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EA Sports stands by Tiger Woods for PGA Tour Online photo

The Tiger Woods scandal may be the biggest off-the-field sports story of the last decade. With sponsors like AT&T and Accenture dropping Woods -- and with companies like Gatorade severely cutting back on ads featuring the golfer -- people have wondered where EA Sports stands on Tiger's infidelities, since he's the face of the publisher's golf franchise, Tiger Woods PGA Tour.

In a post yesterday on Peter Moore's EA.com blog, the president of EA Sports announced that the company will continue with this month's launch of the open beta for Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online, a browser-based version of the annual console series, which has been in development for the past year. And while Moore acknowledged the scandal, he said that Woods "is still one of the greatest athletes in history." However, Moore made no mention of what will become of Tiger Woods PGA Tour, only saying that Woods will continue to be on "the masthead of this game [PGA Tour Online]."

As for Tiger Woods PGA Tour itself, it looks like EA has three options at this point. They could replace Woods with another golfer, but that's highly unlikely -- there isn't a name in golf that's anywhere near as recognizable as Tiger's. EA could also simply remove Woods' name from the series and rebrand it, maybe to something like "PGA Tour 11." Or, they may even skip this year's title, perhaps to move the series to a bi-yearly frequency (like Fight Night) or just to take a year off.

What do you guys expect will happen?

EA SPORTS Moves Forward with Tiger Woods PGA TOUR Online Launch in January
[Peter Moore's Blog]








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Xzyliac's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/05/2010 08:15
Xzyliac
Well it's clear they can't afford to remove Tiger so that option is off the table. And if they can't afford to remove him I doubt they can afford to skip a year.

Honestly I think things will go as planned and EA will just suck up all the jokes. Maybe they'll downplay it a bit on the box like make the text that says "Tiger Woods" smaller or have Tiger Woods mixed in a nice collage of other featured golfers so he's not the center of attention.
Clarke's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/05/2010 08:17
Clarke
What does this have to do with Portal?
zhadoba's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/05/2010 08:18
zhadoba
74 bucks will buy you Tiger's sex tape. I wonder if EA is going to regret associating with America's #1 current pariah
Isay Isay's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/05/2010 08:27
Isay Isay
Spooooooooooooooooooooooorts!!

What’s going to happen? Absolutely nothing. Accenture and AT&T dropped Woods because he was being used as a paragon of dependability, but with character issues, he could no longer be used as an example. Any company that uses Woods to sell golf products would be insane to cut ties with the most recognized golfer possibly ever. There is no other current golfer you could use to get the attention of Joe Walmart and the PGA itself doesn’t have the same appeal as the other sports leagues in name either.

Or you could bring back the Lee Carvallo series…
lewness's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/05/2010 08:30
lewness
Maybe they could give the series a time off. They could make a new Boom Blox game by then.
KrazyKraut's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/05/2010 08:38
KrazyKraut
and then there will be an easter egg....fuck behind the trees all his lovers in 10 minutes...
Qwikstreet's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/05/2010 09:19
Qwikstreet
Side note: All EA sports titles should be released every two years and just issue more roster updates and DLC.
Xzyliac's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/05/2010 09:30
Xzyliac
@Qwikstreet
I always wondered why they don't just update the back catalogs rosters. They can still release new games annually but for people who might prefer older versions or whatever throw them a little bone. Even if they charge for it.
NinjaTaco's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/05/2010 10:37
NinjaTaco
I hear that this game will have lots of cheat codes.
Space Invader's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/05/2010 11:18
Space Invader
"I hear that this game will have lots of cheat codes."
Select Up Down In Out In Out In Out In Out Up Down .
GooN's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/05/2010 11:58
GooN
"only saying that Woods will continue to be on the masthead of this game"

Oh nay nay...

The women will be on the masthead, And TIGER will be on the Box!

Thats a vagina joke for those that are too young.

9 months getting out, and your whole life trying to get back in...
Professor Booty's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/05/2010 14:23
Professor Booty
Frankly, I wish they would take a year off and rewrite the engine, make the game interesting again. We've been playing the same game for years, and TW10 was the worst of the lot, offering the least amount of revision/progress of any of the other recycled/reskinned iterations of the last five years.
Vidyawho's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/05/2010 16:12
Vidyawho
Charles Barkley PGA Tour 11.....c'monnnnnnn
Rammstein's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/05/2010 17:24
Rammstein
Gamers and gaming industry as a whole, are full of immoral heathens.

That alone is why EA is keeping him. Gatorade is wholesome/squeaky clean family bullshit. Doesn't Gatorade still back Kobe after the Colorado garbage? Yeah, Tiger will be fine.

I can already see the failure that is Jay Leno/Jimmy Kimmels of the world now:

"Didja hear this? Yeah, turns out EA is releasing a new Tiger woods golf game. Thing is, this version only comes with 10 holes" *pause for applause sign*
Rammstein's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/05/2010 17:28
Rammstein
Or:

*holds up box of TW:PGA'10*

"Oh, the ten isn't for the year 2010, its for each of his mistresses!" *pause for rimshot, applause sign, forced laughter*

I Hate Leno.
Darren Nakamura's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/06/2010 14:37
Darren Nakamura
Ugh. I usually don't care about these sports-related stuffs, but I especially don't care about this. Why do people make such big deals about celebrities' personal lives? It's not like he killed his wife a la O.J. Simpson.
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