Skate players were explicitly told map areas would not be “locked behind a paywall”
People are still playing EA games after the take over by Saudis/Jared Kushner??? Sorry, I feel no empathy for these gamers.
That’s on part of EA, look at sims 4, you have to spend 1000€ to buy all DLCs.
I’m glad I dont need to pay that much to play all the DLCs
EA is for gaming like popcorn is for haute cuisine.
Wait, I made a mistake. There is good popcorn.
That’s really disappointing. I have already completed all of the major challenges in this game and it was really great. I’m pretty disappointed to hear this is the direction they’ve went off to since I last checked in. I would say that if you miss playing the old skate games you can either get an Xbox series X and play them on backwards compatibility mode. Or you can give this a shot because at least it’s pretty fun for quite a while without any spend.
works well in emulators too or skater xl https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/store/skater-xl/9PFM3WM299H6 is the true spiritual successor
Uh…Jared Kushner owns EA now, so I don’t know why this would be relevant to anyone.
Along with his Saudi oil tycoon buddies.
After all these things, why are people still buying anything from EA? Just boycott them.
Majority of people are NPCs
I don’t buy anything from EA, but I’m curious: Is it difficult to acquire their games via the high seas?
Their permanently online (until their inevitable shutdown) DRM slop games? I bet it is quite difficult.
Using in game credits to rent content? Not exactly new, I remember that being the entire business model of EA’s Battlefield Heroes (circa 2009). That was only 3 years after Bethesda was first selling horse armor.
first time hearing about EA in years, and they’re doing this shit. kinda nostalgic really
I looked on EA’s games released over the last 1.5 years and it is a bunch of sports game, the Sims, Battlefield 6, Plants & Zombies remake, Split Friction (EA is publisher), Dragon Age: the Veilguard and Tales of Kenzera: Zau (EA is publisher).
It is difficult to understand how EA can be valued at 55 billions of dollars with those releases over 1.5 years. And in the list for upcoming games it is only one game, Star Wars Zero Company, that is listed.
Does anyone remember how Skate 2 was the best one and they won’t release it again? I suspect it is because of the music.
Music is the bane of all the 2000’s games that dared to use any form of musical experimentation. Copyright strikes galore.
It really sucks that all it would take is George Lopez letting them use the theme song to his show.
Man, remember back in the day when you just went and bought a game and then played it?
In American-style neo-liberalism, everything must have a price tag. If it doesn’t generate a profit, it can’t exist.
Then people should stop buying, otherwise nothing will change. People complained about Nintendo switch 2, yet they bought it.
I understand the sentiment here but let’s note that you do not go buy Skate. because it’s free to play.
So when fps games do dlc maps it’s fine. but when a skateboarding game paywalls a map its crossing the line? What am I not getting here?
- They said they were never gonna paywall parts of the map. 2. It’s not DLC. It’s a 24 hour lease. 3. The game is early access and all early access games paywalling features get slammed. Most do it thru DLC but I guess EA found a way to make more money than selling a one time purchase.
What kind of sucker buys from EA?
Split Fiction and It Takes Two were pretty great.
Add Mass Effect, Dead Space and Star Wars Jedi series…
But yeah I wish all of these were DRM free, without any online connection and on GOG.
I only bought Split Fiction because it didn’t come with the EA launcher. It seems to be a recent decision of theirs to not include it on some games on Steam, but they’re not doing it retroactively. It Takes Two I played on Game Pass for a dollar, because I’m not willing to put up with EA’s additional DRM.
I have it takes two, played the whole thing on steam without EA launcher. Was on my steam deck, so maybe linux dodged that somehow?
I believe it’s still running in the background and makes it an extra pain in the ass to play without internet. I ran into that one with Jedi: Fallen Order when trying to play on the train (I only paid $4 for it and still felt ripped off). The store page still lists that it’s there. It’s why whenever I get around to the Dragon Age games, I can play the first one on GOG and the fourth one on Steam (no EA launcher), but unless something changes, the best option appears to be pirating 2 and 3.
EA gives their studios the ability to decide their own revenue models.
This change likely came because they weren’t as profitable as predicted so they had targets to make up for.
I still have Skate 3 installed on my Xbox for those times when I just want to chill for an hour. It makes me a little sad when I see what its become nowadays…
My brain just shuts off when I read stuff like this.
Man, I dunno. Fuck AAA gaming, I’ll go play something else.
Indies are where its at. Or classic games, especially with mods
Games are a modern media and I think suffer from a lot of modern engagement mechanics.
We need to stop viewing them as a constant stream of “new content” and more as an established library.
Absolutely the problem. They’ve stopped trying to make fun and started trying to exploit psychological weaknesses and hijack our internal reward systems to rinse us of both time and money.
Fun is no longer the driving factor, and it makes me feel not quite angry or nauseous, but somewhere around those emotions.
They’ve stopped trying to make fun and started trying to exploit psychological weaknesses and hijack our internal reward systems to rinse us of both time and money
Exactly, and the fact that Jeffrey Epstein was pro microtransactions really tells you the kind of scum we’re dealing with here
