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EA Signs College Football License Deal

Posted by Zonk on from the stuck-a-feather-in-their-cap dept.

Yet another license falls into the hands of the EA sports game crafters. The Business Wire is reporting that EA Games has signed a six year agreement with the Collegiate Licensing Company. This allows EA the exclusive use of teams, stadiums, etc, etc. From the article: "Our NCAA football franchise is a key element in our EA SPORTS brand lineup and we are pleased to have secured the NCAA license...There is an unrivaled loyalty our fans have for the game, and this agreement with CLC allows EA to continue to deliver to fans the best, most innovative college football experience now and for years to come."

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  1. Re:Not Really News Anymore... by ZephyrXero · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So that's it now huh? EA owns the rights to all the football teams that matter. Wow... I don't play football games, but I really feel for all the poor bastards doomed to play a rehash of Madden 2000 for the next 5 years. Way to innovate EA...

    Note to self: Continue boycotting all EA products

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    "A truly wise man realizes he knows nothing."
  2. OK Let's cover it all right here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Pick your applicable Slashdot response here:

    1. EA is evil
    2. This is a monopoly, aren't monopolies illegal?
    3. OMG isn't someone going to do something about this?
    3a. Let's boycott EA!
    4. Blah blah blah, just don't buy the game, you have this right as a consumer, blah blah.
    5. Random Nostalgia Comment about playing some football game with mutants, and how there still a possibility for innovation (hint, not very likely at all).
    6. Comment about all Madden games after '92 sucking ass.

    Am I missing anything?

    1. Re:OK Let's cover it all right here by Ayaress · · Score: 4, Insightful

      And to get the standard replies out of the way:

      1. Yep.
      2. Not really. You don't need the players' or teams' names to make a football game. I remember some of the old ones calling their teams just "Denver" and "Chicago," with modified logos and player names spelled differently than the real ones. Even a randomly generated roster would work - and could work BETTER, for replay value. Even then, can one type of game make a monopoly? Saying that would lead us to say that Sega has a monopoly on games like Sonic, or that Bioware has a monopoly on Star Wars RPGs. Even taking into account all the other games that EA makes, they're still not a monopoly. Big, yes. Biggest, certainly. But they're still not even a majority of the video game industry, let alone a monopoly.
      3. For the same reason nobody's done anything about Microsoft. When the gorrilla wants the best seat in the monkey house, the capuchins aren't going to pursuade him to move.
      3a. Great and fine, but you'll never get enough people behind it. Try, though, even an unheard and unnoticed protest is a protest just the same.
      4. As a consumer, you also have the right to influence other consumers. By telling them WHY EA is a bad company, you hope to also get them to excercise their rights as consumers.
      5. And if somebody made a football game with mutants now, it wouldn't be innovation. NFL Blitz was innovation, but now if another game goes that route, it won't be innovative either. Where does it go from here? Invent a new, simmilar game? Is it still football at that point?
      6. I don't remember them being good before 92 either.