EA Sports College Football 27 was released across the globe on Thursday. Back in 2024, the franchise was revived following an 11-year hiatus with the release of EA College Football 25. Following the success of this launch, the game saw significant improvements in its sequel, College Football 26.
However, during early access, the community spoke out about the paid progression option in the Road to Glory and Dynasty modes. This backlash and criticism resulted in EA sharing a huge update on Friday. According to the statement they released, they are removing all paid progressions in both modes following community feedback.
“In College Football 27, we aspire to deliver the deepest experience to date with all-new Dynasty Blueprint, new positions in Road to Glory, and the best College Football gameplay yet,” the statement read. “However, your feedback on Road to Glory and Dynasty is that we’ve missed the mark with the introduction of paid progression options.
“This was added independent of deeper mode progression with the aim to give players more choice, but what you’ve said is that they’re not adding the value we intended. Tomorrow morning, we will remove all paid progression options from Road to Glory and Online Dynasty.”
Fans on social media were visibly happy with the publisher listening to community feedback and making the necessary changes.
On Steam, College Football 27 was review-bombed for having microtransactions in the offline game modes. This led to it having mostly negative reviews after launch.
EA Sports highlights the drawback of removing microtransactions from Road to Glory and Dynasty mode in EA College Football 27
Despite the changes, EA Sports warned the players that there would be some drawbacks following the update.
“An unfortunate side effect of removing paid progression is that players that have College Points balances in their wallets will not be able to apply the balances in Road to Glory or Dynasty– so jump in between now and then and apply your points!”
The publishers also highlighted that they will return with bigger and better ideas in the sequel next year.
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