No more NCAA

[mbyrd75]

Wcw vs nwo and goldeneye on N64. Ahh I miss those days

[swellvermin]

EA signs new college football deal
July 19, 2013 11:38AM PDT

Electronic Arts and the Collegiate Licensing Company have agreed to a new and nonexclusive three-year deal that will allow EA to continue to make new college football games.

The agreement, first reported by Joystiq, was confirmed to GameSpot by the CLC. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

It will take effect next July and gives EA the rights to use "more than 150 colleges, conferences, and bowl games" in its franchise. It is not clear if any schools have chosen not to participate.

The full statement is below.

"I can confirm that CLC, as trademark licensing agent for schools, conferences and bowls, has signed a three-year extension of the license agreement with EA, extending its rights to include their logos, trademarks, stadiums, mascots, and other school-specific indicia in a College Football Video Game that EA produces and sells," the representative said. "More than 150 colleges, conferences, and Bowl Games have approved the extension thus far."

The new agreement comes just two days after the NCAA announced that it would not renew its licensing agreement with EA Sports, citing "current business climate and costs of litigation."

EA is currently developing a new college football game for next-generation platforms the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, though details on the game have not been announced.

NCAA Football 14 launched earlier this month for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

[The_Niddler]

nonexclusive three-year deal

Will be interesting to see if 2K or anyone else makes one to try to compete with EA on college football games.

Definitely good news though.

[texasfan4444]

nonexclusive three-year deal

Will be interesting to see if 2K or anyone else makes one to try to compete with EA on college football games.

Definitely good news though.

How could a company not try to step in this arena? There is a market. There is a market with a futrated demographic to target. Basically, build a good product and you can steal the incumbents revenue. I understand that cost, research, and level of effort to make a sports game is immense but a company that already has a sports engine like 2k could consider this a low risk attempt to steal a large group of users specially those that already on their nuits about BBALL. Maybe Im just crazy, but they are losing out on lots of potential cash. If they just dump one of their wort selling games like The Darkness and push dev money to NCAA, they could double that games profit 2 fold with their first release.

[swellvermin]

nonexclusive three-year deal

Will be interesting to see if 2K or anyone else makes one to try to compete with EA on college football games.

Definitely good news though.

How could a company not try to step in this arena? There is a market. There is a market with a futrated demographic to target. Basically, build a good product and you can steal the incumbents revenue. I understand that cost, research, and level of effort to make a sports game is immense but a company that already has a sports engine like 2k could consider this a low risk attempt to steal a large group of users specially those that already on their nuits about BBALL. Maybe Im just crazy, but they are losing out on lots of potential cash. If they just dump one of their wort selling games like The Darkness and push dev money to NCAA, they could double that games profit 2 fold with their first release.

I couldn't agree more! I really do hope they try it out, I'd try it out. If they put out something that blew EA's game out of the water, they'd be set. I haven't heard much about if they are trying to develop a college game, but I would imagine they knew about this expiration of the exclusive license deal with EA and hopefully are trying their luck at it. It's been 10+ years of us buying the same game over and over. Im ready.

[BigStimpin]

You guys are spoiled, and when you finally get what your asking for it'll be then that you realize it.

[The_Niddler]

You guys are spoiled, and when you finally get what your asking for it'll be then that you realize it.

What does that mean?

[nick]

You guys are spoiled, and when you finally get what your asking for it'll be then that you realize it.

[ajalves]

You guys are spoiled, and when you finally get what your asking for it'll be then that you realize it.

[The_Niddler]

Perfect post nick.

[swellvermin]

Perfect post nick.

[Nole4real]

If you guys can hold off Mike for 2 more seasons/cups, I can retire as the most decorated NDLer of all time. It certainly won't be me stopping him this year.

4>3


















Cup Titles dont count









ok, they do

[BigStimpin]

You guys are spoiled, and when you finally get what your asking for it'll be then that you realize it.

It ain't easy being BigStimpin.

[phreakk]

Didn't realize there was another no body suing EA and NCAA http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootbal ... jor-hurdle

[mbyrd75]

no more ncaa might be a good thing at this point. might be the worst version of ncaa i've ever played. offense is on a track while the defense plays in mud

[The_Niddler]

They will come out with a tuning update.
Just hang in there.

[swellvermin]

They will come out with a tuning update.
Just hang in there.

thats the problem. shouldnt be necessary, just make a complete game to begin with.

[Uuaww]

They will come out with a tuning update.
Just hang in there.

thats the problem. shouldnt be necessary, just make a complete game to begin with.

its a cost thing, why pay a bunch of guys money to test a game when you can release it and have thousands test it and then fix it it later.

[The_Niddler]

I agree with you when they put the game out and big items are wrong or not working.
But I work in the software industry, not gaming, but I am sure it works the same as far as QA testing and such.

Things get missed. It happens.
We are putting out fixes for defects quite often and we are one of the leaders in the insurance industry.

[The_Niddler]

They will come out with a tuning update.
Just hang in there.

thats the problem. shouldnt be necessary, just make a complete game to begin with.

its a cost thing, why pay a bunch of guys money to test a game when you can release it and have thousands test it and then fix it it later.

And this is simply not true.
They have a QA department.

Maybe it was someone new they put on testing NCAA, maybe they had to fire a few people.
We have no idea, we do not work there.
But I can imagine some of the craziness.