OS Roundtable: NCAA Football's Future Edition

[RaychelSnr]

After last week's news of the NCAA and EA parting ways and EA's subsequent renewal of the CLC license seemingly securing college football's digital future, should fans be worried about what comes next?

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[BizDevConglomerate]

I may delusional, but I don't see why this matters. Backbreaker showed the world that you don't agreements to have the team's, leagues logos etc to have an awesome game. I see it that, whoever produces the next game can use a teambuilder option and mimic the leagues. I. E. Create a football game that can be whatever league according to the amount of teams, divisions, and postseason. This way we can have a game that gives us COLLEGE, CFL, ARENA, AND EVEN HIGH SCHOOL.

I play college to export rosters to the NFL, but this can also be accomplished by using dlc add-ons, or by creating agreements with EA fir madden or who ever else makes a game.

What this would mean is, there would take more creativity and effort to innovate and do something great. Push the envelop.

I dont want to imply they aren't using a strong effort, but this last ncaa edition needs to be the last. They added physics from madden, the shoes are the same, they added gloves, and cutscenes, ultimate team is ok, the sky looks good, and dynasty is ok. But after a week, it's still dry. The amount of time it takes to change accessories is still too long

[JLoco11]

In the long run, the NCAA trademark will mean little... nothing more than an add in so that EA would get access to March Madness.

As long as college football remains profitable, EA will produce it. When the game no longer becomes profitable, then it will be time to worry

[BadAssHskr]

I obviously don't have any clue how this ruling is all going to play out and effect the future for us.

But for whatever reason, i'm excited about the NCAA dropping off. I don't know what it is, but coming out on next gen, and new name, i'm kind of optimistic for good things.

[LastExit]

I think Robert Kollars has it right - we need to be patient and see how this lawsuit (expected to go to court next year, I think) plays out before we begin to be real concerned about the future of the CFB franchise.

What does concern me is what EA may do to shield themselves from future litigation. Sure, they have random rosters in the retail version but what does concern me is them making a move like disabling the ability for the user to edit the rosters - that way they could claim that their game bears no likeness to real players and even the users can't do it on their own. Again, we need to be patient and see how this plays out but I wouldn't fault EA for being proactive to protect themselves.

[thinkjoey]

I like the NCAA gameplay...but I love it even more knowing that I can export the draft classes to Madden

That way I have two games to play until next year. Easier to stay interested.

With that said...I doubt it will affect anything besides the name of the game and in game ads

[lord_mike]

I don't understand why EA isn't arguing first amendment. They won their case against Jim Brown using just that argument. It's OK to "paint" a picture of a celebrity and sell it without the permission of the person you painted, if you look at the history of case law. Why are video games any different?

[sportzbro]

Quote: Originally Posted by BadAssHskr

I obviously don't have any clue how this ruling is all going to play out and effect the future for us. But for whatever reason, i'm excited about the NCAA dropping off. I don't know what it is, but coming out on next gen, and new name, i'm kind of optimistic for good things.

Yea, I would have to agree. I feel that, overall, it's going to open the doors up for a lot of creativity without the constraints of the NCAA... That is, if the dev. team gives us the proper tools to create & edit on next gen.