EA clarifies microtransaction position: Will not be putting them in all future games
By Tim Colwill on March 8, 2013 at 12:40 pm
Comments by EA’s chief financial officer Blake Jorgensen last week that all future games would have microtransactions built in initially caused some disturbance in the Force — but Jorgensen has now sought to downplay any concerns.
“I made a statement in the conference along the lines of ‘We’ll have micro-transactions in our games’ and the community read that to mean all our games, and that’s really not true,” said Jorgensen at the Wedbush Technology Conference in NYC.
Jorgensen clarified that while they would ensure all games would have the ability to support microtransactions, that wasn’t the same as actually mandating their inclusion.
“All of our mobile games will have micro-transactions in them, because almost all of them are going to a world where they are play for free. We’re building into all of our games the ability to pay for things along the way, either to get to a higher level, to buy a new character, to buy a truck, a gun, whatever it might be.”
Source: Polygon
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As long as they dont try to make us buy ammo etc, in bf4, I dont really care.
would not believe a word EA says
I can see it now……
*Sitting on the couch with my PS4 playing the new need for speed most wanted hot pursuit 23. Evading the cops in a mad chase through the streets and suddenly OH NO! I’m on a toll bridge! Reaching for the EA Microtransaction gaming device I swipe my credit card to get through the boom gate. After a small download i’m allowed to pass speeding towards the mountains I decide to drive via an alternative route – suddenly the game freezes and I am prompted to buy the mountain pass DLC to continue, the EA Microtransaction gaming devices beeping and glowing happily.