{"id":1106557,"date":"2023-02-12T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1106557"},"modified":"2023-02-12T18:35:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T23:35:00","slug":"report-ea-paying-588-million-for-the-rights-to-the-english-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1106557","title":{"rendered":"Report: EA Paying $588 Million For The Rights To The English Premier League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/26724c57c6259c2db307ed121e25a4ef.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Programming and gameplay be damned, sports games live and die on their licensing. It\u2019s why <em>Madden <\/em>was able to crush NFL<em>2K<\/em>, and it\u2019s why EA\u2019s <em>FIFA (<\/em>now known as <em>EA Sports FC<\/em>)<em> <\/em>has been able to grind Konami\u2019s <em>PES <\/em>into the dust. Not because they\u2019re better games, but because they paid to be the only games to feature the\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/ea-sports-fc-fifa-premier-league-rights-deal-money-1850105985\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Kotaku &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/ea-sports-fc-fifa-premier-league-rights-deal-money-1850105985\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Report: EA Paying 8 Million For The Rights To The English Premier League<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Programming and gameplay be damned, sports games live and die on their licensing. It\u2019s why Madden was able to crush NFL2K, and it\u2019s why EA\u2019s FIFA (now known as EA Sports FC) has been able to grind Konami\u2019s PES into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1106557\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1106558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,110],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-1106557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kotaku","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-kotaku"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1106557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1106558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1106557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1106557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1106557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}