EA loses NCAA License, good for FCS?

[Kadeezy]

I have personally refused to purchase any new iteration of EA's college football game until the FCS teams were included. I know you can use "team builder" to make some reasonable facsimile of your favorite FCS school, but it's just not the same. I still play NCAA football 2003 because it has most of the Big Sky schools and about 1/2 the total FCS teams in total. It was awesome to be in the dorms playing the game with the actual players, listening to them argue about their ratings, matching my school up against the big boys...

Anyways, now that the NCAA is no longer affiliated with the game, I can only hope that this opens the door for FCS schools to make their return. EA will still be able to make direct agreements with schools. Personally I hope Fullerton and the other commissioners get on this. What a great marketing tool. I don't even care if they use generic stadiums.

The dream game would include all FBS/FCS schools with FCS playoffs, "money games", offers to "move up", etc.

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[gobears14]

I miss FCS schools too (they took them out the year UCA moved up ) but the amount of space it would take to put every FCS school in with the FBS schools would be a lot to handle...maybe they could with the new systems. im not sure. Ive thought that they could just have like a mode where you play the FCS playoffs from the year before or something though. But you know they just want to cater to the big teams first

[clenz]

I miss FCS schools too (they took them out the year UCA moved up ) but the amount of space it would take to put every FCS school in with the FBS schools would be a lot to handle...maybe they could with the new systems. im not sure. Ive thought that they could just have like a mode where you play the FCS playoffs from the year before or something though. But you know they just want to cater to the big teams first

Duh...

NCAA 12 sold 796K in the first month it was out. I would bet of those 90+% went to fans of "big teams".

[Mvemjsunpx]

Anyways, now that the NCAA is no longer affiliated with the game, I can only hope that this opens the door for FCS schools to make their return. EA will still be able to make direct agreements with schools. Personally I hope Fullerton and the other commissioners get on this. What a great marketing tool. I don't even care if they use generic stadiums.

I fail to see how. EA was responsible for ditching the FCS teams, not the NCAA.

[SDHornet]

Actually what was responsible was the monopolization of the rights so only one game developer can use the NCAA label (and its membership) to market its game. Once the rights were monopolized, there was no reason for EA to stay on the cutting edge of development (this holds true across the board for all games ever since the rights monopolizations began). I can’t recall what year it was but I gave up on these sports games when I bought the “new” game and it was almost identical to the previous year.

[Mvemjsunpx]

Actually what was responsible was the monopolization of the rights so only one game developer can use the NCAA label (and its membership) to market its game. Once the rights were monopolized, there was no reason for EA to stay on the cutting edge of development (this holds true across the board for all games ever since the rights monopolizations began). I can’t recall what year it was but I gave up on these sports games when I bought the “new” game and it was almost identical to the previous year.

I'm pretty sure that only happened because 2k Sports gave up on the NCAA game. In other words, EA got the exclusive contract by default because no-one else wanted to make an college football game at the time. It wasn't quite the same situation as the Madden exclusivity, I don't believe.

I guess they didn't have to make it literally exclusive, but I doubt that would've resulted in much of a long-term difference. I would imagine making a college football game is a lot more effort than an NFL game, and for less revenue.

[SDHornet]

I don’t think 2K Sports ever made an NCAA football game, but 989 Sport did and they made NCAA Gamebreaker until 2004. I’m not sure when EA obtained the exclusive rights for NCAA football but it was around that time frame.

Also this move by the NCAA appears to be motivated by the pending class action law suit it faces due to its profiting off of players long after they have been removed from the college athletics scene. I hope the NCAA losses this case.

[slycat]

I don’t think 2K Sports ever made an NCAA football game, but 989 Sport did and they made NCAA Gamebreaker until 2004. I’m not sure when EA obtained the exclusive rights for NCAA football but it was around that time frame.

Also this move by the NCAA appears to be motivated by the pending class action law suit it faces due to its profiting off of players long after they have been removed from the college athletics scene. I hope the NCAA losses this case.

I know for sure EA got exculsive rights to the NFL and thats when 2K and others disapperaed. It sucked because they would try crazy new ideas to try and break into the market and EA would have to try hard to stay innovative as well. Now they just pencil whip out new versions without hardly trying. Cool you added some mascots, how about making it so a WR can't jump 5 feet in the air?

[Mvemjsunpx]

I don’t think 2K Sports ever made an NCAA football game, but 989 Sport did and they made NCAA Gamebreaker until 2004. I’m not sure when EA obtained the exclusive rights for NCAA football but it was around that time frame.

http://2ksport.wikia.com/wiki/NCAA_Coll ... _2K_Series

[BlackFalkin]

bad for fcs bc now theres EVEN LESS visibility.

[SDHornet]

bad for fcs bc now theres EVEN LESS visibility.

EA stopped putting FCS in their games years ago.

[SDHornet]

I don’t think 2K Sports ever made an NCAA football game, but 989 Sport did and they made NCAA Gamebreaker until 2004. I’m not sure when EA obtained the exclusive rights for NCAA football but it was around that time frame.

http://2ksport.wikia.com/wiki/NCAA_Coll ... _2K_Series

Didn't see that, it sure wasn't listed on this site:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2K_Sports