The Internet’s Meltdown Over Battlefield II’s In-Game Payments Scheme, Plus All The Payments News You Missed Last Week.

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EA, Star Wars And The Force (Of Payments)That Wasn’t With Them
 

Star Wars: Battlefront II was set to be a winning holiday game for EA Games, lots of buzz and early reviews that were solid. But then, in an early promotional release, gamers started screaming about its complicated and opaque multi-tier payments system to enable in-game purchases. On the internet of course where internet mutiny broke out. The highly despised payments scheme is disabled — for now — but the big question is whether a poorly designed payments experience killed the release right out of the gate. We have the details.

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Inside GrabPay’s Digital Payments Playbook
 

Grab, the Uber of Southeast Asia, is using its ubiquity in the region to serve a greater good: payments and financial services for the invisible middle economy. Jason Thompson, managing director of its payment unit, GrabPay, spoke with Karen Webster about the region’s unique challenges, how transportation became a critical hub for igniting digital payments and its approach for taking a cash-based economy into the digital payments world using a mobile phone.

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