Is EA Planning In-Game Payments for Titanfall?

For the past week gamers everywhere have been enjoying Titanfall: Baytah, Electronic Art’s free-to-play remake of the popular 1999 mech shooter G-Nome, but recently rumors have emerged about EA’s plans to eventually charge up to a whopping $60 to play the first-person mech shooter. Talk began shortly after the release when gamers started noticing high priced listings on popular sites like Amazon and Newegg and even in local GameStop stores. After the vendors were notified, the listings were quickly left up and haven’t yet been taken down. All of this raises the question, is EA really planning on charging users to play Titanfall: Baytah?

The PC and Xbox One exclusive itself is pretty basic, even for a free-to-play game. After the lengthy installation process, gamers are met with only two maps and a handful of Titans to use in battle. As with most free games nowadays, the formula bears close resemblance to other popular titles, in this case Call of Duty, but lacks the polish of full fledged titles.

“I was more than happy to keep playing such a basic game for free,” PC user Shoot2Kill2002 told us via Skype, “but if they expect me to pay for a cheap Halo ripoff with shitty mechs they have another thing coming. Isn't it bad enough that I had to install Origin to play this thing?”

More damning evidence of the potential for in-game payments came when a number of PC players decided to dig around the massive 12GB+ download file for Baytah, finding hints of several more game modes, maps, and Titans. If the findings are correct, the majority of these features are in the game and ready to go, but EA is holding them hostage for the potential payment.

The team at EA isn’t doing a very good job of keeping it under wraps either. Hidden under a menu titled “Titans” on the official website is a list of several never-before-seen Titans. Whether this is a mistake or blatant disregard for our ability to navigate menus is yet to be seen, but the response we got when we contacted their PR team was astonishing.

“You’re an idiot,” one representative told us before quickly hanging up when we questioned him on if they’re planning to eventually charge $60 for this “Baytah.” Clearly we pushed some buttons by questioning their tactics. We’ll be sure to bring you more should the story develope further.