EA Study Claims It Doesn't Use All College Likenesses in Video Games, Just Some

[Sundown2600]

I did not agree with most of what you wrote, but this is an excellent point on your part.

Quote: Originally Posted by thedudedominick

Even worse if they allow the schools to pay players based on the amount of money brought in it will widen the gap that already exists between the haves and have nots of the college sports world.

[Gap Integrity]

Quote: Originally Posted by bpd115

So say they win. Isn't the solution simply for EA to give us a built in powerful roster editor, but ship the game with computer generated rosters? Give a team an overall rating for Offense, Defense, etc. then let the computer generate the rosters to match that overall.

I agree, I've been saying a while that EA could have avoided this mess by making randomly generated rosters with randomly rated players out of the box. They would just have to rate them according to team ratings. They probably could have done this and settled with Mr. Keller &Co. and saved money and bad press. The only thing I would have wanted them to add if they implemented this would be a much deeper editing menu. Look to add much more equipment, duplicate #'s, faces, hair, and so on and so forth. Give us the option to edit the hometowns. Basically make the editing menu wide open. After you do that.... send myself, cparrish and all the roster guru's the game about 2 months early under the table..... just lock or limit gameplay to keep us working.

[kdye]

This is laughable because NO ONE bought any college basketball game for Ed O'Sh#tbannon. The guy is just trying to cash in when he deserves NOTHING. The real crime is that if his sh$t lawsuit is successful we will lose all college sports video games. He was an OK college player, a horrible NBA player and then the guy sold cars. There should be a march on this worthless guy"s home for being such a parasite. O'Sh$tbannon, you received a free college education and parlayed that into a promising car salesman career. Add insult to injury is the fact that there isn't even a college hoops game anymore. Go Way

[Herky]

O'Bannon and Keller both weren't good enough to stick in the pros so they have to try and make money this way.

What a couple of no talent hacks.

[ActLikeYouCrow]

i always felt this was a crappy argument when posters would use it as an excuse for ea not having accurate rosters. especially when the inaccuracies never seemed to hurt the traditional powers whose fanbase you would expect to be buying the most games. this is new territory, there was no legal line that made ea and the ncaa safe whether we're talking 25% completely accurate or 90% mostly accurate.

[loccdogg26]

What u guys fail to realize is that this lawsuit was coming of regardless of Keller's name is on there or not.

[loccdogg26]

Speaking of likeness issues: when throwback jerseys are sold who gets the money the school or the player? Didn't EA go through the same thing by putting retired players on Madden? Ie Jim Brown and others.

[Sundown2600]

Quote: Originally Posted by Herky

O'Bannon and Keller both weren't good enough to stick in the pros so they have to try and make money this way. What a couple of no talent hacks.

Herky this is not the root of the problem. You can diss O'Bannon and Keller all day and that's cool, but it's all about cause and effect. If the NCAA school presidents actually cared nearly as much about their student athletes as they did about making money for their respective schools and conferences a lot of the mess you are seeing today would not exist.

This Keller/ O'Bannon situation is a by-product of decades of mismanagement and incompetence on the part of the NCAA.