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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• audaxdreik@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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

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  • winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Indies are where its at. Or classic games, especially with mods

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    • audaxdreik@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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• rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What kind of sucker buys from EA?

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨50⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Split Fiction and It Takes Two were pretty great.

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    • Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Add Mass Effect, Dead Space and Star Wars Jedi series…

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• BaroqueW@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • tabris@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You’ll still be able to buy them with ingame currency, but itll be days worth of farming or BEST VALUE 4.99

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• cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • bearboiblake@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t think that’s really fair, especially considering this game was popular among kids & teens who don’t have the lived experiences we have

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• cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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• Abundance114@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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• Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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• Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Prox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Skate is free to play

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    • Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I was moreso talking about the future of gaming monetisation.

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• pulsewidth@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Fucking lol… This is the Metaverse with extra steps.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • iamericandre@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I tried it and it’s shitty compared to skate3. SkaterXL is a better option and has better controls but a lot less content.

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      But SkaterXL has mods. Soooooo many mods.

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• Quazatron@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Same logic as “Lottery is a tax on those who didn’t pay attention in math class.” And I agree.

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• VibeSurgeon@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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