EA Sports NCAA College FB coming back Summer '24
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Did a C-USA online dynasty with a bunch of people back on NCAA 12. I built quite the power house with UCF.
Def don’t miss the linebackers that could jump 12 feet high and had the hands of Jerry Rice- would be great if they could fix that trash.
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I'm guessing that's the way most of them will feel, but there are bound to be some people who won't agree to it
Throwing over the middle was a death sentence with those linebackers. 10 yard out routes were unstoppable
This article from a couple years ago takes a look at the potential economics of it:
SMQ: A win-win-win plan to relaunch EA Sports NCAA Football
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At that time, they estimated roughly $150k/school and $2k/player. Not huge but probably a lot more than they're making on t-shirt sales.
The article linked in this post has some info about what the schools get, at least:
It also says they expect most players will be on board, but noted the way some NIL deals are structured as exclusive there might be some additional paperwork/roadblocks. Said if a player doesn't sign, they won't be in the game & there won't be roster editing functionality.
Gotta imagine there will be holdouts initially. But I hope sports talk roasts them for it. Student athletes fought hard to get these types of perks, any player that tries to holdout to get more than everyone else should be called out. And, I'd also be just fine with EA putting replacement players with lower ratings out of spite.
Hopefully they have some of the AI worked out thus time. I used to play this probably ten years ago, back when Iowa State was bad.
I could never for the life of me beat Iowa, Kansas St, or Texas. I would always upset Oklahoma though who was usually top 5. I ended up going to the Alamo Bowl or something similar because I'd finish 9-3.
Well one year i actually won the Big 12, won the Big 12 championship game, finished 12-1 and made the Fiesta Bowl. I was ranked 3rd, pumped to get a shot at a team like Alabama, Clemson, or when Oregon was elite. Instead I got to face off with Navy of all teams, I think they finished 11-1 and won whatever pathetic conference they were in at the time. They hadn't beaten a good team all year and now of course I get them.
I'd never been so disappointed in my life, took me like 5 or 6 years of recruiting to get to that level.
I could never for the life of me beat Iowa, Kansas St, or Texas. I would always upset Oklahoma though who was usually top 5. I ended up going to the Alamo Bowl or something similar because I'd finish 9-3.
Well one year i actually won the Big 12, won the Big 12 championship game, finished 12-1 and made the Fiesta Bowl. I was ranked 3rd, pumped to get a shot at a team like Alabama, Clemson, or when Oregon was elite. Instead I got to face off with Navy of all teams, I think they finished 11-1 and won whatever pathetic conference they were in at the time. They hadn't beaten a good team all year and now of course I get them.
I'd never been so disappointed in my life, took me like 5 or 6 years of recruiting to get to that level.
If I were EA, I'd do a take it or leave it type system. Basically allow players a portal to sign in to to sign away their NIL for the game for a set price. There is no way that they can reach out to each individual football player and sign different contracts.
I could see EA getting more involved for who ever they put on the cover, but that's about it.
Personally, I think it's time for the NCAA to include this portion in their negotiations with EA and pay that directly to the players that agree to be in the game. Do this for all sports that have licensing agreements. Then start adding portions of the NCAA tournaments to that. Set an annual fund to pay to the athletes in each sport a level amount based on what they bring in.
I could spend hours building my own school. I got a kick out of having the option to include a track around the field. Think they'll still have that feature?
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I think that's probably the way they'd have to go. There are 130 FBS teams with 85 scholarships each, so that's a shade over 11,000 scholarship players in a given year. The logistics of negotiating that many deals would be mind boggling, particularly when 98% of them have zero name recognition outside their own fanbase. I mean, I follow CFB fairly closely, but couldn't name more than a handful of starters on any other Big 12 team.
I'm going to guess there will be multiple different covers with key players from the blue bloods or big award candidates that'll get an additional deal.
Not only that, in dynasty mode some of your players threaten to enter the transfer portal if you don’t secure them NIL deals. You can also run dynasty mode as a coach or head of the NIL collective.
The NCAA game has always been by EA and the gameplay was always way smoother and better than Madden IMO.
Me and a group of buddies in multiple states did the Dynasty with our own created schools, took a bunch of teams out of the B1G and put our teams in, played online weekly, lots of fun.
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NCAA 07 on the OG Xbox was the best, recruiting was fun and took just the right amount of time, you got to see your self-designed coach on the sidelines, you could create signs for the crowd to wave, and player discipline was still in the mix. And the gameplay was great. I managed to win a natty with Iowa State after working my way up from Louisiana-Monroe through Arizona and Northwestern, then I retired immediately. I still have a copy, but my ancient Xbox laser doesn’t always read the disc.
The newer versions I’ve tried have waaaaay too complicated recruiting that takes waaaay too much time to be very fun for me. Plus learning a new set of controls is tough when you’re older than 50.
#BringBackNCAA07Recruiting
The newer versions I’ve tried have waaaaay too complicated recruiting that takes waaaay too much time to be very fun for me. Plus learning a new set of controls is tough when you’re older than 50.
#BringBackNCAA07Recruiting
EA's track record over the last 10 years has been shockingly bad even by modern gaming standards. i have 0 expectations for this to be good.
new Battlefield, Madden, Sim Cities are unplayable
new Battlefield, Madden, Sim Cities are unplayable
I fully expect them to have like loot boxes or pay to win ultimate teams or some **** and completely ignore game play that is fun
it'll be NIL deals incorporated into the game where you literally have to pay for recruits.
Confirmed to be on the Madden engine, but supposedly not a reskin.
Everything we know about EA Sports College Football '24
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