EA's FIFA Series to be Renamed to EA Sports FC in 2023 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 10 May 2022 / 1,769 Views
Electronic Arts announced it is renaming its FIFA series of games starting 2023 to EA Sports FC.
This name change ends a partnership EA has had with FIFA since 1993's FIFA International Soccer. The Final EA Sports FIFA game will launch this Fall.
“Our vision for EA Sports FC is to create the largest and most impactful football club in the world, at the epicenter of football fandom," said Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson. "For nearly 30 years, we’ve been building the world’s biggest football community – with hundreds of millions of players, thousands of athlete partners, and hundreds of leagues, federations, and teams. EA Sports FC will be the club for every one of them, and for football fans everywhere."
He added, "We’re thankful for our many years of great partnership with FIFA. The future of global football is very bright, and fandom around the world has never been stronger. We have an incredible opportunity to put EA SPORTS FC at the heart of the sport, and to bring even more innovative and authentic experiences to the growing football audience."
Read details on EA Sports FC below:
EA Sports FC will be the platform for EA to innovate, create, and grow new experiences. It will bring more areas of the sport to life, and harness the collective strength of more than 150 million players across EA Sports’ global football games—and reach hundreds of millions of new fans in the years to come.
EA Sports FC brings the strength of more than 300 individual licensed partners, giving players access to more than 19,000 athletes across 700 teams, in 100 stadiums and over 30 leagues around the world. Through EA Sports FC, EA will further grow the reach and power of its football licensing portfolio by retaining and expanding the licensed football content, scaling to new experiences, and increasing access through more platforms. EA will also build on a foundation of inclusivity and innovate in new areas around both women’s and grassroots football for the global community.
The introduction of EA Sports FC will not impact any current EA Sports global football games, and EA and FIFA are excited to deliver the greatest, most expansive EA Sports FIFA ever later this fall. Our final FIFA product will also include more game modes, features, teams, leagues, players, and competitions than any previous edition. Fans will be able to experience these innovations across the full EA Sports FIFA ecosystem including FIFA Mobile, FIFA Online 4, and eSports.
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I'll be playing mario strikers by then
And at least that game will still be relevant for more then 1 year
Crappy name.
so make billions in card packs but dont want to spend few million on renewing the licence
Seems like they want to save money and think they are big enough to not need Fifa name. Let's see what will come out of it.
If that was truly the case EA wouldn't be paying millions for it for so long. And well MLB would drop the paying as well to keep cheaper and single platform.
The name of Fifa, teams, etc are all important to improve sales.
Pretty fair answer, but you could basically summarized to the 1st point. They are going out of the name because whatever benefits the name and brand brought them doesn't overtake the costs and possible demands Fifa is making of them.
Expected up to this point. EA have said over that they want to expand the FIFA brand name in terms of gaming and FIFA said "No, make football games." So EA are doing it themselves. Now, I guess what is more interesting is who and where the FIFA licence goes and who makes the games.
They can give them the licences at a lower fee to allow them to grow big like ea as that's what pes was lacking and still lacking. Cause if they still demand that high fee like they did for ea, they won't get anyone to use their license for the game as apart from fifa, pes is only next popular soccer game.
I mean lower it for pes until they build up their brand. They already have the foundation for a soccer brand. They know how to make a good soccer game and they have an establish fans. They just need to increase which I believe fifa licensing will do wonders for them.
Pes has some of those but not all cause ea prevented most of them to be used hence why they had fake players. Having fifa license will help pes in that regard as that's was the main negative about their game.
This rumor's returned, and as the truth.
