FIFA seeks $1B+ (per 4 years) from EA for name usage • Hacker News Board

Re: FIFA seeks $1B+ (per 4 years) from EA for name usage

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Post by ezconnect » Thu, Oct 14, 2021, 9:11 PM UTC

Bilal_io wrote: post #75

that_guy_iain wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From my experience with the NHL franchise. If you're a casual or light player of the game you probably won't notice a difference except for the time rosters. But if you play the game on a regular basis you will also notice the new feature or the thing they've improved. If you play FIFA 2015 and then play FIFA 2022 you'll notice a massive difference yet people will have been saying for years that they don't change any…

> But if you play the game on a regular basis you will also notice the new feature or the thing they've improved. If you play FIFA 2015 and then play FIFA 2022 you'll notice a massive difference yet people will have been saying for years that they don't change anything. That is because every year they improve a single aspect of the game. I think that's the point people are trying to make. If you're making a very smal…

Updating the roster and 3D assets is not a trivial change.

Re: FIFA seeks $1B+ (per 4 years) from EA for name usage

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Post by kasperni » Thu, Oct 14, 2021, 9:28 PM UTC

tzs wrote: post #85

kasperni wrote: post #28

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American football is a niche sport outside of the US. I've never heard of anyone playing Madden or seen it on any top sales lists.

But the US is a really big market. Something can be a niche everywhere else and still make a ton of sales. Madden has cumulative sales, according to Wikipedia, of 250 million copies. The FIFA series has cumulative sales of 325 million. I'm having a hard time finding consistent annuals sales numbers. Random Googling suggests each new FIFA year sells around 24 million, and each new Madden year around 5 or 6 million. Bu…

Sure it can generate tons of sale, but "best economics of any game franchise in existence."... [1] contains some numbers, Madden is probably placed around number 30 if you look at only the numbers for video games.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_media...

Re: FIFA seeks $1B+ (per 4 years) from EA for name usage

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Post by Shadonototra » Thu, Oct 14, 2021, 10:43 PM UTC

harry8 wrote: post #3

Such a good opportunity for EA to mount an Anti-FIFA corruption campaign in game. Mess with some trade rules. Images of Sep Blatter bathing in the rain of cash at the press conference. Force players to choose between FI-FI-FA legacy league and the new hotness. FIFA are corrupt from top to bottom. EA have a direct channel to a huge slab of their market to tear the FIFA politicians with their snouts in the trough a new…

interesting how people want to make EA looks like the good guys in the story

let's talk about gambling mechanics in their games, shall we?

sounds like people want to make this a political affair, what's the real reason? smells like anti FIFA propaganda

also reminds me of how the US wanted to force some EU clubs to ditch the Champion's League for their own "Cup" thingy

shady shady

Re: FIFA seeks $1B+ (per 4 years) from EA for name usage

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Post by criley2 » Fri, Oct 15, 2021, 11:46 AM UTC

harry8 wrote: post #83

criley2 wrote: post #74

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Once again, this is rank false equivalence which elevates non-corrupt outsider acitivity with actual corruption by public officials elevated to high office corruptly. I refuse to fall into the low-IQ cynicism of both-side-isms. It's worse for a public servant, with actual influence and power, to be corrupt, than it is for a child of a politician to make money. Yes, Hunter is irrelevant because he's not in our governm…

Look at what Hunter has been doing and how that makes the President and his office look. Think about how you feel about that. Ivanka is completely irrelevant to that analysis. Ivanka is not a standard of behavior. Surely Biden's DoJ will prosecute Ivanka for each and every law breaking activity. Why wouldn't they? Hunter is completely irrelevant to that. Corruption has to go no matter who, no matter where, no matter…

Once again, calling it "teams" is false equivalence and is low-IQ nonsense

Public servants MUST BE HELD TO A HIGHER STANDARD than private citizens, even relatives of politicians.

I'm sorry you refuse to accept such an uncontroversial tenet, but it's not about teams, it's basic civic morality.

Re: FIFA seeks $1B+ (per 4 years) from EA for name usage

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Post by rambojazz » Fri, Oct 15, 2021, 3:22 PM UTC

ksec wrote: post #38

You now have to paid FIFA, every single team in the European League, and Champion League for using their name, logos, colour of their shirt. etc etc. Extra money for having big name player faces for marketing on the box or graphics as well as their 3D face modelling appearing in their game. How much of that $60 you are paying actually goes to the game and not some licensing? I am not against licensing fees per se, bu…

Remasters of very old games are usually very enjoyable.