Welp, No more EA NCAA Football games...

[Clone96]

Didn't see this posted yet...Press Release - NCAA.org

Hedging their bets in the Ed O'Bannon lawsuit.

Edit: There will be an EA College Football game next year, but it's not going to be licensed by the NCAA (No school names, logos or mascots)

 

[StratCY]

Well thats a bummer man

 

[dualthreat]

Make a roster update available and it's all good

 

[ISUCyclones2015]

Didn't see this posted yet...Press Release - NCAA.org

Hedging their bets in the Ed O'Bannon lawsuit.

Edit: There will be an EA College Football game next year, but it's not going to be licensed by the NCAA (No school names, logos or mascots)

Where did you hear this? Technically speaking each School has rights to their own trademark and brand so they can do whatever they damn well please.

 

[mj4cy]

Yeah not gonna sell well.....I don't want to play some ficticious football game... I'll just stick to Madden.

 

[alarson]

Edit: There will be an EA College Football game next year, but it's not going to be licensed by the NCAA (No school names, logos or mascots)

The NCAA says that all these things have been licensed from the individual schools, so it would seem you could still have a "college football" game with school names, logos, mascots, just no NCAA branding

 

[aeroclone]

Am I reading this wrong? It looks like this is just the NCAA pulling out. The schools are handled individually. Does anybody care if they remove any NCAA logos from the game? If the schools, stadiums, mascots, and fight songs are all still there, then game on.

 

[ISUCyclones2015]

I just realized that we won't get an official NCAA game with the playoffs in it...​

 

[UNIGuy4Cy]

Damper on my day.

 

[alarson]

Am I reading this wrong? It looks like this is just the NCAA pulling out. The schools are handled individually. Does anybody care if they remove any NCAA logos from the game? If the schools, stadiums, mascots, and fight songs are all still there, then game on.

Exactly. The NCAA branding is pretty much irrelevant to football anyways.

 

[mj4cy]

You could just call it EA sports college football or something like that...and use the schools that participate.

 

[3TrueFans]

Time for Bill Walsh College Football 2015.

 

[Clone96]

You could just call it EA sports college football or something like that...and use the schools that participate.

The original EA Sports college football game was just like that. They didn't have the rights to the school names or logos so they just called them the city where they were located & gave them the school colors

Bill Walsh College Football - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[CycloneRulzzz]

It all the years I've bought this game I never really seem the ncaa logo other than in the title. If that's all that goes away big whoop.

 

[ISUagger]

As long as they can use the likeness of the teams, individuals can make their own rosters and share them. Still, I think this might start a chain reaction that ends the game. Not the final nail in the coffin by any means.

 

[Incyte]

As long as they can use the likeness of the teams, individuals can make their own rosters and share them. Still, I think this might start a chain reaction that ends the game. Not the final nail in the coffin by any means.

You think the schools will turn down the money?

I wonder if this falls within "third tier" media rights.

I heard Texas wants to start it's own game and have high school teams in it.

 

[bobbomo]

The only real change

As a result of the decision, NCAA Football 14 “will be the last to include the NCAA’s name and logo.”

NCAA Will Not Renew EA Sports Contract - IGN

Moderators, move thread to Gaming.

 

[3TrueFans]

The only real change

NCAA Will Not Renew EA Sports Contract - IGN

Moderators, move thread to Gaming.

You forgot to say "...or else"

 

[A-town Cy]

The NCAA shot down EA Sports' request a few years ago to show field rushing & goal posts getting torn down. If that gets added it'll be a better game. If they somehow allow the user to rush the field and help tear down the goal posts, it will be the greatest game ever.

 

[driegner]

Without the NCAA's blessing, perhaps we'll see other "Unsavory" things return like disciplinary issues and coach salaries. Additions which allegedly the NCAA was disallowing.