EA: It’s “really not true” that we’ll have micro-transactions in all of our games, but all our mobile games will

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Austin(@NE_Austin) in General Gaming, News, Podcast Stories

“I made a statement in the conference along the lines of ‘we’ll have microtransactions in our games,’ and the community read that to mean all our games, and that’s really not true. All of our mobile games will have microtransactions in them, because almost all of them are going to a world where they are play-for-free.”

– EA CFO Blake Jorgensen

It’s understandable that these two statements got lumped together, but the fact that Dead Space 3 includes micro-transactions up and down would seem to indicate that– even if it’s not 100% consistent– a lot of EA’s console games will be going this route in the future. Perhaps some will be left out, but just because they’ve now clarified their position it doesn’t indicate that they won’t use micro-transactions as a primary source of income going forward.

Via Gamespot