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

[RedSoxFox7]

Quote: Originally Posted by NCoffey

"For starters, the scholarships don't actually cost the schools anything. You're talking about 90 additional students among tens of thousands. The schools aren't hiring extra professors or building extra lecture halls for a fraction of a percent of their student body. Simply having these kids enrolled makes zero difference to their bottom line as far as the scholarship is concerned. It doesn't matter if it's BC at $60K/yr or UF at $20K/yr for a normal student, giving a scholarship to 90 football players isn't really costing the school any money. Room & board at somewhere around $10K-$15K/yr has some real costs involved, but it's also got a ton of markup involved. I'm not sure where you went to school, but I've never heard of a single school where it wasn't considerably cheaper to live off campus and buy real food from grocery stores. So, real costs, maybe $7500/yr? That's really not a lot of money, especially when you consider the earning potential being denied by NCAA regs." Tapatalk won't let me do a proper quote... But this scenario is only taking 1 sport into account. Title IX wouldn't allow for just football players to get paid, it would have to be across all sports. Then you'll have non athletes looking for handouts too, think about those kids who's GPA brings up the overall GPA of the school...would it be wrong for them to get compensated outside of their scholarship. I really could care less about college students/athletes getting paid. I'm definitely going to miss college sports games. Glad I have CH 2K8 and will keep NCAA 14 til something changes.

Like I said, none of that matters if the schools aren't paying the kids. None of this matters if the NCAA simply allows the kids to get paid through endorsements, licensing, autograph signings, etc.

[Gronk4M13]

I considered trading in NCAA 14 last month, but decided not to. Looks like I made the right choice.

[RedSoxFox7]

Quote: Originally Posted by bkrich83

To further that people aren't factoring in things like Title IX. So if you're going to start paying players, it's not going to be football players only . Not to mention the labor/Tax/Benefits laws that now come in to affect since the players would be actual employees of the school. Any notion that players are somehow going to get paid, is simply fantasy.

Absolutely none of this matters in the context of video games.

If the NCAA would lift their asinine restriction on athletes making money, the kids could license their likeness directly to EA and we'd have new games.

No Title IX, no school employees, no changes in federal funding of schools, no changes in tax law, nothing along these lines.

The only significant change that might occur is players having licensing deals with their own schools so the schools can sell player merch.

[bkrich83]

Quote: Originally Posted by RedSoxFox7

Absolutely none of this matters in the context of video games. If the NCAA would lift their asinine restriction on athletes making money, the kids could license their likeness directly to EA and we'd have new games. No Title IX, no school employees, no changes in federal funding of schools, no changes in tax law, nothing along these lines. The only significant change that might occur is players having licensing deals with their own schools so the schools can sell player merch.

I agree, if it could be controlled. The problem is once you start allowing kids to accept money they become open to outside influences. That's a major concern imo. Also how do the schools and the programs protect their IP's in the process as well? Who regulates this?

I am not opposed to this in theory, but the logistics and the possible repercussions of outside influences would make me nervous.

Also with the added complexity and where NCAA games fall in the profit tier, I doubt EA would even think it worth the added effort that would come with an added complexity of individual player licensing.

[KyyMon87]

Lucky you who can get this game, i was having high hopes to finally get to play NCAA Football in the future, XBox One being region free and all. No reason for me to buy new box then. Damn you EA, why you didn't release 14 in Europe :/

[coogrfan]

Quote: Originally Posted by RedSoxFox7

Like I said, none of that matters if the schools aren't paying the kids. None of this matters if the NCAA simply allows the kids to get paid through endorsements, licensing, autograph signings, etc.

So I'm clear: you're advocating junking the current structure of college athletics for a system that will only benefit the top 1-2% of players?

No offense, but that's ridiculous. Either every player needs to receive some form of compensation or none should.

[EMbow513]

Good the game sucks anyways

[stoncold32]

Quote: Originally Posted by JerseySuave4

Not surprised by this 1 bit. Didn't buy the game the past 2 years because I was tired of buying a mediocre game and I wasn't expecting much for this on Next Gen with all the teams & conferences backing out of licensing deals but maybe once college players start getting paid we'll see a return of this. I'm disappointed a little because of how much I used to play NCAA and how I grew up playing it but honestly i'm not really that upset because of how mediocre the game was on the current gen and how bad the developing team was. I'm glad i'll never have to watch Ben sell us on a mediocre game again that's for sure.

Pretty much the way I feel.

EA has been stealing money for the majority of this gen with a sub par product.

I'm a fan of this series since the 90s, but I gave up on buying this game last year.