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Originally posted by: The Omen
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Now, if Tecmo Super Bowl shows up sans NFL license - blame EA.
Blame the NFLPA first. They would want payment, which would have to come out of EAs pocket. I doubt a developer would want to pay for another developers players rights.
I personally wouldn't blame EA myself, I just wanted to point out that at least in that situation one could
conceivably place some blame on them, whereas it doesn't seem to apply to Tecmo Bowl at all.
One also has to differentiate between the NFL and the NFLPA - the former represents the team and league (allowing access to team and league logos), while the latter represents the players (allowing access to player names and likenesses). Tecmo Bowl only ever had the player's association license, and since (again, as I've understood it) that license only applies to active players the presence of player names is nearly impossible to achieve even with an NFLPA license (again, look at historic team rosters on any Madden title - all numbers, no names except for more recent historic teams whose players who are still active in the NFL).
Tecmo Super Bowl had both NFL and NFLPA licenses. If it comes, player names would most certainly be dropped again (for the same reasons they were in Tecmo Bowl), but TSB's team logos could be left in if Nintendo/Tecmo aquires the NFL license, but doing so would require the permission of both EA (who has the exclusive license and might desire compensation) and the NFL (who would most definitely want compensation). I personally suspect, however, that Nintendo/Tecmo probably won't even bother to ask.
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