[CameronBanga]

This will be interesting to see, because it's not the FIFA game everyone who sees this press release is probably thinking about. EA didn't renew the FIFA license, so the game everyone plays is EAFC now. This will be a new game, and curious to see the quality.

[gausswho]

I don't want anything to do with EA nor FIFA. How's Konami's eFootball these days for couch play? I don't give a rats about pay-to-win online. Can I mod it with real player/team names and run it on Linux?

[scq]

If you don't want anything to do with EA, Konami ain't much better. They actively sabotage their former employees job prospects.

> One employee from a staffing agency said that Konami "files complaints to gaming companies who take on its former employees," causing one game company to "warn its staff against hiring ex-Kon" - "ex-Kon" being a nickname for ex-Konami employees. "If you leave the company, you cannot rely on Konami's name to land a job," one former employee said.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/konami-accused-of-blacklisting...

[andrepd]

Honestly if you play fifa 14 for the rest of your life, are you missing much? As a couch game I mean.

I've gotten hundreds of hours of entertainment off FIFA and PES; never missed having any more features.

[ardit33]

KONAMI's PES (Pro Evolution Soccer) - (or Winning Eleven as it was called originally), has always had better gameplay. What it suffered was lack of liseneces.

Now it is free and called eFootball... and obviously not that same, but PES has always been the favorite of fans gameplay wise.

[dandellion]

Well see how it goes, but announcing the game without showing anything doesn't look like a good start to me.

[dylan604]

Is this another example of where the license holder feels like they can make more money directly than through the licensing fee?

[smileybarry]

No, it started ~4 years ago when FIFA hiked the license cost for EA, and 2 years ago EA had enough & didn't renew the license.[1] Since then, EA basically rebranded their series to "EA Sports FC" and dropped the FIFA branding altogether. This didn't change much as they kept/renewed the licenses for players, teams, stadiums, etc.[2]

1:

https://twitter.com/syacvg/status/1706815482744238221

https://www.ea.com/en-gb/news/ea-sports-and-fifa-extend-lice...

2:

https://www.ea.com/news/ea-sports-fc

[xacky]

Reminds me of "The World Is Not Enough" for the N64, which tried to capitalize on Goldeneye's success.

[bigstrat2003]

That game was based on the later Bond movie of the same name, not an attempt to cash in on Goldeneye's success with an unrelated game.

[walthamstow]

That naming deal renewal was one of the most bungled deals in history. FIFA wanted $1bn to renew for four years and to make it nonexclusive, EA told them to get fucked, now FIFA gets $0 and their name isn't even on the game.

[triceratops]

I only heard about the naming dispute recently but it happened a couple years ago. Not having FIFA on the name only makes me want to buy it more.

[ekropotin]

Usually Netflix games are meh