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EA to eventually make you pay five bucks for every button you hit in game

EA Starts Selling Tutorials - Kotaku

Micropayments are the new business model for the Monkeyfuckers of the world.

Here is the deal: they sell you a game for sixty bucks. Then, you can buy extra guns or clothing for the game (which is in this case Scarface) for REAL MONEY. You can also buy game money for real money, and in turn they have disabled all cheat codes to give more money in game.

And now they are selling their shitty game videos for real money and calling them hint guides.

How fast can EA race to the bottom of the dung pile? Coming right off an opening salvo trying to establish themselves as the scumbag kings of microcontent by way of selling cheat codes or in-game money as Marketplace downloads, EA are now selling tutorials over Xbox Live, rebranding them "video strategy guides."

The videos are hundreds of megs, and cost about 2 bucks each. EA is currently selling the tutorial vids for the games Madden NFL 07 and NCAA 07 Football. By common report, they aren't helpful in the slightest: you'd get better tips downloading the strategy guide off of GameFAQs.