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

[ODogg]

The courts are full of idiots now, it never should have even gotten to trial

[tarheelguy4736]

Quote: Originally Posted by Cardot

As far back as the Sega Genesis, I do recall getting a college game that didn't have the names of course, but they did have the numbers and other characteristics of certain players. And I remember thinking "Hmmm...can they do this? I guess they can??".

Yes, back then people weren't suing left and right for basically anything and everything. Now a days, if you offend one person with anything you have a high chance of seeing a lawsuit.

I can just only imagine at this point of what NCAA would look like on the PS4/One and the features that would have been in it. I know we all gripe about EA and how they handle bugs/glitches and not responding quick enough to certain issues, but I believe most of us would give anything to have NCAA back (but the judicial system and EA's lack of due diligence in the law took that away from us). I guess now we can just dream of what could have been and keep kicking ourselves every time we come on this board hoping for good news

[cowboy_kmoney]

Quote: Originally Posted by ODogg

The courts are full of idiots now, it never should have even gotten to trial

Money was the kase.

[Art01]

The NCAA is undergoing major changes, with regard to how "student-athletes" are treated. Implementing these changes and dealing with resultant issues will take some time. EA Sports simply decided to sit on the sidelines while these changes are being implemented. Once the legal status of these student-athletes is settled, especially with regard to issues involving compensation for individual student-athletes, I believe EA Sports will seriously consider reviving the NCAA game series.

The problem may turn out to be the sheer magnitude of dealing with over 120 institutions and their athletes as individuals. If the NCAA can become the college version of the NFL and take on the role of legal representative for it's entire membership, then EA would have single group with which to negotiate royalties, etc. But, if that does not happen, I think it will be much more difficult for EA to deal with thousands of individual athletes in order to be able to produce an authentic college game.

[tastybrownies]

In these past few years the NCAA as a whole has gotten a little too big for their britches and power hungry (at least IMO). Sometimes you look at the kinds of rule infractions they have and laugh at them and ask, "is that even legal?" Sometimes that whole committee makes me shake my head...

[tarheelguy4736]

Was the settlement agreement (the full document) ever made public? It would be interesting to see what the language in the document states and what exactly was agreed to by EA.

[Cam Fan]

As a tie-in to this post, I want to see what the OS community thinks about this comprehensive article....particularly the part about video gamers. http://www.sbnation.com/college-foot...t-ncaa-players