SEC, Pac-12, Big Ten Won't License Trademarks in Future Video Games

[Cryolemon]

Re: SEC, Pac-12, Big Ten Won't License Trademarks in Future Video Games

No such luck, I would bet. College Football 15 is on a new console; with the news today it doesn't make sense to push any sort of serious development time or funding to a game that may or may not even launch next July (and if it does, who knows how many conferences/teams will pull out before then? Do they have the capability to genericize 120+ teams worth of stuff they've spent years getting authentic (jerseys, helmets, color schemes, logos, entrances, fight songs and stadiums just to name seven)?

It's probably doable, but it would be quite a bit of work. If teams themselves start dropping out then EA will quickly pull the plug It think.

[concretefire]

Re: SEC, Pac-12, Big Ten Won't License Trademarks in Future Video Games

It's probably doable, but it would be quite a bit of work. If teams themselves start dropping out then EA will quickly pull the plug It think.

Doable? Seriously?? This is EA SPORTS we're talking about right? You do realize that right?

You do realize this is the same "EA SPORTS" who cannot even release a football game where the kickoff is at least random? The CPU ALWAYS kicks if it wins the coin toss! The can't even get that right and expect them to change 120 teams etc etc.....lol.

I realize this post might get me banned and so be it. It's about time someone told the bold faced truth:

If EA SPORTS Football Dev team tried to piss on a brush fire....they'd miss. Collectively even. The amount of incompetence with that Dev team has proven, over the years, to be staggering.

For the schools to pull out would be stupid. This game is marketing gold for Schools. They know young people (including athletes) play this game. It's a recruiting tool. Or could be used as one anyway. It's absolutely stupid for schools to pull out.......however...... what runs those schools? $$$$

At the end of the day, it's all about the $$ and always is. The schools WILL pull out because of that, and only that, reason.

This game is dead. Period. RIP. It's over guys. Enjoy NCAA 14' football cause this is the end of the line. You still waiting for a patch to drop??? Keep holding your breath....

[friscob]

Re: SEC, Pac-12, Big Ten Won't License Trademarks in Future Video Games

Create a bunch of fake schools w/ fake stadiums and fake mascots and I'd buy the game if it had the same (or better) core gameplay. Probably too much work for EA though.

I'd be fine w/ a $30 game next year that just improves the gameplay and lets me use teambuilder teams only. I would want a playoff system in place though instead of bowl games

[evansxmc]

Re: SEC, Pac-12, Big Ten Won't License Trademarks in Future Video Games

I wonder if the can make NCAA 14 for next gen and build off of that add new features fcs teams etc.. While the license is still valid.

[ncaa98]

Re: SEC, Pac-12, Big Ten Won't License Trademarks in Future Video Games

I wonder if the can make NCAA 14 for next gen and build off of that add new features fcs teams etc.. While the license is still valid.

Even if the license is still valid I don't know if they want to risk potential problems down the road. Kind of like Johnny Manzeil.

[LastExit]

Re: No SEC in Future College Football Video Games

well im glad i got ncaa 14! long live ncaa 14!

Yeah, after getting home from work and reading through this thread I was thinking the exact same thing. I'll take a game with a levitating football in the end zone and various other bugs over a game without major conferences any day.

I'm trying to rationalize this and think that EA (or any other game producer) could somehow make this work but in the end it won't be the same. I couldn't care less about losing the 'NCAA' labeling......losing these conferences (with probably more to follow) is a major blow and I would imagine that EA will look to the future and start to question whether casual fans would give a moment's thought to buying a game that didn't have these conferences and whatever else will be withdrawing in the future.

[Von Dozier]

Re: SEC, Pac-12, Big Ten Won't License Trademarks in Future Video Games

Final death blow to the series. It's over, people.

[OmahaKnights]

Re: SEC, Pac-12, Big Ten Won't License Trademarks in Future Video Games

I feel sick. The series is more or less over. It'll just be a stripped down, glitch-ridden version of All-Pro Football if they try to keep it going at this rate.

Thanks, Ed. I hope they load your settlement money on a pallet and drop it on your head.

[opd897]

Re: No SEC in Future College Football Video Games

I really believe this is the beginning of the end.

Time I went out and bought NCAA Football '11 as I already have '04' '06 for the Xbox and I still have '13 as well as well as '14 for the 360.

I can see this franchise becoming difficult to find just like NCAA Basketball and College Hoops when they stopped making them.

I really do believe it's coming to an end. I don't believe all major universities will allow their likeness to be in the game, particularly when their individual conferences are frowning upon it.

[SECElit3]

Listen UP EA! You want to keep selling this game? Get off your asses and go get a copy of Forza 3 or 4. Design next year's game with a fully functional editor, such as the one Forza has had for the last 4 years, allow us to create and upload logos, share artwork, share rosters, and modify our own damn uniforms. As the years progress add new features to the game to entice players to keep buying. Quit adding and removing features from the game! Build on what you have and just keep building! Geez EA, your Greed has gotten you into a world of crap! Wake Up! Give the gamers the freedom to help you build your game. Work with us for a change and quit worrying about how to improve your damned bottom line.

[ncaa98]

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I think this will hurt CFB as well. A lot of football fans will just buy Madden now and in turn will begin to follow NFL more and CFB less.

[KG]

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it costs 45000 a year to attend tulsa, 80 players = 3.6 million dollars. add in travel costs, medical costs, food costs(football players eat alot), tutoring costs, equipment costs, etc., this is for one sport only. non athletic students already pay fees to help support out of control athletic departments, how is that fair.

Wait

It costs $45k to go to Tulsa?

This conversation aside, that's crazy.

[Cyros]

Re: SEC, Pac-12, Big Ten Won't License Trademarks in Future Video Games

Wait

It costs $45k to go to Tulsa?

This conversation aside, that's crazy.

Private school.

[Jimbo614]

Well no Kidding!
1) The conferences are part of the NCAA
2) This was done by voting, So this means the majority of Presidents of those member institutions voted NO. We don't know if the votes were close or unanimous; But my bet is it was Unanamous.
3) So if the vote was NO on this level, what makes anyone think 150 schools are going to reverse their thinking and vote YES to the CLC/EA agreement? It's the same Lawsuit with the same consequences.
4) Someone is pulling our chain promising a game in the future. Shame on them.

[bo.jangles344]

Re: SEC, Pac-12, Big Ten Won't License Trademarks in Future Video Games

Knowing ea, people will be laid off this week and the division will be absorbed, the project scrapped, and that's it. Done.