EA Sports activities on Thursday started selling EA Sports activities FC, the successor to the 30-year sequence it printed underneath FIFA license. The writer showed off the game’s new logo, and touted its affiliation with the golf equipment and main home leagues of Europe, South America, and North America.
EA Sports activities FC will — due to a bunch license with FIFPRO, the participant illustration for almost all world soccer athletes — proceed to characteristic greater than 19,000 real-life stars, the writer mentioned on Thursday. One other 700 groups and 30 leagues will star within the recreation, together with greater than “300 world soccer companions” together with ladies’s skilled leagues and groups, like the US’ NWSL and the U.Ok.’s Ladies’s Tremendous League.
“That is the place the story of EA Sports activities FC begins,” Nick Wlodyka, the sequence’ normal supervisor, mentioned in an announcement. “We’re constructing on 30 years of management and historical past creating experiences that deliver the worldwide soccer group collectively and persevering with to take it right into a fan-first future.”
One 12 months in the past, Digital Arts introduced that it could half methods with FIFA, whose licensing allowed the sport to make use of FIFA’s identify and marks in its titles and have its World Cup tournaments for girls’s and males’s soccer. In reality, aside from the World Cup branding and recreation title, FIFA was in all probability the least impactful identify among the many collage of licensing agreements making up the worldwide best-seller.
Agreements with the English Premier League, South America’s Copa Libertadores championship, Italy’s Serie A, and different top-flight soccer promotions all around the world, are utterly impartial of FIFA and delivered extra groups, kits, and different content material to the sport.
Extra about EA Sports activities FC will probably be revealed in July, EA Sports activities mentioned. EA Sports activities FC is anticipated to launch within the fall, when the FIFA sequence historically hit cabinets.