But this time around, no dice. “In the end, however, EA couldn’t see their way towards collaborating again,” blogged Brian Ekberg from developer Turn 10.
“We’ve asked our contacts at EA to reconsider their position frequently and regularly over the last 18 months,” he continued. “We also reached out to various influential people in gaming to lobby on our behalf, and on your behalf, but that was to no avail.”
As Ekberg explained, Turn 10 has the exclusive right to Ferraris on the Xbox and PC, but works with other companies as not to prevent players from being able to drive the cars.
“While we respect EA’s need to run their business as they see fit, we’ve regularly collaborated in the past and hope we can find our way back to that approach,” wrote Ekberg. Because it’s not only Turn 10 who are out 35 Porsche models in Forza, it’s players.
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Janek
Thursday, August 25, 2011 at 10:00 PM*Triple facepalm*
Cap'n Crunch
Thursday, August 25, 2011 at 10:07 PMThis is fucking terrible, I didn’t even know that cars could be licensed in games till now, but not letting other companies use them in their games? seriously EA? ya really starting to make my vagina very sandy as of lately
andy
Thursday, August 25, 2011 at 10:18 PMi just dont like EA they havent been nice since battlefield 2 and even then….
Steve
Thursday, August 25, 2011 at 10:35 PMPorsches weren’t in GT5 (as far as I recall). It’s just difficult getting their license.
Mr Waffle
Thursday, August 25, 2011 at 11:55 PMSo Forza 4 won’t have RUF, then? I thought the point of RUF being in GT/Forza was to dodge the whole Porsche licence thing…
PsyKoMunKy
Friday, August 26, 2011 at 1:17 AMForza 4 does have RUF – 4 or 5 cars I think, precisely as a means to sort of get around this licensing issue…
Mr Waffle
Friday, August 26, 2011 at 7:47 PMAh, that’s good. The way the article is written implies it won’t have RUF-
“The cars did appear in Forza 3, and featured RUFs, which are tuned, unmarked Porsches.
But this time around, no dice.”
codework
Thursday, August 25, 2011 at 11:57 PMPerhaps some of the blame should be laid at the feet of the car makers who allow their brands to be licensed exclusively in the first place?
Lucas
Friday, August 26, 2011 at 6:17 AMGuys we also need to think from EA’s perspective. Forza didnt allow EA to have Ferraris in Shift 2 and Hot Pursuit. SO why the heck would EA let them have Porsche
THXultra
Friday, August 26, 2011 at 8:31 AMWhat about Ferraris in Outrun Online Arcade, hey Turn 10?! But, I cant stay mad at you, look at that punim.
SC
Friday, August 26, 2011 at 3:09 PMFor a second there I thought that was Jazz from Transformers.