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<blockquote data-quote="nik" data-source="post: 1000315" data-attributes="member: 12284"><p>With the RWC in Japan and addition of 7s in Olympics, the sport has grown globally since EA last made a rugby game. I assume this correlates to increase in rugby video game market also. However I don't think EA will make Rugby game in the next 5-10 years unless maybe if USA hosts a RWC.</p><p></p><p>I am guessing EA have a certain profit margin threshold, a high margin I must say, plus given the additional money that can be made from DLCs and Ultimate team etc.</p><p></p><p>But there must a decent profit to be made from Rugby games. We currently have 3 games on the market, Rugby 20, RC4 and Rugby Champions (no licenses and very basic but decent game play etc). If there is no profit to be made then why develop RC4, why they acquire licenses? Both Rugby 20 and RC4 must have forcasted good profits hence they both releasing.</p><p></p><p>This leads to another question - instead of 2 games with split licenses, where the costs of game development, overheads are doubled - what if we only had 1 game with all licenses? With all licenses the game has far reaching audience, plus the cost of only developing 1 game. The only issue I see is maybe initial outlay to get all licenses. But the point I am trying to make is if there is market for 2-3 rugby games - then sure some bigger fish (maybe not EA) is thinking we can swoop in make a fully licensed game ourselves.</p><p></p><p>P.S. I think its good to have multiple rugby games - it should improve overall rugby gaming</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nik, post: 1000315, member: 12284"] With the RWC in Japan and addition of 7s in Olympics, the sport has grown globally since EA last made a rugby game. I assume this correlates to increase in rugby video game market also. However I don't think EA will make Rugby game in the next 5-10 years unless maybe if USA hosts a RWC. I am guessing EA have a certain profit margin threshold, a high margin I must say, plus given the additional money that can be made from DLCs and Ultimate team etc. But there must a decent profit to be made from Rugby games. We currently have 3 games on the market, Rugby 20, RC4 and Rugby Champions (no licenses and very basic but decent game play etc). If there is no profit to be made then why develop RC4, why they acquire licenses? Both Rugby 20 and RC4 must have forcasted good profits hence they both releasing. This leads to another question - instead of 2 games with split licenses, where the costs of game development, overheads are doubled - what if we only had 1 game with all licenses? With all licenses the game has far reaching audience, plus the cost of only developing 1 game. The only issue I see is maybe initial outlay to get all licenses. But the point I am trying to make is if there is market for 2-3 rugby games - then sure some bigger fish (maybe not EA) is thinking we can swoop in make a fully licensed game ourselves. P.S. I think its good to have multiple rugby games - it should improve overall rugby gaming [/QUOTE]
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