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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• VibeSurgeon@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • GreyCat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I was wondering the same thing…

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• JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sense of pride and accomplishment

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• pulsewidth@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fucking lol… This is the Metaverse with extra steps.

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• Strider@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Es is for gaming like popcorn is for haute cuisine.

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• TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Following this period, all players can skate Grom from April 14 through May 5 […] But then, from May 5 through June 2, you’ll need to either buy Skate Pass Premium to enter Grom, or gain access by turning in 500 earnable Rip Chips for a 24-hour ticket that lets you skate in this area temporarily.

  Not only are they using microrranscations in a ‘new’ way, but they rely on fomo to call players in. “What if I miss on the period of free access? I better hurry” “Well what else can i do as a player?”

  It might be that i am playing nes games, but i personally think that a game that pulls this shit once can do it forever to keep me engaged against my common sense. If the conditions for the players are not fair, the smart move is not to play the game.

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• sturmblast@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Welp, uninstalled.

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• stickly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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• Yamanashi@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So when fps games do dlc maps it’s fine. but when a skateboarding game paywalls a map its crossing the line?

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  • ThunderComplex@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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