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FIFA hints at giving EA the scarlet card as it says it wants more developers making football games

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FIFA has suggested that it no longer wants to work exclusively with EA connected the future of football TV games.

In a recent statement, football's governing body stated that it testament "adopt a new commercial message locating in gaming and esports to ensure that it is best ordered to make decisions that benefit all football stakeholders." Thereupon in judgement, the tie-u says that "this needs to make up a space that is occupied by more than one party dominant all rights."

That's a pretty unenclosed shot at EA, which has suggested in modern weeks that information technology mightiness be prepared to drop the rights to the FIFA name for its future football titles, resulting in FIFA 23 getting a new game. EA has also issued refreshing trademarks hinting at a potential new name for the series, amid reports that FIFA wanted to double the price of its cite and limit the company's use of microtransactions going second.

FIFA says that it's speaking to players and developers to better understand the rising of its take on video games and that information technology is "of crucial importance for FIFA and its stakeholders to maximize totally future opportunities for football and gaming fans." Put simply, FIFA is hoping to observe shipway to purchase its gaming identity outside EA's long-spurting series, using events like the men's and women's World Cups to help do so.

Patc neither FIFA nor EA has expressed instantaneously discontent with to each one other at this head, the disagreement betwixt the two parties is growing increasingly more public. Given their thirty-year history and EA's enduring dominance of the football gaming setting, it'll be fascinating to see what long-condition encroachment any changes could have.

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