{"id":5707,"date":"2022-05-12T13:36:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T11:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/12\/fifa-believes-it-can-make-great-sims-without-ea-but-it-should-heed-the-fate-of-championship-manager\/"},"modified":"2022-05-12T13:36:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T11:36:44","slug":"fifa-believes-it-can-make-great-sims-without-ea-but-it-should-heed-the-fate-of-championship-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/12\/fifa-believes-it-can-make-great-sims-without-ea-but-it-should-heed-the-fate-of-championship-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifa believes it can make great sims without EA \u2013 but it should heed the fate of Championship Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"

The story of Eidos\u2019s cult football management sim shows the limits of brand recognition \u2013 and suggests Fifa would have been better off sticking with Electronic Arts<\/p>\n

They think it\u2019s all over \u2026 it is now. The lucrative corporate marriage that brought us 30 years of annual football simulations, and made billions of dollars in the process, is now defunct. Fifa and Electronic Arts (EA) have parted ways<\/a>. And now the dust has settled on a day of frantic press releases, hype and guarded interviews, what sort of challenges face both entities as they jostle to reclaim the future of the footie sim for themselves?<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s my pretty safe bet: Fifa is going to have a tough time of it. Now freed from the exclusivity clause granted to EA, the company apparently has a range of \u201cnon-simulation\u201d games due out this year from various developers. It\u2019s likely these will be casual titles, probably for smartphones, crammed with micro-transactions and perhaps aimed at the huge Asian market for arena-based multiplayer games. If there\u2019s a plausible Fifa: Clash of Teams game, perhaps with some NFTs thrown in, you can bet someone is working on it.<\/p>\n

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\nThe story of Eidos\u2019s cult football management sim shows the limits of brand recognition \u2013 and suggests Fifa would have been better off sticking with Electronic Arts
\nThey think it\u2019s all over \u2026 it is now. The lucrative corporate marriage that brought us 30 years of annual football simulations, and made billions of dollars in the process, is now defunct. Fifa and Electronic Arts (EA) have parted ways. And now the dust has settled on a day of frantic press releases, hype and guarded interviews, what sort of challenges face both entities as they jostle to reclaim the future of the footie sim for themselves?
\nHere\u2019s my pretty safe bet: Fifa is going to have a tough time of it. Now freed from the exclusivity clause granted to EA, the company apparently has a range of \u201cnon-simulation\u201d games due out this year from various developers. It\u2019s likely these will be casual titles, probably for smartphones, crammed with micro-transactions and perhaps aimed at the huge Asian market for arena-based multiplayer games. If there\u2019s a plausible Fifa: Clash of Teams game, perhaps with some NFTs thrown in, you can bet someone is working on it. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The story of Eidos\u2019s cult football management sim shows the limits of brand recognition \u2013 and suggests Fifa would have been better off sticking with Electronic Arts They think it\u2019s all over \u2026 it is now. The lucrative corporate marriage that brought us 30 years of annual football simulations, and made billions of dollars in …<\/p>\n

Fifa believes it can make great sims without EA \u2013 but it should heed the fate of Championship Manager<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5707"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}