Judge Rules In Favor of O'Bannon, NCAA Violates Anti-Trust Law

[loccdogg26]

There are over 300 NCAA Division 1 basketball teams. How did you come up with 144?

[xandermole25]

Quote: Originally Posted by dovuto86

The NCAA will pass the 5000 per player fee onto EA/2K and I doubt they will be willing to pay that

you realize a lot of schools really want to pay their players right? also the cap isn't allowed to be lower than $5,000 but if a school offers $1,000 or even nothing and the player accepts that is okay too... the only thing the NCAA can do is punish a team or player for spending/receiving less than $5,000

[Darkeus]

Quote: Originally Posted by dovuto86

but the NCAA will just pass that fee on to EA/2K and I doubt they are willing to pay that

Highly doubtful. It would come out of the revenue made from game sales and the schools. You are not reading that legal opinion correctly.

[dovuto86]

Quote: Originally Posted by loccdogg26

There are over 300 NCAA Division 1 basketball teams. How did you come up with 144?

yeah but not all 300 teams will be featured. I had college hoops 2k8 and there were only 144 teams in that game

[dovuto86]

Quote: Originally Posted by Darkeus

Highly doubtful. It would come out of the revenue made from game sales and the schools. You are not reading that legal opinion correctly.

It is still the same thing though because thats over 10 million dollars lost on the game a year by EA/2k just because they have to pay the players out of what the game made

[xandermole25]

Quote: Originally Posted by dovuto86

It is still the same thing though because thats over 10 million dollars lost on the game a year by EA/2k just because they have to pay the players out of what the game made

no it's not... players can be paid no matter whether or not a video game is made so the school's are going to love the revenue stream that is a video game

[barsoffury]

This is a big ruling and really a fair and positive one in my opinion but with appeals coming we are still a very long way away from NCAA video games coming back... The biggest thing is that we need the schools/conferences to jump back on board with EA or whoever before games are made again.

[bad_philanthropy]

Dovuto, the schools are not going to pass the cost of player "salaries" on to the video game developer in such an explicit or direct manner. As others have said, the revenue stream of selling the license at a market price that will actually be purchased by a developer is desirable.

That said, not only is the money for salaries there already, and this is a matter of distribution, and not additional costs added.