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EA Sports settles suits, thousands of players eligible for money (https://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=276701)

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Originally Posted by KILLER_CLOWN (Post 10024038)

It isn't them, this is someone with a different name and one that really does NOT look like you. The only thing that makes them your likeness may be the number they wear. This shit is really reeruned.

You CLEARLY don't know what you're talking about
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Originally Posted by -King- (Post 10024048)

You CLEARLY don't know what you're talking about
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I've played these games and I have seen what these computer models look like and they aren't even close to a likeness. They don't bear the same names nor features. Are you saying if they have similar stats that constitutes a likeness? Also of note i'm not a fan of EA at all, but this is beyond ludicrous.

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Originally Posted by KILLER_CLOWN (Post 10024053)

So you think race, height, weight, handedness and playing attributes are coincidental and are purely things EA made up?
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Originally Posted by -King- (Post 10024066)

So you think race, height, weight, handedness and playing attributes are coincidental and are purely things EA made up?
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I think they go through painstaking detail to make sure they aren't alike. I haven't scrutinized the football version like I did the basketball but the NCAA BB game models were way off on everything but stats.

This shouldn't be the death of college football video games.

Sure, it affects the person who wants to buy it out of the box and play it that way, but everyone I know who plays NCAA football always downloads a roster file from someone that updates the rosters, adds names, changes player grades, etc.

There are enough online freaks obsessed with college football that a smart company would realize they can put out a product (with the licensed stuff from the University - stadium, team names and traditions, fight song, etc.) with generalized and random information about players (autogenerate random names AND numbers for players in the 'box' version), and people will still buy it.

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Originally Posted by KILLER_CLOWN (Post 10024078)

They're strikingly similar until you get to the bottom of the roster players. And even then those players are off by only one attribute usually.
http://www.sbnation.com/college-foot...all-14-players

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2...l#incart_river
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Originally Posted by -King- (Post 10024114)

So what is the solution? Kill off the video game? The NFL doesn't have a problem because they own the players rights. I know EA does pay the NCAA to use the team names, so shouldn't they be suing the NCAA?

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Originally Posted by KILLER_CLOWN (Post 10024125)

EA should sue the NCAA?
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I consider this karma for ea releasing crappy versions of madden ever since they bought exclusive rights.

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Originally Posted by -King- (Post 10024145)

EA should sue the NCAA?
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No I meant shouldn't the players be suing the NCAA and not EA?

What do they get? $100 each?

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Originally Posted by A Salt Weapon (Post 10024156)

I consider this karma for ea releasing crappy versions of madden ever since they bought exclusive rights.

**** KARMA, **** EA AND **** EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS!

Not that I feel strongly about it or anything. :D

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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho (Post 10024105)

Problem #1.

http://espn.go.com/college-football/...-football-game

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The Southeastern Conference, Big Ten and Pac-12 have joined the NCAA in announcing they will no longer license their conference trademarks in the EA Sports NCAA football video game.

The development comes a month after the NCAA said it would not license its trademarks, either. That ruling, however, allowed each individual institution and conference to license its trademarks with EA Sports for future college football games.

"Each school makes its own individual decision regarding whether or not to license their trademarks for use in the EA Sports game[s]," the SEC said in a statement. "The Southeastern Conference has chosen not to do so moving forward.

NCAA Football games are dead.

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Originally Posted by -King- (Post 10024035)

Why?
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He was on the 94-95 UCLA Bruins and he originated this lawsuit.

The NCAA gameplay was terrible anyway. They hadn't changed it in years.