End of career for the Fifa game, the last one to bear this name will be Fifa 23, it will then be necessary to call the license “EA Sports FC”. The publisher Electronic Arts has indeed announced via a press release that the FIFA 23 game, still scheduled for the end of 2022, will be the last in a long series of games... After 30 years of existence, EA Sports and FIFA have made the decision to separate! Players are going to have to break the habit of waiting for this football game every year which means there will be no Fifa 24 or Fifa 25 etc.
The EA teams assure it, it does not change anything for the players. According to their declarations, EA Sports FC is the continuation of what has been created in 30 years with more than 300 licensed partners, thousands of partner athletes and hundreds of leagues, teams and federations. EA SPORTS FC aims to bring together football fans around the world by offering the strengths of Fifa games (and also their faults?), Mr. Weber stating that players will find the same overall experience with modes, leagues, tournaments, clubs or even athletes.
FIFA 23 the last game of the license developed by EA Sports studios and after?
Fans of the Fifa license can be reassured, according to the Electronic Arts teams, the last of the series will be “the most complete FIFA game of all time”. By putting an end to this collaboration, EA therefore loses the naming rights of FIFA, but nothing prevents the organization from signing with another publisher to exploit the name and come to compete with the football game market and therefore the next EA SPORTS FC starting in 2023.
On the other hand, this is unlikely to happen especially in the short term given that the international football federation has been mired in dirty business for several years now and it is not certain that it would work with another development studio. . For the moment, and without any announcement contradicting it (unless there is a surprise in the weeks to come), a page is turning in the video game universe of Football.
