It is no secret to any follower of the video game news that EA Sports has been in negotiations with FIFA to renew their partnership contract, which extends until every world cup, i.e. every four years. This time the thorn in the throat of the negotiations between EA and FIFA is the money, FIFA would like to increase the money paid to it by EA Sports every four years. EA's partnership with FIFA was not only to bring teams, stadiums, leagues, and players to the FIFA series but also to the fact that the EA Sports logo is on the referees' costumes and scoreboard through the channels that carry matches, so the partnership is of benefit to all.
The famous FIFA series has long been considered by some to be the headline of the famous football sport since the game was named after FIFA, and of course, the publishing company Electronic Arts, which is responsible for publishing the FIFA games series, paid $20 billion during their nearly three-decade partnership, but has FIFA's partnership with Electronic Arts already ended? That's what we'll get to know in this article.
What does the Fifa series achieve for EA?:
Over the generations, FIFA has continued to excel in terms of profit-making... As one of the most profitable chains in the video game industry, and since the series is one of the largest football games in the world and is released annually for almost 2000, football fans around the world tend to buy the game every year, which makes huge profits for Electronic Arts.
In this paragraph, we'll talk in a little number to see what gains the chain is making to electronic arts.
Not to mention, of course, the phases in the game, including the most famous ultimate team phase, which makes huge profits for EA, in the company's financial report in 2020, the company's famous phrase made a huge amount of $1.62 billion for you to imagine the number!, and the famous phrase achieves 29% of the total income of EA.
Ultimate Team's profits jumped dramatically, and in 2017 it made an estimated $775 million, compared to 2020, it's a very big jump.
So far we haven't touched on the last parts of the FIFA 22 series, and all these numbers at the top are just from the previous parts, but we'll talk about the number of players in FIFA 22. The number of players in the game just two weeks after launch had reached 9.1 million, while 7.6 million teams were created in the ultimate team phase, and 460 million games were played, let alone the number of players in the game now!
FIFA negotiations with EA:
We know that the partnership between EA and FIFA is nearing completion, ending after the next World Cup in Qatar 2022. Now, in the contract renewal negotiations between FIFA and EA Sports, the renewal negotiations could hinder them, and if the negotiations are not well conducted, the next year's Cup version, which will be held in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, will not be present in the next parts of the game.
The world football organization EA Sports demands twice the amount it gets every four years, which is more than $1 billion every four years, a very huge figure, which prompted FIFA to request this figure, is of course the ultimate team phase which it is also trying to benefit from where it makes huge profits, and of course,, EA Sports rejected what FIFA requested, and as a result the negotiations stalled.
Now that negotiations continue to falter, some may think that the end of the FIFA series is inevitable, but of course, I would like to tell you that this will not happen, as long as the series makes profits, EA Sports will not be so naïve and abandon it.
But if negotiations continue to falter, Electronic Arts may have to change the name of the next part of the series to EA Sports FC instead of FIFA's usual name, and the company recently confirmed that it will renew the contract with FIFPRO, which will allow it to use the forms and names of players, along with other tournaments such as the Spanish League, English and Champions League, the great impact that may occur if negotiations falter is the absence of a huge tournament such as the World Cup.
The bottom line:
If, as we have made clear, EA Sports is not so naïve to leave a series like FIFA behind, it is a series that makes huge profits, it may be the most profit-making game in the history of the industry, and the company has renewed its contract with FIFPRO, which will allow it to use the names and faces of players as well as other tournaments.
But if negotiations between the publishing company and FIFA continue to fail, the next part will lose huge rights, the first of which is world cup rights. Ultimately, it's not time to say goodbye to the series, and the FIFA series continues year after year, whether it's a new name or the same name if the negotiations succeed.
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