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

[bowld]

Quote: Originally Posted by majesty95

We don't have to sit idly by and watch our favorite game go by the wayside. I've created a list of contacts and a petition to the NCAA and EA. Sign it, share it, contact them. Let your voices be heard!

Not worth your time. If it was part of the settlement you can forget about it

[Crimsontide27]

There was never a plan to continue NCAA onto Next Gen from the beginning. All efforts have been focused elsewhere for sometime now. Everyone involved knew this for quite some time.

[coogrfan]

Well, there goes any reason I might have had for ever buying a next-gen console. No cfb game, no coogrfan.

[slick1ru2]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKcAYMb5uk4

[kjcheezhead]

EA has been hit hard by lawsuits this year. The silver lining in this situation is that losing NCAA football hurts EAs bottom line and could lessen the money they need for the NFL license. We may be one step closer to a 2k Nfl game.

I have never been a college fan over the NFL and personally won't miss this title, I am however a big football fan in general. Having only madden for video game football is the worst thing I could imagine in my lifetime.

[Buckeye_Mafia]

Well this sucks. Can't say I'm surprised once the conferenes pulled out. My question is, if a video game exploits the student athelete and their likeness, how does having them on TV commercials, advertisements, and TV not do the same as they aren't being paid for those things. What's next? O'Bannon and his team gonna try to make sure no college sports game is ever aired on TV? Looks like I won't be buying another EA Sports title. Madden is fun, but the recruiting in NCAA Football is WAY better than scouting / draft in Madden...R.I.P. NCAA Football

[Dogslax41]

Quote: Originally Posted by Buckeye_Mafia

Well this sucks. Can't say I'm surprised once the conferenes pulled out. My question is, if a video game exploits the student athelete and their likeness, how does having them on TV commercials, advertisements, and TV not do the same as they aren't being paid for those things. What's next? O'Bannon and his team gonna try to make sure no college sports game is ever aired on TV? Looks like I won't be buying another EA Sports title. Madden is fun, but the recruiting in NCAA Football is WAY better than scouting / draft in Madden...R.I.P. NCAA Football

Yes. Tv rights is their next target. The NCAA open this can of worms, they are going to have to deal with it.

[jyoung]

Interesting quote from the plaintiffs' attorney, Eugene Egdorf:

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoot...ible-for-money

Quote:

"I'm disappointed in [the cancellation], because there should be a game. All that has to happen is the NCAA allow players to be paid and there would be a game. This is Step 1 to players being paid that should. There will be players who play Saturday who should be paid [for their services] as they should be.”