EA Sports NCAA Football

[Szumi]

It's finally coming back! Teaser trailer released yesterday, full reveal in May, should be out this summer.

My childhood is screaming in delight.

[Lint]

Then your childhood will be screaming whenits a MTX filled hellscape

[Chris2K]

I am somehow interested in seeing how EA manage to mirco-transaction-ise the Transfer Portal.

[GhostMachine]

More like random rosters each season, to simulate the portal:

"Hey, why did my star QB on Texas we recruited in-state move to Northwestern?!"

"Wow! Most of Georgia's offensive line transferred to Ball State, Hawaii and Akron! What the hell?"

Edited February 17 by GhostMachine

[Slogger]

 

I mean it's been 10 years... I'm still excited as fuck for this. 

[Your Mom]

I will almost be impressed with EA if they have the guts to do something like that  

[Maxx]

They have confirmed all 134 FBS schools will be in the game, and Kirk Herbstreit and Chris Fowler are returning for commentary.

[Your Mom]

I barely caught it but I think I saw that players can opt in and have their real names be used too. That's a neat feature I think

[Trey]

1 hour ago, Your Mom said:

I barely caught it but I think I saw that players can opt in and have their real names be used too. That's a neat feature I think

Yeah each player gets $600 and a copy of the game every year they are included

[Lint]

EA Sports College Football 25 to block gamers from manually adding players who reject NIL opt-in

Interesting to see how they get this to work

[King Ellis]

As history has shown us, gamers can be quite creative when it comes to circumventing blocks on things like swear words and racial slurs so I'm curious how well EA would be able to stop people putting a players name in.

[The Buscher]

Ultimately I really don't care about the real player names one way or the other.  As someone who plans on sinking deep into dynasty mode, they're going to be off my team within a few seasons one way or the other.

[VerbalPuke]

I hope it's not as fucked up and broken as Madden. My goodness that game is a train wreck. 

That i can't stop playing on gamepass.

[Lint]

 

[livid]

On 23/02/2024 at 08:37, King Ellis said:

As history has shown us, gamers can be quite creative when it comes to circumventing blocks on things like swear words and racial slurs so I'm curious how well EA would be able to stop people putting a players name in.

They already do it in Madden. Pretty innocuous names are blocked because they're close to swear words or too close to NCAA players with unique names. Importing draft classes is incredibly annoying for that. 

[Rocketbusta]

For awhile I couldn’t use my surname presumably because “ngr” are in the middle of it. 

[The Buscher]

Arch Manning has decided to not be in the game because "he is focused on playing football on the field".

There's gonna be players who opt out of course but it's hilarious to give a reason that implies signing a document and getting a check for $600 is some massive distraction to getting ready to play the real season.

Most guys who opt out are doing so because they want to take a stand about it not being enough money for likeness rights or whatever.  Knowing the Manning Family I can quite easily imagine them not wanting his image attached to like a 75 OVR backup QB that players can transfer to Coastal Carolina.

[Lint]

On 05/03/2024 at 10:20, The Buscher said:

 a 75 OVR backup QB that players can transfer to Coastal Carolina.

Oh shit, this just made me wonder how I'd handle the transfer portal...

Once recruited a QB who was like 6'7 with a 85 speed.  His throw power and accuracy were kinda crap, but I ran an option offense, so it wasn't a worry.

Redshirted him his first year, and after not developing well, I converted him to a TE.

And seriously, a 6'7 TE with 85 speed in the redzone was deadly.  Drag route along the goal line was a guaranteed TD

[The Buscher]

The good news:  the game is out July 19th

The bad news:  the description in the game store is entirely focused on Ultimate Team

So basically need to hope they hit Dynasty out of the park on the first try because they'll likely go the way of Madden and ignore it in favor of Ultimate Team in all future installments.  I hate EA.

[Maxx]

@Meacon Keaton its happening!