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FIFA and EA Sports end their partnership
- Thread starter BUNTING1243
- Start date
So even if FIFA partners with another studio, they can't use all these leagues. They fucked up bigly.
That was known, the FIFA license doesn't give you anything other than the name and the World Cup, EA has been licensing leagues and teams individually for decades now.
Yeah, I know, what I mean is the "exclusive" wording. I'm not sure if that was known yet.
Greedy move by FIFA to ask for too much money. What do they think will happen now? Someone will develop a FIFA game?
Only 2K has the pockets to spend on the rights + licenses and develop a worthy competitor but it'll take them a minimum of 3 years to develop a game and who knows how it'll turn out. Look at PES devs, haven't made a good game in years.
EA changes the name and will for sure suffer very little.
Only 2K has the pockets to spend on the rights + licenses and develop a worthy competitor but it'll take them a minimum of 3 years to develop a game and who knows how it'll turn out. Look at PES devs, haven't made a good game in years.
EA changes the name and will for sure suffer very little.
Yes it was, EA announced these leagues as exclusives since they signed them a few years ago.
Yeah this is what I expected FIFA would do. Get rid of the exclusive FIFA license and just get exclusivity for all the big leagues at probably way lower prices, which kills off any new possible competitor before it's even on the market. It's gonna be extremely hard if not outright impossible to get people interested in your game when you don't have the big leagues.
It was. However despite that EA is missing licenses too. They have the Serie A one, but don't have the Juventus one.
Stange move by FIFA, who is going to make a Football game on par with EA's 25+ years of experience? Its basically impossible
OP should probably point out that *this* year's EA Sports game will be "FIFA 23," and that the existing deal stands until 14 months from right now. Then in late 2023, we'll see "EA FC 24" or whatever they call it.
Well, the only thing they will get is a very recognizable brand name, but anyone that sees the EA logo in the cover will know what the old and trusty FIFA really is.
Also, I don't think anyone will pay the FIFA license, they were asking for quarter of a billion per year to EA.
FIFA got too greedy.
They will be kicking themselves in the balls soon enough.
Interesting to see how general people react to the rebranding. I think adjustment will be relatively fine.
They will be kicking themselves in the balls soon enough.
Interesting to see how general people react to the rebranding. I think adjustment will be relatively fine.
I mean yeah. Unless Infantino is gonna take up game dev, too busy running a racket for that.
EA has nearly 1000 people working on FIFA each year
They have 30 years of experience
Good luck to everyone attemptiong to make a competitor, slapping FIFA on the boxart is not going to help.
LOL. Wishful thinking. This is going directly into their pockets.
It really just sounds like EA saved themselves a lot of money rebranding the game to Football Club. They've embedded themselves in the genre as THE football game for the last 20+ years with the sales numbers and development pipeline to show for it.
FIFA 23 is coming this year, next year it will be EA Sports FC (24?)
Imagine having FIFA on the title and still having Merseyside Red xD
It'll remain in the public consciousness as FIFA 24 and the actual entity won't receive any money for it. This won't hurt EA, and FIFA (org) are going to struggle to compete with a rival game. An interesting question to ask is whether this rebrand was an eventuality, because that partnership bears little significance to the core EA FIFA product and why people like it.
Ehhh, FC is a universally used term for football fans.
I don't feel like anyone ever says 'Football Club'.
EA FC?
Probably just FC after awhile.
This seems really dumb by Fifa I doubt there are a ton of publishers looking to spend 100's of millions on the license. Probably just some mobile games or something cashing in on the name. No one is going to want to make a competing AAA football game.
Anyone capable of spinning up the work force to work on one is not going to be interested in a 150 million + tax they might not recover for years. Or hell even doing sports games
I'm not a soccer fan really, but EAFC sounds fine, and I know it means Football Club.
I don't think they wanted to put football club in full on there in north America.
I don't think they wanted to put football club in full on there in north America.
