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Mummelmann on 05 October 2016
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MikeRox said:
Hiku said:


Let's say the only change in FIFA 18 is that the ball is orange instead of white (and the team roster updates) and I happen to be a huge fan of the color orange, so I love it. But instead of a team of 100-200 people working on the new game for hours and hours over the course of a year, it was 1 guy, who programmed the color change on his lunch break. It cost EA a few dollars, and in return they earned millions because they sell it for $60.

They'd need to earn millions just to break even. All those licences aren't cheap.

I don't think people realise just how much football licences for the top leagues cost. The reason PES has so few in comparison isn't just EA getting exclusivity. They also choose not to license others to cut costs.

This is true, some TV networks in Scandinavia were recently in trouble with their customers for not offering the same breadth in football any more, especially Ligue 1 in France and the Premier League have become really costly, even the FA Cup costs a lot today. If I'm not mistaken, one channel (TV2 in Norway) claimed that rights to show Premier League alone, even in such a small country, cost around 2.000.000.000 NOKm which is probably the same cost as the UEFA Euros, possibly even slightly more.
Champion's League is much the same story and the Euro League has grown in popularity, and thus in price as well, many networks are reconciling the cost by offering content through streaming services.
I had one such sports streaming service, they showed PL, La Liga, Ligue 1, Serie A, FA Cup and Champion's League, it cost me 399NOK (50$) every month. I ended my membership when they said they were upping the price again and in addition they were separating the content, UFC and boxing got its own channel for 25$ a month, and there was to be two football packages, having both would end up costing me about 80$ per month, which is far beyond acceptable for me, I'm not nearly keen enough on football to pay that much for it.