It's EA. Anyone who's surprised by this either is an idiot or hasn't been paying attention.
this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2026
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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.
Nobody purchased Skate, it is free to play.
They just promised not to lock locations behind a paywall, which the executives decided to change.
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.
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.
People are still playing EA games after the take over by Saudis/Jared Kushner??? Sorry, I feel no empathy for these gamers.
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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The cat is being eaten brah
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.
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.
Uh...Jared Kushner owns EA now, so I don't know why this would be relevant to anyone.
I don't know why EA would be relevant to anyone for the past 20+ years, but here we are.
because they have exclusive rights to making an NFL video game
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
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Along with his Saudi oil tycoon buddies.
After all these things, why are people still buying anything from EA? Just boycott them.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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
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.
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An important detail is that this rental option is paid for in grind currency, not paid currency. Yes, "for now".
Yeah, that's just to normalise rentable levels. Once it has been begrudgingly accepted, there'll be one that requires premium currency. Never buy EA.
You'll still be able to buy them with ingame currency, but itll be days worth of farming or BEST VALUE 4.99.
They'll still be able to hide behind an ethical "no mtx required" label.
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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...
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.
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first time hearing about EA in years, and they're doing this shit. kinda nostalgic really
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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.
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