EA and MS deal for online gaming

Matt Lincoln Russell (Lincoln) Microsoft and Electronic Arts are patching up their differences through a deal which will see EA games played online through the XBox Live service.

May 11, 2004 8:47 AM ET in News,

Microsoft and Electronic Arts are patching up their differences through a deal which will see EA games played online through the XBox Live service.

The service launched in November 2002 but EA had doubts about the revenue-sharing model. The service also had to be run on Microsoft-controlled servers and EA appears to have had doubts about giving a competitor so much access to how people played its games. Microsoft now allows third parties to run servers. Financial terms of the deal were not released.

Submitted by: Necropolis_UK

Source: The Register

3 Comments:

  1. Jengo
    11 May '04, 4:54 pm

    all i have to say is...

    ITS ABOUT ****ING TIME

    sorry... but was really starting to get me angry..

  2. KingFish
    11 May '04, 5:04 pm

    Looks like MS is in desperation with the Xbox.

    KingFish

  3. Cyclonite
    11 May '04, 5:05 pm
    Quoting Jengo

    all i have to say is...

    ITS ABOUT ****ING TIME

    sorry... but was really starting to get me angry..

    I agree with you completely. I stopped buying any EA games because they didn't want to support LIVE. I was quite unhappy, as they have the best sports games available.

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