#Madden 08 pc ncaa 2016 roster license#
#Madden 08 pc ncaa 2016 roster series#

In any case, college football rosters are often in flux right up to the start of the season, and many teams need a few games before they settle on a final depth chart. Would EA simply remove them from the roster? Or replace them with some generic player? Or go back to using 'QB #10' as that player's name? Worse yet, would the game-maker even bother to approach all the athletes, or would they just settle for the key players from elite schools? But if it's the latter, that leaves open the possibility of individual players refusing to grant rights to their likenesses, which means they won't be included in the game.

#Madden 08 pc ncaa 2016 roster license#

There is no college football labor union (equivalent of the NFL Players' Association) that I'm aware of, so either the NCAA would have the rights to license all of its players as a collective, or it would be the responsibility of the game-maker to individually license each and every player. Roster-sharing might seem unnecessary if the result of the lawsuits means that EA can actually license the rights to player likenesses.

EA Locker: Roster sharing & Team Builder.

But here's the things that I think the game should absolutely have in some form or another (hopefully similar to previous games): I don't expect all the old features to return, and even the ones that do return might not be the same as in the older games.

#Madden 08 pc ncaa 2016 roster series#

It doesn't look like we'll be getting one for 2016 either.īut hopefully a new entry in the series is only a year or two away. It's been three years without a college football game. Operating under the assumption that EA will go back to making NCAA Football games within the next few years (hopefully as early as NCAA Football 18), I'd like to start talking about the kinds of things that I'd like to see in such games. Video game sales seems far too lucrative an exploit for the NCAA to pass up, so I highly doubt that they'd simply refuse to grant their license. Hopefully, it will come with the ability to include real player likenesses, but that is likely to depend on the outcome of any appeals and the willingness of the NCAA to include real player likenesses in games. While it seems unlikely that any college football games will be made using the NCAA license while this lawsuit remains unresolved in appeal limbo, it does seem inevitable to me that EA will eventually start making these games again. I recently wrote about the ongoing lawsuit between Ed O'Bannon and the NCAA regarding player likenesses for college athletes (and compensation for college athletes in general).