EA Class Action

[SecondPrize]

I just received an e-mail announcing a settlement between EA and consumers of it's Murican Football franchises between 2005 and 2012. It looks like your normal class action announcement. Is this some new phishing trick? Was there a class-action lawsuit filed and what the complaint?
Does anyone know what this is about?

 

[Requia]

There's a couple news articles about it, though not from major sources (terms were only announced today if correct, see if anybody picked it up in a few days). Also, the email could be phishing even if the settlement it talks about is real, so I'd wait a week and then look at claiming your 5-20$ (also, apparently if EA has your address from registering games with them they'll send you a check automatically).

 

[Andy Shandy]

Basically anyone who bought "new" copies of EA American Football games are due an amount of money depending on the games they have and what console they have it on.