Comment on 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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• ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Split Fiction and It Takes Two were pretty great.

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  • Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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      • doublah@sopuli.xyz ⁨13⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        It Takes Two actually removed the EA App in a patch a while back.

        I think they allow studios they only publish for and don’t own like Hazelight the freedom to remove the EA App DRM now, but EA won’t pay for the dev time for their back catalogue.

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      • Screen_Shatter@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        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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• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  EA gives their studios the ability to decide their own revenue models.

  This change likely came because they weren’t as profitable as predicted so they had targets to make up for.

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