May of last year, EA Sports confirmed that its 30-year partnership with FIFA, football’s governing body, has coming to an end—which, if you’re playing FIFA (game) is forever a shocking news.
It’s all about money. Based on New York Times, FIFA asked for a doubling of the $150 million licensing fee to allow Electronic Arts to continue to use its name. Meanwhile, EA is starting to question what they actually get with that money. “Basically, what we got from FIFA in a year without the World Cup was the four letters on the front of the box, in a world where most people don’t even see the box anymore because they bought the game. play digitally,” Andrew Wilson, CEO of EA, is said to have said workers.
The world’s most successful football franchise has faced little competition for years, but with FIFA threatening to release its own rival game, the future suddenly looks uncertain for FIFA game. EA will lose the license and must use it together Pro Evoteams and players in style, with Manchester Blues’ Erwin Holland scoring in the First Division? Can FIFA really make its own game?
One of eight people on earth who watched unifying passion, a FIFA-sponsored biography starring Tim Roth as former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and Sam Neill as now-disgraced former FIFA president Joao Havelange, I had doubts about my ability to make a game Electronic Success of FIFA. Both parts corrupt and bureaucratic, the organization seems to lack the agility and cultural acumen to execute it, even if, with 4 billion dollars sitting in the bankit certainly has money.
A quote from disgraced current FIFA president Gianni Infantino seems to confirm my suspicions. “The new FIFA game—FIFA 25, 26, 27etc—will always be the best video game for any girl or boy, we’ll have news on it soon,” he says. speak. I’ve been keeping an eye on the past year, scanning “eGame” job boards for football-related vacancies, digging through rumors that 2K sports game veterans have enlisted. No new news.
The final blow to FIFA’s hopes of creating a worthy opponent to EA’s hitters came earlier this week at a flashy launch event for EA Sports FC 24will be released on September 29. A group of EA Sports executives dressed in casual shirts and white sneakers have announced that the company has won exclusive rights to the Premier League, La Liga, UEFA Champions League and quite a few other leagues compete with clubs in both men’s and women’s events.
That leaves FIFA’s hypothetical game in the position of a cash-strapped bottom team: unable to play. Dead underwater. That’s good or bad depending on what you think about EA’s flagship franchise: It sells hundreds of millions of copies a year but angers fans by charging full price every year for improvements. incremental progress on new gameplay and roster, and try to get more money from them with loot box mechanics of the last team. (I’m not saying a FIFA-made alternative would be better: I doubt it would be much worse, but perhaps more competition would be better.)
