LucemFerre:
(shrug) Is the licence some sort of glory hole or some sh!t, one pen!s at a time?

Why can't the policy be established by the respective leagues and not the gaming industries? If anything, it means more money for the leagues. Why would they allow themselves be bought?

We all know FIFA is about to get worse, right? With almost all licences there would be near-zero improvement on their already crappy gameplay that they improve very slightly every 5 years. If this forces Konami out of market it's gonna be the end of football gaming.

I've googled but can't find why the licences have to be used by one gaming company at a time. Anybody knows why?

LucemFerre:
You guys don't understand what I said.

I know how exclusivity works. I'm asking why

khalhokage:
it's all about the money.

Lana1:





Having exclusive rights to the leagues will mean more sales for EA coz people will fall in to buy Fifa coz no one will want to play PES with Man Blue, Tyneside and the clubs fake jerseys etc...

LucemFerre:


EA doesn't own FIFA, correct?
Right, why doesn't FIFA as a body abolish the rule that only one company can own the licence at a time?

Or does FIFA own the FIFA football game too?

LucemFerre:


EA doesn't own FIFA, correct?
Right, why doesn't FIFA as a body abolish the rule that only one company can own the licence at a time?

Or does FIFA own the FIFA football game too?

LucemFerre:


EA doesn't own FIFA, correct?
Right, why doesn't FIFA as a body abolish the rule that only one company can own the licence at a time?

Or does FIFA own the FIFA football game too?

Thegamingorca:



Dude! Lol the Fifa brand is owned by ea sports oh forget the fact that it's the federation's name too. I'll bet EA doesn't settle fifa from the proceeds.

Lana1:
After some research, just found out that EA added an option to maintain exclusive rights to the License in their deal with Fifa. So even if Fifa wanted to sell those rights to Konami, they cant or else they would be facing a lawsuit from EA for breaching their contract.

So u see, it's not really a rule made by Fifa that can be easily abolished but more like a contract that has been signed and sealed.

The only thing Fifa can do is run out the current contract, not renew with EA when it expires and sell it to Konami. But think of it sef....if u were the head of Marketing at Fifa would u turn down a million(maybe even billion) dollar deal with a big publisher like EA for a smaller one like Konami??

Thegamingorca:



Dude! Lol the Fifa brand is owned by ea sports oh forget the fact that it's the federation's name too. I'll bet EA doesn't settle fifa from the proceeds.

I worked at EA two different periods - in the late 90s/early 2000s and again a few years ago. The second time around, I had access to information which could have answered this question but I can unequivocally tell you that revealing it would have gotten me fired. That said, I never looked it up so I cannot provide a definitive answer.

What I *can* tell you from experience in a different company which relied on obtaining rights from a sporting organization is that the amount is likely to be extremely high and, unless FIFA is different from similar organizations around the world, could well be so high that EA makes very little margin on the FIFA game. A great parallel is the broadcast rights to NFL games: per Wikipedia through 2013 the broadcast networks paid $$20.4b for the rights to those games and from 2014 to 2022 they will pay $39.6b for the same rights. The NFL does not necessarily care whether the broadcasters make money on those rights or not. They have a monopoly on a very appealing product and every time those rights come up for renewal, you can bet the price will increase. I suppose there is some theoretical number where every broadcaster will say they can't afford it and beg out of bidding, but the value is so great that is unlikely - if Fox decides they can't make money on it, CBS will think they can and so on.

In the same way, FIFA likely ups the fee every time the contract is negotiated with EA and they probably don't care whether or not EA makes money off it - that's EA's problem. And for EA, the overall strength of the EA Sports brand matters so much and has such a halo affect on other products that they could even lose money on FIFA or Madden and still be willing to pay (not to say that they do lose money now but just that they might be willing to). That said, depending on who is the CEO and where the stock price is, there may come a day where EA will decide that it just isn't worth it and will let Take 2 or someone else grab the license.

LucemFerre:
Fvck me, these people spend a whole lot of money on licences

I don't blame Konami for sacrificing it to make other places better.
That said, in the real world, if they keep losing licences like this, they'd get hurt.
3rd party option files can only go so far. One can't use them online and these days online is where the game at. People love to simulate real football with OG kits and names it will become tiring with time of it keeps showing Man Blue etc

tobianthony:
Lana could you drop a link to the qoura answer ...thanks .

FIFA is EA's Cash cow ...they will do anything to keep that license .

I'm suspecting that Sony is making moves to a digital only model to avoid piracy or reduce cost .

The major franchises will be the first to adopt this model for an annual subscription fee .

tobianthony:


To be honest Konami kind of deserve it for messing up MGS ...I mean they are literally sitting on millions of dollars ( don't take this seriously ...it's far fetched reasoning on my part ).

But then again I wasn't there could be that Kojima has a side to him that we don't know.

khalhokage:
That's how exclusive licences work, it's the same reason the new Spiderman game is a PS4 exclusive while Rise of the Tomb Raider is Xbox one exclusive.

EA pays for exclusive licences and exclusive licences mean that no other publishers are allowed to use them, to cut a long story short, it's all about the money.

Thegamingorca:
You guys are trying.


Footie sucks

cao:

RoTR was a timed exclusive. Spider-Man is a different kettle of fish, Marvel actually approached Sony to make a Marvel game. Then Sony approached Insomniac, whom they have a rather close relationship with, even though they're not an exclusive first party dev for PlayStation. They agreed on Spidey.

LucemFerre:
(shrug) Is the licence some sort of glory hole or some sh!t, one pen!s at a time?

Why can't the policy be established by the respective leagues and not the gaming industries? If anything, it means more money for the leagues. Why would they allow themselves be bought?

We all know FIFA is about to get worse, right? With almost all licences there would be near-zero improvement on their already crappy gameplay that they improve very slightly every 5 years. If this forces Konami out of market it's gonna be the end of football gaming.

I've googled but can't find why the licences have to be used by one gaming company at a time. Anybody knows why?