EA considering renaming FIFA games in the future EA SPORTSEA SPORTS have revealed that they are \u201cexploring the idea of renaming their global football games,\u201d meaning FIFA 22 could be one of the last games named after the international governing body of football. EA have worked with FIFA ever since releasing the first game in the franchise, 1993\u2019s FIFA International Soccer, which saw Englishman David Platt and Polish star Piotr \u015awierczewski as their inaugural cover athletes. Since then, the franchise has grown to be one of the biggest in the world, with modes like FIFA Ultimate Team revolutionizing the game and making FIFA a truly global title \u2014 much like the sport itself. Now, though, they\u2019ve announced that the game could be undergoing the significant change to no longer be named FIFA. FIFA 22 released on October 1, 2021, and less than a week later players were already faced with the idea that it may be one of the last FIFA games they play. In a press release posted on October 7, EA said the following: \u201cAs we look ahead, we\u2019re also exploring the idea of renaming our global EA SPORTS football games. \u201cThis means we\u2019re reviewing our naming rights agreement with FIFA, which is separate from all our other official partnerships and licenses across the football world.\u201d What exactly the end result of this could be remains unclear. Pro Evolution Soccer was always deemed a below-par competitor to FIFA thanks largely to the lack of naming rights the game had. Could FIFA end up the same way if they remove the namesake from their game? Since the naming rights deal with FIFA is \u201cseparate\u201d to the game\u2019s other partnerships, presumably the game would retain most of its licenses to leagues, teams and players. It\u2019s unlikely that a decision will be made on this particularly soon, so there\u2019s still a possibility that FIFA 23 will be next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
EA considering renaming FIFA games in the future EA SPORTSEA SPORTS have revealed that they are \u201cexploring the idea of renaming their global football games,\u201d meaning FIFA 22 could be one of the last games named after the international governing body of football. EA have worked with FIFA ever since releasing the first game in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}