This would normally be a cause for celebration, but many in both the gaming and college football community are less than pleased with the current iteration of the game.While the first two releases of the new CFB game have been relatively untainted by the touch of "microtransactions," it appears College Football 27 didn't get off so cleanly.IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR A BIG 12 WINNER NOT NAMED TEXAS TECH OR BYU, CONSIDER THE HOUSTON COUGARSFans sought an EA Spotrs college football game release date.(Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)Fans of the game as well as content creators have taken to social media to voice their displeasure in EA's decision to introduce microtransactions to offline modes of play, creating the hashtag #CFBPlayDontPay and tagging the developers in every post.One content creator in particular who has been leading the charge is Bordeaux, a YouTuber with nearly 600,000 subscribers.Bordeaux rose to prominence on the video platform thanks to his "rebuild" series from both the old NCAA football games and the new editions of the College Football game, but he hasn't been shy about calling out the company for their latest transgressions."It just doesn't feel like the direction I ever thought the college football games would go," Bordeaux said in an exclusive interview.
"I think whenever you've built up a game mode, and you've built up a community off of offline, single-player stuff never having those features...and you replace it with something like microtransactions, you really fracture a lot of the trust that you've built up."Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia (2) dives for extra yards past Alabama linebacker Jihaad Campbell (11) during the first half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Oct.
5, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn.(AP Photo/George Walker IV)Throughout the interview, Bordeaux made it a point to separate the developers of the game from the company, claiming the game devs are "doing a great job.""I do believe the team that wor...