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I guess if anyone was going to give it a go it would be 2k. I wonder what they paid for it assuming they rumour is true.
Konami's ISS soccer series was much better than Fifa back in the day, 2K hasn't had a soccer game yet if I recall.
Will be interesting to see the outcome regardless I doubt anyone else but them could do it though at that level these days.
I don't believe it. The FIFA license doesn't actually give you anything. if 2K wanted to make a soccer game they always could have but the licensing (which isn't FIFA) is expensive and complicated.
Well, it's about time Fifa got some real competition (sorry Konami, but you lost it years ago). I'm not sure of 2K is up for it and it's a big risk for them if they payed what Fifa was asking. Should be interesting to see how the game turns out and what this means for EA's game. But competition is always good.
My first thought as well, though admittedly I'm not a football/soccer fan so this is an outside observer view. Though if anyone can outdime Ultimate Team it'll be 2K.
I wonder what the contract looks like for this. Because EAFC going on to be just as popular without the FIFA branding showed that it's not worth as much as FIFA execs thought it was. EA made the gamble to not pay for the license and it paid off for them.
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Soooo it's going to be a FIFA branded game without the leagues and without all FIFPRO players license? Take Two has the money to buy the FIFA license, all the teams and players, but... Would it be worth it? Doubt they get like half the sales of EA Sports FC
which is fine because it'll be in dev likely for that long since its ground up.
FIFPRO license isn't exclusive, other titles such as the popular football manager has them. Guess the main pull might be the 2025 World Cup, especially if they are targeting the NA audience?
I wonder if they will go the route of Konami and let people mod the games, or i guess like their WWE games. Might be interesting
My current time played in FC 24 is 17 days and 19 hours, and that's not out of line with previous releases. I complain about EA's football games all the time (as do many others who play it), but the complaints mask how many things it does well and how much work it would be to get a barely acceptable replacement. And none of that work has anything with FIFA branding whose has made 0 difference in my experience this year.
Also, even getting a 100% successful replication of EA FC wouldn't be enough, that's a starting point. It would have to be good enough to convince my friends play it and switch series. It's a very social game that I play with family, high school friends, college friends, new friends, etc. I'm locked in until my friends decide they want to play another game.
Also, even getting a 100% successful replication of EA FC wouldn't be enough, that's a starting point. It would have to be good enough to convince my friends play it and switch series. It's a very social game that I play with family, high school friends, college friends, new friends, etc. I'm locked in until my friends decide they want to play another game.
A reminder that EA was paying 150m a year for the FIFA license, and FIFA reportedly wanted to double that. It's what caused EA to decide to create EAFC.
As someone who has unfortunately made the transition to playing near nothing but ea fc, I can't wait for some competition. EA are a shambles of a company run purely on greed.
They have no idea on balance, gameplay or anything in between. If it isn't in the store they have zero idea. EA FC is honestly one of the worst football games I have ever played. And the constant mistakes EA make in regards to cards and promos is ridiculous.
I have over 800 hours logged and probably spent over $1000 on it because I love football and love the challenge but the quicker they get some real competition the better.
They have no idea on balance, gameplay or anything in between. If it isn't in the store they have zero idea. EA FC is honestly one of the worst football games I have ever played. And the constant mistakes EA make in regards to cards and promos is ridiculous.
I have over 800 hours logged and probably spent over $1000 on it because I love football and love the challenge but the quicker they get some real competition the better.
Do you know who makes the 2K games and what NBA 2K is structured like?
Like I do and understand as my son plays 2k24, but honestly EAFC in on another level.
It's nothing but store packs. What's today's content? Check the store. They have nearly killed the market as they transition to make everything untradeable and keep hiking the price of the store packs. They release SBCs and all are massively priced so how do you get the fodder? That's right store packs.
Mix that with gameplay that is near completely broken, no balance on anything they do, so power curve is just everywhere, and the game is in a mess. Hell a few weeks ago they literally made a broken SBC in which thousand received one of the best cards in the game, gave nothing to anybody else, so when you play champs you come against the card constantly. And this is on top of the near daily things that have been broken, from player SBCs to evos, you name it. And the only thing that ever gets fixed quickly if there is a bug or mistake, is you guessed it, store packs. People are still awaiting compensation from a broken hero player SBC released weeks ago. Yet they have released new ones since than.
My hope is at least with 2k the game will be playable and balanced. Something that from what I have seen on NBA is fine
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I would love to see what happens when EA has to actually compete with another sports game again from a company that can spend as much money as them. Both NFL and NHL games released some of their best when EA and 2K had rival sports games.
I know 2K will be just as greedy if not more so than EA but there's no doubt that they would kill the presentation for a FIFA 2K game. NBA 2K absolutely nails that aspect of basketball and no other sports game comes close to them when it comes to presentation. Even 2K's more than a decade old hockey games still do a better job at everything surrounding the gameplay (and there's an argument that EA haven't really improved upon the gameplay all that much either) and EA hasn't even tried to improve it.
I hope this is a console game and FIFA aren't just getting 2K to make that mobile game they talked about.
I know 2K will be just as greedy if not more so than EA but there's no doubt that they would kill the presentation for a FIFA 2K game. NBA 2K absolutely nails that aspect of basketball and no other sports game comes close to them when it comes to presentation. Even 2K's more than a decade old hockey games still do a better job at everything surrounding the gameplay (and there's an argument that EA haven't really improved upon the gameplay all that much either) and EA hasn't even tried to improve it.
I hope this is a console game and FIFA aren't just getting 2K to make that mobile game they talked about.
They honestly have not improved it, they have gone backwards. Set defensive depth at 71, constant pres/"s with no stamina loss. Midfield is over stacked and defensive AI is broken so all anybody does is run the wing, go to near post cut back and goal. If you don't do this you won't win. It's honestly the most broken, unplayable football game people have played in years. There are many YouTube videos explaining all the issues but there are so many. And as you said 2k in terms of MT are as bad as EA, but at least their games are fun to play and balanced with a slick presentation. None of which is true of EAFC
It gives them the brand name. casual gamers will mistake it for the EA game if they just see there's a new FIFA game in the store.
My 12 year old son has gone back to play FIFA 2014 on the 360, he likes the way it plays a lot more.
They saw how good 2K also is at selling microtransactions to kids and got giddy at the potential.
Probably won't end well for 2K if they are banking on that, EA have been making "EA" it's footy brand for a few years now and have already successfully rebranded to the casuals, a couple more years worth is only going to make that more so and when people see that 2K has no club rights the brand is fully dead afterwards (unless they just go fully International football based).
Them trying to go fully head to head with EA on this is going to be them wasting a lot of money for a gamble that probably only works for 1 year.
EA could use the competition but even if that's true it'll probably take a couple of years to build up a team and by that point the name of whatever this'll be might already be tainted.
That's extremely exaggerated lol
This is good news, but I just don't see it taking off without the necessary licenses. Nobody wants to play with "Merceyside Red" vs "MD White" or control "Ronaird". They really should fix licensing these things, because it just fuels anti-competitiveness in the market. Just make it so anybody can license club names for a set fee
You're right with this but my friends and I still call it FIFA. We're not dumb enough to pick up the wrong game but I don't think, EA FC as a brand is a particularly strong, it's just the only relevant football game so it wins by default.
I think if they were to have feature parity with EA FC and the football played better, they could definitely pull people away with strong "FIFA is back" campaign.
100% this. EA has the Premiuer League exclusively, no game stands a chance without that license.
Best 2K can hope for is some confused boomers buying the game by accident.
I have seen EAFC billboards during nearly all football matches I watched since 2023, EA is an official partner of the EPL and La Liga.
So I don't even believe "oh look it is FIFA25" crowd is all that big. Everyone EA wanted to know, knows about EAFC being the new FIFA.
The overall issue with launching a sports game to compete with the EAFCs, 2Ks and Maddens is that the competition has been refining and adding for years.
So even if you manage to obtain the license, you still need to digitize players, arenas etc. while creating a compelling sports game from scratch at the same time. You also can't "take your time" and delay because the license owner wants to be paid every year, whether you ship or don't is your problem.
Only chance imo to have a successful football game is the Rocket League route imo Something arcade-y and "out there" so the lack of licensed teams and players becomes irrelevant. Maybe a new take on Libero Grande (a football game from the PS1 era where you only control a single player) would work idk
I think that was the last one I enjoyed. I used to play seasons I think it was called.