My brain just shuts off when I read stuff like this.

Man, I dunno. Fuck AAA gaming, I'll go play something else.

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

An important detail is that this rental option is paid for in grind currency, not paid currency. Yes, "for now".

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.

Uh...Jared Kushner owns EA now, so I don't know why this would be relevant to anyone.

After all these things, why are people still buying anything from EA? Just boycott them.

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.

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 say this tracks for Saudi Arab-EA, but they did this kind of shit before the Saudis owned them.

Honestly from a business perspective, EA is one if the smartest publishers out there. They made a game and stripped away most of the functionality and then sold it for full price. They then slowly added the content back in content packs and people gladly paid. That was The Sims. And it’s had like three sequels, all monetized the exact same way. And people keep paying them.

People are still playing EA games after the take over by Saudis/Jared Kushner??? Sorry, I feel no empathy for these gamers.

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...

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

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

Yet people have zero self control and keep giving them money.

Paying for a game you don't own, only to have to rent the gameplay inside the thing you don't even own to begin with. Presumably all content also being locked on company servers meaning it will get EOL'd and inaccessible at some point in the future.

Immaculate.

first time hearing about EA in years, and they're doing this shit. kinda nostalgic really

I absolutely hate the whale hunting that developers go through these days.

It's more profitable for them to find a few whales spending $10,000 on their game every year than making a good product.

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.

Obviously ridiculous.

That said I dunno, it’s very easy for me to just play the game and never give them a dime.

All I want from the game is to dick around from time to time and it gives me that for free.

Every time I play I just find things to launch my ass off over and over. I just accept the free shit and play occasionally.

Obviously not going to defend EA for this decision but I dunno, it’s still maybe blown a little out of proportion. I guess it depends on how invested in the game you are as a player, and as someone who has Skate 1-3 still and had good fun with them when they came out, the current game gives me what I want in a way that I don’t have to pay for so I’m fine with it.

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.

That's on part of EA, look at sims 4, you have to spend 1000€ to buy all DLCs.

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.

I don't buy anything from EA, but I'm curious: Is it difficult to acquire their games via the high seas?

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.

What's Andrew Rousso doing in the image? Seems completely unrelated to the content of the article.

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.

Is the game not ass anymore at least? I'd rather play the OG THPS without any qol additions added by the good remake than this game after I had tried it.

The suckers who buy this trash and pay for it deserve it. There's so much good gaming to be had, at this point it's a choice.

I think of this practice as a tax on herds.

You want to belong in a trendy group, you board the hype train and pay the tax to belong in the herd.

Fucking lol.. This is the Metaverse with extra steps.

Sense of pride and accomplishment

EA is for gaming like popcorn is for haute cuisine.

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

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.

Welp, uninstalled.