It really sucks that all it would take is George Lopez letting them use the theme song to his show.

I was wondering the same thing...

1. 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.

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.

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.

works well in emulators too or skater xl https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/store/skater-xl/9PFM3WM299H6 is the true spiritual successor

or https://store.steampowered.com/app/962730/Skater_XL__The_Ultimate_Skateboarding_Game/

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.

Then people should stop buying, otherwise nothing will change. People complained about Nintendo switch 2, yet they bought it.

I'm glad I dont need to pay that much to play all the DLCs

Majority of people are NPCs

EA is for gaming like popcorn is for haute cuisine.

Wait, I made a mistake. There is good popcorn.

EA literally had one job:

• Make Skate 2 but with a new area and updated graphics.

And EA went and fucked it up being greedy. And they wonder why Steam is killing it.

Thinking about it now, I haven't bought any game with EA's name on it since Dead Space 3.

I don't know why EA would be relevant to anyone for the past 20+ years, but here we are.

1. If the DLC is permanently owned and pays to the artists who made the map, that's fine.

2. Even if it is "permanently", but tied to a server that could be shutdown, it's not permanently owned. Fuck that

3. If the DLC isn't permanently owned, but "rented", that profit only goes to the executives that probably fired the artists. Fuck that.

I shifted to that view a long time ago. I have a selection of "classics" I play on rotation and I add a few indies or modern ports every now and then.

The multiplay scene went in a direction I don't intend to follow. Some old friends are thinking about hosting a retro lan party, but I'm going to make it clear that I'm walking if they try sneaking in any modern shit.

Well, I was looking forward to a new Mass Effect, but playing something like that made by Kushner and the Saudis would probably make tears in reality. Like, I'm pretty sure the paradox will make serious issues.

This is a great example for the moral justifications of piracy. The bytes for the maps are on your hard drive, why the fuck should you not be allowed to play on them? When someone playing a pirated copy has a better experience than someone on a bought licensed copy something's not right.

Remember when free to play meant free to play?

I remember shareware.

there's no moral consumption under capitalism so many people just don't care

idk. I've heard we can still consume pussy.

That poor cat, are you forcing it to play EA games?????

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because they have exclusive rights to making an NFL video game

while you're at it, i have also been making this lion watch infowars nonstop for the last all of its life and it is very gay.

We're now expected to rent imaginary spaces for our characters to play the game we already purchased in?

Is advocating people be burned at the stake against the ToS here? Because I'm advocating the fuck out of that.

The fun part is..I tried the newest one on game pass recently. Aside from roster updates it’s the same game I bought on disc 20 years ago

lol if it was the same game from 20 years ago itd actually be pretty good. that would be madden 05 era which some say is the peak of madden

This is actually good advice... in isolation. Encouraging people to spend their money more wisely can bring awareness to an issue but it ultimately does little to implement change. Sure, you and I (and the Fediverse as a whole) might be hyper-vigilant about these kind of things but the average consumer isn't. Continuing with your Nintendo example, Nintendo has decades of brand recognition and a zealous fanbase to satisfy the demand. An eager gaming press will gladly take free hardware from Nintendo for positive coverage.

Real change won't happen until the tap is turned off, so to speak. These companies are taking advantages of gaps in the law that permit them to get away with this. Antitrust law in the US dates back to a time when steam-powered trains were still common and the last breakup involved a telephone company. When AT&T was broken up, the home computer (desktop in modern parlance) was just starting to take off.

So, yes, we should spend our money elsewhere when we see this kinds of corporate abuses but until you starve the beast, keep expecting these kinds of behaviors.

People aren't playing or paying for stuff in Skate. The player count drop off has been substantial.

It Takes Two actually removed the EA App in a patch a while back.

I think they allow studios they only publish for and don't own like Hazelight the freedom to remove the EA App DRM now, but EA won't pay for the dev time for their back catalogue.

Thanks for the link, though the store page does still say it requires an EA account. Is that just outdated? Dragon Age: The Veilguard also doesn't have an EA app requirement, so this is a thing they're doing with studios they own too.

IIRC it still requires an EA account for online play, but not if you play offline.

It's EA. Anyone who's surprised by this either is an idiot or hasn't been paying attention.

I see a clear correlation between the decline of tar-and-feathers and riding people out on a rail and the rise of terrible business practices.

Nobody purchased Skate, it is free to play.

They just promised not to lock locations behind a paywall, which the executives decided to change.

Skate is free to play, nothing was bought.

Apparently the cosmetic microtransactions didn't make enough money. So now they are putting locations behind a paywall.

The cat is being eaten brah

Welp, uninstalled.

But... shareware was literally designed to paywall the majority of an application or game until you paid for it. It was a free shareable demo.

Soooo, the metaverse paid plots? I swear, every company with even an inkling of a 3d environment now just wants to “build” and sell worthless plots as if it’s real land, and literally nobody who uses these actually fucking asked.

Free to play games are similar to old shareware though... You get to play some of it for free then pay for the rest.

Unrelated, but when did all Magazines start faking youtube thumbnails as the meta image..? I bet times are desperate, but I mean at what point do you understand that it's all the deceit and desperation that drives literally everyone away to the media they imitate?

EA lies more than Trump. News at 11.

In this one case EA is to blame, but I do know what you mean. I think it's just that YouTube videos have had a large impact on the form media takes, and that's trickled out towards other forms.

Sense of pride and accomplishment

EA invents a new way to assure I never purchase their products. Ever.

Yes. Remember when we burned people at the stake? Whatever happened to that? Just live stream a few billionaires and child rapists being slowly burned as an object lesson to the rest and I imagine things would change fairly quickly.