College Football 27 Still One Of The Worst-Rated Games This Year Despite Microtransactions U-Turn
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The excitement that was born from the return of College Football in 2025 felt like a distant memory last week, as the release of College Football 27 was marred by the introduction of egregious microtransactions. Those microtransactions have been removed, but the bad reviews that came with them remain.
College Football's Microtransactions Earn Game Awful Review Scores
Introduced to the series this year, rather than give players the option to speed up progression in Dynasty and Road To Glory, the latter of which is a single-player mode, it locked that option behind microtransactions that cost as much as $149.99. That’s the leading reason why the game currently has a Mostly Negative review score on Steam.
That’s a bad look for the latest College Football title for a few reasons. For starters, it’s the first game in the series to have been released on PC, so not a great first impression for fans who have been waiting for it to be available on anything other than consoles. Its user review score is also so low that it’s currently one of the worst-rated games of the year, ranked 690th out of 704 games according to SteamDB.
Turns out those bad reviews and the vociferous backlash on social media have been enough to make EA quickly reconsider its decision. The microtransactions in those modes have already been removed. The studio confirmed in a statement that from Saturday, they will no longer be a part of Road to Glory or the online version of Dynasty.
That’s last Saturday, so by the time you’re reading this, they’ll already be gone.
We Might See Those Microtransactions Return In College Football 28
College Football fans have naturally been celebrating ever since, but there might be a catch. EA’s takeaway from all this seems to be the underhanded nature with which microtransactions were applied. There was no warning ahead of launch, and those who played the game pre-release have claimed the microtransaction options weren’t there.
EA notes in its statement that, starting with College Football 28 next year, it will “deliver valuable features and content with greater transparency and communication.” That feels very much like corporate speak for we’re going to try this again next year, but tell you about it first so you don’t complain quite as hard. We shall see.
Aside from forcing EA to back down, the other good news to pull from this is that, if you’re loud enough about unwanted practices in games, you can make even the biggest studios reconsider. Maybe that means there’s a future for physical PlayStation games beyond 2027 yet, as long as those of us who want PlayStation to have a physical future keep virtually yelling about it.
- Released
- July 9, 2027
- ESRB
- Everyone / Users Interact, In-Game Purchases (Includes Random Items)
- Developer(s)
- EA Tiburon
- Publisher(s)
- EA
- Multiplayer
- Online Co-Op, Local Co-Op, Online Multiplayer, Local Multiplayer
WHERE TO PLAY
- Genre(s)
- Sports, Simulation
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