[duncan_idaho]

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.