Skate players were explicitly told map areas would not be "locked behind a paywall"

Skate players were explicitly told map areas would not be “locked behind a paywall”

  • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    471·
    7 days ago

    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.

  • wampus@lemmy.caEnglish
    511·
    7 days ago

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

  • Abyssian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    7 days ago

    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.

    • Honytawk@feddit.nlEnglish
      171·
      6 days ago

      Nobody purchased Skate, it is free to play.

      They just promised not to lock locations behind a paywall, which the executives decided to change.

    • Patrikvo@lemmy.zipEnglish
      8·
      6 days ago

      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.

      • Abyssian@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

        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.

        • Patrikvo@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          5 days ago

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

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

          • Abyssian@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            5 days ago

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

    • PhoenixDog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      33·
      6 days ago

      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.

  • bitwolf@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    28·
    7 days ago

    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.

    • Widdershins@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      5 days ago

      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.

  • Sunsofold@lemmings.worldEnglish
    9·
    6 days ago

    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.

  • biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    6 days ago

    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.

  • peacefulpixel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    6 days ago

    i remember pointing out that this would happen in a couple places and ppl said i was just being negative. like a live service skate game is a dead in the water idea but ppl were so starved for skate content they just didn’t listen to sense. look where they are now

  • KeenFlame@feddit.nuEnglish
    6·
    6 days ago

    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?

    • Warl0k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      In this one case EA is to blame, but I do know what you mean. I think it’s just that YouTube videos have had a large impact on the form media takes, and that’s trickled out towards other forms.

  • rose56@lemmy.zipEnglish
    7·
    7 days ago

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

  • KuroiKaze@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    7 days ago

    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.