NFL Head Coach 09 Faceplate Giveaway

[SuperMonkeyHero]

Haven't seen this posted anywhere and I checked eBay for a picture but nothing came up. The guys over at xbox360achievements.org are running a contest where they are giving away four NFL Head Coach 09 Faceplates. If someone has seen them somewhere or owns one please add a picture to this post. Thanks guys!

[hellonearth159]

This is the plate:

[OBL infad3ll]

why is EA the only company that still makes faceplates? what happened to everybody else?

[JakofallAces]

why is EA the only company that still makes faceplates? what happened to everybody else?

no profit or interest

[OBL infad3ll]

no profit or interest

dang, also just got my hands on the new issue of OXM with spacy's article in it. i would have thought MS would have been making lots of money of faceplates, but i guess not.

[Variation-XBA]

why is EA the only company that still makes faceplates? what happened to everybody else?

Because it's a very VERY niche interest and usually not profitable (for store sellers)

[SpaceGhost2K]

EA makes them and gives them out for contests. Unfortunately, that means most peopel never even get an opportunity to get one. Add that to EA's seeming resistance to even telling people about them, and it's almost like they just shouldn't bother.

UbiSoft does lots of Tom Clancy plates, and Namco does quite a few. MS just did non-game plates to save royalty fees, and nobody wanted them. Rather than fix the problem, they just abandoned faceplates and license the IP's out to MadCatz.