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Real Names In Games Mean More Money For The NCAA, Executive Argued
Five years ago, an NCAA executive said EA Sports should be allowed to use actual names of its amateur athletes — commanding a higher licensing fee as a result — because players’ likenesses were “rigged into the games now by illegal means.” Permitting their use would clear up the matter and bring more money to the NCAA, he said.
EA Sports Coded College Games With Real Names, Say Lawsuit Emails
EA Sports used the real names of college players when coding its NCAA rosters internally and the NCAA’s licensing authority argued that the publisher should be allowed to include them in the games themselves, according to emails turned up in a lawsuit against both the publisher and the NCAA, ESPN reported yesterday.
Madden’s Loss Of Fantasy Exposes Reality Of Sports Video Games
No one I know seriously plays “Mascot Mashup” in NCAA Football, except for maybe the six-year-old son of a good friend from Oregon, who enjoys slamming the “GoDucks” into 11 of his dad’s Stanford Trees. About the most I ever hear about the mode each year from EA Sports is when a developer jokes that they’re pouring a lot of time into “Mascot Mashup 2.0″.
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