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

[barsoffury]

This sucks. Hopefully down the line (3,4,5 years, whatever it takes) things will get sorted out and we'll get NCAA football back.... But then again who knows. Sad day.

Maybe we'll see an additional patch or two for this last version.

[thunderstruck81]

I'm just hoping Madden 15 will take a page from NBA2K's book and add in editable draft classes. Would allow us to create the next crop of rookies and have them be able to be drafted into Madden.

Would also like EA to end with a bang for NCAA 14. Maybe give us a DLC playoff game mode, give us every uniform used for every team this year, give us a patch that includes App State, GA Southern, Charlotte and possibly give us the FCS teams with just random, generic rosters. All of this is definitely wishful thinking, but wouldn't that be great if EA ended the NCAA Series with a bang.

[maddenmaster]

GAMERS UNITED!!!!

[laxman490]

hahahaha to all the people not wanting to somehow compensate some players. this is what happens.

but it really does suck.

[ApolloKids]

2k won.

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[guitar4468]

I still dont understand why they couldn't just make the rosters random from the get go and do not give the option to edit players, this would kill the issue at hand. I really don't care what players are on what team at the start, by year four all the names are gone. Sad day indeed.

[superjames1992]

Quote: Originally Posted by canesfins

The one positive I can think of in this situation is like others have said, At least now I'll be able to go deeper than ever in a dynasty.

Yep.

That's one thing that I "liked" about CH 2K8's discontinuation. I would have never made it 20 years into dynasty (playing every single game), otherwise. Hell, I'm still playing it (though I've not played the game in a few months).

[pietasterp]

Yep, this was the logical next domino in light of recent events...

Quote: Originally Posted by pietasterp

Well, it's been a fun 20+ years of sports gaming, but it looks like we're headed into some dark times ahead for the sports gaming scene...

From the thread about the B1G and PAC-12 dropping out (a month ago)....so now we have no college sports games, one NFL game, one NBA game, one hockey game, and depending on your system of choice, 2 or 1 (effectively zero this year) baseball games. Has there been less variety/choice in the sports gaming world since the days of the original NES???

As much as I disliked the way EA football played out on the field, I was hoping for another product to compete with it, not for the only one we had to go away.

Good thing the non-sports games keep getting better and better to fill the void.