EA does an about turn, says not all games will have micro-transactions

Electronic Arts seems to be in complete damage control mode. The company has backtracked on its earlier statement of implementing micro-transactions in all future games. According to Gamasutra, EA CFO Blake Jorgensen has now said that the statement was "really not true.""I made a statement in the conference along the lines of 'We'll have micro-transactions in our games' and the community read that to mean all our games, and that's really not true," Jorgensen said at the Wedbush Technology Conference. "All of our mobile games will have micro-transactions in them, because almost all of them are going to a world where they are play-for-free."He claimed that console and PC games were separate. "You are going to see extensions off of products like Battlefield Premium, which are simply not micro-transactions," he said. "They are premium services, or additional add-on products or downloads that we're doing... it is essentially an extension of the gameplay that allows someone to take a game that they might have played for a thousand hours, and play it for two thousand hours. We want to ensure that consumers are getting value." Click here for full story