YouTuber Bordeaux goes in depth on EA Sports College Football 27’s ‘micro transactions’

College Football 27, the latest installment in the popular EA Sports video game series, has officially launched, giving college football fans across the country something to do during the six weeks before the season begins.

This would normally be cause for celebration, but many in both the gaming and college football communities aren’t too happy with the current version of the game.

While the first two releases of the new CFB game were relatively untainted by a touch of “microtransactions,” it appears College Football 27 hasn’t come off as cleanly.

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Fans of the game and creators took to social media to voice their displeasure with EA’s decision to introduce microtransactions to offline game modes, creating the hashtag #CFBPlayDontPay and tagging the developers in every post.

One content creator in particular leading this charge is Bordeaux, a YouTuber with nearly 600,000 subscribers.

Bordeaux has risen to prominence on the video platform thanks to a series of “remakes” from both old NCAA football games and new versions of the College Football game, but has not been shy about calling out the company’s latest transgressions.

“It doesn’t look like the direction I ever thought college football would go,” Bordeaux said in an exclusive interview. “I think any time you create a game mode and create an offline, single-player community that doesn’t have those features and replace it with something like microtransactions, you really break a lot of the trust that you’ve built.”

Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia (2) jumps for extra yards past Alabama linebacker Jihaad Campbell (11) during the first half of an NCAA college football game on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Throughout the interview, Bordeaux made a point of distinguishing the game’s developers from the company, claiming that the game’s developers “did a great job.”

“I believe the team working on this game is doing a great job. They really care about it, and when I’m there I can see there’s a lot of passion seeping into this stuff,” Bordeaux explained.

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Bordeaux stated that he still plans to play the game despite his bad blood with EA, but his partnership with the company may never be the same again.

“The game is good, I will never back down from this idea,” Bordeaux said. “The fact that they’re putting in these microtransactions is where I have to draw the line and say ‘don’t spend money on this.'”

Bordeaux claims that he never had a set goal in mind when it came to calling out EA for its choice to include microtransactions. He just wanted to speak his mind while raising awareness, and it eventually turned into something bigger.

Asked if there was a way to regain EA’s trust, Bordeaux was blunt.

“Remove microtransactions completely, bring back all the features they removed, and never go in the direction of making “Dynasty” and “Road to Glory” a mode with microtransactions, especially offline.

“If they really took that attitude, I’m still fine,” Bordeaux said. “But I don’t believe they will do that.”

Georgia quarterback Gunner Stockton (14) comes out of the pocket against Alabama in the second half of the Southeastern Conference championship NCAA college football game on Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Although this sounds pessimistic, it is probably the right approach.

Once game developers smell the money, it’s hard for them to reverse course (see: Grand Theft Auto: Online).

The message for Bordeaux is simple: “Just have fun.”

“I want to install the game and have fun in a ‘no money spent’ dynasty,” Bordeaux pleaded.

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That’s certainly the goal, but it might just be wishful thinking on his part.

Let’s all be careful that this epic will have a happy ending.