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Exactly that - or they negotiate. This is mostly moot, because it seems everyone is opting in to the first one - but it's not exactly farfetched to think that, in the future, someone who is actively and seriously marketing their likeness (for a lot of money) will tell EA what they can do with...

Are you sure? Sort of begs the question then - why did they stop? because that’s exactly what they claimed they were doing until they got sued. And they waited a decade (until they finally negotiated all of the legalities behind obtaining nil) to release a new one.

So you're in the "EA can put out whatever **** product they want, and the rubes will buy it" camp - fair enough (I'm a rube that's gonna buy it). I just understand the argument for/behind the foreseeable opt-outs.

Maybe not enough to effect sales, but there's more than a handful of guys who have enough leverage to negotiate. I can't see EA not wanting Shedeur and Ewers and Downs and... in the game - and you know they'd get sued if they try and put a "generic" player (with the same jersey, height/weight...

Even if it sells 1.5 million copies for 70$ each - at 10% of sales that still "only" comes out to 1k/player. I was just pointing out the flawed reasoning behind "$500 isn't enough" - sure, for Caleb Williams, but If the 3rd string qb at Akron thinks he's going to get rich off of licensing his...

I'm just gonna use round numbers, so forgive me if the analysis seems a little crude. 2017 are the numbers I found (quickly). $17,600 per player, 53 players, 32 teams - so, roughly 30 million paid. Game sold 1,570,000 copies at $60 a pop - so 94m. Thus, the NFLPA deal with Madden is something...