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Publisher: Electronic Arts
Developers: EA Canada & EA Romania
Website: ???
Genre: Sports
Player(s): Probably up to 4 locally, up to 22 online
System(s): Probably all known to man
Release Date: 2023
Starting a thread for this a little early, considering there's no solid information out there yet about the release - but this is EA's first football game without the FIFA license, and it's worth any discussion points going in here.
Such as this:
Sky News: Premier League closes in on near-£500m deal with EA to retain exclusive rights
This is really interesting to me, because one of the benefits for EA of dropping the FIFA license (beyond things FIFA prohibited from appearing in the game, if rumours are to be believed) is the cost-saving... But this is a pretty massive bill.
Admittedly, EA would have had to pay this anyway (as well as the FIFA bill), but... That's a big price.
(A drop in the ocean when you look at their over-£10bn yearly sales, but still, they were concerned enough about the FIFA costs...)