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2.2 Million People Were Willing to Pay $100 to Play College Football 25 3 Days Early (www.ign.com)
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[–] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Interesting that this works on regular people. I always thought of it as the streamer tax, didn’t think they would try it on a sports game. I mean, most of the time those are just roster updates anyways, I’m surprised anyone would pay to get early access.

[–] vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I did not realize that this game had launched. I didn't even know what had early access. But, if I had known that the new college football game was available a little bit early, I would have bought it and played with my homies this weekend.

It's been a real long time since we've had a college football game of any type and is someone who is way more into that version of American football than the professional one, I'm stoked that this is coming out.

Also, pre-orders are bad, EA is a terrible company, college football is exploitation, etc....

[–] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Ahh that helps explain it, I don’t follow closely so I assumed it was just a standard annual release like NHL/Madden/FIFA etc, not a “once in a while” like some of the smaller leagues.

Although because this worked on this release, they’ll definitely try it on a major league one next. My bet is NHL because that will ruffle less feathers, then if that goes well it will make it to Madden & EA FC, the cash cows.

[–] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

They've been doing this tactic for a few years now. Not a new thing tbh.

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

It's presumably going to be annual.

They stopped because of legal issues related to players not being compensated for virtual players that were clearly modeled on their traits. They're coming back because the NCAA being forced to abandon the whole "amateur" premise means they can do licensing more legitimately.

[–] KAYDUBELL@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

The big thing here is people have been clamoring for this to come back for a decade, the last version released was in 2014.