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Are microtransactions causing more negative impact than it seems on the surface?
Fans and content creators of College Football 27 are taking to social media today with the hashtag #CFBPlayDontPay after EA added microtransactions in two of the game’s offline mod...
Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced launched on July 9, and the swashbuckling pirate adventure game got off to a great start. Vantage Studios, the new company in charge of the Ass...
The way games make money has changed dramatically over the past decade. What started as a fairly simple transaction — buy the game, own the game — gradually gave way to something f...
EA Sports has announced that it has removed the CFB 27 microtransaction system that people hated from the get-go. In a statement, EA said, "We will remove all paid progression opti...
Dragon's Dogma 2 has recieved a permanent discount on the Xbox store
EA has removed features present in College Football 26 and replaced them with microtransactions for its sequel
Ask players what their favorite mode is in EA's revitalized College Football series, and most will tell you it's Dynasty or Road To Glory, which give players control of an entire s...
Capcom is removing the DLC microtransactions that plagued Dragon's Dogma 2 at launch and led to negative Steam reviews.
With EverQuest Legends continuing to move through its pre-order open beta, players have begun to raise their voices against Game Jawn’s and Daybreak’s perceived monetization practi...
EA has removed College Football 27's Road to Glory and Online Dynasty microtransactions
Reliance on microtransactions "is preventing other genres from flourishing", says Mark Darrah
Last March, we first reported on Winds of Valen, a free-to-play old-school styled MMORPG from indie studio Fiery Dog Games that hangs its hat on gameplay in which players are earni...
The latest scandal between EA and student athletics stems from previously free progression features in the Road to Glory and Dynasty modes being paywalled
Global video game commerce company Xsolla has shared data from its publisher network revealing that direct-to-consumer (D2C) transactions on PC surpassed $1 billion in 2025. The f...
Battlefield Studios has announced a notable change for how players can acquire the battle pass content in Battlefield 6 and Redsec. This new update will allow you a second chance a...
Code spotted on the Xbox website suggests Microsoft is preparing buy now, pay later integrations with Klarna and PayPal, letting users split the cost of games and hardware into ins...
Fans of EA Sports College Football 27 are revolting over the game’s sneaky microtransactions, but it’s claimed EA won’t cave no matter how loud the backlash gets.
With a bundle price that could cost up to $100 in Overwatch Coins, two Nyan Café ‘ultra skins’ push the multiplayer shooter to new highs.
Capcom is clearing out almost all of Dragon’s Dogma 2’s microtransactions, as it continues to pave the way for Dark Arisen this October.
NCsoft has formally revealed its monetization plan for Aion 2 when its global edition arrives in the west this fall. “Our goal is to be transparent about the entire approach,” NCso...
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Guild Wars 3 developers ArenaNet have published a Hot Take of sorts about the MMORPG genre, while explaining in broad strokes how their forthcoming "modern evolution" will differ f...
Direct-to-consumer (D2C) monetisation has now grown into a $17 billion market that accounts for around 15% of the global $113.3bn mobile in-app purchase sector, according to a new...
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