Report: EA Sports College Football 26 to pay schools based on game usage ---- When EA Sports College Football 26 comes out in July, schools will be compensated in a new way. Payouts will be determined by the amount of time users play as teams in the video game, cllct’s Matt Liberman reported. Documents obtained by cllct show a new structure for royalties from the video game, which made its return last year. CLC Learfield will play a central role in the process, according to the documents, and it’s a shift from last year when the company said it couldn’t historically tie sales of the game to specific schools. The royalty process is also a change from last year’s tier system. Schools were placed into one of four tiers based on the previous 10 years of final AP poll results, and that determined the revenue distribution. Now, it appears to be based on the time users spend playing as a school. In a sample scenario from cllct, the total royalties in a university pool would be $5 million with...