Right now it's 10:17am eastern time and I woke up and check out kotaku and find that they have in interview posted with UFC big man Dana White. In the interview white spoke outright about his view of EA and it's upcoming UCF game.
I'm gonna give you some background here. So earlier this year THQ (another game company) came out with a UFC game that was met with much critical and commercial success. THQ a company on the verge of bankruptcy (at the time) was taking a HUGE gamble with this unproven IP; but it payed off in the end.
Now EA wants to get some in on some of that but Dana White will have none of it saying EA treated their sport dismissively about a year and a half ago.
In his own words:
"You're not a real sport. We wouldn't touch this thing. We want nothing to do with this."
So his response to the company now that UFC already has a successful game franchise is that if any of his fighters sign with EA on this they will be fired.
"I'm not tap-dancing around this thing or whatever..... I'm telling you straight-up, I'm at war with [EA] right now. That's how I look at it"
I gotta say I'm pretty happy that this guy's sticking it to EA, while I do like their FIFA game I'm not a fan of Madden or much else sports wise they put out. But seeing as how EA is currently a shadow of it's former self I do feel a little bad for it, they just want to make some money. [Kotaku]
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