EA Sports Will Not Publish College Football Game Next Year, Future Plans in Doubt

[herropreese]

Quote: Originally Posted by moose1234

I remember when All this drama first started a few months ago and I said it was over and all these amateur lawyers said I was crazy ... I'll accept my apology now .. That being said this sucks

Hooray, you were right!


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[Perfect Zero]

No more sticking heads in the sand; this game was done a long time ago. I was hoping for some sort of next gen game, but we all knew that this was coming one way or another. I would like the see the Bowl Bound series get an update; seems to me that text based games are the better games now-a-days (except for the Show, which could be facing pressure from EA in the future).

[jyoung]

Quote: Originally Posted by Freakydeaky9

Hard to say, I still believe college basketball games were highly profitable. They haven't made one of those in 5+ years.

College Hoops 2K8 sold about 250,000 copies combined on PS3 and 360.

NCAA Basketball 10 sold about 500,000 copies combined on PS3 and 360.

Poor sales plus high licensing costs are the reasons neither game is made anymore.

[nortobc]

Quote: Originally Posted by blkrptnt819

Because they really can't make any money off of it anymore they would just shut down the equipment and save the operating cost.

Good point.

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[xcef2005]

Pretty crappy news although the last NCAA game I purchased was the '11 Edition. Maybe I'll have to pop it in and start working on some future rosters or get '14 and start from there. The only positive that I can think of that comes from this is perhaps now Madden will have no choice but to include editable draft classes that we can make ourselves.

[thunderstruck81]

While I am disappointed that the series looks like it won't be making another game for a while, there is still hope for it possibly returning someday. If the NCAA loses their lawsuit against O'Bannon & company, and are forced to start paying college athletes, I see them reaching out to EA to try and split the expense of paying the athletes and voila! We get college video games again. Really nobody knows how the O'Bannon vs. NCAA case is going to go down. After this announcement today, I'm kind of rooting for the courts to rule in favor of O'Bannon over the NCAA and paying athletes, just so we can see not only NCAA Football return, but potentially NCAA Basketball/Baseball. It's a long shot, but we'll see once O'Bannon vs. NCAA goes to court, no pun intended.

[bad_philanthropy]

I miss college sports games.

[maddenmaster]

Wow definitely crazy to hear. Never been a big fan of EA NCAA football but I'm glad I did pick it up a month ago.