Even with so many years spent as basically an integral part of online gaming, microtransactions are still very much frowned upon, especially whenever they lead to advantages over other players who aren’t so lucky to have the dosh to give (except in gachas).
And in the case of College Football 27, fans are hating on the MTX so much that EA actually caved under the pressure and has vowed to remove them as soon as possible. According to PC Gamer, the latest entry in the College Football series had a bunch of microtransactions whereby players could pay to speed up their progress in the game’s Road to Glory and Dynasty modes, the former being a player career singleplayer campaign.
This led to a massive anti-MTX campaign led by content creator Bordeaux, which PC Gamer writes was primarily forwarded through the #CFBPlayDontPay hashtag.
In response to all of that, EA shared on X that it would be completely removing microtransactions from these two modes tomorrow morning, admitting that it had “missed the mark” by introducing these paid progression options.
An update from the College Football 27 Team. #CFBGoPlay pic.twitter.com/00b4TZrlPR
— College Football 27 (@EASPORTSCollege) July 11, 2026
It didn’t miss out on trying to defend the idea of MTX, though, saying that they were there to “give players more options,” a rundown mantra that even Ubisoft used when responding to negative reviews on Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, themselves spurred, too, by the introduction of $84 of DLC in a singleplayer game.
However, it’s good that a company of this size is listening to the community and is actively taking action to remove and backtrack MTX. EA is due some props for doing so even back in the day, completely opening up Battlefront 2 and its subsequent games and downscaling microtransactions to a bare minimum.
Full credit cannot be given, though, since the company was at the forefront of the “surprise mechanics” idea around lootboxes and the author of the most-downvoted post in Reddit’s history. This whole situation goes to show that we cannot really ever stop complaining or voicing our dissenting opinions regarding these malpractices, and proves that, even though some would say otherwise, protests do in fact work.
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