Instead of making it clear whether 2K Sports wanted to be the company that made the next FC 24 Coins game, he talked about a mobile soccer game that is quite a bit less popular. The game, Top Eleven, is produced by a company 2K recently acquired in Nordeus. Strauss talked about how happy he was to have Nordeus in the 2K family, claiming the company is "crushing it" and that he couldn't be happier with his firm's recent acquisition running the soccer manager business.

However, those same investors apparently understood that wasn't really an answer to the question of whether or not 2K would like to take over the FIFA franchise if EA goes another direction. When he was pressed for a yes or no, he still didn't directly answer the question. However, Zelnick did divulge that he'd at least given it some thought, saying it would be a big step forward for the company and it'd never been in the soccer video game business before.

Of course, while the rumblings inside the industry point to a divorce between Electronic Arts and FIFA, that divorce is not yet official. All this talk of other companies could actually end up being nothing more than talk. This may be one reason why Zelnick isn't committing to making a play.

It may sound ridiculous considering this year‘s installment only released over a month ago, but EA is most definitely already planning out next year‘s FIFA title. Considering it needs to release a new entry every year, production probably started before FC 24 was even out. There are plenty of questions surrounding the FC 24 Ultimate Teamure of the FIFA series at the moment, but it at least sounds like EA plans on doubling down on customization content.

According to a job listing at EA Sports posted on LinkedIn, the company is looking to hire someone to serve as a producer/product owner/creative for the EA Sports FC 24 Coins series. While the listing doesn‘t mention it by name, whoever gets the job would be responsible for bringing customization content to players in the live-service, which has to be referring to FIFA 's Ultimate Team mode.