1st Academic Article

"Microtransactions take play and turn it into pay." UWIRE Text, 18 Oct. 2018, p. 1. Infotrac Newsstand, http://link.galegroup.com.aurarialibrary.idm.oclc.org/apps/doc/A559273893/STND?u=auraria_main&sid=STND&xid=40010b36. Accessed 17 Apr. 2019.

To delve further into the problems of the FIFA and NFL games in particularity like I mentioned in my last post, I found an academic article within the Auraria Library database. I simply went to the database and searched mircotransactions and FIFA, a couple down the list and I found this one titled  Microtransactions take play and turn it into pay. No where on the article it lists a author but nonetheless it brings up a good point,"Recently, Electronic Arts released their new games "FIFA 19", and "Madden 19" with microtransactions prohibiting the progress of the game itself. Their intentions and their greed are as clear as day. They simply do not care as long as consumers succumb to their bait and purchase overpriced in-game goods." To go more into detail about the in-game goods it mostly consist of card packs which represent every real world football or soccer players. Of course these card packs vary in rarity like in the case of Messi a very top level athlete is one of the rarest to unlock. Because of his rarity his stats are also one of the best within the game and he is very much available in online competitive play. What this does makes the online section essentially "pay to win", a concept no gamer likes to hear. Competitive games are supposed to be skills based and balanced but this card pack system introduces a pay to win mechanic. A player with little skill can fork over hundreds of dollars to receive the best available characters in these games and come to an online game with significant advantage over a player who don't pay for these loot packs. The question to ask now is what are the chances to get these high rarity characters? Maybe some might just say hey its likely to happen just spend a couple bucks and get them, however this is dead wrong.