Anyone else get this email from EA today?

[PONYfun]

<p align="center" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">To view this email as a web page, clickhere.</p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">

GEOFFREY PECOVER and ANDREW OWENS v. ELECTRONIC ARTS INC.
U.S. District Court (N.D. Cal. - Oakland Div.)
Case No. 08-cv-02820 CW

If You Purchased Certain Electronic Arts Brand Football Video Games
Between January 1, 2005 to the Present
You May Be a Class Member.​

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</span><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Membership as a class member in the Electronic Arts Litigation is the result of a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, Oakland Division (Case No. 08-cv-02820 CW).</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">
</span><center style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">What Is This Class Action About?[/center]<div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">The class action lawsuit alleges violations of California's antitrust and consumer protection laws in connection with the sale of certain football video games. Plaintiffs, purchasers of Electronic Arts' football video games, claim that Defendant Electronic Arts entered into a series of exclusive licenses with the National Football League (NFL), National Football League Players' Association (NFLPA), National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA), and Arena Football League (AFL), which Plaintiffs claim foreclosed competition in an alleged football video game market. Plaintiffs allege that this series of exclusive licenses caused customers who purchased certain football video games to be overcharged.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Defendant Electronic Arts has denied any liability and all allegations of misconduct. The Court has not decided whether the Defendants did anything wrong, and this Notice is not an expression of any opinion by the Court about the merits of any of the claims or defenses asserted by any party to this litigation.</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">
</span><center style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Who Are Class Members?[/center]<div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">The Class includes all persons who, during the period January 1, 2005 to the present, purchased the Madden NFL, NCAA Football, or Arena Football League brand video games published by Electronic Arts with a release date of January 1, 2005 to the present. Excluded from the class are purchasers of software for mobile devices, persons purchasing directly from Electronic Arts, persons purchasing used copies of the relevant football video games, and Electronic Arts' employees, officers, directors, legal representatives, and wholly or partly owned subsidiaries or affiliated companies.</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">
</span><center style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">What Should I Do? (Getting Further Information)[/center]<div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">If you believe that you may be a class member (see above "Who Are Class Members"), you should get more detailed information about the class action and its potential effect on you and your rights. Further information can be obtained by going to the following website:www.easportslitigation.com. Additional information about the lawsuit may be obtained from Plaintiffs' Counsel website atwww.hbsslaw.com, or by calling Plaintiffs' Counsel at<a value="+12066237292" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); ">1-206-623-7292</a>.</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">
</span><center style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">To Remain a Class Member[/center]<div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">If you are a class member and you do nothing, you will be bound by the court's rulings in the lawsuit, including any final Settlement or Judgment.</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">
</span><center style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">To Exclude Yourself from the Class[/center]<center style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">(Deadline to Request Exclusion: June 25, 2011)[/center]<div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">If you are a class member and you want to exclude yourself from the class and keep your right to sue Defendant, you must take further action before June 25, 2011. By that date, you must request exclusion in writing to this address:</div><center style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Electronic Arts Litigation Exclusion
P.O. Box 8090
San Rafael CA 94912-8090

Or submit a request for exclusion electronically at the following website:www.easportslitigation.com

For further information about excluding yourself from the class go to the following website:
www.easportslitigation.com

Please do not telephone or address inquiries to the Court.
April 6, 2011. By Order of the U.S. District Court (N.D. Cal. - Oakland Div.).[/center]<center style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">
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[/center]<center style="text-align: left;border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">This doesn't have anything to do with the lawsuit that HBO alluded to. It must be a bad year for EA. How many times do you think they have been sued for **** like this? If this has gone as far as they are forced to email their customers, I would say this one has a real chance to cost them a lot of money.[/center]

 

[MeridianDog]

Definition of a class action?

The law firm makes all the money. The class gets $1.39 each.

Lawyers do this all the time. They make BooCoo bucks doing this stuff. I think there is a class in Law School titled "How to makeenough to buy a Condoin a Class Action Suit." Graduate level course is titled "Making your Learjet payments the easy Class Action Suit way."

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

<font class="Apple-style-span" size="1">*you will only get payment if it exceeds $5. Otherwise, the money will go to the lawyers, along with the 50% they are already taking.</font>

 

[TXDawg.sixpack]

So, we as purchasers of the product were "overcharged" because of the agreements EA made with the NFL, NCAA, etc. First, I call BS. If you thought the price was too high, DON"T BUY THE GAME!! Second, IF we were overcharged, what's the potential "damage" for each purchaser? MAYBE $5.

So, these jackass lawyers file a massive class action suit with ten million "plaintiffs" (everyone who bought the game and didn't opt out of the class action suit). The total judgement against EA ends up being $50 million. The class action lawyers take home $12.5 million, each plaintiff gets $3.75, and we all get to pay even more for EA games in the future.

And people wonder why consumer goods costs keep escalating.

I'm sick of this crap.

 

[Seinfeld]

how EA got away with this. If you remember back around 2005, NFL2K and all the other 2K sports games had not only caught EA, but they were passing them by in some genres. Then, they go with a brilliant marketing move of selling all new titles for $20 in order to flood the market, and it was looking like NFL2K was going to leave Madden in the dust. This was all happening while fans were complaining that EA wasn't making any effort to actually upgrade its games each year. They were just changing the year of the title, updating the rosters, and shipping the same game year after year while charging the same price. So what does EA do? They buy the exclusive rights to NFL and NFLPA licensing for video games, essentially shutting down the competition. If this wasn't a monopolistic move, I don't know what the hell is.

 

[NashvilleBulldawg]

nm

 

[615dawg]

Gamebreaker '99 was so much better than EA Sports NCAA Football.

About 8 of us took all 112 or so teams (whatever it was at the time) and drew them out of a hat and played a tournament. It lasted 2 weeks and we played for hours every night. Dozens of classes were skipped over that stretch and Papa John's could have just delivered our order every night.

 

[patdog]

TXDawg[/b]]The total judgement against EA ends up being $50 million. The class action lawyers take home $12.5 million, each plaintiff gets $3.75, and we all get to pay even more for EA games in the future.

More like the lawyers take home $16.7M plus expenses, so probably at least $20M. Then the lawyers will start suing each other over what their share of the $20M is. Seriously, I've seen that happen many times.

* - Unless, of course Azzuri or lawdawg02 were handling the case. In that case, the lawyers would behave ethically.

 

[Mr Meoff]

Bo Jackson was the ( .)(. )

 

[FlabLoser]

[No message]

 

[PBRME]

Tecmo Super Bowl was the greatest. My college roommate and I would take on other dorm members. 2 people on each team. Before starting you decide who plays offense and who plays defense. Winner gets beer money. I couldn't be beat playing offense with Randal Cunningham.

 

[Paperdawg]

At action townhouses. Wore out some Sega controllers

 

[jackstefano]

And people wonder why consumer goods costs keep escalating.

I'm sick of this crap.

Other than gas, **** I buy actually seems to be getting a lot cheaper. Case in point, I paid $700 for a 27" TV in 1991. A few weeks ago I spend around $300 on a 32" flat screen at Sams. Sams and its ilk have made for more economical buying across the board. To your specific point, video games, when adjusted for inflation, cost about half of what they did in the '80s. So I'm not quite sure what the hell you're talking about but I'd like to open up the floor here for you to explain. The primary CPI driver right now is gas.

 

[LTblows]

for price fixing cds. "We" won, and I received my $4.32 check. That totally made up for the 80+ cds I had accumulated by that time.

 

[HighLifeRebel]

get in the way of a good anti-lawyer/entitlement-mentality rant.

 

[Seinfeld]

As far as college football goes, NCAA '03 was the game for us but your tournament brings back many memories of a Goldeneye, SplinterCell, and a lot of football tournaments. One of the best memories I have was of a friend who would only play NCAA '03 if the difficulty settings were turned all the way down and he could beat teams 180-0. When he was at class one day, we adjusted all the settings in his career mode and I'll never forget him running his first play that afternoon when a defensive end blew right past his line and sacked his QB. It took him about 15 minutes to realize that anything had been done and those 15 minutes of cussing and controller tossing were classic.

 

[TXDawg.sixpack]

The entitlement mentality is the stupid woman who though McDonald's owed her millions of dollars because she spilled her coffee in her lap.

What part of my post did you not understand? If you don't like the game, or the price, or EA's business practices, then don't buy it!! But if you do buy it, don't come back crying later that you were somehow duped into spending too much money on it.

Like previous posters have said, this lawsuit isn't about recovering compensation for the poor, hapless consumers who bought the game. It's an obviousmoney grab by greedy lawyers. If you can't see that, I can't help you.</p>

 

[615dawg]

A certain future aerospace engineer won with Florida State. I was not involved past the quarterfinals.

We drew it out where everyone had a first round opponent. If in future rounds you were matched up with a team that you owned, you could pick the team you advanced.

I remember that Mississippi State was drawn into a bye, and they played Texas A&M in their first game. The worst player had State and the best had Texas A&M. It was a blowout.

 

[HighLifeRebel]

First,http://nafoom.yuku.com?topic=37923<div>
</div><div>Second, anti-lawyer/entitlement-mentality arguments usually go hand in hand and are based on the same faulty logic.</div><div>
</div><div>My post was in reply to his post which was in reply to your post that the price of consumer goods was going up. He stated that the price of consumer goods have actually gone down over the past two decades, and, whatever increase there may be, isn't related to lawsuits, but to the price of oil. His post, using facts and logic, proved wrong your post, an incoherent and unsupported anti-lawyer rant.</div><div>
</div><div>I'm sure your knowledge of the underlying facts of this case, the applicable law, and the purpose of class action lawsuits is as a well researched and thorough as your understanding of the price of consumer goods, in which case, you're probably just as wrong.</div>

 

[boomboommsu]

EA broke the law. Why do you feel they are entitled to a pass?

If EA didn't like California's laws, they didn't have to sell games there. But they didn't want to pass up that market. So they broke the law, and they got caught.