14 was like $125 at the store I was at and I wasn’t planning on doing the CFB Revamped thing even with how cool that looks. Plus I had to buy a 360. Assuming the new game does release next year, I was just looking for something to hold me over.
of course i do. making phone calls is extremely tedious and the number system is just so much better. a lot of set it and forget it energy. it's great. i do not look forward to the zoomer tedium that will inevitably plague recruiting in the new one.
let's not forget coaching skill trees. were they perfect? no. was auto commit extremely abusable? absolutely. but it was a nice bit a new added progression to dynasty.
It was so fucking awful. Bet in '25 you'll have to wtite all your own emails to pretend recruits named Wayne Newton. The ways to make dynasty infinitely better are so painfully obvious and easy that it's infuriating
For $12 bucks, this game goes: Consider a better version of everything that goes on in NCAA14 if you didn't actually play the games.
I support their attempt to get more money. Also support EA telling them to take it or leave it and moving forward with fake names.
I don't think the players have much leverage here. EA can just do what they used to do and then some crazies will spend time updating the made up players to match what they are IRL.
they know that operation sports will have better and more accurate rosters completed within a week of release.
I couldn’t care less if actual players are in it or not. I just want to start an online dynasty and bring my own recruits in.
The argument hasn't really changed much in a decade. If EA couldn't make the game without the players a decade ago, I don't think they can now.
I don't think that's the case. I remember it being bc of the O'Bannon lawsuit. Edit: https://www.si.com/college/2021/02/02/ncaa-football-ea-sports-stopped-making-games The end of the game stems from a high-profile legal battle headed by former UCLA star basketball player Ed O’Bannon that has set the tone for many of the name, image, and likeness conversations still happening in college sports today. The video games didn’t directly use the names of players (remember “QB No. 2” for Texas A&M?), the games used the numbers, skill sets and general appearances of players without compensating them. This alone did not force the game to shut down: EA indicated in court filings that it was willing to pay players moving forward to use their likenesses (and potentially names) in the game. The holdup came on the NCAA side, whose resistance to allowing players to profit in any way while in school made it virtually impossible for EA to keep making the game without yet another lawsuit. Despite its popularity, EA stopped producing the game.
Because the players were not allowed to be compensated. Now they are. If they elect to not be in the game/be compensated, that doesn't restrict EA from making the game if all of the schools signed off on it.
That was true 10 years ago. They could have made the game with every school having QB1 and a generic height/weight and random ratings. They chose not to then and I don't think they'll choose to do it now. If they can't figure out a way to get the players on board, they won't make the game imo.
I think with NIL and times changing that we’re more than likely getting a game whether it’s with 90% of rosters or 100%. I’ve been wrong before though.
I agree. I think it's unlikely the players get together and have a massive boycott. You'll probably have a few guys that hold that think they should get more, and they are probably right, but we'll live with that. I was just saying if players do all get together and have a massive boycott like the tweet above and like 5% of players sign on, I doubt we'd have a game. I don't think that's likely though. I just don't think EA is moving forward unless they can get the bulk of players.
I don't think the CFBPA is nearly what you guys think it is. I would guess most players aren't really concerned with the money, they just want a copy of the game to play as themselves.
idk I think that was true 10 year ago but now they see backup OL getting money from a local burger joint so they all want their cut. Not saying they are even wrong for it, just saying I think they are more conscious now than they were then and have a better idea of what they are worth.
The point I made in my original post is that I don't think the CFBPA is as large as people think. I don't think the PA opting out would stop the game from coming out.
Be awesome if the players can get a little more, but at the end of the day the stadiums, schools, logos, etc will be fine. Random players will be edited and actual rosters will be downloadable through those that customize like operations sports. The players really have no leverage here
How much can they actually expect to make off of this? EA can only give them so much and still turn a profit that makes the game worth putting out.
Not as much of a loser as me, who would scour message boards for the week prior and then drive all over OC/LA to find the independent shop who wound sell it the second they got it in instead of waiting for release date.