Re: College Football 25 -Create a Player-

@jcm1515 @What your saying doesn't make any sense for offline mode. Disable the ability to push rosters, players, playbooks, etc to the community. Just ensure it’s for offline. But it also doesn’t flow with your logic of making next years recruits on this years game. Once they are in college they will be in the game for that years game and following. They will be compensated etc. your logic doesn’t flow, and it’s not helpful. EA messed up big time!!! 

Online or offline, kids' Names, Images and Likenesses are being used in a commercial capacity. It has nothing to do with sharing rosters or pushing to the community, it is simply USING a kid's name without their approval. 10-11 years ago, this wasn't an issue but now it is - your beef is with the legalities surrounding the issue, not EA. Perhaps you have better lawyers to argue the case.

Again, timing wise, many of these kids will not sign their NLI to their schools until February of next year at which time they would have the opportunity to opt-in to the next year's game. If EA were to allow custom players starting now, that would be nearly 7 months of kids having their NIL used without compensation. Perhaps between now and the next game, EA will work something out legally/logistically with the schools and future players to allow this - for example, after they opt-in, they get a bit of extra compensation based on the possibility their NIL was used in a previous iteration of the game. I can guarantee that the next "Arch Manning" coming out of high school would find a way to sue if his NIL was used in a game prior to his authorization, whereas 3* Johnny Johnson probably would think it's cool and wouldn't care - it only takes one big lawsuit to jack things up. Just look at all the former NCAA players getting retroactive NIL compensation from the recent court case.

Agreed it makes no sense at all but, people will find a way to justify this. THE PLAYERS WOULD BE GOOD REGARDLESS they can allow us to create players and edit players freely.ESPECIALLY WHEN WE ARE PAYING 70 dollars for it. We should have every freaking possible feature there is. If professional players are fine and their image NIL is not messed up then fine. So you mean to tell me a bunch of bench riders who nobody cares about, is more important then a Patrick mahomes who you can actually edit come on man.

Bro you justifying this makes no sense. With that logic they still couldn’t do it for future years either because everybody would be new to a NIL deal and those players will be compensating no matter what the case is. SMH EA needs to bring created players back and edit rosters and they will because they notice a lot of people are upset, and deep down they know they can work around this

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@jcm1515 wrote:

Online or offline, kids' Names, Images and Likenesses are being used in a commercial capacity. It has nothing to do with sharing rosters or pushing to the community, it is simply USING a kid's name without their approval. 10-11 years ago, this wasn't an issue but now it is - your beef is with the legalities surrounding the issue, not EA. Perhaps you have better lawyers to argue the case.

Again, timing wise, many of these kids will not sign their NLI to their schools until February of next year at which time they would have the opportunity to opt-in to the next year's game. If EA were to allow custom players starting now, that would be nearly 7 months of kids having their NIL used without compensation. Perhaps between now and the next game, EA will work something out legally/logistically with the schools and future players to allow this - for example, after they opt-in, they get a bit of extra compensation based on the possibility their NIL was used in a previous iteration of the game. I can guarantee that the next "Arch Manning" coming out of high school would find a way to sue if his NIL was used in a game prior to his authorization, whereas 3* Johnny Johnson probably would think it's cool and wouldn't care - it only takes one big lawsuit to jack things up. Just look at all the former NCAA players getting retroactive NIL compensation from the recent court case.

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What players do in their offline dynasties or who they create does not create a legal liability on EA's....if that were the case EA would have been sued long ago by the likes of Nike and all the equipment the modding community added to Madden. 

Suing companies for something a person edits in a game is not a thing. No amount of gaslighting by EA can make that true. This is simply about not allowing people the ability to create future rosters because they're obsessed with negligible loss. Please don't carry water for EA, they'd slit your throat for $2.

You have no idea what agreements EA has in place with Nike or any of the other licensed contributors to their games. 

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@jcm1515 wrote:

You have no idea what agreements EA has in place with Nike or any of the other licensed contributors to their games. 

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get the boot out of your mouth lil bro

Their own game flies in the face of this argument. They themselves are creating players and putting them on teams they are not on and you can create a player and place him on a team in road to glory but you can't create a player in dynasty and use them? You can create a whole fake team with fake logos and replace an actual team with NIL players but you can't simply edit players on a team. Cmon you know this is made up nonsense. This is a feature that they will patch in later or will try to sell it to us next year. 

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@jcm1515 wrote:

You have no idea what agreements EA has in place with Nike or any of the other licensed contributors to their games. 

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There's no consistency though. You can edit everything about a Teambuilder player except his name, and then when you load that team into a Dynasty you can edit all the players' names. There is no legal difference between that and a create a player function.