🚨 NEWS: Major CFB creators, including Bordeaux and MMG, are boycotting CFB 27 and refusing to play until EA changes its new microtransaction system, with #CFBPlayDontPay gaining traction across the community.
Here’s what happened:
In previous games, players could adjust XP settings to progress faster in single-player modes.
In CFB 27, EA removed those options, and now players can pay real money to speed up progression instead. Fully upgrading a Dynasty coach immediately can reportedly cost $100 more than the price of the game itself.
NEW: It feels like the entire College Football community is UNITED on one issue right now: microtransactions don’t belong in Dynasty and Road to Glory. 😳
EA Partner and popular content creator James Bordeaux helped spark the movement with #EAPlayDontPay, as players, creators, and fans continue pushing back in hopes that EA removes microtransactions from those game modes.
This has quickly become one of the most talked about topics surrounding CFB27.
You would have to win the national championship every single year for the next 150 years to max out your coach in College Football 27 for free. Or you can just pay EA ninety nine dollars and ninety nine cents.
I own this game and I'm not touching it until this gets fixed. It's Dynasty mode, single player, I'm not playing against anyone, and last year there was a setting for exactly this, Fast, Fastest, and now it's gone, deleted, replaced with a price tag on the same thing.
Road to Glory got it worse. Taking a created player from a 50 overall to an 80 overall runs about fifty bucks, against a coordinator who isn't even real.
A creator named @bordeauxyt, somebody who's defended this franchise for years, messaged an EA developer and asked if the fast settings got pulled on purpose. Got ghosted, not a yes, not a no, just nothing.
@NotTheExpertYT, another guy who's been fair to this franchise for years, called it heinous, and when your own defenders start reaching for that word, EA should be worried.
Who sits in a meeting and signs off on charging a grown man a hundred dollars to beat a computer faster?
I can't get there.
Ultimate Team, fine, that's always been pay to win, you know the deal. This one's different, call it what it is, a cover charge, a vig, and a valet fee, for a video game you play alone.
It's DISGUSTING, and the wildest part is they were betting nobody would actually sit down and do the math on a hundred and fifty years.
#CollegeFootball27 #EASports #CFBPlayDontPay
EA has creators putting their reputations and relationships on the line and they still haven't responded.
So, who is going to help you market CFB 28? Good luck with that. Over a few dollars. Absolutely tone deaf. #CFBPlayDontPay