SeahawkSteve80
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NCAA 27 is coming out tomorrow (July 9th) and for the past few days, I’ve been playing the 10 hour trial on Xbox.
These sports games are pretty much copy and paste these days, with a few “new” or tweaked modes and mechanics.
The issue this year unfortunately is that Electronic Arts, the developer of this game, as well as Madden and other titles, has decided to flood the single player Dynasty game mode with micro transactions. For those of you who don’t know, micro transactions are essentially pay to play mechanics designed to force the consumer to pay more money, on top of what they bought the game for, to get things within the game.
For NCAA 27 football dynasty mode, those micro transactions essentially make it impossible to play the game without spending more money if you want to actually build a smaller program into a competitive program. It’s a decision by EA that has garnered major backlash, and has even forced SeahawkSteve80 to make to monumental decision to not purchase the game entirely.
This type of greed from AAA gaming developers is, in my opinion, wrong. The game is rated E for everyone, yet they put these predatory practices into the game to force people to spend more in order to achieve what they could have in last year’s title for free.
I had to vent about this issue. I was looking forward to playing this game as an escape from everyday life and relax before going to bed. Now, I’m pissed off and sad. Time to write another book
These sports games are pretty much copy and paste these days, with a few “new” or tweaked modes and mechanics.
The issue this year unfortunately is that Electronic Arts, the developer of this game, as well as Madden and other titles, has decided to flood the single player Dynasty game mode with micro transactions. For those of you who don’t know, micro transactions are essentially pay to play mechanics designed to force the consumer to pay more money, on top of what they bought the game for, to get things within the game.
For NCAA 27 football dynasty mode, those micro transactions essentially make it impossible to play the game without spending more money if you want to actually build a smaller program into a competitive program. It’s a decision by EA that has garnered major backlash, and has even forced SeahawkSteve80 to make to monumental decision to not purchase the game entirely.
This type of greed from AAA gaming developers is, in my opinion, wrong. The game is rated E for everyone, yet they put these predatory practices into the game to force people to spend more in order to achieve what they could have in last year’s title for free.
I had to vent about this issue. I was looking forward to playing this game as an escape from everyday life and relax before going to bed. Now, I’m pissed off and sad. Time to write another book
