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[BahamutPT]

I really really doubt people will bail from the game series due to FIFA's branding.
For most it won't matter, it'll just be a name associated to the software, and just as long as they get their content, it'll be fine.
And like many have already said, FIFA's corruption has been a talking point for years now.

I think everyone already knew FIFA was corrupt. I think it would be worse if gave the World Cup to Qatar without being bribed. Appalling conditions there for migrant labour that pretty much amounts to slavery.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/23/qatar-nepal-workers-world-cup-2022-death-toll-doha
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/01/qatar-world-cup-workers-deaths-migrant

Washington Post published an infographic illustrating this today

 

[Yagharek]

I don't see why you can't list continents and regions when applicable because he was still factually wrong. He said regular people in North America don't know who Blatter is and last time I checked Mexico wasn't part of South America.

He could've said "everywhere else but USA and Canada".

I'm sorry, it's a pet peeve of mine when people want to group everything south of the USA by saying "South America". Unless you really mean from Colombia to Chile/Argentina then say South America. But if you want to talk about everything that's not USA and Canada it's easier, and geographically correct, to just say Latin America.

I thought in context of football it would make sense to group according to federations.

 

[Red Devil]

He won't... you can bet on it.

UEFA won't let him...

II don't really trust UEFA either.

Considering the sheer amount of people on those continents, I doubt most people know who he is.

Perhaps in Asia or Africa they don't, but South America is a football hotsport just like Europe, regardless of the North America's(and to a much lesser extent Europe's) disregard for that fact.

 

[Handy Fake]

Listening to Radio 4 today, there's talk of boycotting FIFA by the individual bodies.
Now, would that affect the club and player likenesses allowed in the game? As I recall that's always a major bugbear between ProEvo and FIFA, and may well cost sales.

 

[TheCochese]

I bought FIFA 15 yesterday. I'm a bad person.

 

[Silent Chief]

It's not that EA doesn't care about FIFA corruption. EA is in fact a complicit member.

How else do you explain all the account hacking involving FIFA? Corruption in FIFA, It's in the game!

 

[Goldenroad]

FIFA: "You don't want to use our name you can't use our teams. You're making the only soccer game next year Konami. Congratulations."

It won't happen. It's not the organization that is corrupt, it's the people involved. You can't have a vendetta against a name.

 

[Alo0oy]

Who would ditch a money printer like FIFA?

 

[Handy Fake]

Well this all got rather interesting. I never thought I'd see the day. Just goes to show, you don't fuck with Hilary Clinton, hah.

 

[ZhugeEX]

They have no reason to. People will continue to buy it.

 

[Shining Sunshine]

FIFA games are about the sport. Obviously it has nothing to do with the corruption.

 

[entremet]

You are overestimating the impact that today's events have brought. FIFA with Blatter is still intact. Average user will keep buying that shit.

Also even if world cup is held in Qatar, millions of people will still watch it.

LULZ

 

[Handy Fake]

LULZ

Hillary Clinton, man. One of the public faces of the USA's WC bid - lessons learnt: do not fuck with this woman or the FBI will seek you down and 5 years later arrest you at dawn in your plush Zurich hotel. Ho ho ho.

 

[Pound_lb003]

Maybe it's been put like this already, but if they were gonna release Blatter '15 this year, there might be an issue.

But 'FIFA' is going to survive, it's human components are the bits that are gonna struggle PR wise.

 

[cleveridea]

Soccer fans are fickle...they'll just follow synchronized swimming instead

 

[Handy Fake]

Soccer fans are fickle...they'll just follow synchronized swimming instead

Ooo. Flameshield at the ready...