NCAA Will Not Renew EA Sports Contract, NCAA Football Series is Dead in Name Only

[BleedGreen710]

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One other note:

2K IS NOT BUYING THE DAMN LICENSE!!!!!!

The end of the license has nothing to do with a license fee. It has to do with the O'bannon case and the fact that O'bannon is using video games as a justification for pursuing his claim. The NCAA is not going to sell its license to another company.

Yes that's true.. but that doesn't mean the decision wont spark 2k to make their own college football game with generic teams (or teams users create, like on APF 2k8). Now is the perfect time to strike, while EA is down.

[coogrfan]

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Can't they just keep the series going as a generic team named game, upgrade teambuilder and let all 126 teams be replaced by teambuilder teams?

Sure. Why would they want to?

[Earl1963]

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The NCAA has a bunch of stiffs running the show. 1st no celebration, now this? They keep it up it can soon blow up in their faces. Nothing good will come from this power tripp'n.

[aholbert32]

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This is true, but I can see schools increasing the licensing fee, thus making it harder for EA or anyone else to get all of the schools in the game.

Let them increase the fee. EA is saving money because its not paying the NCAA. More money for the conferences.

[Brandwin]

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So with what Aaron posted - We could see a college football game from EA next year, it just wouldn't have the NCAA name etc.. attached to it?

[ultralow36]

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so its "Nick Saben" football 16

[Zac]

Re: NCAA 2014 = THE END!

Also puts the nail in the coffin for a possible College Hoops/NCAA Basketball game.

Actually, this is great news for a possible return for college hoops.

With NCAA out of the picture, and them having the ability to just license conferences or schools, they could go the Konami route. Start back up, and only go with a few of the big guys at first. And as the game sells, they have more money to get other licenses, they slowly add them in each year.

They could start back up with just three or four real life conferences and they schools, and then add one or two each year after.

Same could be said with college football.

I can dream man, I can dream.

[Dogslax41]

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Correct.

The playoffs actually would be called the BCS playoffs because the BCS is a separate entity from the NCAA. The conferences are not being sued in the O'bannon suit so they arent affected right now. If anything the removal of the NCAA opens more money for the conferences and BCS.

The only worry is that it becomes cost prohibitive for a video game developer with the number of hands that will probably be extended looking for a cut.

[MrMBrown]

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Yes that's true.. but that doesn't mean the decision wont spark 2k to make their own college football game with generic teams (or teams users create, like on APF 2k8). Now is the perfect time to strike, while EA is down.

Yeah,because APF 2K8 was such a huge seller for them.

[XxJustAguessxX]

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I hope Ed O'Bannon doesn't have a Twitter. Because if so, it's about to blow up. And not in a nice way.

LoL that's not fair and I don't think too many people outside of the OS community care. They have a legit case and we can't say we didn't see this coming. I hope since there will only be 1 football game, madden doesn't get even lazier. I'm not mad at Keller or O'bannon, the ncaa profits huge off these kids so why not give them something in return.

[Kevin26385]

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Just want to remind everyone that while it sucks we might never get a college football game again...Life moves on. Keep the development team and their families who could possible lose their jobs in your thoughts!

[aholbert32]

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Yes that's true.. but that doesn't mean the decision wont spark 2k to make their own college football game with generic teams (or teams users create, like on APF 2k8). Now is the perfect time to strike, while EA is down.

A couple of problems with that: One APF2k8 was a sales failure so why would 2k want to release another generic football game. Two, EA can still do deals with the conferences which own 99% of the IP (uniforms, logos, stadiums) that people care about.

[dickey1331]

I'm interested/concerned to see how this impacts EA's committment to patching issues and customer service for NCAA 14.

We saw how well it went for the last NCAA basketball game.

[cletus42o]

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Still curious on my question about if EA can release DLC for 14 past the date the license ends.

EA should release updates now that add in celebration and other things. What will the NCAA do? Double cancel the contract?

[Marino]

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I'll post this one more time because I think most people missed it. This is from the press release:

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.

EA will have to work with the individual conferences like they always have to get rights to logos, stadiums and uniforms. Same with the BCS. This just affects the ability to use the NCAA mark.

I remember reading in an article that the Alabama AD I believe works with licensing, where most of the schools are licensed under one brand. Perhaps work a deal with that licensing brand to get a good number of teams, then work with the remaining parties? I don't know. I do not think the series is dead, after reading Owen Good's tweets, this seems to be more of a formality.