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

[RaychelSnr]

Quote: Originally Posted by aholbert32

It is a good thing. Dovuto has it wrong. The $5000 isnt coming straight from video games. It comes from any use of a players likeness. That could mean TV or print ads featuring players by the university. That could mean selling Jerseys with the players name and number on it. Video games is only a small part of that and that money will come from the license fees that the conferences charge the developers. Whats likely to happen is most players will get a 5k stipend in exchange for signing over their likeness rights each year. There will be certain players (like a Manziel or a Winston) who may demand more because their jerseys are generating a ton of revenue. There may be a few players who refuse to sign over their rights at all and they will be left out of the game.

This man nailed it.

Schools weren't making A LOT of money beforehand from licensing. Most likely any future games will feature the P5 + a few friends, mostly because this ruling all but guarantees that we may see a real split from the NCAA or at least a real split amongst teams. No way New Mexico State, Idaho, North Texas, etc. are going to be able to afford this cost -- but Texas, Washington, Ohio State most certainly will.

[awill25]

The schools will be grouped and sell their liscense as a group. The fee will go into different areas, but a percentage will go into the trust funds that will be paid to players upon graduation.

Read some of Judge Wilkens decision and it is much easier to understand where we are headed. While it may take a few years, College football is more than likely coming back.

[Sheba2011]

This thing is far from over as this will go all the way to the Supreme Court. It might be 2-3 years before there is any final resolution on this. But the end result could be very important for the future of college football video games. We could be one step closer to an NCAA players association which could then license out the player likeness. It is going to be interesting to watch but it's going to take some time.

[Cryolemon]

Quote: Originally Posted by dovuto86

yeah but not all 300 teams will be featured. I had college hoops 2k8 and there were only 144 teams in that game

It's probably possible to include all 300 teams nowdays, and my guess is that the fans would demand it.

As for 2k sports making a college football game, I'd put money on it not happening. As has been said, without an NFL license as well a college game is worthless and EA will never give up the exclusive license. Unless and until EA goes out of business, Madden will be the only NFL console game.

[Junior Moe]

I would think that the schools/conferences would be salivating at the prospect of pimping the players out now. They no longer have to put up that whole "amateurism" charade. So now (if this holds...) they can pimp these players out like the NFL does. Sure, the players will (deservedly, IMO) receive some compensation in some form, but so will the NCAA/schools/conferences. They still hold have the leverage because they offer the platform. I could see NCAA Football sitting in the gift shops at the respective schools depicting their star player on the cover.

[Perfect Zero]

I'm going to have to read over the whole decision. If there's one thing about Operation Sports posters, it's that they are greatly optimistic about any news. What does the $5,000 pertain to? Is that overall money for when the players were in college or is that per licensing agreement? We also have to see if EA really wants to make the game again since they were burned in the last round of judiciary backstabbing. Are all the universities going to partake in licensing? Will players that do not give consent be editable and if so how much editing can the user do?

If EA is willing to put another game out and if they can get a large number of universities to give their rights to be in the game, then I don't see why we couldn't have another game in 2017 at the earliest. If there is more fighting to be had (which could even land this case before the Supreme Court), then we might be out of luck in this generation.

[MichaelAngeloTMNT]

Good news. It will be nice to have names and likenesses in the game on release day now. Hopefully, they can scan the players in like Madden too. O'Bannon Football '15.

I'm sure EA is working on a NCAA Football game as we speak. Once, this gets straightened out, they can add in the players and get it out ASAP.

[loccdogg26]

Quote: Originally Posted by MichaelAngeloTMNT

Good news. It will be nice to have names and likenesses in the game on release day now. Hopefully, they can scan the players in like Madden too. O'Bannon Football '15. I'm sure EA is working on a NCAA Football game as we speak. Once, this gets straightened out, they can add in the players and get it out ASAP.

Doubt it. EA fired most of the people who worked on the game. They only kept a few.