No, they dont. On some sports games they give you a code with new, or $10 without. The $10 without for example will update the LIVE DNA part of NBA Live 10 for example. It tracks the real games for each season and updates accordingly, so with BBall you Pay $10 to get up to date real hot streaks or cold streaks. If Lebron is on a cold streak in real life then in the game that week he will be too.