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burninmylight on 19 July 2013

http://popcultureblog.dallasnews.com/2013/07/ncaa-not-renewing-video-game-license-with-ea-sports-over-lawsuit-costs-football-14-to-be-last-ncaa-branded-game.html/

 

NCAA not renewing video game license with EA Sports over lawsuit costs; Football 14 to be last NCAA-branded game

NCAA Football 14 (EA Sports)

I hope you college sports fans like NCAA Football 14, because it’s going to be the last game with the NCAA name you get for the foreseeable future.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has decided not to renew its contract with EA Sports, saying, “given the current business climate and costs of litigation, we determined participating in this game is not in the best interests of the NCAA.” NCAA Football 14 will be the last game to carry the NCAA name or logo, though they note, “Member colleges and universities license their own trademarks and other intellectual property for the video game. They will have to independently decide whether to continue those business arrangements in the future.”

The litigation they mention has to do with player likenesses being used in the games. A group of former players is suing the NCAA for, they claim, giving license to their likenesses and names without compensation. The costs of losing the lawsuit for the NCAA could be huge. While both the NCAA and EA Sports claim that they’ve never used player names in the video games (which is in dispute), the NCAA seems to have decided that it’s just not worth the hassle.

EA Sports had already settled a class action lawsuit last year for $27 million, which resulted in the company’s loss of exclusivity for future NCAA deals. So they may have already been brainstorming contingency plans before this new news hit. It’s entirely possible we’ll still see a College Football 2015 (or something similarly titled), but it won’t bear the NCAA name.

 

I'm sorry for any fans of the NCAA football games, but I side with the plaintiffs and hope they win. The NCAA has been feasting on "student athletes" for years, while the players themselves don't get a single penny. In fact, if they do anything that earns them any sort of cash, compensation or benefits outside of scholarships while in an NCAA, they get roasted alive. Don't give me any crap about "integrity of the game" when the NCAA and every major college program are run like capitalist conglomerate money making machines. Either give the people who are the entire damn product some sort of royalty payment or stipend for their services or stop pretending like it's all in the name of academic endeavors when we all know it's not.



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RCTjunkie on 19 July 2013

Whew! I thought actual NCAA games were getting canned. I was frightened for a moment.



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burninmylight on 19 July 2013
RCTjunkie said:
Whew! I thought actual NCAA games were getting canned. I was frightened for a moment.


That would cause World War III. NCAA football is an operation that makes hundreds of millions of dollars annually.



Chris Hu on 19 July 2013

Meh, not a big loss last time I played a NCAA football game was NCAA 06 on the original X-Box. Also they are planing to continue the franchise but with generic schools but who is going to be dumb enough to buy that I think if they release that it will fail harder then NBA Live 14 which I think will bomb.



highmen on 19 July 2013

yeah....noboy wants to play generic schools...unless it is like PES where users can update and put the unlicensed things and change it accordingly.....though the process is oveewhelming...hope the nfl is next so that ea will have to do their best as there are possible competitors if ever nfl isnt locked to EA



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burninmylight on 19 July 2013
PDF said:
Chris Hu said:
Meh, not a big loss last time I played a NCAA football game was NCAA 06 on the original X-Box. Also they are planing to continue the franchise but with generic schools but who is going to be dumb enough to buy that I think if they release that it will fail harder then NBA Live 14 which I think will bomb.

No, they will most likely have all the schools, they just have to work it out on a school to school basis. 


That would be a nightmare then, especially if they had to acquire hundreds of different licenses from each school. You'd have to watch like, 40 minutes of license agreement screens every time you booted up the game! I doubt they'd bother to go that far (or that they'd really have to go past whatever the overarching NCAA governing body), but if they did, they'd probably work it out by conference.



Gamegears on 19 July 2013

Uhm.. I am not seeing this as a bad thing... I hope that means one less overpriced update sold as a full game year after year.. no great loss here.. sorry..



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adriane23 on 19 July 2013

Glad to hear it.



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Mr Puggsly on 20 July 2013

Sounds like NCAA was just the middle man.

They could likely still make a game with all the teams, they just can't call it NCAA.



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Chris Hu said:
Meh, not a big loss last time I played a NCAA football game was NCAA 06 on the original X-Box. Also they are planing to continue the franchise but with generic schools but who is going to be dumb enough to buy that I think if they release that it will fail harder then NBA Live 14 which I think will bomb.

No, they will most likely have all the schools, they just have to work it out on a school to school basis. 

The rosters are still going to be a big problem.  If you can't use the players as they have been doing, they are probably going to have to randomize the rosters to an extent.  Who wants to play a game where the teams don't play like the real life counterparts?  I'm sure they will keep the average stats of each team the same, but indivdual players will need to be removed.

I know they say they haven't been using the players, but the only thing missing is the name of the player.  Physical stats, ratings, and approximate likness have all been used in the past.

Also, how the hell does this thread have only 11 posts on a sales site.  This is pretty big news for EA.



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