EA Sports Has Lost the Brazilian Clubs License For FIFA 15

[Ermolli]

EA Sports was unable to reach an agreement with Brazilian clubs, due to some changes in the way players are licensed in Brazil domestic leagues. With that said, Brazilian clubs will not be included in FIFA 15.

Quote:

Today, we want to inform you that due to some changes in the ways players are licensed in Brazil domestic leagues, we were unable to reach an agreement with the Brazilian rights holders for their inclusion in FIFA 15. While this is unfortunate news for many of our fans, we were able to retain the Brazil National Team in FIFA 15 as well as the Brazilian stars that play in other top leagues around the world. Thanks for your understanding as we continue to keep the lines of communication open with the Brazilian rights holders.

Source - EA Sports

[Zac]

That is complete garbage. EA only has three sports titles left. They only have one of them because they pay for exclusivity (madden). Yet they can't fork over the money to license things in their best selling franchise. Total crap.

[Hutton]

Wow this is a total pile of heaping crapola. Although I never played a Brazilian league game, I loved having the players available in Career Mode, and this represents a huge setback IMO.

[Murph]

I'm going to start a career with a Brazilian club and keep playing it until I move on to FIFA 15.

[razorkaos]

Man, people on another forum around here (a brazilian forum, btw) are completely pissed with this. Most of them (many of these guys are my friends and they love fifa) are saying they will not buy fifa 15, and they will buy PES, just for the licenses.

Even being brazilian and living in Brazil, i don't play with these teams (i play with lower-league teams from england), i don't even watch the brazilian championship, but man, this was a terrible decision... i know it's not only EA's fault, CBF is probably behind this, but... yeah, this is not good for anyone...

[Zuke]

Is this a big deal? are alot of good players not going to be in the game?

Sorry I don't know much about Football was thinking about getting it this year.

[dlxsf18]

What if they dropped it so they could buy the Copa Libertadores license? If it were fully fleshed out with the presentation and everything I'd be happy with that, let's see what they have to say at Gamescom.

[Hunkerdown]

If players still in game, not a huge loss, but still sucks for our SA brothers. Hope they come to bat with more leagues, teams, national teams, then will be forgiven.