EA Sports NCAA Football 2016 would have been released today


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Kendrick

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Tuesday is a sad day in the lives of college football and video game fans everywhere. For the second year in a row, fans will miss out on a new NCAA Football game from EA Sports due to litigation between college athletes and the NCAA.

For now, the internet is left to their own devices to create what could, or would likely be the cover for the popular video game.

http://national.suntimes.com/national-sports/7/72/1466602/ea-sports-ncaa-football-2016

A judge granted approval a $60 million settlement of several class-action lawsuits relating to video game makers using the names, images and likenesses of college football and men's college basketball players.

U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken approved a $60 million payment to the players on Thursday and said that any student-athlete who wants in on the claim must file by July 31. Objectors to the settlement have 30 days to appeal once Wilken finalizes the approval.

“It's a landmark day,” an attorney for the plaintiffs, Steve Berman said to USA Today. “It's the first time student-athletes will get paid for use of their name, image and likeness—and we’re anxious to get the settlement funds to the students.”

More than 20,000 claims were filed by original July 2 deadline and some players will receive a maximum of $7,200, which can be handed out as early as September, depending on the pace of the appeals
 



Ed O'Bannon sucked as a college athlete and Pro. That is why he did this. Couldn't make his money in the pros, so he decided to go for an easier pay day.
 
EA Sports actually offered to compensate the athletes just so they could continue to produce the game, but the NCAA wouldn't allow it.
 
Barry Bonds and Michael Jordan for years wouldn't allow video game makers to use their likeness in games.
 
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2kool said:
Don't spit at O'Bannon. Spit at the NCAA for not allowing these guys to get paid on top of a scholarship. Putting a cap on benefits of work production is about as un-American as it gets.

This is all the NCAA's fault.
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Cosign.
 



Kendrick said:
EA Sports actually offered to compensate the athletes just so they could continue to produce the game, but the NCAA wouldn't allow it.
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I've heard that they may be compensated in the future once the NCAA figures out what to do with stipends.
 
2kool said:
Don't spit at O'Bannon. Spit at the NCAA for not allowing these guys to get paid on top of a scholarship. Putting a cap on benefits of work production is about as un-American as it gets.

This is all the NCAA's fault.
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Mike Golic until 2013-2014 always said "a scholarship was enough". Thanks to Ed O'Bannon and social media, that tone has completely changed from not only him but all of the talking heads.

It seems so obvious to everyone except the NCAA.
 
The following is excerpted from Court Justice: The Inside Story of My Battle Against the NCAA by Ed O’Bannon

Electronic Arts wanted to pay for the right to use complete player identities. It wanted every college roster and every roster of top teams from the past. It wanted every college player’s name. It wanted a license to publish everything about the players and their identities within college hoops. EA didn’t care if it had to pay the NCAA, the schools, the players, the former players, or some combination of them for that right.

This isn’t surprising at all if you think about it. EA is in the business of making video games. It’s not in the business of propping up amateurism. It doesn’t care about amateurism. Never has. Never will.

And consider EA’s slogan for its sports video games, “It’s in the game.” EA only wants to publish the most realistic sports games possible. Why is that? Because the most realistic games are the kinds of games that sell the best.

So why aren’t there college games with complete players’ identities? It’s because of the NCAA.

The NCAA told EA that the video game publisher couldn’t pay for the complete identity rights of college players. So that stopped EA from obtaining them. If the NCAA had let EA pay us, all of you gamers out there would have your college sports games. So don’t blame me. Blame the NCAA for refusing to change its rules in the face of basic common sense, not to mention consumer demand.

It’s also worth noting that we never asked EA to stop making college sports games. Just the opposite, actually—we love EA Sports college games and wish EA still made them. All we asked for is that EA pursue what it really wanted to do: negotiate with us to use our identities.

https://www.si.com/college-basketba...-excerpt-ea-sports-college-sports-video-games
 
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