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He was only JUST made aware? Has he been living under a rock? Every year there is some major news event about the newest game
@Colter Wayne Cole:
It isn't that EA published football games with a Madden license, and it doesn't say that Antonick was unaware of the existence of the Madden franchise. It says, both here and in the 1UP piece attributed, that Antonick believed that later Madden games were independently developed and not derived from John Madden Football.
The 1UP version has a quote, not repeated here, that the complaint says "according to recent statements by Electronic Arts founder Trip Hawkins, the current generation of software apparently derived from software developed by Antonick." There is also an Antonick quote that "Electronic Arts decided that it did not want to share profits with him even though he was responsible for the development of virtually all of the ground-breaking technology at the heart of the game."
It isn't that EA published football games with a Madden license, and it doesn't say that Antonick was unaware of the existence of the Madden franchise. It says, both here and in the 1UP piece attributed, that Antonick believed that later Madden games were independently developed and not derived from John Madden Football.
The 1UP version has a quote, not repeated here, that the complaint says "according to recent statements by Electronic Arts founder Trip Hawkins, the current generation of software apparently derived from software developed by Antonick." There is also an Antonick quote that "Electronic Arts decided that it did not want to share profits with him even though he was responsible for the development of virtually all of the ground-breaking technology at the heart of the game."
@General Bison: The name "Ryan" probably came out of a memory triggered by Mr. Antonick's last name, which bears some similarity to a Ryan I knew in my youth. Which is neither here nor there, since it's still an error, one which has now been fixed. Thanks!
Aaah Royalties. Remind me when I start up a game studio not to deal in "royalties". Everyone of these are the people who toiled long hours to design / develop the game and in the end get flushed like used TP.
...........and it took him THIS long to look out his front window to see that a billion Madden games have since then been released?
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