@EASPORTSFIFA Petitioning UEFA, FA, BPL, DFB, DFL, Electronic Arts,
Konami
Stop exclusive License Monopolies: equally
shared Licenses for Football Games
The global economy is dependent on supply and
demand. Competition is good for business. We have
recognised that monopolies are prohibitive in their
effect on our technological advance and our
progress as a society.
Yet we allow big companies to monopolize certain
areas of our market by gaining exclusive rights for
major features of an economic sector. This leads to
worse sales for their market competition as the
competitors are not permitted to make use of these
industry-specific features and also to a worsened
end product.
In the branch of interactive football gaming software
this has resulted in a duopoly like situation in which
even then both competitors are not on even ground.
Other competition has no chance to enter the
market as new football simulations could not
portray any of the major European leagues due to
the existing exclusive licenses for the two main
products, Electronic Arts' FIFA and Konami's PES. A
new product would in almost any case interfere with
their partnerships with the UEFA, BPL, Bundesliga,
Serie A, Liga BBVA.
This does not only make new competition in the
market highly unlikely, it also holds back the two
main products themselves. In the past, present, and
future the fight for exclusive licenses between the 2
has been led aggresively and will probably continue
to do so. The more likely winner in this scenario is
EA who due to their superior funds could potentially
outbid Konami in most cases of licensing.
If EA manages to get even more exclusive licenses,
they will inflict heavy damage to Konami's PES
series, possibly eventually turning the market
situation into a monopoly. The limit in competition
then will ultimately have an extremely negative
impact on the customer who is not only provided
with less choices on the market but also a
qualitatively worsened product compared to what
would be possible in a competing industry.
Already today the customer does not get the full
football experience when buying either product as
the licensing issues prohibit some leagues and
competitions from being included into FIFA and PES.
For example:
- The Barclays Premier League and the Bundesliga
are exclusive to FIFA only
- The UEFA Champions League, the Copa
Libertadores, and the AFC Champions League are
exclusive to PES only
In the end it is us, the customers, who are the ones
suffering under these obscure, outdated, and unjust
market conditions and strategies by receiving less
while having to buy 2 products if we want everything.
The international football association FIFA (not the
eponymous EA game) uses the words
"MY GAME IS FAIR PLAY"
as their main slogan. How can the two biggest
football simulations in existance today overlook, or
actively disregard this. As long as both don't realise
this, neither product will simulate true football.
!!!FOR EQUALLY SHARED LICENSES BETWEEN FIFA,
PES, AND POSSIBLE OTHER MARKET
COMPETITORS!!!
(EA (Electronic Arts) recently has actively tried and
succeeded to obtain exclusive licenses with clubs of
leagues that are licensed in Konami's PES to further
hinder PES's development as a game. We must stop
the use of exclusive licenses to monopolize
interactive football gaming software as this is
shutting other existing and potential companies and
products out of the market!)
one customer is not important to big companies
BUT TOGETHER WE ARE MANY
LET OUR VOICE BE HEARD
FOR THE LOVE OF THE BEAUTIFUL GAME
LOVE FOOTBALL
- THE TRUE FANS
MY GAME IS FAIRPLAY
- SIGN AND SHARE THIS PETITION TO MAKE
SOMETHING HAPPEN!
UPDATES
Football Fan
Germany
m 2,887
Supporters
LETTER TO
UEFA, FA, BPL, DFB, DFL, Electronic Arts,
Konami
Stop exclusive License Monopolies: equally
shared Licenses for Football Games
The global economy is dependent on supply and
demand. Competition is good for business. We have
recognised that monopolies are prohibitive in their
effect on our technological advance and our
progress as a society.
Yet we allow big companies to monopolize certain
areas of our market by gaining exclusive rights for
major features of an economic sector. This leads to
worse sales for their market competition as the
competitors are not permitted to make use of these
industry-specific features and also to a worsened
end product.
In the branch of interactive football gaming software
this has resulted in a duopoly like situation in which
even then both competitors are not on even ground.
Other competition has no chance to enter the
market as new football simulations could not
portray any of the major European leagues due to
the existing exclusive licenses for the two main
products, Electronic Arts' FIFA and Konami's PES. A
new product would in almost any case interfere with
their partnerships with the UEFA, BPL, Bundesliga,
Serie A, Liga BBVA.
This does not only make new competition in the
market highly unlikely, it also holds back the two
main products themselves. In the past, present, and
future the fight for exclusive licenses between the 2
has been led aggresively and will probably continue
to do so. The more likely winner in this scenario is
EA who due to their superior funds could potentially
outbid Konami in most cases of licensing.
If EA manages to get even more exclusive licenses,
they will inflict heavy damage to Konami's PES
series, possibly eventually turning the market
situation into a monopoly. The limit in competition
then will ultimately have an extremely negative
impact on the customer who is not only provided
with less choices on the market but also a
qualitatively worsened product compared to what
would be possible in a competing industry.
Already today the customer does not get the full
football experience when buying either product as
the licensing issues prohibit some leagues and
competitions from being included into FIFA and PES.
For example:
- The Barclays Premier League and the Bundesliga
are exclusive to FIFA only
- The UEFA Champions League, the Copa
Libertadores, and the AFC Champions League are
exclusive to PES only
In the end it is us, the customers, who are the ones
suffering under these obscure, outdated, and unjust
market conditions and strategies by receiving less
while having to buy 2 products if we want everything.
The international football association FIFA (not the
eponymous EA game) uses the words
"MY GAME IS FAIR PLAY"
as their main slogan. How can the two biggest
football simulations in existance today overlook, or
actively disregard this. As long as both don't realise
this, neither product will simulate true football.
!!!FOR EQUALLY SHARED LICENSES BETWEEN FIFA,
PES, AND POSSIBLE OTHER MARKET
COMPETITORS!!!
(EA (Electronic Arts) recently has actively tried and
succeeded to obtain exclusive licenses with clubs of
leagues that are licensed in Konami's PES to further
hinder PES's development as a game. We must stop
the use of exclusive licenses to monopolize
interactive football gaming software as this is
shutting other existing and potential companies and
products out of the market!)
one customer is not important to big companies
BUT TOGETHER WE ARE MANY
LET OUR VOICE BE HEARD
FOR THE LOVE OF THE BEAUTIFUL GAME
LOVE FOOTBALL
- THE TRUE FANS
MY GAME IS FAIRPLAY
- SIGN AND SHARE THIS PETITION TO MAKE
SOMETHING HAPPEN!
UPDATES
Football Fan
Germany
m 2,887
Supporters
LETTER TO
UEFA, FA, BPL, DFB, DFL, Electronic Arts,