EA Sports added paid progression to Road to Glory and Online Dynasty in EA Sports College Football 27, and as you can imagine, that decision did not sit well with the gaming community. Players, reviewers, and content creators immediately called EA out for putting microtransactions into modes that are supposed to reward people for actually playing the game.
Because apparently paying full price for College Football 27 was not enough, EA also thought players might want to spend additional money to speed up their progression. This is EA we are talking about, so none of this should come as a surprise. The company has spent decades making terrible monetization decisions, getting dragged by the gaming community, and then acting surprised when players refuse to accept them.
Thankfully, after being called out ever since reviews for College Football 27 began appearing, EA has announced that it is removing all paid progression options from Road to Glory and Online Dynasty. The announcement was posted on the official EA Sports College Football Instagram account.
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According to the College Football 27 development team, the paid progression options were added separately from the deeper progression systems found in both modes. EA claimed the goal was to give players more choice, but the company has now admitted that the feature did not provide the value it had intended.
EA says the paid progression options will be removed from both Road to Glory and Online Dynasty. However, there is an important warning for anyone who already purchased College Points and planned to use them in either mode.
Once the update goes live, College Point balances will no longer be usable in Road to Glory or Online Dynasty. EA is telling players to use their existing points in those modes before the paid progression options are removed.
That part of the announcement will likely frustrate anyone who purchased College Points specifically for these modes. Those players are now being told to spend their points quickly or lose the ability to use them where they originally intended. However, removing paid progression is absolutely the right decision, but EA does not deserve praise for fixing a problem it created. These microtransactions never should have been added to Road to Glory or Online Dynasty in the first place, and anyone familiar with EA could have predicted exactly how the community would respond.
Hopefully, EA has learned something from this mess and will think twice before trying something like this again. However, given the company’s history with microtransactions and paid progression, I am not holding my breath. And since you’re here, be sure to check out our review of EA Sports College Football 27. Outside of the microtransactions, it’s the best version of the game yet, and it’s on PC.
EA Sports College Football 27 is now available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and now PC.
