Players are finally getting paid for old 'NCAA Football' games. Now please make new ones.

It's still far from a slam dunk for the game to come back, though. The reason EA Sports stopped making its NCAA Football video game series after 2013 is pretty simple. It became a big legal problem for the game creator to use player likenesses without paying them for their faces and bodies, while the NCAA viewed the alternative - letting someone pay its players with real money - as anathema to the notion of amateurism that undergirds the organization's entire business model. Paying athletes wasn...