quote:Original post by Oluseyi
Unfortunately, some players don''t participate in such collective bargaining agreements, such as Michael Jordan (you may remember editions of NBA Live that had "player 24" for the Chicago Bulls) and now Barry Bonds (MVP Baseball 2004 will not feature Bonds).

A nit, but Michael Jordan''s jersey number was "23".

Very minor, but you can get a couple bucks from web-site ad revenue. Though at the moment I can''t really think of a single major game developer or publisher that does that.

> If the idea is to work out the realistic ones then
> items such as hardware sales aren''t really relevant.

From a strict contract software developer case, hardware sales are indeed irrelevent. But you can have a The Simpsons or LOTR-themed cellphone with the corresponding game preloaded on it. I''ve seen a ''The Matrix'' phone at GDC last week. That depends on your definition of ''game company'', so yes I''m stretching that definition to include publishers as well.

-cb