Honestly I'm tired of the licenses situation too, but in the sense that it cemented this duopoly in a way it should have never happened.. and it's getting boring to me. It's been.. how much time now? 13 years? More? That we don't see another at least decent contender to these two games? All I can remember was Football Kingdom in the early Ps2 era, then nothing else.
I mean Pes/WE is one of the game sagas of my life. And I passed good moments with Fifa too. BUT, I'd love to see another BIG software house (cough cough 2K cough cough..) give a shot to a serious soccer game.. and I mean a true simulation (or at least an attempt at one), not some arcade game, some kick off remake/clone or whatever.. but since we aren't in the end of the ninties/early 2000s anymore nobody dares to put energies in a project like this without having licenses. EA/Konami can do what they want in the meantime, no other contenders means everybody will buy their game, no matter what.
And it's a true shame because I'm certain that there is somebody out there that given the right resources, would be able to do better than what we have now. Sadly we'll probably never know tho.. I would even fund the shit out of a serious kickstarter project of this kind, even without licenses, but that's just me I guess.
