NCAA wouldn't allow thatOriginally Posted by Kingpin32
NCAA wouldn't allow that
NCAA won't allow it as it would destroy student-athlete eligibility.
Won't work (unless EA and CLC want to be defendants in lawsuits from now until eternity). My bet is EA drops it unless they are confident they can win the lawsuit at the SCOTUS.
So we will basically go back to this since I don't remember NCAA logo being used anywhere in this game
Or as Bill said Saban '15
I meant the NCAA, not EA paying the players.
Oh full circle to the Bill Walsh days.
Again that won't stop future lawsuits against EA and the CLC and potentially even the Universities. I'm honestly surprised each and every Div I university wasn't also named as a Defendant for "allowing" (and profiting from) their students' likeness to be stolen.So we will basically go back to this since I don't remember NCAA logo being used anywhere in this game
Or as Bill said Saban '15
Its really just not a feasible business model with class-action lawsuits every year + the lesser sells (compared to Madden).
LOL a week after the game comes out. Way to ef up sales for EA . nIce job NCAA
anyway, i'm confident at some point soon enough of a company coming up with a cool fictional college football game or some such thing
Someone give Bill a call to be on the cover of the 15 game, just for old times sake!
Well, twitter never fails & it seems like there's a much better understanding as to what could happen. As long as the CLC remains as an option for EA, the game would remain, & there would be no NCAA logos in the game. I'm good with it.
After what CDJ posted about the facts of the CLC, and what Owen Good is hearing, I'm pretty confident there will be continuation of the series.
Owen Good apparently follows TGT's lawyer:
The NCAA is basically saying we are OUT it's not worth it. EA is it worth getting sued every year. The only way to keep the series alive is a 5-4 SCOTUS ruling in EA/NCAA's favor at the SCOTUS.
You people need to listen to TGT's resident lawyer when he talks law. He might just know what he's talking about. Just sayin'
Or they could get the CLC agreement and completely have random players on the rosters like All Pro Football. Making roster editing that much harder.
hope so
But simpler if they could get a good working online roster editor up.
They could get sued for that as well. It's not as solid as the current case but a conspiracy theory would certainly be enough to satisfy the Plaintiffs' lawyers. Just like Napster et al. "technically" didn't do anything wrong they still got sued into oblivion for creating a product that allowed "wrongs" to occur.
Im no law man, but i think this would be best for both us and them. in game roster editing is horrid anyway.just release the online editor a week or two before the game and we would all be set. Hell, i wish they would do that now.
Well Video game companies are always getting sued or are in litigation. They have a budget for such things because the world is so Sue hungry. I worked on the past two Call of Duties and there legal team has to be the most difficult to work with because they have so much money going out in lawsuits. We were constantly removing stuff from the game.
Im sure every release has a legal budget for stuff like this. Frivolous or not they usually settle.
Doubtful.
Unfortunately this is the end for college football games I feel. I mean the cost and time to license every fight song, stadium, team entrance, uniform, mascots, and school logo would be a massive undertaking for a yearly title release. I have followed the lawsuit and quite frankly figured the NCAA was going to pull out of their partnership with EA Sports as soon as they could which I guess is June 2014.
RIP NCAA Football, 21 years in the video game industry is a heck of a run. My condolences go out to all who will lose their job over this decision.
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