{"id":591985,"date":"2026-03-18T23:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T23:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/whatever-ea-sports-fc-is-it-must-be-better-than-fifa"},"modified":"2026-03-18T23:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T23:25:10","slug":"whatever-ea-sports-fc-is-it-must-be-better-than-fifa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/whatever-ea-sports-fc-is-it-must-be-better-than-fifa\/","title":{"rendered":"Whatever EA Sports FC is, it must be better than FIFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/whatever-ea-sports-fc-is-it-must-be-better-than-fifa.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>\nIf nothing else, FIFA was quite an annoying name anyway. That&#8217;s because most of the things you want to say about one FIFA can be said about the other. &#8220;FIFA is regularly associated with greed,&#8221; for instance. &#8220;FIFA is run by very unpopular people,&#8221; or, &#8220;FIFA is deeply flawed, but we&#8217;re stuck with it because there&#8217;s no alternative.&#8221; Or maybe: &#8220;FIFA is what happens when financial gain comes before the sanctity of the game itself.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/after-almost-30-years-ea-is-officially-ditching-the-fifa-brand-1\">EA deciding to bin its partnership with FIFA<\/a> &#8211; the organisation regularly associated with greed, run by very unpopular people, etc. etc. &#8211; is a big deal. It is, however, probably a much bigger deal for the organisation than it is the video game. Some reckon EA was paying something in the order of $150m per year for the FIFA brand, with the New York Times claiming FIFA the organisation was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/10\/sports\/soccer\/fifa-ea-sports.html\">asking for up to double that<\/a> to renew the partnership after it expires with this year&#8217;s FIFA 23, and for EA to still lose its exclusivity in the new deal anyway. <\/p>\n<p>\nThat is silly money &#8211; football money! &#8211; but for FIFA the organisation that is also money for nothing. It&#8217;s landlord stuff, a gigantic income earned from nothing more than EA&#8217;s monolithic development, publishing, and marketing efforts and a reputation as the best play-as-the-players football simulation available, gained rightly or wrongly from decades of expertise. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/whatever-ea-sports-fc-is-it-must-be-better-than-fifa\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/whatever-ea-sports-fc-is-it-must-be-better-than-fifa\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If nothing else, FIFA was quite an annoying name anyway. That&#8217;s because most of the things you want to say about one FIFA can be said about the other. &#8220;FIFA is regularly associated with greed,&#8221; for instance. &#8220;FIFA is run by very unpopular people,&#8221; or, &#8220;FIFA is deeply flawed, but we&#8217;re stuck with it because there&#8217;s no alternative.&#8221; Or maybe: &#8220;FIFA is what happens when financial gain comes before the sanctity of the game itself.&#8221; EA deciding to bin its partnership with FIFA &#8211; the organisation regularly associated with greed, run by very unpopular people, etc. etc. &#8211; is a big deal. It is, however, probably a much bigger deal for the organisation than it is the video game. 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