It's no secret that what only Americans call "soccer" isn't the most popular sport in that country, but has incredible popularity in much of the rest of the world. Europe is a hotspot  EA FC 24 Coins for the love of EA Sports FC, and seeing as CD Projekt is a massive European studio, it might go after the license. CD Projekt has made its name by creating narrative RPG games like The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077. although the latter's launch was notoriously bad. Regardless, CD Projekt might not be the obvious choice, but a EA Sports FC license could not only help CD Projekt compete, but also add an RPG element in the sports video game series.

Konami has been a big name in the video-game industry for decades, although it's hard to argue that it's as prominent now as it was in the 1990s and 2000s. Still, it's a major player, and the company has had previous experience developing football games with the Pro Evolution and eFootball series. While already having a popular football franchise could dissuade them, experience could also be a benefit to keeping EA Sports FC as popular as it is under Electronic Arts, so Konami might very well try to add this sports franchise to its slate.

Some of the best PlayStation exclusive games of all time have come from Sony's focus on first-party developers, owned directly by the studio. One of the less well-known of its subsidiaries, San Diego Studio, has specialized in sports games for almost two decades, most notably the MLB The Show series.

If San Diego Studio acquired the EA Sports FC license, however, that would almost certainly mean that EA Sports FC would become exclusive to Sony consoles, which would definitely be a negative for non-PlayStation gamers. That might be enough to dissuade a Sony-EA Sports FC partnership, but you never know.

Like Konami, Sega already has an established football video game series, in their case Football Manager, which like EA Sports FC releases on a yearly schedule. While enjoyable for many players, and in some cases highly rated, Football Manager isn't nearly as iconic as EA Sports FC. If Sega were to take up EA Sports FC, it would have to amp up its production quality from Football Manager significantly, meaning it could very well abandon that series entirely. Football Manager fans would be disappointed, for sure, but would enough of them go to EA Sports FC to make up for it?

Based in China, Tencent Games is a subsidiary of the multimedia corporation Tencent, which has over the past several years been making investments in foreign media markets, especially with films and, through its games division, video games. Aside from the obvious, EA Sports FC would be great from Tencent's perspective because in recent years the Chinese government has begun to crack down on violence-focused video games. EA Sports FC would help bring in profits while allowing the company to steer away from these violence concerns.

French company Ubisoft actually did venture into the football game space once, with 2010's Pure Football from its Vancouver division, although the game received negative reviews from critics. Ubisoft isn't hurting for valuable franchises, with Assassin's Creed and Far Cry some of their most commercially successful. However, whereas with Pure Football the studio was trying to create something new, with EA Sports FC there would already be a long-established template to follow. That, plus the built-in fanbase, make it an enticing franchise for a studio that previously failed in this genre.

Xbox Game Studios has been a key part of Microsoft ever since the latter company launched the first Xbox in 2001. although it's been known by several names. Microsoft also has plenty of great sports games on Xbox Game Pass. So, taking over EA Sports FC wouldn't be out of the question for them. Like with San Diego Studio, the only downside to an Xbox Game Studios EA Sports FC would be the likelihood of Microsoft pushing for console exclusivity. Since EA Sports FC is one of the most successful multiplatform series, this would leave PlayStation gamers out in the cold.

Electronic Arts or EA has officially dropped its partnership with EA Sports FC. Stating that it was no longer viable due to issues surrounding the licensing, the video game company will instead move forward with their new line EA Sports FC. But what direction will this banner go in and what else could EA be developing, now that they have lost one of their major brands?

From an expansion buy EA FC 24 Coins of the footballing or soccer titles available to a variety of exciting different sporting opportunities to explore, there's a lot more that EA could do with their massive platform. What's more, just because the athletics department may have suffered a loss, that doesn't mean that EA's development has paused in other areas!