Why EA Killed FIFA

From its record-breaking sales to the surprising decision by EA to bench the FIFA name, we're diving into the drama where strategy meets sport. Witness the evolution from 2D sprites to billion-dollar licensing deals, and the strategic gameplay not just on the pitch but in boardrooms. With a nod to the rivalry that had gamers choosing sides like it's El Clásico, we'll explore how EA's quest for authenticity led to a name change more controversial than a VAR decision in a World Cup final. So, lace up for a journey through the highs, lows, and laugh-out-loud moments in the game behind the game.
⏱ Timestamps
00:00 Why EA Killed FIFA?
01:36 EA's FIFA vs PES
04:56 EA vs FIFA: The War Begins
06:40 Why FIFA Lost
09:08 The Future
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[@-VForValhalla-]

As much as I hate EA, I am glad they handed a huge L to FIFA in this scenario.

[@ANGELOFDARKification]

Hopefully this means FIFA works with another game developer and tries to make a good football game now

[@exoticbutters2781]

Agreed.

[@DavidPortugueseGAMER]

@@ANGELOFDARKification The question is how much are game developers willing to pay for the FIFA branding.

[@-VForValhalla-]

@@ANGELOFDARKification The only one who can compete with EA FC is PES. It will take another developer literally decades of development to compete with the infrastructure that EA has built. Love EA or hate them, you have to agree what they built with their sports franchises took decades of work. (This is coming from a guy who absolutely hates the gambling culture in gaming that EA started)

[@ANGELOFDARKification]

@@-VForValhalla- PES died a long time ago though, eFootball is a joke. I think FIFA will partner with 2k or someone to make a football game. There's a couple free ones coming too. It will take time and EA will never completely die but the competition will at least wake everyone up to make a good game instead of a casino.

[@Amm17ar]

Today.....I feel like money - Gianni Infantino everyday probably.

[@Lotschi]

this will become a meme!

[@FlyingNimbus]

😂😂

[@jerryrikki9466]

Still surprised Qatar didn't hit him with the ricin like they did that journalist after he said he was feeling gay

[@mortenfrosthansen84]

But EA was the ones who taught him how to perfect it

[@markerzuahsiam335]

😂

[@Munenejr]

Roberto Larcos should have won ballon D’or he was coooold

[@bcbitchkkv]

He truly reached his prime with Boca Seniors!

[@alistairdimmick2886]

*Ballon D'eurgh

[@mirmir9368]

BOCA SENIORSSSS LMFAO

[@c.b.8193]

Strong contender in a national team with the likes of Ronaird, Facu or even Naldarinho

[@bryanmorrison2396]

A think he wld off like cannavaro jst brasil had Ron Riv N Dinhio. But best ever jst ahead of lahm. Shld be 2 balon doir attacker/ defender gk dmf n obv defenders then attackers midfielders.

[@ANGELOFDARKification]

Haaland didn't care about any of the game stuff. EA just offered him tons of money to be their game's ambassador

[@gendengraven5049]

Indeed, Haaland may not care at all, but he plays FIFA/EA FC lol.

[@ChoobCubed]

He's too old for video games anyway.

[@fadhl4801]

​​@ChoobCubed he's only 23 bro

[@its3amagain.]

@@ChoobCubed what

[@thenorseguy2495]

@@ChoobCubedI’m twice his age and still love playing video games😆

[@stormstriker2000]

u didnt answer Why Haaland Doesn't Play Fifa

[@robthewalrus]

it's a play on words... it means he's featured on a game called FC24 and not the usual FIFA. It's a bit of a clickbait.

[@talestomazalves8089]

Because he plays EA FC 24

[@-Filip]

​@@robthewalrusa bit?

[@robs9237]

Haaland doesn't play video games.... video games play him

[@samelk7161]

Cause he plays EAFC

[@ngashjr]

PES on PC with a patch was the ultimate experience

[@raidbenachoure1330]

A man of culture right here!

[@sambitkoley2733]

It is still. Pes 2021+ mods+ Manual passing - Best soccer game of all time.

[@raidbenachoure1330]

@@sambitkoley2733 2019 modified is the way for me!

[@sindanonegongo1199]

@@sambitkoley2733 no truer words have been spoken.

[@harrygregg9551]

FIFA is a child's game pes is a simulator .

[@mayankgupta4032]

EA FC is too much show business and very less gameplay. Whats the point of being able to change kits in a football game but not being able to pass the ball properly...

[@iXpertMan]

unfortunately as is with most things in LIFE

[@NiccoloSeilo]

I think not being able to pass the ball properly is part of life. I’m glad that’s in the game. It’s realistic

[@silverstreet7984]

100% disagree with whatever you're saying

[@mayankgupta4032]

@@silverstreet7984 Sadly man I don't have a console and ea fc sucks on mobile. 🙄

[@josephkekapoh838]

Right?

[@adewit03]

the reason pes flopped is because they called it soccer

[@jepulis6674]

Its just been a bit worse and they were late to trap gambling addicts.

[@Hero-and-Hooligan]

Pes flop after ps3 was released. It was king on ps2.

[@adewit03]

actually now you mention it it was fire i played pes 09 on the 360@@Hero-and-Hooligan

[@M_k-zi3tn]

@@Hero-and-Hooligan Nah PES 16 was a good game. A bit too easy though

[@lookitthis6101]

poor guy didn't watch until 2:25 of the video 'soccer' is a superior word

[@JimTheFly]

Part of the reason the FIFA was asking for so much money was because EA is making an insane amount of money JUST from Ultimate Team. They were pulling in $650M from it over 5 years ago and it's just constantly gone up and up. For FY2021, EA made $1.62BILLION just from FIFA Ultimate Team microtransactions. And every year they push toward more and more of this cash cow, especially behind sponsored streamers (who are basically just paid hype men), and a business model and system design that steers people more toward needing to spend money to get more players that they can flip into better player squad challenges. And all this while some of their seriously great design options just get left to be "updated" like once every 5 years, which often means removing elements that fans liked, then putting them back in years later and calling them "new". The absolute bastardization that the career modes underwent in the last 10-15 years is saddening, but gotta make sure to have the big money FC Points packs available just months into the game! (And let's not forget that they intentionally make sure that the Points costs for packs and the amounts you can get from buying Points NEVER MATCH UP, just to elicit feelings that the added Points are just being wasted and therefore pushing people to spend on ANOTHER top-up of that virtual wallet, since "Well, it's not as much since I've already got some points in there..." FIFA is a hideous corrupt organization. EA are a hive of greedy manipulative bastards. Unfortunately, they both end up putting out good products, which sucks. But EA just keeps looking worse and worse to me every year.

[@tngdrczp120]

Bitch please! Ea hasn’t done anything for the game since 2016. That tells you everything about the company, it’s a scam.

[@fnmikeygg]

Fifa should just make their own game then

[@nivinswriter2597]

​@@fnmikeygg2K, witch is probably the other biggest game dev company outside ea got the rights for fifa EA has always been scummy like this

[@mortenfrosthansen84]

How people can sit and work for months and months, on their art or with technical abilities.. for us, the gamers. To then just hand it over to EA. What happened? Is the developing world just a soul eating dystopia, or soon-to-be monopoly? Kinda like concert tickets slowly have become. When EA sits on the majority, they will control the prize

[@somethinglikethat2176]

I wouldn't say EA make a good product. It's a licensed product and that's what's important. From a technical perspective there's nothing that's really better than average from the EAFC/FIFA series. NBA Live is a good example of how they depend on the exclusive license.

[@AtTheBridgePod]

Pro Evolution Soccer was always the better game in its prime, FIFA/EAFC is just Ultimate Team since that is all EA ever try to improve.

[@emikomina]

exclusive licensing should never had happened. its so obvious that the overwhelming majority of consumers would go to where they can play the same club they support. Konami never had the money to compete with EA for licenses. now EA has a monopoly on a lot of sports games just because they have the money for exclusive licenses, and because of that they have no competition and with no competition means they barely improve the game each year. Look at MLB, EA doesn't have the license for that sport so they themselves don't bother making a competitor because they know they can't compete without the license.

[@silviobastos3514]

since 2010 fifa is a better game

[@ANGELOFDARKification]

FIFA actually tried hard when they were the underdog, that's what led to the improvements in 10,11,12,13 etc. Once PES fell off, they had no competition and just monopolised football games and turned it into a casino

[@french_toast223]

Pes still is better and you can still play with basically every player

[@VIK_1903]

Exactly, the video starts with a blatant lie. No one played FIFA back then.

[@MrReese]

One key factor that seems to be missing in the video is that EA did not renew the FIFA brand name licensing agreement because FIFA not only wanted a lot more money, they would also not give EA exclusive rights to the name for video games anymore. That was the real reason EA jumped ship. FIFA could have capitalized on EA not using the FIFA name anymore if they had a (very good) competitor game ready to go for fall 2023 when EAFC'24 was released, but FIFA has nothing of the sort, so their advantage is basically gone now.

[@JonatasAdoM]

They wanted more money and now they have nothing. Quite in brand with most companies these days. They could have waited until they had a hand in the deal - These executives are not that smart though.

[@dylanparker130]

I can still remember queuing up in Beatties (a UK department store) behind other kids waiting to play the store copy. It might look silly now, but to a child who didn't have his own video games console, playing it was just about the most fun ever!

[@rmnkhr]

in terms of gameplay fifa is an arcade game where the game mechanics enables you to score 10 goals a game so they had to add some "scripted" situations so the scoreline makes more sense. pes engine is the closer to actual football while it takes time to master, the movement, balance, and how to do tricks is more natural, which is unfortunate it doesnt have the better licensing. thats why some modders made it with real faces and badges, etc like smokepatch's football life. it got the best of both worlds

[@Jonifico]

You're right in that it aims to portray football more realistically, but the animation system and lack of fluidity ruin PES for me. I keep giving it a go every year and ending in the same disappointment.

[@unknownuser5645]

Pea 2021 is the best football game ever made

[@mucktown6556]

@@unknownuser5645which basically is smokepatchs football life

[@qwerty1994ize]

@@unknownuser5645yes. I enjoyed that game so much

[@dolod777]

In real life u can't control 11 people, scorelines irl for such sport would also be 10 to 10 that's why the scripts are moronic. Devs should embrace high scores and stop scripting bullshit, which keeps scores low like in "real football"

[@de132]

It's inaccurate to say that FIFA International Soccer had "no competitors" in 1993: Sensible Soccer was the most popular football series in the world in the early 1990s, especially on Amiga and IBM PC compatibles. Sensi also was released on the Sega Mega Drive (Genesis in the US and Canada), which was the most popular gaming platform for sports games during the 4th generation of game systems. It's also incorrect to say that FIFA International Soccer was the best selling game of the year: The best selling game of 1993 was Street Fighter II (~5m copies) and the best selling game of 1994 was Donkey Kong Country (~6m copies) FIFA International Soccer was only the best selling video game in the UK for a few months (Lemmings, for example, outsold FIFA International Soccer) and elsewhere the sales numbers were tepid as most of Europe were less likely to buy home console games in the early 1990s. It was common that European sales figures to be under 1 million for large releases for years. It wouldn't be until the 5th generation (Sony PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Sega Saturn) when mass adoption of home consoles were common throughout Europe.

[@kaybeeva]

Thank you very much for clearing this up, because the script here was too hyperbolic. I also played a number of soccer games (even in the arcade) when EA FIFA wasn't the end all and be all since there were various options waiting for you while succeeding in having a place in the sports game marketshare.

[@E6hosting]

I feel that is not 100% true. Europe was slower to adopt consoles but we still had plenty. My home always seemed to have the latest one, but when I went to town I'd see rows of Master System games. Fifa probably sold a tonne on it. The megadrive game is probably still one of the most enjoyable football games I played.

[@poppinc8145]

This channel always makes outlandish and inaccurate claims. Half the content always seems like paid propaganda anyways.

[@crispendaysh3401]

I used to play sensible soccer for years and Emilyn hughes international soccer and occasionally went to my old mates to play match day. I tried the the 1st few fifa games but wasn’t keen but then fifa 96 started getting me into fifa games

[@atereolusola2497]

I remember TIF, this is football, there were competitions but the fall off of Pes made ea grow exponentially ​@@kaybeeva

[@giodhuha6771]

Might as well change the title to "Why EA dumped FIFA?" 😂 10:13 That's just ridiculous yet hilarious 🤣

[@cosmin2267]

One corrpurt organization bending over another corrupt organization; the world truly is a beautiful place ❤️

[@rotua98]

how EA is corrupt ? people willingly gave their money lmao not an EA fans, but honestly they are better developer, i mean most of their game is playable at release, compare to other same shitty developer that their tripple a games suck from the start even me still rocking FIFA 16 with its mods people wasting money then calling corruption, hillarious 😅

[@cosmin2267]

@@rotua98 every battlefield game I've ever bought was always a hot mess for the first 4 months, they have micro transactions for everything and most their game are live service and finally like video showcased their monopoly over NFL, NHL, and Soccer teams naming rights/likeness.

[@NickPhillips-yf2re]

Corrupt, immoral, it’s all the same ultimate team ruined fifa, created a toxic, money grabbing game. Kids spending money on gambling packs, KZbinrs advertising it, pay to win. They created that and made more expensive fifa point packs where kids could buy them and then get nothing in return. If not corrupt it’s certainly disgusting

[@NickPhillips-yf2re]

The people spending money on packs are also stupid Yh but some of them are kids not even knowing what there doing I remember being 12 or whatever buying coins. But at least I was rewarded and knew what I was buying. Now it’s in game cards, “promos”. Where it’s a roulette of what you get and 99% of the time it’s awful rewards. Yes blame the consumer but the person who created all this is the real problem

[@JajaofAbuja]

Curious. Can FIFA make an anti-monopoly rule for "video games image rights"? I really prefer playing PES but one always has to import real names and logos separately each year.

[@rickcatley21]

the new pes or efootbal is trash ive tried it was horrible

[@mucktown6556]

@@rickcatley21that's why u just update the 2021 version and have the perfect game, especially on PC

[@marshalgrayson6482]

@@mucktown6556 yeah the 2021 is perfect such a shame what they did to the series

[@RoyMatzem]

Fifa dont make rules. Rules are made by the countries. Thats why barely have any Brazilians teams on EAFC, Brazilian laws are hard to negotiate.

[@Anno_Nymouse]

They can't. It's the decision of football clubs and associations, who they want to participate with (exclusively). It's the same with brands, who make exclusively contracts with players. It has nothing to do with monopoly.

[@YeTism]

PES has always been better than FIFA. It just lacked the licensing which killed it.

[@sabitbagirli7399]

Definitely

[@KelpoChips]

Idk what you are talking about. PES is a horrible game for modern game standards for years now. People tend to always heroize the competitor because they hate EA. Both games are bad.

[@sabitbagirli7399]

@@KelpoChips i dont know which game standarts you are talking about. Game is game either good or bad. Fifa is trash in terms of gameplay and always had bugs. Only thing they have its license.

[@KelpoChips]

@@sabitbagirli7399 true but PES is even worse and without licences

[@power50001562]

@@KelpoChips PES has had an issue ever since Konami got rid of the FOX engine. But even while they slowly add features to the Unreal engine version of the game what is there to really dislike? They have an edit feature where you can just place a file that adds all the jerseys and logos that are missing. So they've already fixed the missing licenses issue many versions of the game ago.

[@IrakliModebadze-tc5po]

Top Content! Keep that intensivity and quality you are doing great job ❤

[@AthleticInterest]

We'll keep it up! 😉

[@LongHaulGamingHD1]

Another thing to consider is who can FIFA find that is willing to develop a game engine for them. Practically no major game developer has the tools to make a football game, so they'd have to start from scratch and that requires a lot of money. Usually if a brand wants to have a game developed under their name they'd be the ones putting down investment on the game engine and getting their money back through sales, and it won't be any different for FIFA especially since all they have is the World Cup and they are very specific in what they want the game to be.

[@tatendamachakaire9539]

Haaland is not even mentioned in this video

[@michaelgitau8120]

LOL! Right?

[@ThomasIsDaBest-88]

Is haaland part of fifa? 😂 He is a player on fifa not owner or anytjing like that 😂 No need to mention

[@hridoyabdullah5133]

EA needs to be ready to face monopoly lawsuits..💁‍♂️

[@apierre6]

EA has done the same thing with American football. EA has an exclusive rights deal so they are the only football game being made

[@1iri]

Exactly! I was thinking about the same thing. Is funny how in the video they are praising EA for reaching those exclusive deals, but what about monopoly? For example, Apple created a good product with the phone and apps store, and charging money for their own product they "invented" and created. And now Epic Games or European Union say it's a monopoly and you need to break it and let others use your product that you invented and invested money in it! EA with these "exclusive" deals is 10 times worse than Apple, they just buy or "bribe" everyone and lock everyone out, compared to Apple which they invested their money in development or research and created their own product, that now they are forced to "open it" to others.

[@tiagogreeve685]

I'm no lawyer but I'm pretty sure it's because fifa is purely for entertainment, so a monopoly is not as hurtful to people. Meanwhile phones are actual utility items that people use in their evreday lives, as a result a monopoly will be much more damaging. If FIFA becomes shit or too expensive because of monopoly, you can play plenty of other games. Meanwhile apple has made sure their product is absolutely necessary in lots of ways, proprietairy charger, linking of cloud services with phone, apple pay, etc. This is the way a monopoly hurts consumers

[@abdirajab2511]

Problem with Human beings, is always they will blame the rich to be corrupt and all the rich are doing is to safeguard their Income no matter what weather comes. You call it Corrupt cz you have a Different mindset from the rich. The rich never play fair. They play legally

[@lekni8633]

Once again great video I'm not even into football but I enjoy when you put out content. But again your title needs work.

[@AthleticInterest]

The aim is always to make it entertaining for everyone! 🙂

[@TheCCproductionsCC]

if 2k makes a fifa game i'll play that over whatever garbage EA puts out

[@yuvindudesilva5503]

2k isn’t any better tho. This years nba 2k24 is the most pay to win 2k of all time. It’s stacked with micro transactions

[@SeanDelaney42]

Enjoy Man Red VS Los Blancos FC

[@je4eva43]

@@yuvindudesilva5503thats good as long as the noobs dont get tactics

[@blaalalalalalalalalalalala4751]

​@@SeanDelaney42mods exist mate

[@SeanDelaney42]

@@blaalalalalalalalalalalala4751 Soo you’re going to spend money on a subpar unlicensed product just to mod it? Really?😂

[@BOABModels]

I thought this might happen when it seemed demand for an official World Cup game seem to be dropping. The 2018 tournament was a free update for the main game rather than a standalone title. I think it's a shame but at the same time, FIFA have turned the World Cup into a shadow of its former self. I don't really like EA but I also don't like FIFA. They got their comeuppance here..

[@ZeddZM]

FIFA asking for 1 billion/year in rights was stupid af. Also, EA has more than 20 years of experience perfecting their game, only 2K has the capabilities to rival them on the technical side

[@BlackNuke145]

Konami arguably had the better game. Fifa should have teamed up with them

[@ChristophersKraatz]

This was secretly a contracts and licensing video Well played - always banging content 🔥

[@wanderingworlds6481]

Fascinating story and a great lesson in smart business. Thanks for taking the time to tell it :)

[@AthleticInterest]

Our pleasure 😀

[@lazospodcast]

Amazing videos as always !!!

[@AthleticInterest]

Thanks very much 😀

[@bokang8540]

But isn't owing all the licenses in the industry monopolistic behavior? Wouldn't regulators fine a business that prevents other businesses from using all of the suppliers in the industry?

[@newnepal2072]

EA Sports have a monopoly it seems which shouldn't be allowed. This video sounds all too happy about the monopoly EA Sports is imposing over others.

[@kinsleynjikinsley2584]

Hence all the crashes during game play

[@abdirajab2511]

You can say all you want to say. I just can't lower my level just to be on your level. Up your game.

[@abdirajab2511]

While EA was Foreseeing aqnd safe guarding it's future. E football was Fucking arounf with the game engine. People want to see Haaland or Ronaldinho play not John cena in a Brazilian shirt

[@obahchukwunonso5375]

@@abdirajab2511 they never had the money to compete anyway, if you actually followed pes, they tried buying the license of big leagues like La Liga but they could only hold that for like 3 years, till EA made it an exclusive deal with a lot of money involved

[@madjoshmotingwa3737]

I have missed a lot 😭 by thanks for the videos thy keep busy and I do enjoy bless keep them coming

[@Jonifico]

The intro was fantastically worded. I love you channel!

[@AthleticInterest]

Got to make a good first impression 😉 Thanks… we really appreciate it

[@jonasdauerbrenner6432]

EA talking about realism while pushing the same game for 10 years.

[@gamingink1252]

Also man and woman playing together 🤣

[@PVPTawa]

PES was easily the best game, the game with more innovation too, FIFA only had the name. FIFA has not been good for over a decade. FIFA was well within their rights to ask for more money considering the game had grown and the value FIFA asked for was still negligible compared to the amount of money EA was making off it, if anyone was greedy in this situation, it was EA. Regardless, I welcome competition to not only EA but also 2K, big monopolies in their respective sports, both have been rotting for a decade, I can't even play their games anymore.

[@theavidgamer6213]

The sad reality is that gamers don't often care about mechanics that much. Pretty much all of the most popular franchises today would've died if gamers actually cared about quality

[@MainsMain]

FIFA from 2011 till 2016 was decent

[@iXpertMan]

unfortunately FIFA was a better marketer and businessman :L

[@sockinvaders]

You have a strange idea of how capitalism works. If you make a hugely successful business, and you're licensing my name - I don't get to just charge you whatever I like and you have to pay it. The price one sets for the name should reflect the value it gives. Otherwise that huge business will go its own way. A name is just a name. The true value is in the game itself.

[@theavidgamer6213]

@@sockinvaders "A name is just a name" is a very naïve view. Many companies are still trusted by people simply for their name. FIFA (the organization) effectively gave EA a stamp of authenticity, which greatly helped EA grow the profile of FIFA (the game franchise). The truth is that those games were never really that good despite what nostalgic people say, and people really only bought them to play as their favorite teams or players. The mistake that FIFA (the organization) made was thinking that EA would never outgrow their need for the FIFA name (after all, if you already have the rights to all the team and player names, people can reasonably pretend that it's still a FIFA game). The franchise was built entirely off of appearances and not mechanics.

[@GolazoSports101]

bit of a clickbait title, eh?

[@DanielS-zq2rr]

Very clickbait title

[@jayceontalylor4244]

yeah, and even harmful

[@The_G.O.A.T__]

Hello Again Athletic Interest ❤

[@AthleticInterest]

Hello! 👋😉

[@blackstormer95]

OGs know that before PES it was Winning Eleven

[@baderx29]

Gol gol gol gol goal 😂😂😂 the Japanese commentators voice is a huge part of my childhood

[@akashghosh511]

Man what a game❤

[@lydiau8902]

Winning eleven is pes former name. Same game

[@user-lz3qm5uh8s]

fifa2k let's goo 💥💥

[@crispendaysh3401]

Yeap can’t wait

[@arnoldpodcast3614]

I always love your video mate! Cool stuff!

[@Bob-nc2zt]

Great video! Can you make a video regarding pogba's ban, would love to see that

[@AthleticInterest]

Thank you! And we always appreciate suggestions 🙂

[@chad9971]

I played PES when I was younger, it was buggy but smoother than FIFA. TBH the only reason I stopped playing PES was the authenticity. It was hard to enjoy a football game with made-up team names and made-up players (hence why I usually restart my FIFA manager mode after like ~7 seasons, I can't play with too many fake players lol).

[@benjaminbronnimann3966]

If you have PES on the computer you can just download mods with all the real names, faces etc. and it doesn't cost a penny

[@ruahruah2154]

Ive played in near all versions of FIFA since 1994, 1997 was fun with indoor option :D anyways never bought FC24, first i just feel more and more scammed with paying 80usd+ for almost the same game past few years, just minor updates and some story line then i mostly play offline, and its way too online FUT focus, which is not great for me and also after reading bunch of negative reviews on FC24 i decided definitely not to buy it still playing 2023 and ok with it, might even switch to older versions - they even had much better coach career which i usually playing to I wish they had FIFA Manager back ;)

[@jamesbrowne7601]

I played it from the start on the sega mega drive fifa international then got fed up with it around 2002 & started playing football manager & when my laptop kept crashing brought a ps3 & went back to fifa & was amazed how much it had moved on I played offline season mode up to about 2012 then just kept buying it for the sake off it & not really playing it just to look at the graphics & realism. I just stick to football manager now it’s a lot less effort 😂 & cheaper

[@mrkolo4161]

love the Editing, keep it up

[@AthleticInterest]

Will do! Thanks 🙂

[@adzz296]

Seeing all the older FIFAs in the intro… I don’t know if I’ll ever be ready to see the goats 🇵🇹🇦🇷 get cover star icons💔

[@edwinduisburg8138]

FIFA became unplayable due to intense scripting you can't even enjoy a simple career mode in the game anymore. All these brand deals mean nothing when you can't make a genuine football game.

[@zamokwakheshezi6798]

Scripting? You think in real football you will win all your matches? Lol

[@anmolkasat6161]

​@@zamokwakheshezi6798you are winning 3:0 against a lowest rated league two team and all of sudden your players can get the ball. The ball goes through your players who are all world class and the game is drawn at 3:3. And this all happens in final 20 in-game minutes of the game. If this is not scripted then I don't know what is?

[@barney2159]

​@@anmolkasat6161so the game is just one big statcheck? Can't you outplay someone higher rated when you're lower rank because you were simply playing better that game? If not, what's even the point of the game.

[@npaul3008]

This is the worst year for EA. It has retained less than half of its player base from last year. April of 23, FIFA 23 had 80k players on steam, EA FC now has 35k, and less than 40% reviews from last year. The psychological aspect of playing "FIFA" is lost. It seems more like a EA loss even now, just wait until FIFA partners with another game. EA will lose millions more.

[@superking-nicolaslucau7252]

Lmao this guy thinks EA cares about PC gaming. Fifa players on Steam are in the 100k. Fifa players on console are in the 10M...

[@abdirajab2511]

It seems you did not understand the Video. While EA sports were foreseeing and safeguarding their future. Other Competitors were fucking around with game engines and putting Fake names and Weird faces. Who is roberto larcos

[@afaris88]

One of the example of how monopoly backfires. FIFA thought they could get a blank check from EA, but the latter said "nope."

[@tomq6491]

A competition between two groups and I wanted both to lose. Good video, although it is a bit inaccurate to say there was no competition to EAs offer in the mid 90s, there were a plerothora of football games, Sensible Soccer for example, was one of the most popular games of the time, at least in UK, and there were plenty that came before even then. Also in light of this, EA couldn't have done their research if they thought there wasn't potential in a footballing game.

[@nabri-nfg3262]

The 24 version is the one that I quiting on. It's the last soccer video I'll by from ea for a long long time

[@rickcatley21]

until next september

[@iXpertMan]

quit since 23 ))

[@nabri-nfg3262]

@@rickcatley21 haven't played in 2 weeks buddy

[@nabri-nfg3262]

@@iXpertMan I did too but my friend got into it so I had to get 24 and got hooked again

[@istiantoroni3287]

I do not like EA but they are geniuses to use license, micro transaction, game play, etc... and for PES they are too late to realize how important is it... for FIFA, I'm skeptical they barely launch football game... to develop, launch, and manage video games from beginning is not easy and complicated... and FIFA said in 2022 they develop a football video games, but up until now we didn't hear any news about it

[@PhyrexJ]

In short: FIFA only sold the use of their 4 letters on the box, the use of players' likeness are seperate deals brokered with the leagues.

[@igorstambak718]

Wait. When I first heard about this, people were saying that EA wasn't going to be able to use any of the names or likeness of the players and would just make a game kind of like PES did. I thought it was going to fail miserably and over time another company was going to steal FIFA from them. You mean to tell me this whole time FIFA thought that literally its name and nothing else was worth all this money? That people would play as Messi and Haaland and be able to play through season after season or online but would stop and think "yeah but where is the FIFA logo?" and move on to buy a generic game that has the FIFA logo but none of the teams or players from real life? That level of delusion knows no bounds.

[@obiwan967]

I'm just sad that PES is gone... it was a great era when gamers had a choice between the two, I would used to buy both copies of the games depending on what I wanted to play and what my friends were playing

[@yanniskahnwald5042]

idk why they stopped making become a legend and the other offline modes. they ruined the game

[@shukkur619]

Pes is gone?? Dude they changed the name to eFootball 2024..mobile version is smooth af.. Not played console tho

[@ismaeladen1204]

When FIFA decides to launch this game you best believe they’ll sign up all the leagues.

[@mrgreekgm754]

Now here's a guy who does not understand how licensing works!

[@abuashsamah4843]

I love that im able to recognize the snippets of songs that was included

[@Alorio-Gori]

Wow Thanks for these Video 🙏

[@SmilingNinja]

So basically, FIFA held EA hostage over its 4 letters and demanded millions. EA called their bluff and used a different set of 4 letters for their game (EA FC) and saved millions of dollars. 😂

[@felipecustodio8934]

One detail you could've added, is that the Brazillian League (that I know) is exclusive to PES, while on Fifa 23/EA24 is made up players

[@lapinchiloca]

The best FIFA version was the "Around the world" 1998 edition... qualifying rounds against Maldives, or choosing local teams in the malaysian league :)

[@OK-ct3rd]

great vid, like every time

[@AthleticInterest]

Appreciate it... every time! 🙂

[@itssurajsamant]

Man, I'm just thinking, wouldn't it be cool to see a 2k FIFA game? I mean, imagine the stories they could come up with for Career Mode. It'd be wild to see what they could do, you know?

[@de132]

They still won't have the league licenses. So it would be cool for the World Cup, but that's about it.

[@itssurajsamant]

@@de132 yeah i kow it's not quite possible but still I just have a long time wish (I know it's not gonna happen but atleast I can have a hope )

[@RoyMatzem]

Only if they focus on a different aspect. If they do te same thing that EA. They Will lose cause of the licenses. Trying to recreate Football Manager on consoles for example. That would be interesting.

[@luisridez9219]

Fifa and EA are both garbage

[@JonatasAdoM]

I remember playing FIFA 06 and although I loved that I could play an international event, it was really tiresome to play the same world cup over and over and over and over. I still remember the substitution camera angle.

[@prithvikarthik2489]

Great video!

[@AthleticInterest]

Thanks, Prithvi!

[@matriquess]

I played both FIFA and PES in the 2000s, it was the opposite, PES was funnier and easier to play, the only reason I started playing FIFA was because they had more licenses, back in those days they still had Brazilian league... now they don't even have the national team with most world cups, but charge as expensive as ever, they only care for online experience where people spend money, no respect for casual player from the old days

[@donmathew4152]

Boys play FIFA, men play PES.

[@oussamaaba2242]

Right on

[@alpha_nokk2172]

🤓

[@ukigumo4557]

The voice-over reminds me of Jaqen H'ghar. 😂 Great video (I love the voice by the way). Liebe Grüße.

[@chaos-fk6fs]

great video really appreciate it. i dont know who you are but keep going

[@ndlovulwazi]

FIFA gameplay wasn’t better than PES to be honest

[@Midhuncb]

Yes

[@bandit5708]

Loving the vids, but recently the background audio cuts made it kind of annoying to listen to tbh

[@sistakastet]

PES for pc was never an issue, the patches fixed that quickly. But EA made sure now that I will never enjoy a new football game again. Unless I get a computer and install an old PES game. Long live PES.

[@isaackkalama9563]

The flow, the humour, the narration and the video sequence is phenomenal ❤️🔥

[@nabhannbn]

Content always top notch

[@AthleticInterest]

Very pleased that you're enjoying it! 🙂

[@Nzo2K1G]

Mate very good video I loved it but please 😭😭 why did u uses a 10 years old Ligue 1 logo 😭😭

[@smedits2705]

Hey, recently cricketer Virat Kohli (3rd most followed sports guy on IG) parted ways with Puma and is apparently launching his own apparel brand, which left me wondering why? They had such a good thing i mean his wife too joined him last year as an ambassador so what could've happened? Is it image rights? It can make a great video i really wanna hear your opinion about it!

[@alfredo2780]

FIFA can still have an International game, like world cup or beach cup or FIFA Street and stuff like that.

[@babajideamure108]

EA actually needs a competition. The new FIFA game could start with FIFA licensed competitions like world cup, and the regional competitions. Get all the regions into it expecially Africa.

[@victorbeysmith]

With more and more alternative leagues popping up (see Peter Thiel Olympics on Steroids or Ice Cube's BIG3 basketball league), it could be that a new soccer league appears, teams with EA, and takes FIFA head on! EA could even be the initiator of this league and have a good chance

[@RuairiODonnellFOTO]

In Spain we have the King's League run by big streamer. Teams are owned by Twitch streamers and it pulls in huge audience online and at games. Teams are second rate five a side amateurs, but it's the hype that draws the audiences

[@jabulanisello9116]

Brazilian national team is also no longer in FIFA as of FIFA 23 and FC 24. However, you can still play with Brazil national team on the 2022 World Cup competition.

[@D_veraz]

Stopped playing FIFA 7 years ago.. just same game rehashed with minimum development

[@haitambarez8584]

3:02 A fundamental shift did happen in the mid-2000s, but you forgot to mention that it was also influenced by the overhaul in the FIFA series gameplay. The licenses were never enough, and I think that if those big changes in gameplay did not happen, PES would still have gotten the upper hand to this day.

[@emekambaebie6956]

Beautiful explanation. Thanks.

[@AthleticInterest]

You're very welcome! 🙂

[@dwayneholland-bg7zv]

fantastic video thank you so much!

[@ermocrate]

I hope they include alla the teams again, I don’t play much Fifa anymore, but when I do I would like Serie A championship to be fully licensed.

[@mohammeds5458]

Very good video. I would like to suggest something a little bit out of football, and that is how Need for Speed takes the explosiveness of Porsche.

[@franklinmohlala955]

We saw that Zlatan shoutout of Athletic Interest😂😂😂😂

[@joacok94]

Oliver Kalm doesn't seem to make justice to his last name

[@lucianb7]

making 20 billions rehashing the same game over and over and over again...

[@UDAYVEERUSD]

The outro 😂😂😂

[@tejasvinsingh6788]

Thank God they didn't show the other time Speed packed Ronaldo👀

[@Anarcher47]

Naming and brandig aside, this version of the game had the most bugs and crashed the most often than any other I played in the past 20 years. This is the main reason I am considering to quit a game I have cherished for so long.

[@SD78]

2:20 Uhhhhhh...Kickoff 2 and Sensible Soccer were big games in the early 90s.

[@alluvialedaempfer962]

Actually, the first "race" was between Konami's International Superstar Soccer and FIFA and International Superstar Soccer blew FIFA out in every single aspect except of licensing. FIFA didn't really make it super mainstream until the release of FIFA 98 Road to the World Cup which took the world by storm.

[@njabulokuture1453]

You forgot to mention the uefa champions league jump from Konami to Fifa

[@krzgo_is_drowning_please_help]

I think after 10-12 years it will be a fun fact that 2 or 3 FIFAs weren't actually named FIFA

[@Gameboob]

5:46, that was brilliant... bravo

[@deaddropholiday]

I'm surprised the Chinese didn't allow one of their major software companies freedom to create their own variant using all of the names and then bankrolling whatever international lawsuits landed in their courts.

[@james8606]

With EA now saying FIFA were stopping them from developing the game to see what they change on future releases

[@timhassler3488]

The networking and scaling effects of EA's exclusive licencing deals sound like they have been building a natural monopoly. Shouldn't the European comission investigate such market manipulating behaviour?

[@theinevitable590]

PES 2021 was the last best game Konami made.. this free to play on eFootball is trash, for offline guys like myself.. I want a league I can play in, I've never been big on EA's Fifa series and the last one I ever played was 2017 they just stopped looking at improving the game in itself.. licences and all I'm not a fan of the gameplay as much.. FIFA approaching a new developer would be interesting but if they do one can only hope that there's focus on firstly the gameplay.. I'm not bothered so much on the licensing.. it adds the realism to it, but I'm big on gameplay