End Major League Baseball's Exclusivity Deal

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Year after year after year, the MLB 2k series from 2k Games gets worse and worse, not just aesthetically, but the lack of fluidity from defensive players and the many on the field errors, to the recent removal of the ability to edit players, it is clear that the recent drop off of quality is due to the lack of competition.

The company's own forums are currently overrun with complaints, and they are moving at a snail's pace to fix a litany of problems many people are having with this game series, and the company itself.

The reason this series get worse and worse every year is the exclusivity deal signed with the MLB. This means that there is no competition and ruining the quality of the product. This mainly effects XBOX 360 users, due to Sony's MLB the Show video game, exclusive to Sony's PlayStation consoles, which currently dominates sales for the Sony platforms.

Major League Baseball 2k9 is the last straw, we the undersigned ask you to please sign this petition complementing any letters sent to the MLB regarding this flawed game, and also pressure 2k Games to finally put out a product worthy of the steep price.

Obviously 2k Games doesn't care about the consumer, the MLB does, and we believe that with enough support, the MLB will take action and not renew, or better yet, rescind their exclusivity deal. The door can then open for competition, this is the only Major League Baseball game for the XBOX 360, and it is an atrocity to spend 60 dollars on a game that every year seems to get worse and worse.

We the consumers deserve better than this, let's strike this monopoly down and force a better game out of the Major League Baseball 2k series, and possibly allow a superior game to sprout from other publishers.

134 Signatures

  • Eric Foster
    • Comments
    • Please support us in our attempt to put out a decent baseball video game.
  • chris
    • Comments
    • MLB the Show is so much better.
  • Chris Dircks
  • Zachary Pienkowski
    • Comments
    • This is an absolute must
  • Ken Turley
  • alfredo peralta
    • Comments
    • please MLB take action with this situation))
  • roger fewel
    • Comments
    • Please allow for competition, 2ksports has ripped me off for the last time. 2k baseball games get worse and worse each year.
  • john
    • Comments
    • It would be good to have choices, i dont agree with monopoly of any kind.
  • Mike Z
  • Padraic Mahoney
    • Comments
    • For the last three years 2K sports has put out a very bug filled and extremely agravating game to play. They do not present a realistic representation of a MLB game due to these bugs and glitches. They need competition if not to push them to create a better game.
  • Reed Trachy
  • Sean Young
  • Jarrod Newton
  • Richard Landrum
    • Comments
    • Agree
  • Bostic Busby
    • Comments
    • for the sake of Mlb fans, please do something about 2k's lack of ability to create playable games
  • John Garrett
    • Comments
    • Mlb, the choice is yours, we ask you to pick your fan base.
  • Tommy Andrews
    • Comments
    • Down with 2k sports
  • alvaron48
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    • Definitely agree i would like that I TRULLY TEAM of EXPERIENCIE of making A GODD simulation BASEBALL GAME EA SPORTS...o r whatever just that do it VERY WELL whit litle glitches....because nothing in the life is perfect Ok
  • Hanz Markov
  • Santino Groves
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    • end the madness. bring competition back to the marketplace
  • Steven Simineri
    • Comments
    • fix 2k9
  • Michael
  • Mike DeMul
    • Comments
    • Give us a good baseball game please! Something on par with "The Show"
  • Jeff Tedder
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    • this monopoly is ruining sports games
  • Alex Lamb
  • Daniel Cappuccitti
    • Comments
    • I would like MLB to refund my money for supporting such a terrible and flawed game.
  • Matt
    • Comments
    • Get rid of the 2K deal
  • Lukas Knepfel
    • Comments
    • 2k is terrible, we need competition.
  • Nicholas Venezia
    • Comments
    • No more of these agreements period as consumers we should have a choice.
  • Steve M
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    • 2k had done a great job on 2k7, 2k8 was good to, but 2k9 is horrible. Graphics wise, the game looks great, but that is were it ends. Game play is not as good as last year and the amount of bugs this game came out with is insane.
  • Jeff Warnick
  • Richard Courtney
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    • I am tired of the garbage that you are allowing these developers to release and put MLB on it. Should be ashamed and embarassed!
  • Connor O'Meara
    • Comments
    • I want MVP Baseball back.
  • gabriel diaz
  • Theodore Griff
  • Jeremy Preston
    • Comments
    • Worst baseball game ever made
  • Kevin
    • Comments
    • Fix the game please
  • James Herald
  • Matt Percic
  • A. A. M.
  • Brooks Brown
  • kevin ryan
  • jason doucette
  • Bobly Mayer
  • Joe Schlabach
  • Brian Tate
    • Comments
    • Ditto for the NFL
  • James Hardwick
  • Casey Moore
    • Comments
    • No push = no progress
  • Bodhi Hill
  • Ryan MacDonald
    • Comments
    • there needs to be a change