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

[tarheelguy4736]

This is an excerpt from the ESPN article:

"EA Sports provided athletic departments with more licensing royalties than any other non-apparel licensee, according to data released by CLC."

I wonder how much royalties they paid to the athletic departments of all the schools. For schools like Bama, Ohio State, and Notre Dame this may not mean much but to the lower tier schools this may be significant as that was basically free money to their department to have their school in the game. It seems this lawsuit did more harm than good. Yes, I believe the student-athletes should have a right to make money while in school (either by having a job, signing with a marketing agency, etc) but the NCAA doesn't allow that which I dont see as being fair as you are taking someone's right away of trying to make money. To me, the NCAA is the most to blame for this. It sucks we wont have a game but I hope this puts the NCAA in check and someone starts monitoring them. I feel there may not be an NCAA as a whole in the next 10 years because of all of this. Only time will tell.

[daabsolute1]

So no more NCAA Countdown threads...*sadness*

[NDAlum]

Quote: Originally Posted by NDAlum

To me this screams of "EA is going to lose that lawsuit" and we are out! No more college games makes me sad

I posted this when I first heard the NCAA was pulling their name and people were quick to call me out and say I was wrong.

You all can go kick rocks

[Peacefrog]

Quote: Originally Posted by poster

It's too bad for the people who like the game, but I am glad to see EA get hit hard by this. Hopefully the costs they have to pay out will be plenty, forcing them to rethink their awful business strategy of buying licenses and exclusively and putting out half-you know what games. EA Sports is just as pathetic and disgusting as the NCAA is. EA football games have been a disgrace this generation. Bug filled messes, no innovation, and no interest in actually replicating the actual sport of football. Modes are weak and poorly throughout and implemented. Just a comedy of errors, year after year. It sucks if people lose jobs, but with a product this poor some of them should. Whether that's the suits or the devs, something has to change. I doubt it will though, and don't have much faith for gen 4, unless other companies also make football games. Probably not worth it to make a college game though, with all of this going on. If they somehow changed the way they did things and came back in the future with a real football game based on football, that would be cool. Big time if though. Sorry to all that liked the game.

Please. They're going to update the rosters and change the lighting elements by 15% and call it Madden 2015. They're going to continue to release crappy DLC's and expansions for SW:ToR, and they'll keep mutilating all the great games that BioWare has established. And because gamers are lazy, they'll keep eating this crap up, and complain about it being bad...again. And EA will keep making money.

It's not that EA has poor business strategy. It's that they can use poor business tactics and still make a profit. "Hey Gearbox, check this out. I literally put $50 into developing the new Madden, and it sold half a million copies the first day! Can you believe these idiots?"

[AUChase]

With as many people as I see complaining and nitpicking every single little detail down to a thread that was stitched wrong on a jersey, I'm honestly surprised so many people are disappointed.

Also.. this won't magically improve Madden any more. It's just going to cost a lot of people their job. If there's a chance of EA having to pay up to thousands, there's no way they will keep the entire staff employed and just shift resources.

I'm disappointed because I felt like 2014 was a serious improvement and it erased a lot of my concerns and turn offs from NCAA 13.

You can't tell me someone in Southern California wasn't putting some money into O'bannon's pockets back then either.. I'm sure he feels real exploited.

The whole thing is a god damn joke IMO. Half the players in NCAA don't even look like their real life counterpart. Just think about the amount of jersey numbers that change and then the roster makers in the community have to edit. The only confirmed real life counterparts are the guys who have been cover athletes or have been in special game modes like the Heisman challenge thing. I could go on and on..

I wish we could have just got one good next-gen NCAA game. The case couldn't have come to a head at worse time. We're all ready stuck in limbo with current gen consoles because of great games like Grand Theft Auto V, The Last of Us, and soon to be Beyond: Two Souls.

Now everyone will have to hang on to consoles for NCAA too..

[jayhawkfan11]

Quote: Originally Posted by loccdogg26

I read this over at PastaPadre and it pretty much breaks it down. "Roster Share was a fallback option". http://www.pastapadre.com/2013/09/26...uit#more-82662

Ya a "fallback option" that will no longer be viable in the future, which is basically the death penalty for this franchise. For those saying turning this game into a Teambuilder type game and allowing users to create teams, that "roster sharing" is now deemed illegal.

Kinda sucks but looks like I'll be playing out my 60 year dynasty and/or converting to Madden if they put out a decent game next year.

[BoomerSooner11]

The people who bitched and nitpicked the game every year are now disappointed because it was the only NCAA football game out there. Whether someone liked it or not is besides the fact, it was the only college football game. Now there's nothing. IMO, there's been some years where I played NCAA Football for a couple months then never played it again, other years I played it for a full year plus some; I just never took it for granted because it's the only game out there where I could play with my favorite college teams. I don't know, whole thing sucks.

[aholbert32]

Quote: Originally Posted by jayhawkfan11

Ya a "fallback option" that will no longer be viable in the future, which is basically the death penalty for this franchise. For those saying turning this game into a Teambuilder type game and allowing users to create teams, that "roster sharing" is now deemed illegal. Kinda sucks but looks like I'll be playing out my 60 year dynasty and/or converting to Madden if they put out a decent game next year.

Roster sharing has not been deemed illegal. This was a settlement not a verdict. As Pasta Padre's article said, EA could keep Teambuilder alive and build a game around it but its not feasible because they would have to constantly monitor and pull down content that infringes copyrights.