EA and Marvel Entertainment Announce a Multi-Title Collaboration to Make Action Adventure Games

[lexluthermiester]

Unfortunately I did not get a copy of their contract for review.

You don't need one. It's common sense.

 

[cvaldes]

You don't need one. It's common sense.

Unfortunately legal contracts between big corporations aren't governed by that increasingly rare trait. It's not like Disney and EA had a beer and said, "hey, let's do this and just use common sense." That's why they write all of this down. In a legally binding contract.

Remember that Disney has the advantage here: they are the seller. Of media licenses and IP access.

 

[Vayra86]

I just pray EA doesn't fuck the Marvel license like they did with Star Wars i.e. abandon it once it's no longer profitable. Battlefront II is my main PC game and in dire need of a fixing and purging of all the hackers and toxics that will never get done now. The mentioned problems have only gotten worse since the game was abandoned.

Did you miss EA history or something?

Of course they will abandon their stuff. This is a clusterfk waiting to happen, much like everything else EA touches. It either gets MTX infestations or it gets no treatment at all.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Unfortunately legal contracts between big corporations aren't governed by that increasingly rare trait. It's not like Disney and EA had a beer and said, "hey, let's do this and just use common sense." That's why they write all of this down. In a legally binding contract.

Remember that Disney has the advantage here: they are the seller. Of media licenses and IP access.

Publishers do not pay up-front and then also front the cost of development on the chance they might have a hit. They spend on dev costs and share proceeds with the IP owner. Even publishers with big wallets will not take that kind of up-front risk.

 

[Kohl Baas]

if you are going to have that mindset, the only games open to you will be small indie devs. this is capitalism bro, it sucks. all these big companies have a bit of dirt in their past depending how much you want to look behind the curtains.

I agree to disagree. I don't mind some dirt and/or fails. It is inevitable after a point. For example, I've "forgiven" for CDPR's Cyberpunk fiasco, the trickery of UBI with the "greater than life" FarCry trailer or the AC-whatever bugfest and Gearbox' f***up with ACM. But the ammount of destruction EA alone has done to the gamers in general is above and beyond my level of tolerance.