College Players "Want Their Game Back"

[malky]

I have no doubt a college football game will be back. IMHO the new playoff will be huge and schools and companies are all going to want to take advantage. Money to make always helps move situations quicker

Time wise? Thinking 3rd year into new playoff system ... Probably NCAA 17

[JMD]

I have a feeling we will be waiting for this game just as long as we have been waiting for 2K football to return. I'm not getting my hopes up.

[Junior Moe]

This is a very encouraging development and is playing out exactly as I hoped. While nothing is official, it seems the wheels are in motion for a return of NCAA football at some point down the line. The game will be made exponentially better by including the real players. With their real strengths, weaknesses, likeness, and "style". Couple that with the improvements the Madden team is currently making with the football engine and we may be in for a treat when/if NCAA returns. After initially hating O'Bannon (while conceding he was right on the merits) I'm thinking he did us a favor in the long term.

[Junior Moe]

Quote: Originally Posted by MichaelAngeloTMNT

Ya, there prb won't be a NCAA Football 16, but I can see them creating the game behind closed doors until this likeness mess gets straightened out, then adding the schools and players real quick. Pretty cool that we are going to get real NCAA players now. Hopefully they will put out a basketball game too.

In a dream world EA would handle NCAA football and 2K would jump back into the fold with College Hoops. NCAA football 14 was gem and it beats Madden 25 on the XB1 for me. I would love to see EA continue that on the XB1/PS4. A College Hoops game on par with NBA 14! What! Imagine a MyPlayer mode focused on your college career, then taking that player to the league.

[BSchwartz07]

Quote: Originally Posted by Iceman87GT

Not unless they have been developing it behind closed doors. The earliest we'll see a new game is for the '16 cycle, even if the votes were to go down quickly and everything were to be approved the earlies they could get next-gen game out would be sometime in the spring, which at that point you might as well spend the rest of the time developing and release it in July. As for the charge that a game could not be successful with only the Power 5... If the customization aspect that they wanted to include for College Football 15 were included that part of the game could easily be outsourced to the fans (much like we handled the creation of FCS teams, and naming rosters for community use). And that is a scenario in which only the Power-5 would strike a deal to be included in the game (plenty of smaller schools would be more than willing to have themselves included). The reason why there isn't an NCAA 15 largely has to do with the leap to Next Gen; they were going to have to develop a new game for Next Gen consoles, if all they had to do was create a new iteration for PS3/360 they would have done so even without Ohio State (the team rumored to have been missing), and the exclusion of the Pac-12 licensing and B1G licensing (they still had the SEC for one more year thanks to the way the contract was structured that prevented them from pulling there licensing from '15 even though they wanted to). They were basically going to have to spend a lot of resources creating a new game that would only be released once and then shelved for the likely future (its hypothetical that they could have made money off of the first entry on PS4/XB1, but odds are they would be counting on future releases to make the time and money spent on developing new assets for next-gen worth it). The NCAA franchise was a winning proposition for the schools involved (even if they were to split the money they received for licensing with the players), it wasn't until they were possibly facing litigation in relation to granting player likenesses that schools started to pull out. EA and the schools were put in a hard place thanks to the structure of the NCAA, they can't compensate the players without violating NCAA rules, schools would still sign on if they had to split up the money with their student athletes.

I agree that it would most likely be a 2016 release, but never underestimate EA's ability to just release last year's game with a new cover on the front if this were to pass quickly (although I know it won't)

[Mos1ted]

Do we really need real players in a college football game, though? Just give me real teams, uniforms, and conferences, and I couldn't care less if the players were real or not, by name or by jersey number and physical attributes.

[baseballphanatic]

all i know is that if/when they first announce a game is being made ppl r gonna go crazy! but ya a '16 game is unlikely....prob '17....lets remember a '16 game would mean theyd probably need to start work now considering the new systems...

[XxJustAguessxX]

Quote: Originally Posted by Junior Moe

This is a very encouraging development and is playing out exactly as I hoped. While nothing is official, it seems the wheels are in motion for a return of NCAA football at some point down the line. The game will be made exponentially better by including the real players. With their real strengths, weaknesses, likeness, and "style". Couple that with the improvements the Madden team is currently making with the football engine and we may be in for a treat when/if NCAA returns. After initially hating O'Bannon (while conceding he was right on the merits) I'm thinking he did us a favor in the long term.

You shouldn't "hate" the man, dislike is a better word. I hope a game comes out of this.