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.
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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.
People are still playing EA games after the take over by Saudis/Jared Kushner??? Sorry, I feel no empathy for these gamers.
there's no moral consumption under capitalism so many people just don't care
idk. I've heard we can still consume pussy.
That poor cat, are you forcing it to play EA games?????
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while you're at it, i have also been making this lion watch infowars nonstop for the last all of its life and it is very gay.
Uh...Jared Kushner owns EA now, so I don't know why this would be relevant to anyone.
I don't know why EA would be relevant to anyone for the past 20+ years, but here we are.
because they have exclusive rights to making an NFL video game
Well, I was looking forward to a new Mass Effect, but playing something like that made by Kushner and the Saudis would probably make tears in reality. Like, I'm pretty sure the paradox will make serious issues.
Along with his Saudi oil tycoon buddies.
That's on part of EA, look at sims 4, you have to spend 1000€ to buy all DLCs.
I'm glad I dont need to pay that much to play all the DLCs
After all these things, why are people still buying anything from EA? Just boycott them.
Majority of people are NPCs
EA is for gaming like popcorn is for haute cuisine.
Wait, I made a mistake. There is good popcorn.
I don't buy anything from EA, but I'm curious: Is it difficult to acquire their games via the high seas?
Their permanently online (until their inevitable shutdown) DRM slop games? I bet it is quite difficult.
Man, remember back in the day when you just went and bought a game and then played it?
In American-style neo-liberalism, everything must have a price tag. If it doesn't generate a profit, it can't exist.
Then people should stop buying, otherwise nothing will change. People complained about Nintendo switch 2, yet they bought it.
I understand the sentiment here but let's note that you do not go buy Skate. because it's free to play.
Remember when free to play meant free to play?
I remember shareware.
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.
works well in emulators too or skater xl https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/store/skater-xl/9PFM3WM299H6 is the true spiritual successor
My brain just shuts off when I read stuff like this.
Man, I dunno. Fuck AAA gaming, I'll go play something else.
Thinking about it now, I haven't bought any game with EA's name on it since Dead Space 3.
Indies are where its at. Or classic games, especially with mods
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.
I shifted to that view a long time ago. I have a selection of "classics" I play on rotation and I add a few indies or modern ports every now and then.
The multiplay scene went in a direction I don't intend to follow. Some old friends are thinking about hosting a retro lan party, but I'm going to make it clear that I'm walking if they try sneaking in any modern shit.
Absolutely the problem. They've stopped trying to make fun and started trying to exploit psychological weaknesses and hijack our internal reward systems to rinse us of both time and money.
Fun is no longer the driving factor, and it makes me feel not quite angry or nauseous, but somewhere around those emotions.
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What kind of sucker buys from EA?
Split Fiction and It Takes Two were pretty great.
Add Mass Effect, Dead Space and Star Wars Jedi series..
But yeah I wish all of these were DRM free, without any online connection and on GOG.
I only bought Split Fiction because it didn't come with the EA launcher. It seems to be a recent decision of theirs to not include it on some games on Steam, but they're not doing it retroactively. It Takes Two I played on Game Pass for a dollar, because I'm not willing to put up with EA's additional DRM.
I have it takes two, played the whole thing on steam without EA launcher. Was on my steam deck, so maybe linux dodged that somehow?
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first time hearing about EA in years, and they're doing this shit. kinda nostalgic really
I looked on EA's games released over the last 1.5 years and it is a bunch of sports game, the Sims, Battlefield 6, Plants & Zombies remake, Split Friction (EA is publisher), Dragon Age: the Veilguard and Tales of Kenzera: Zau (EA is publisher).
It is difficult to understand how EA can be valued at 55 billions of dollars with those releases over 1.5 years. And in the list for upcoming games it is only one game, Star Wars Zero Company, that is listed.
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.
Music is the bane of all the 2000's games that dared to use any form of musical experimentation. Copyright strikes galore.
It really sucks that all it would take is George Lopez letting them use the theme song to his show.
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...
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.
An important detail is that this rental option is paid for in grind currency, not paid currency. Yes, "for now".
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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