EA Sports Will Not Publish College Football Game Next Year, Future Plans in Doubt

[DubTrey1]

Well, here's to hoping all of that talent and resources at EA make one heck of a next gen title. I have been avoiding Madden for years on current gen.. looks like if I want to pay footbal, it will have to be Madden.

Crap.

[RedSoxFox7]

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If they want to waste their free education, that's their own fault. Not the NCAA's.

Which is besides the free housing, food, clothing, and everything else that comes with the scholarship.

But hey, if the scholarship is so worthless, why hand them out. Let them have a job let them pay their own way through college like the vast majority of us. Then we'll see how "worthless" those scholarships are.

These kids have two options when they graduate. Either they will make a ton of money playing sports professionally, or they will enter the job market, debt free, with a valuable college degree in hand.

It's not about the players "wasting" their free "education." It's that the entire proposition is a farce. The vast majority of them aren't there for anything but an education in football, and that's all the vast majority of them get.

The vast majority of these kids aren't getting valuable college degrees. The vast majority of these kids are getting worthless degrees, like so many other non-athletes are doing these days. They're not getting degrees in engineering or the sciences, they're getting trash like communications degrees.

The scholarships are handed out because it's the only way the NCAA can get away with the exploitation. It's the only way the NCAA gets the shrinking few fans to actually believe the lie that the education means anything here.

[ghettogeeksta]

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Lost a even more respect for EA, instead of owning up to their mistake they try to flip it like it's the O'Bannon's fault. Smh.

[nortobc]

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Servers for OD are expected to stay up through college football season, and will likely be coming down in January. After January, no more online dynasty.

Can you provide a link?

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[nortobc]

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Rumors are theyare taking them down after season, but I don't think I believe that. The only way I think they are taking them down is if it was part of the settlement, as a way of preventing rosters to be passed around.

If you are going to spread these rumors at least provide a link.

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[jhogan3132]

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I really hope the servers stay up. As far as this heated debate on compensation I was largely on the side of no extra benefits for a long time. The more I thought about it the more I realized how short sided I was. The TV contracts alone should tell everyone that college football is big buisness. It is very true that college football revenue funds almost all other athletic departments at any university. The hypocrisy is in the NCAA rules that dictate the student athlete. I feel that individual universities should not pay any additional monies to their players. With that being said I believe it is completely unrealistic for a player to not make money from 3rd parties. Why is it a bad thing for a player to be paid for his likeness as it relates to jersey sales or likeness? Currently scholarshiped athletes are not permitted to work. Students on academic scholarship are allowed to work, and if on a full scholarship, are receiving all the same benefits as a student athlete. Yet no one bats an eye at the TV contracts, corporate sponsors, merchandising contracts with Nike etc that generate millions of dollars. The argument that not all players are stars is valid. Eliminate the NCAA rules negating players from monetizing their likeness and let free market dictate their value. The concern that boosters will pad players pockets in hopes of luring them to one school over another will always exist and will never be thwarted, but thats what universities pay the NCAA to do. It's about time that the NCAA see things for what they are, not what they romanticize from glorys past.

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[Big FN Deal]

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Colleges should NOT be paying student athletes anything outside of their scholarship, but at the same time the NCAA should NOT prevent the student athletes from gaining any sort of monetary value outside of the classroom.

Let them get endorsements. Let them sign autographs for cash. Let them market themselves in video games to their likeness. That still doesn't take away the integrity of their scholarship, and the fact that they are getting a free ride at a University they normally would not be able to attend, in which their enrollment prevents other more qualified people from attending.

The NCAA labeled the title of a student athlete in a completely different generation. Since then we have seen a technological era take over, inflation rise exponentially, and general rules adapt to cultural society and have not even attemtped to redefine the college athlete because they can't stand to lose a buck or two.

I normally avoid this silly, imo, debate but I absolutely love this post. It's filled which such common sense and it's funny how it seemed to get glossed over. How on Earth agreeing to a scholarship should suddenly mean a school owns the rights to a person is quite absurd, no matter how well intentioned it may be. If I'm not mistaken, a student athlete has to maintain a certain GPA in order to be eligible to play sports, similar to how an academic scholarship works and that should be the end of it, none of this asinine "we own you" garbage. Again, this post pretty much should put this nonsense to rest.

On topic, LMAO at people mad/blaming the lawsuit for this instead of EA for using player likenesses. Never let the truth get in the way of a good story though, lol.

EDIT- Even more hilarious, EA won't even admit to any wrong doing, in spite of everything but those in the lawsuit are the scumbags. smdh

For its part, EA Sports -- which will not admit any wrongdoing as part of the settlement agreement -- said in a statement Thursday that "we follow rules that are set by the NCAA -- but those rules are being challenged by some student-athletes." http://espn.go.com/college-football/...-football-game

[BenGerman]

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I don't think you have to worry about the servers staying up. EA is already in really bad standing with their consumer base, and this isn't going to help.

FWIW, like it or not, players being paid is likely something that is going to happen in the next couple of years. After that happens, people are going to be much more likely to boot the series up again because there is absolutely no risk in terms of lawsuit.

[tarheelguy4736]

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The situation just sucks. I only buy this game and the MLB The Show game every year. So now I just worry about MLB The Show because I just cant play Madden. Havent been able to in the last 6 years. Yes it is EA's fault for letting it get this fault but it is also the lawsuits fault for costing us a game. Lawsuits are a thing of normalcy in this country. If you can't make money like a hard working person then just sue for it. It sucks but its the truth. I hope they will be able to bring the game back but I know it wont be in the next five years but I fear that is the end of any college sport game.

[laxman490]

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FWIW, like it or not, players being paid is likely something that is going to happen in the next couple of years. After that happens, people are going to be much more likely to boot the series up again because there is absolutely no risk in terms of lawsuit.

One thing I don't think people are realizing is that paying of players MUST happen to keep college football/basketball alive.

[CaseIH]

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That really sucks that EA is quiting NCAA football. Probably means we wont get another patch to fix some issues, considering when they quit making NCAA basketball they left us all high and dry. Actually up until this year that was the main reason I quit buying EA games, because of them doing us dirty with College hoops game, and the fact that EA games isnt usually all that good anyway.
Have to say this years NCAA football is very close to be a great game, its the most fun I have had with a football game in a long long time. I was afraid because of the law suit that we might be SOL on college games unfortunately.
Some vodoo person needs to put a hex on Ed O'bannon and the guys that sued for likeness is all I got to say. If something bad were to happen to O'bannon I would not feel the least bit sorry

[Jm0ney2001]

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Wow this fing blows. Soo sad just like when 2k announced no more college hoops. I have bought this game for the last 15 to 20 years. Whenever bill walsh came out. Really going to be a void come next july. I hope its only a 1 year deal and they come back in 15. Sad sad day.

[statman78]

Why not take this as an opportunity to take make a game outside the confines of the NCAA? Why not have a EA College Football 14 with fake universities and players that are completely editable. To me, this is an opportunity to innovate rather than accept the status quo.

[kmp714]

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Just another, of many, examples of greed destroying people and society. I mean that from all sides involved. You know everything does not always ha e to be about money, but unfortunately nowadays it just does.

[BungerHenry]

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Greedy little punks ruining the whole game series. To HELL with these guys suing the NCAA.