EA issues "technical error" statement on paid UFC & FIFA 14 demos
EA Sports UFC can be sampled in demo form on Xbox One, but as one reader has pointed out, the demo comes with a price tag on the Australian store.
UPDATE 6:
We've just received a statement from our UK EA rep on the paid demos that reads, "The price associated with the FIFA 14 and EA SPORTS UFC demos was due to a technical error. Both demos have now been fixed in the Microsoft store.”
There you go. They're now free again.
UPDATE 5:
I just took some photos of the Xbox One store charging me £3.99 for the FIFA 14 demo:
UPDATE 4:
Polygon has cited an EA Australia rep as saying the priced FIFA 14 and UFC demos are due to a system error.
When I called our UK EA rep, they told me there was no official comment on the matter.
Stay tuned.
UPDATE 3:
I just tried to buy the FIFA 14 and UFC demos from the UK Xbox One console store, and it tried to charge me £3.99.
Here's a grab from the UK web store as well:
Stay tuned, we're expecting a statement from EA later today.
UPDATE 2:
It's official. Both demos cost £3.99 in the UK as well. I've emailed EA to see if we can get an explanation.
When I try going to the FIFA 14 page on the Xbox One UK site, I'm greeted with this:
UPDATE:
I just checked the Xbox One Australian webstore and found that the FIFA 14 demo also costs $4.99 in Australia:
Here's a another paid demo tweet, courtesy of @RaygunBrown.
ORIGINAL STORY:
The image comes from Aussie_Legend on Twitter. Thank you good sir.
He sent us an off-screen photo to show that this hasn't been fudged or anything like that:
We're guessing this is a mistake, but in the wake of Dungeon Keeper in-app purchasing controversy, and other money based hilarity out of EA, this doesn't look great.
What do you think?