EA cancels 2014 college football game, settles lawsuits with former players

The NCAA is such a joke of an organization. It's all about the $$$ with them.

As for EA. Take this time off from the NCAA game and have the Devs develop a NEW game engine!!! At the very least come up with some solid physics and tackling like the game Backbreaker did. Put this extra time to use and finally INNOVATE something!!! Enough reheats.

While I don't believe that NCAA players should be paid, I believe along with their scholarships they should have their housing and food paid for at the very least. But even if I don't know if that will work. This has been a problem forever and has broken up great teams like the Fab 5 which is extremely sad.

How can everyone say "nothing is lost"....

The game was not perfect by any means but now we no.....ZERO college football game......anyone who has missed NCAA basketball knows this sucks. Anyone who likes NCAA sports and video games recognizes this sucks.

I'm still confused if they are simply suing over their likeness (on screen) and mainly the fact that it is the exact number....Why not just make the game random generated rosters and while everyone that does rosters is editing the names...they could also edit the numbers??

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Well, a lack of innovation certainly doesn't help a franchise. NCAA Football and Madden both clearly struggle with this commercial disease.

Also, that's smart on the players side. I would hate to represent a team that later on finds out that people are making a dime off of a video game with me in it without my consent.

Sorry, EA. I can't support this business practice either.

Why is no one talking about how they can not play NCCA Football on PS4 and Xbox One. The game would have better graphics then last gen games. They only talking about EA.

...and nothing of value was lost.

On a positive note, at least we won't have to put up with another yearly release from EA completely devoid of innovation that people buy purely because EA have the monopoly on the licenses.

Maybe when the NCAA sort it out, 2k will buy the license :D

Arian Foster pointed out something very interesting when he told reporters he did accept payments when he was at college. He was playing on a saturday, in front of a crowd of 100,000 people who all paid for their tickets. After the game he'd have 100s of fans waiting to see him and get his autograph. Yet he didn't even have the money to eat because he didn't get paid, and his finances went towards paying for a place to live.

The NCAA and the schools these kids play for make so much money it's quite sickening. Couple that with the popularity of the games EA make and you can easily see that out of all these deals, the kids are the ones who getting screwed on this deal. Sure they get a scholarship, but that doesn't feed you. That doesn't help you buy the things you need to live right now.

College players deserve to be paid. It's sickening that the NCAA actually have it so players can't be paid in their rules and regulations.

Bad day in gaming.

Am i the only one who feels bad that there will be no more college football games? I mean yes EA is i n the middle of it but in truth if ESPN made a College football game they would be i n the same boat so stop the EA bashing. The other thing that makes me mad is that the ones suing are a few out of the millions of players a few cried cause they were not getting paid and Im sure that these people have NCAA Football before on whatever system they have. This just makes Me sad really

what did they expect would happen? this combined with the lawsuit on madden, EA have to use all their money to pay the spoiled athletes and now it's no longer financially viable to make the games. thanks a lot assholes. you killed a franchise with your greediness. what ever happen to playing for the fun, not the money?

at the same time, EA was wrong on both counts and it's only fair they pay the piper. looks like THEIR greed is also catching up with them.

EA loses? awesome!

Yeah right EA. You knew exactly what you were doing, exploiting athletes along with the NCAA to let the money roll in.

I hope they took you to the cleaners with that settlement.

Good, maybe they will start to innovate now....

i used to be against paying players, especially when the student loan bills came in the mail, but i've rethought that position over the past couple years. for myself and many other fans college football was about tradition, school pride, and a sense of community with other fans. however college football is not about that anymore (if it ever was in the first place).

when i see all the colleges jumping conferences, coaches bolting for the next big job, and the fact if a player gets injured bad enough, that player is released from scholarship and not given so much as a thank you. these kids are getting exploited, there no two ways about it.

and that goes for all studen't athletes, not just football

I was a student athlete and received national offers. I still don't believe in paying athletes when they receive free room and board, tuition, and meal plans. Why? Because the academics suffer in the process and it's not fair to pay a gladiator over an innovator (scholar, school scientist, whatever). Most of these athletes pick a trash degree while playing ball to make life easier, but don't understand they're possibly hurting themselves in the long haul. Meanwhile, you have classroom ratios increasing and cutbacks so the schools can use the excess funds for pointless beautification and renovation projects. But you don't hear anyone asking to the non-athlete students for their projects or big think projects. My question is: if these college players are worth so much, and the tuition keeps rising for everyone, where the hell is all that money going to?

Bummer. I would think it would be a honor getting your image in a game. Not like the college pays you to play anyway. Guess if you are not good enough to make it to the NFL you want to try and cash in and get what you can before you have to go get a job like the rest of us. Maybe look at it as a being a NFL intern, maybe that will help ya. Greed on top of Greed = lawyers win.

This changes nothing since EA will probably be named the #1 worst company in America again three years running. lol

Yea guys, I'm sure every college player gets 100,000 tuition. LOL. You guys are something else. Get your facts straight instead of stereotyping all college athletes.

Anyone who complains about athletes not getting compensated doesn't understand all the crap we go through. Yes it's good for us but we're exploited by these organizations and companies making tons of money on us just because they don't use our names. Walk ons don't even get to eat team meals sometimes. It's not as easy as it seems on the outside. I'm glad this happened tbh.

So free tuition to school isn't enough payment for these students? Oh thats right, its the attorneys begging for a case that want the money, not the students.....

EA cancelled on this franchise for a few years now.

Yay!

Paying college players is a horrible idea. They are already receiving up to 100,000 dollars in college tuition and expenses. They are part of a university not a personal business. If kids want to play for money at a level below the NFL, create a minor league system for football. There already is one for basketball.

Colleges would end up in bidding wars for the best players. Resources would be focused on one sport...two at best. Meanwhile, academics and every other college athlete would get screwed. So, what....they install rules to make sure that doesnt happen? Im sure that wouldnt turn college football into a mafia racket with big name recruits getting secret bags of cash, still forever changing the priority of universities.

College is supposed to be about education. If you get yours free and get to play some games on national TV that eventually get you millions as a pro athlete, great.

Dont destroy the university system to fix a problem with a minuscule percentage of college athletes.

Sidenote: I dont remember those NCAA games using the likenesses of any real players.

This is good for a number of reasons.

1. It makes EA suffer to some degree, and any time EA has to suffer, a rainbow appears and a kitten is born somewhere.

2. It might help college athletes get paid, and they SHOULD BE PAID. I don't want to hear SHIT about scholarships. Johnny Manziel alone has been worth close to $37 MILLION to Texas A&M in barely 2 years there. His scholarship is barely a fraction of that.

3. In terms of games, EA/Tiburon, who makes Madden and NCAA, can now have a single focus...Madden. Hopefully without the split in focus, maybe that means a better Madden next year...maybe.

4. Maybe at the end of all of this, when the NCAA finally has to find some way to either pay athletes or at least let them use their OWN likenesses, maybe we can finally get college games that have actual player names and whatnot, so no more renaming rosters.

5. EA has to suffer. Again, always a good thing.

Headline should read:

EA suspends printing new "2014" sleeve for NCAA 2013 due to impending lawsuit.