Could lawsuits have a chance to break the exclusive contracts on sports franchises?

[Darwinianevolution]

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Darwinianevolution said:
Ok, serious question. Why doesn't anyone just make a sports game... without licenses? No expensive players, no corrupt sports organization... just a good sports simulator. Does the name really carry so much power it makes competition impossible?

They exist, especially on PC. But without the license, they're just not attractive. They often try to circumvent this by including an editor, so they could be modded in down the line, but that's a small market.

Otherwise, I'm sure you would have known about those games in the first place and not asked this question.

That's actually a very interesting situation there. The sports games are some of the biggest sellers in the industry, yet without the license many sports titles can't reach decent numbers, even to break even. Is it really the licenses and the faces on them that sell the game? Do the sports crowd really care that much about that?