I put off buying Dead Space for a few days and now the sale's over haha