UFC President Warns Fighters Against EA Sports MMA
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after watching the UFC for a while i can say Dana White can be a big dick but he comes across as very up front. the funny part is he's all about "oh i want guys who fight and give me a fight" yet he has a bad habit of dropping people after only losing one fight
I'm seriously disgusted if what EA said was true.
I'm a Fitness Trainer. I work my ass off at least two hours a day. I'm also a practicing Martial Artist. Practice when I wake up, an hour in the day, and when I go to sleep.
And I STILL would be wary if I was going head to head with a professional MMA practitioner. They do what I do times three every day of the year. That kind of love, effort, blood sweat and tears doesn't make a sport... but Golf is a worthy enough endeavor to be considered a true sport worthy of a game? Come off of it.
I'm a Fitness Trainer. I work my ass off at least two hours a day. I'm also a practicing Martial Artist. Practice when I wake up, an hour in the day, and when I go to sleep.
And I STILL would be wary if I was going head to head with a professional MMA practitioner. They do what I do times three every day of the year. That kind of love, effort, blood sweat and tears doesn't make a sport... but Golf is a worthy enough endeavor to be considered a true sport worthy of a game? Come off of it.
An agreement* Paragraph 7 lines 1 and 2. Ok I think they should pull the plug on the MMA game. EA is too money grubbing somebody has to put the giant in its place.
Well, he is a businessman. I'd be pissed too if a franchise (or whatever UFC actually counts as) was denied by another company on such insulting grounds, only to have that company try to take money from under me later on when the jerks found out there was cash to be found in it after all. I wouldn't let EA just move in and try to covertly work with the fighters I managed either if it meant they were going to screw me over monetarily.cobrausn said:
Everybody knows that White will lie through his teeth to UFC fans. Does it every time he insults fighters that aren't in the UFC. Seems kinda like a fascist to me.
Xan: "This is because EA only cares about the money and weren't willing to take a chance with it. Now they see it can work and they want a piece of the pie."
First off EA is a business, and being so puts profit at the top of the priority list. An individual works for money but also "for the love of it" or whatever. To think that this transfers to corporations is naive. They weren't willing to take a chance because their analysis did not point towards success (and since this was a year and a half ago, I don't think the game would have been as successful as THQ's recent endeavor.) They saw that their initial profit analysis was proven wrong by Undisputed and, of course, they "want a piece of the pie." Why wouldn't they? Business is about making money, not about caring about MMA or anything like that. This also speaks volumes on Mr. White, who runs a business by the way. He will be more than happy to oblige EA as long as he gets a piece of the pie. Money makes the world go 'round. Don't let naivete misguide you.
First off EA is a business, and being so puts profit at the top of the priority list. An individual works for money but also "for the love of it" or whatever. To think that this transfers to corporations is naive. They weren't willing to take a chance because their analysis did not point towards success (and since this was a year and a half ago, I don't think the game would have been as successful as THQ's recent endeavor.) They saw that their initial profit analysis was proven wrong by Undisputed and, of course, they "want a piece of the pie." Why wouldn't they? Business is about making money, not about caring about MMA or anything like that. This also speaks volumes on Mr. White, who runs a business by the way. He will be more than happy to oblige EA as long as he gets a piece of the pie. Money makes the world go 'round. Don't let naivete misguide you.
then they had bad anaylsis, considering both the xbox and ps3 and various games have sponsored the UFC and the UFC has a very high buy rate and most of it's target audience is the same ones that buy lots of video gamesRayjay06 said:
Plus another infinity. Seriously. I know EA is a big company and has to be in it for the cash, but Dana White is showing THQ some loyalty for giving them a shot first.VoltySquirrel said:
And besides, who didn't know that the XFL was an idea doomed to fail? (I mean, besides Jon Bon Jovi.)
Oh no, god forbid a business made a business decision. They weren't interested when it wasn't going to make them money, and now that it will make them money they are interested. That is exactly as it should be people. EA is a corporation, and they have reached the top because while they don't always make the best games, they make sound business decisions. Most of you are agreeing with over-sensitive Mr. White because you don't like EA to begin with, not because you see anything wrong with what they've done in this particular case.
actually what we call MMA is one of the oldest sports in the world at one point it was known as pancration and was part of the first olympics, got brought to india, who learned it from Alexander the Great and they took it to China who created Kung Fu and the rest is historyakmarksman said:
and as for you calling it gay sex, that says a lot about you and where your real sexual preferences really lay
i say they're both idiots...EA for being jerks, and White for forcing UFC fighters to agree with him like a dictator.
End result: People = shit (Got that from Yahtzee as well)
End result: People = shit (Got that from Yahtzee as well)