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FIFA Arrives on Netflix Games
- CameronBanga 10mo agoThis will be interesting to see, because it's not the FIFA game everyone who sees this press release is probably thinking about. EA didn't renew the FIFA license, so the game everyone plays is EAFC now. This will be a new game, and curious to see the quality.
- xacky 10mo agoReminds me of "The World Is Not Enough" for the N64, which tried to capitalize on Goldeneye's success.
- bigstrat2003 10mo agoThat game was based on the later Bond movie of the same name, not an attempt to cash in on Goldeneye's success with an unrelated game.
- dylan604 10mo agoIs this another example of where the license holder feels like they can make more money directly than through the licensing fee?
- smileybarry 10mo agoNo, it started ~4 years ago when FIFA hiked the license cost for EA, and 2 years ago EA had enough & didn't renew the license.[1] Since then, EA basically rebranded their series to "EA Sports FC" and dropped the FIFA branding altogether. This didn't change much as they kept/renewed the licenses for players, teams, stadiums, etc.[2] 1: https://twitter.com/syacvg/status/1706815482744238221 https://twitter.com/syacvg/status/1706815482744238221 https://www.ea.com/en-gb/news/ea-sports-and-fifa-extend-licensing-agreement-until-2022-uk https://www.ea.com/en-gb/news/ea-sports-and-fifa-extend-lice... 2: https://www.ea.com/news/ea-sports-fc https://www.ea.com/news/ea-sports-fc
- dandellion 10mo agoWell see how it goes, but announcing the game without showing anything doesn't look like a good start to me.
- walthamstow 10mo agoThat naming deal renewal was one of the most bungled deals in history. FIFA wanted $1bn to renew for four years and to make it nonexclusive, EA told them to get fucked, now FIFA gets $0 and their name isn't even on the game.
- triceratops 10mo agoI only heard about the naming dispute recently but it happened a couple years ago. Not having FIFA on the name only makes me want to buy it more.
- selbyk 10mo agoIf only EA wasn't on the name either.
- gausswho 10mo agoI don't want anything to do with EA nor FIFA. How's Konami's eFootball these days for couch play? I don't give a rats about pay-to-win online. Can I mod it with real player/team names and run it on Linux?
- andrepd 10mo agoHonestly if you play fifa 14 for the rest of your life, are you missing much? As a couch game I mean. I've gotten hundreds of hours of entertainment off FIFA and PES; never missed having any more features.
- xbmcuser 10mo agoI think the first EA fifa 97 was on sega mega drive 2 that I recall playing. It's amazing to see how far they came over the years but after 2014 I stopped caring about the all the new options as I was to old to learn all the new controls.
- amlib 10mo agoHell, you might even get a kick (heh) out of playing old soccer games from the 90s.
- andrepd 10mo agoSensible Soccer? :)) Fun times
- scq 10mo agoIf you don't want anything to do with EA, Konami ain't much better. They actively sabotage their former employees job prospects. > One employee from a staffing agency said that Konami "files complaints to gaming companies who take on its former employees," causing one game company to "warn its staff against hiring ex-Kon" - "ex-Kon" being a nickname for ex-Konami employees. "If you leave the company, you cannot rely on Konami's name to land a job," one former employee said. https://www.gamesindustry.biz/konami-accused-of-blacklisting-former-employees-report https://www.gamesindustry.biz/konami-accused-of-blacklisting...
- ekropotin 10mo agoUsually Netflix games are meh
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- ch2026 10mo agoI can’t wait to take first place and get awarded my own peace prize
- dylan604 10mo agoYou don't need to win first place for that
- miladyincontrol 10mo agoHonestly most gaming market entrants would do best to try and capitalize on the lowest common denominator of gamers, ball and gun gamers. They're by far the least likely to care where their games are played, just that the games are accessible with the lowest barrier to entry. Most other genres of gamers either have their preferred platforms and are far less likely to migrate.
- jerf 10mo agoNo screenshots. Not even a title screen. No game videos, preliminary or otherwise. Barely a reference to what the genre is. Not a very good announcement for a game, from a strictly technical perspective.
- smileybarry 10mo agoDon't worry, it'll be the #1 FIFA-branded game when it comes out. That's nothing to do with it being the only one, of course.
- charcircuit 10mo agoEA has released FIFA-branded games. Netflix is not alone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_(video_game_series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_(video_game_series)
- debugnik 10mo agoIt's nice to check your own references: > it was announced that EA and FIFA's partnership of 30 years would come to an end upon the termination of their licensing agreement > As a successor to the FIFA series, EA launched the EA Sports FC franchise, with EA Sports FC 24 being the first installment under the new name. Up-to-date FIFA-branded games are not a thing currently, which is what they obviously meant.
- charcircuit 10mo agoThere was not a requirement for them to be up to date. Only that exists.
- smileybarry 10mo agoThey don't exist anymore. They've all been delisted when the partnership expired.
- jscottmiller 10mo agoThey are partnering with Delphi Interactive, which I hadn't heard of, though they are some partner with IO on the new 007 game. > Delphi builds AAA games based on the most desirable IP franchises in the world. Delphi has pioneered a proven model to de-risk titles, reduce development costs, and create unprecedented alignment between IP owners, creatives, and developers. I assume they are some kind of broker between IP and dev studios, though the PR implies they are developing it. The corporate slop tagline isn't encouraging but we'll see.
- Finnucane 10mo agoCorporate slop! You think titles can just de-risk themselves?
- munificent 10mo agoI know, right?! I don't know about other HN readers but some of us wake up in the morning and can't wait to create unprecedented alignment between IP owners, creatives, and developers.
- jsheard 10mo ago> Delphi has pioneered a proven model to de-risk titles, reduce development costs, and create unprecedented alignment between IP owners, creatives, and developers. Their model is already proven before they've delivered a single title, what a time to be alive.
- gausswho 10mo agoNowadays, the shareholders just talk to each other in these press releases, knowing the customer can't do squat about it. You'll get de-risked, unprecedented alignment and you'll like it too!
- netsharc 10mo agoIt does feel like the customers are just the people whose pockets will be picked out of. Do marketing, people pay, they get nothing that was promised, plenty of complaints, company sends standard "We apologize if your expectations were not met, but get fucked.", profit! And then people will still pay them because they have a monopoly. E.g. with Office^W Copilot 365, Windows, Facebook, etc.
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- tomasphan 10mo agoCurious that there are no images and no info about Delphi Interactive besides their Linkedin page. It won't be a FIFA competitor because of the compute limit of Netflix devices, but any more info would be great.
- WD-42 10mo agoFirst I even heard that Netflix had a game platform. More subscriptions how exciting.
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- bstsb 10mo agoi think it's the same one
- haile 10mo agoinstead of Delphi Interactive, they should just partner with Konami and create this new game called Fifa. The PES gameplay + Fifa license would destroy EAFC any day.
- ChrisArchitect 10mo agoThis title could be something like "A newly reimagined FIFA Arrives on Netflix Games" to not mislead/confuse with the widely held informal/former name of what's now called EA Sports FC
- techterrier 10mo agoyes, but who got the Netflix Peace Prize?
- kotaKat 10mo agoHow much more will Netflix hike its price for... games? I thought this was a movie streaming service.
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 10mo agoWhy they are wasting my money on games rather than making decent shows...