{"id":51505,"date":"2013-03-07T10:37:02","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T08:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=51505"},"modified":"2013-03-07T10:39:58","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T08:39:58","slug":"ea-retracts-microtransactions-for-all-our-games-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/51505-ea-retracts-microtransactions-for-all-our-games-statement","title":{"rendered":"EA retracts “microtransactions for all our games” statement"},"content":{"rendered":"

EA has reversed the statement made by CFO Blake Jorgensen when he said that microtransactions would appear in all of the publisher\u2019s future games<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jorgensen has now said that what he meant was that microtransactions will appear in all of EA\u2019s mobile games, not the entire console and PC upcoming lineup.<\/p>\n

\u201cI made a statement in the conference along the lines of, \u2018We\u2019ll have microtransactions in our games,\u2019 and the community read that to be \u2018all games,\u2019 and that\u2019s really not true,\u201d he explains. \u201cAll of our mobile games will have microtransactions in them, because almost all of our mobile games are going to a world where its play-for-free.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jorgensen went on to explain that paid content (which he causes \u201cextensions\u201d) will become more prevalent in other EA games, and are not necessarily microtransactions.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re going to see extensions off of products like Battlefield Premium which are simply not microtransactions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are premium services, or additional add-on products or downloads that we\u2019re doing. It\u2019s essentially an extension of the gameplay that allows someone to take a game that they might have played for a thousand hours and play it for two thousand hours. We want to ensure that consumers are getting value.\u201d<\/p>\n

What do you think of EA\u2019s business outlook? Do you like having the option for paid content to give you some special treatment? Let us know below and in the MyGaming forums.<\/p>\n

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