IGN have posted a selection of the thousands of letters they say they have received since the announcement of the
EA-NFL pact on Monday. Amongst the selection is the following comment : "Having multiple developers for a genre of games boosts innovation across the entire genre. One developer's creative spark forces other developers to come up with their own innovations, and the cycle continues. Whether or not you like the feature or its implementation, it is difficult to argue that ESPN's VIP profile system is not a great and novel innovation to the football genre of games. I was looking forward to seeing what additional refinements to the existing system and new innovations the team at SEGA had in store for us in the coming year. Likewise, I was curious to see how
EA responded to the innovation that the VIP system introduced." Thought provoking... read more at
IGN.
