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EA invents new microtransaction nightmare as it breaks paywall promise on Skate: rent a playable area for 24 hours or buy a premium pass, bucko
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Sunsofold lemmings.world Sunsofold@lemmings.world
Joined: 2025-01-08
#102 · Quote Reply

Usual reminder:

If you know a parent who is not an active gamer, remind them to never buy games for their kids that have microtransactions, passes, or any form of post-purchase payment. They often will have no idea what they are contributing to as it is not part of their 'bubble' to be aware of what these things do to their kids, their kids' friends, and the industry and society as wholes.

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PhoenixDog lemmy.world PhoenixDog@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-01-14
#103 · Quote Reply

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

The fact anyone has bought any of their products in the last 15 years is why they can keep doing this stupid shit. Stupid things for stupid people.

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reksas sopuli.xyz reksas@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2023-06-11
#104 · Quote Reply

there's no moral consumption under capitalism so many people just don't care
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MinnesotaGoddam lemmy.world HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-27
#105 · Quote Reply

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i know, for my persuasive argument let me start with

you are just a piece of shit humanbeing

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MinnesotaGoddam lemmy.world HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-27
#106 · Quote Reply

The cat is being eaten brah

thank you

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reksas sopuli.xyz reksas@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2023-06-11
#107 · Quote Reply

i know, for my persuasive argument let me start with you are just a piece of shit humanbeing

yeah, a bit too extreme take from me. I'm just so annoyed about people who apathetically keep supporting things that make our world worse or that are produced from suffering of others.

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MinnesotaGoddam lemmy.world HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-27
#108 · Quote Reply

yeah, a bit too extreme take from me. I'm just so annoyed about people who apathetically keep supporting things that make our world worse or that are produced from suffering of others.

at what point does understanding become endorsing

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Patrikvo lemmy.zip Patrikvo@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-02-18
#109 · Quote Reply

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.

Remember when we burned people at the stake? Whatever happened to that?

Climate change and the rising cost of fuels is what happend.

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Why is Lemmy so Racist? lemmy.world Abyssian@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-02-13
#110 · Quote Reply

Remember when we burned people at the stake? Whatever happened to that? Climate change and the rising cost of fuels is what happend.

Someone really needs to start an eco friendly, low carb, gluten free, vegan burning-at-the-stake materials company.

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Strider lemmy.world Strider@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-09
#111 · (edited) Quote Reply

Man, remember back in the day when you just went and bought a game and then played it?

I still just buy games and play them.

They're just 99,99% not 'triple A' games but from developers or publishers who care about games.

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Widdershins lemmy.world Widdershins@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-04-04
#112 · Quote Reply

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.

I would settle for Skate 2 without the soundtrack so they can release it again. No improvements. There is a glitch where you push a few buttons(throw board, turn right, jump, force pull board and grab board before landing) and go flying while the game physics shits the bed. It was great for getting to places that were otherwise inaccessible or not yet unlocked and for getting real high Hall of Meat scores. Imperfections like that are what make a great game perfect.

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reksas sopuli.xyz reksas@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2023-06-11
#113 · Quote Reply

at what point does understanding become endorsing

when you are aware of the things company is doing and still continue buying from them.
Though if the company has monopoly and you are dependent of the product, then its a bit different.

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