daved Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 Does anyone have details on the story of why MVP Baseball is no longer available for the PC? I mean I know (or think I know...please correct me if I'm wrong) that MLB decided to give the contract to a company called Take Two Interactive to make licensed MLB games and so EA had to stop selling the game for most platforms. What I'd like to know is whether EA bid for the contract or even was given a chance to bid on it? Also, if Take Two was awarded the contract, why don't they make any baseball games??? Have they not had time to develop anything or what? Not sure why I care, but I guess I'm frustrated with the fact that such a great game is becoming both hard to find and outrageously expensive on ebay, and I'm looking for some reason to all this nonsense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaptorQuiz Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 Take 2 does (or did) make MLB baseball games. Just not for the PC. Game-consoles only. LINK: http://www.2ksports.com/games/mlb2k7/ MLB2K7. Heard of it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meteamo Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 Jon Miller and Joe Morgan. Hah hah hah Joe Hopefully they were able to put some Artificial Intelligence into Joe. Only if they can do that in real life. Sorry but I just had to ... :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mets1fan Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 Well, if I remember correctly, Take Two got a third party licensing agreement, which effectively meant that anyone except EA could make MLB games (although maybe they had to go through Take Two to do it? I'm not sure). All I know is that it was revenge for EA taking the NFL license, specifically away from ESPN. So just be happy about MVP05 having this community. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJEagles Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 God Lord...when did this happen? When does NFL 2K8 come out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angryrat Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 There is no NFL 2k8 this year. Instead they are making a game featuring hall of famers, with Jerry Rice as the cover-grandpa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJEagles Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 I know, I was being sarcastic...LOL! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angryrat Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 Oh, well then I guess I look sheepish. Oh well, I tried. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRog Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 Well, if I remember correctly, Take Two got a third party licensing agreement, which effectively meant that anyone except EA could make MLB games (although maybe they had to go through Take Two to do it? I'm not sure). All I know is that it was revenge for EA taking the NFL license, specifically away from ESPN. So just be happy about MVP05 having this community. the 3rd party license means that 2k has the rights to release for anything they want. a company can release a game for their system though Sony------Playstation-------mlb the show if microsoft came out with a baseball game they could only release it on xbox the license means that they have the rights to use the team names, player names, coaches names, stadiums, etc. in their game and then release that game wherever they want. as ive said first party games sony releasing MLB the show also allows for using those things but if sony came out with a game for anything but playstation they couldnt use the names and would have to use fake ones. ea can come out with a game but can't use any names also Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SESbb30 Posted August 30, 2007 Share Posted August 30, 2007 i dont understand why they cant stop fighting like little bitches and just get along to make the gamers happy. all their doing is pissing alot of people off. and if they work together, just think about what they could put together...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superciuc Posted August 30, 2007 Share Posted August 30, 2007 MLB 2K7 graphics, MVp and MLB 07 graphics, holy ****! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kccitystar Posted August 30, 2007 Share Posted August 30, 2007 i dont understand why they cant stop fighting like little bitches and just get along to make the gamers happy. all their doing is pissing alot of people off. and if they work together, just think about what they could put together...... It would be chaos. People want to make money, and people want a choice. Having choices between games of the same sport gives developers reasons to make their game better, to give it an edge. Just being one giant development team making ONE baseball video game does not ensure victory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Campo09 Posted August 30, 2007 Share Posted August 30, 2007 It would be chaos. People want to make money, and people want a choice. Having choices between games of the same sport gives developers reasons to make their game better, to give it an edge. Just being one giant development team making ONE baseball video game does not ensure victory. exactly because what if the game sucked at least you would have another choice in this world as opposed to yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yuanshuowu Posted September 13, 2007 Share Posted September 13, 2007 I believe this contract runs through 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoRedSox34 Posted September 13, 2007 Share Posted September 13, 2007 So we can play MVP Baseball 2013! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRog Posted September 14, 2007 Share Posted September 14, 2007 i see the contract ending before that because take2 hasn't been getting that great of an interest in 2k baseball ohh yeah and the stupid Bigs game that blows monkey dick so bad i wanted to punch the tv at work when they had it out for ps2 on the floor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SESbb30 Posted September 14, 2007 Share Posted September 14, 2007 couldnt they just make a game with fake players and then just come out with updates with the real players names? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmet06 Posted September 14, 2007 Share Posted September 14, 2007 Yeah, that wouldn't seem suspicious at all, would it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SESbb30 Posted September 14, 2007 Share Posted September 14, 2007 OR......the modders make the updates. now thats legal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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