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EA Sports has delisted its FIFA back catalogue from digital storefronts (www.videogameschronicle.com)

submitted 9 months ago by simple@lemm.ee to c/games@lemmy.world

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EA has stopped paying for the FIFA license, which is why their next game is called EA Sports FC (Football Club)

This resulted in them delisting every single FIFA game from digit storefronts, including the less than a year old FIFA 2023

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[-] Bonesince1997@lemmy.ml 24 points 9 months ago

This company is the worst

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 103 points 9 months ago

It's licensing terms. FIFA was asking for double its $150 million licensing fee to allow Electronic Arts to continue using its name.

FIFA doubling the license cost is clearly bullshit. EA has decided that the FIFA brand in their game is not worth $300 Million, and the existing license requires them to discontinue sales once the license expires.

Can't really blame EA for saving $300 Million for something that doesn't really matter, especially when it used to cost half that. This 100% is FIFA being greedy, as usual.

[-] dinckelman@lemmy.world 63 points 9 months ago

At the end of the day, both FIFA and EA are horrible companies. No one should be giving them any money whatsoever.

The reality of things is that we all know that EA will launch their own brand, publish the re-badged FIFA titles under it, and then continue farming mtx money from people, who have no self-control