Oh, I agree, though I'm not really sure a court can force the NCAA to start paying players. Being that I'm not a judge or lawyer, I could be wrong.

You're a better person than I am. You at least thought about trying to find a way to rationalize it. I just went with "that looks really cool so I'm gonna buy it."

Fair point. Yes, I brought up compensating players. I'm pretty sure I also made some reference any kind of solution. If paying players isn't the answer, fine. However stop marketing and profiting off of these players names and likenesses and then telling them they can't do the same by selling autographs or jerseys or…

I'd bet on them scheming up shit long before I bet on them getting religion. This really hurts, though, I could watch a lot of video game franchises die off and I wouldn't shed a tear. I've been playing NCAA and Madden for as long as I can remember and to lose either of them really puts a damper on my chosen hobby. I…

"Unless the NCAA and its conferences and universities decide to acknowledge the reality they've created—that this is a big entertainment business whose uniquely talented performers deserve to be paid—and engage in problem solving, not the parsed-words ass-covering PR we saw on Wednesday and Thursday, EA Sports will…

I was sold as soon as they announced The Ultimate Warrior. Even more sold when the announced that badass Phenom Edition. This is going to be awesome.

I remember hearing about all kinds of riots at soccer matches. People getting trampled, shootings after World Cup matches, all kinds of crazy shit. Granted, I think the shooting actually involved a drug cartel or something like that but there were plenty of riots and violence amongst fans.

Don't get me wrong, I'm buying the shit out of it regardless. I would have liked to see Ferb in there though. To your point, I completely agree.

I understand how it works. I asked simply because series one has Mike, Sully AND Randall from Monsters Inc., multiple characters from Cars and The Incredibles and both main Lone Ranger Characters. I just naturally assumed Ferb would be around with Phineas.

Any word on Ferb? I'm assuming he has to be there if Phineas is. Makes no sense otherwise.

Quite possible, I suppose.

Agreed. However, I remember hearing about plenty of soccer riots twenty years ago. People don't riot over shit unless they're damn near zealots about it. Don't get me wrong, I'm not disputing your point, I'm just saying soccer didn't just recently become popular around the rest of the world. I could get EA balking at…

Okay, I see Phineas there but no Ferb. What gives?

Nice. I always wanted to play this but never got around to picking it up. Thanks for the heads up, Owen, I probably would have missed this otherwise.

I fucking love hash browns. Yeah, that's all I had.

Ahhh. I see, makes sense. Thanks for the education there.

I would think one would have to have lived most of one's life under a rock to not realize soccer is insanely popular in countries not called The United States of America and that there would be truckloads of money to be made off of it. EA really puzzles me sometimes. Regardless, I'm glad they finally saw the light and…

Ok, yeah, I can see that being the case. No real reason for anyone to keep tabs in it so long as that same sum of money is showing up on a consistent basis.

Right? I mean I guess I can see an AD not necissarily knowing the specifics of this but you can't tell me there isn't someone in...whatever you would call it, finance, maybe, that wouldn't have said "hey...um...we can't just back out right now, it's this thing called a contract." As far as the SEC goes, yeah, it's…

Seems there may at least be hope for next year then. I honestly can't see this being the case beyond whenever school's agreements began to expire. The athlete compensation thig has just gained too much of a foothold for conferences/schools to stay on board.