Quick Hit Football, the browser-based strategy simulation, will re-launch in September with NFL licensing. Though it wonât carry real-life rosters, the gameâs maker can cut deals with individual players, and Dallas linebacker DeMarcus Ware has been added to the stable.
Ware joins New England wide receiver Randy Moss as stars for this yearâs game. Per the rules of the NFLPA, QuickHit can negotiate with up to five active players individually. Any number more than that requires a group license negotiated with the union, the kind of thing that delivers all playersâ likenesses for use.
I have asked if QuickHit, after securing the NFLâs license in June, is negotiating with the NFLPA. The answerâs still the same: No comment, although reading between the lines, one could assume this is a very appealing idea to the Foxboro, Mass.-based studio.
QuickHit launched last year with no licensing whatsoever and built a solid base of early adopters of the game, which is more of a management and in-game strategy simulation than an action-and-skill game like Madden NFL. That helped QuickHit land a league license which, while not undoing the terms of the NFLâs notorious exclusive license with EA Sportsâ Madden game, still makes it one of three video games allowed to use the leagueâs teams, symbols and logos. Gameloftâs NFL 2011 for the iPhone and iPad is the other.
When the game relaunches in early September â by the start of the NFL regular season is what Iâm hearing â itâll be called QuickHit NFL Football.
