EA Sports College Football boasts significant changes from its first return to the college football franchise video game last year. One of the big changes is that Notre Dame football fans quite literally help the school make some money simply by playing the game.
One of the big things that has circled EA Sports College Football is that players, now coaches, and schools are all able to make money off the popularity of the game. Last year, EA Sports paid players a relatively modest amount to lend their name to the game. It also had an intricate formula based on rankings in the real world to determine how much each school got paid.
New EA Sports payout model lets Notre Dame’s royalties grow with every game fans play
According to a new report by cllct, EA is changing how the payout format works. This year, the payouts to each school will be based on how many people play the game as a specific team.
“For each CFB product released by EA SPORTS, we (CLC Learfield) will provide a percentage for each institution based on the games played for that institution as a percentage of the total games played across all institutions,” one document the site acquired said. “This percentage of games played will become the final allocation percentage for each school that will be applied to the total gross royalties for all institutions received.”
In other words, if the total royalties in a university pool are $5 million and 700 million games are played, and users play 7 million games as Notre Dame, the school’s allocation would be 1%. Therefore, Notre Dame would receive $50,000.
The pool appears to grow depending on how many people play EA Sports College Football, and of course, the Fighting Irish can get a bigger piece of the pie if fans play as Marcus Freeman and company early and often.
The system even offers a way for Notre Dame football fans to compete with other schools, allowing those who use Jeremiyah Love to truck USC Trojan defenders in the game to help the Fighting Irish earn more money than their longtime rival. It is, quite frankly, an ingenious way for EA Sports to give fans another incentive to boot up the title as often as absolutely possible.