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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

What kind of sucker buys from EA?

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.

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

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.

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

EA lies more than Trump. News at 11.

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

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.

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...

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?

Sense of pride and accomplishment

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.

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