Purchased rosters bring touch of reality to games

Two of Electronic Arts' most popular sports franchises are Madden and NCAA Footballl; however, the Madden franchise has licensed permission from the NFL to use player names and likeness, whereas the NCAA prohibits this.

(Credit: EA)

For anyone that wants to make the game experience as true to real life as possible, it would take a lot of time to input all your team's roster information by hand.

However, there is an alternative, a company called Gamerosters provides you three ways to import the real life players name into the game.

• A mail in service--where you send in your memory card and they add the rosters to it, for $20


• Purchase a new card from Gamerosters with the rosters. The prices are: PS3 (USB Memory Stick) $39.95, Xbox 360 Memory Card $44.95, and the PS2 Memory card $36.95


• Download the roster. Prices are: PS3 $11.95, Xbox 360, $13.95, and PS2 $11.95.

According to the Chicago Tribune, the company was founded by 25-year-old Brian Kaldenberg who launched Gamerosters from his dorm room at Iowa State University in 2004. It is expected to bring in about $200,000 in revenue this year against $70,000 in expenses simply by putting names to virtual faces.

[gr8estg8r]

This is THE ABSOLUTE WASTE OF MONEY!!!!! As of this year's game you can download roster's from anyone so long as you have their gamertag for xbox360, I am sure it works for the Playstation as well, but I don' t own one so I am not sure. In the past this was great, and some places like fkrosters.com you could download for free if you had a memory card, but now you can get them from free through the game. One of the game developers from EA has gone on record as saying you could download his roster and it has the full roster of every team in game. His gamertag for xbox360 is Pastapadre. You download through the ea locker room. Please don't anyone pay for roster.

[Roy2115]

Will there be a service in Madden so that you don' t have to purchase the game every year if you are only concerned about up-to-date rosters?

[22mojom22]

Of course not. EA employees need to eat too.

[black80firebird]

As a Playstation 3 owner, I can confirm that rosters for the NCAA Football 09 are available from a variety of sources. Also, owners who are not connected online (through the Playstation network) can download the rosters from other websites and upload them to their PS3.