FIFA wants $1b for 4 years and more from EA *update* FIFA pulling exclusivity

[Rigby.]

EA won.

Hell if they just made a EPL game alone, it’d probably do more numbers than a game with the rest of the leagues combined

I wonder what they’d do in regards to player likeness. Like if another company got license to the country teams, would EA be fukked in terms of using those players?

 

[NotAnFBIagent]

Good luck finding a new developer for FIFA games, FIFA

2k

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

greed killed boxing games, drivng games... now this

i miss the time when these old money clowns were too busy to pay attention to "childrens" games. now they woke to the profits and want to milk them so hard they will kill the whole lanes.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

greed killed boxing games, drivng games... now this

i miss the time when these old money clowns were too busy to pay attention to "childrens" games. now they woke to the profits and want to milk them so hard they will kill the whole lanes.

I remember when there used to be half a dozen football and basketball games releasing at the same time

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

EA won.

 

[Jmare007]

EA won.

at using a picture of Mbappe and PSG

 

[WaveMolecules]

Good luck finding a new developer for FIFA games, FIFA

Bring back winning eleven / proevolution soccer

 

[AStrangeName]

Bring back winning eleven / proevolution soccer

It still exist, it's called eFootball now and it's a free to play

 

[MikelArteta]

what does this deal with the premier league mean though?
So they have to mkae a deal with all leagues or?

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

2KFIFA

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

yeah, its official FIFA fukking lost. This is where greed gets you

UK PC and console sales grew 2.6% in 2023 | UK Annual Report

38 million video games were sold in the UK during 2023, the latest GSD figures reveal.

www.gamesindustry.biz

Sold just under 8% of last years FIFA (during the World Cup) and didn’t have to pay an extremely expensive licensing fee

UK GSD 2023 Top 20 (Digital and Physical)​

Position	Title
1	EA Sports FC 24 (EA)
2	Hogwarts
3	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Activision Blizzard)
4	FIFA 23 (EA)
5	Grand Theft Auto 5 (Rockstar)
6	Spider-Man 2 (Sony)
7	Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (EA)
8	Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar)
9	The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Nintendo)*
10	Diablo 4 (Activision Blizzard)

 

[CEO of Morgan Industries]

It still exist, it's called eFootball now and it's a free to play

Doesn't even have Master League after all this time, SMH.

FIFA fukked up. They should have asked MLB leadership about how hard it is to break a new game in the sports simulation market. MLB gave up on RBI Baseball and had to go ask Sony to make The Show multiplatform. FIFA's going to have to bankroll this shyt themselves or go back to EA, apologize, and sell their license to EA for a song.

 

[ORDER_66]

So that's it no more FIFA on EA huh...

 

[CEO of Morgan Industries]

what does this deal with the premier league mean though?
So they have to mkae a deal with all leagues or?

Yes. EA just went out and made individual deals with each league to get the rights. EA can't have the World Cup or Club World Cup without dealing with FIFA, but they can deal with the leagues and confederations to add all the leagues + cup competitions they want.

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

yeah, its official FIFA fukking lost. This is where greed gets you

UK PC and console sales grew 2.6% in 2023 | UK Annual Report

38 million video games were sold in the UK during 2023, the latest GSD figures reveal.

www.gamesindustry.biz

Sold just under 8% of last years FIFA (during the World Cup) and didn’t have to pay an extremely expensive licensing fee

UK GSD 2023 Top 20 (Digital and Physical)​

Position	Title
1	EA Sports FC 24 (EA)
2	Hogwarts
3	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Activision Blizzard)
4	FIFA 23 (EA)
5	Grand Theft Auto 5 (Rockstar)
6	Spider-Man 2 (Sony)
7	Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (EA)
8	Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar)
9	The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Nintendo)*
10	Diablo 4 (Activision Blizzard)

8% is still a huge loss when you talking to investors... Even worse that the number 4 game is their game from last year with that license

Nobody starving but it's not a slam dunk, we don't need you guys anymore, type of thing... Especially when this is just UK numbers and doesn't reflect losses in other countries as well