EA Sports to relaunch it's NCAA Football franchise

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LESSSSSSSSGO!

[Cyno]

I wonder how they'll address any sort of monetary exploitation of supposedly "amateur" talent as that was IIRC the big reason why they stopped doing the NCAA Football games. Generic players without any likeness towards actual athletes? No NCAA branding or real teams (aka, the original Tecmo Bowl route) but using college rules? Or will the NCAA allow the unthinkable and *gasp* actually compensate their players financially?!

I'm thinking it will be #1 and #2, especially as they're calling it "College Football" and not "NCAA Football."

[Push R Truth]

EA is so damn lazy I fully expect to find a bunch of Madden Logo stuff in the finished product

[XIII]

Probably try to get around things by having a deep create a player/team mode. Where you can create the actual teams beat for beat but they’re not technically responsible for it.

[Dr. T is an alien]

Feb 2, 2021 12:53:13 GMT -5 Cyno said:

I wonder how they'll address any sort of monetary exploitation of supposedly "amateur" talent as that was IIRC the big reason why they stopped doing the NCAA Football games. Generic players without any likeness towards actual athletes? No NCAA branding or real teams (aka, the original Tecmo Bowl route) but using college rules? Or will the NCAA allow the unthinkable and *gasp* actually compensate their players financially?!

I'm thinking it will be #1 and #2, especially as they're calling it "College Football" and not "NCAA Football."

The team branding was never an issue. That's easy to work around. The colleges were never going to turn down the money. It's not like they were putting their own games out there. Hell, Madden games even had snippets of it after they cut the college game out. It is, and always was, an issue about paying the players who don't have contracts that give the NCAA the right to sell their likeness.

[Hurbster]

Feb 2, 2021 14:04:15 GMT -5 XIII said:

Probably try to get around things by having a deep create a player/team mode. Where you can create the actual teams beat for beat but they’re not technically responsible for it.

Known as the 'PES' route.

[Andy Martin]

YEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[Triangle Lancer]

Much like their last offerings, I expect a lot of randomized names and faces (which you may or may not be able to edit), and numbers in place of names when recognizing all-time greats or former award winners. (Example: Heisman winner - #35 Wisconsin, 1954...instead of Alan Ameche.)

[zero744]

I need them to bring back the March Madness series as well!

[BRV]

The good news: EA Sports is making a College Football video game.

The bad news: EA Sports is making a College Football video game.

[fw91]

I mean if you play madden, with real players and names, why would I want to play with fictional jersey numbers?

[Alice Syndrome]

Feb 2, 2021 14:04:15 GMT -5 XIII said:

Probably try to get around things by having a deep create a player/team mode. Where you can create the actual teams beat for beat but they’re not technically responsible for it.

In which case I'd rather have a PC port of Backbreaker.

Honestly even as a Brit I can tell Madden just isn't good as a representation of American Football and they won't give a damn to improve it as long as fans throw money at Ultimate Team

[zero744]

Feb 7, 2021 15:31:53 GMT -5 fw91 said:

I mean if you play madden, with real players and names, why would I want to play with fictional jersey numbers?

The qb#2 or WR#21 never bothered me. The gameplay was more fast paced and more fun for me to play. I’d take a college game over Madden any day