What is poised to be one of 2024’s biggest releases, EA Sports College Football 25, is launching officially this week, and the developer is warning players the game will have some issues. The game arrived July 15 through early access, and players quickly noticed a series of inaccuracies related to player likenesses and other parts of the game. Those problems will be fixed, EA has promised.
In a blog post, EA Sports said there would “inevitably” be “some slight inaccuracies at launch” in regards to player likenesses and other elements. That’s in part because it was only just a few months ago in February that EA signed Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) deals with college athletes for the game. In the time since, EA created “thousands of player likenesses” for the game, and also processed the “massive volume of reference materials” sent to the developer from the 134+ participating FBS schools.
“Certain schools like Stanford, Western Michigan, and Jacksonville State will show with outdated logos, and a small subset of players will have missing or incorrect likenesses initially,” EA said, noting that it will attempt to addresses the issues as quickly as possible.