{"id":1352710,"date":"2025-10-09T18:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T18:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ufQGqoZgbSbFWKtWh8XuTa"},"modified":"2025-10-09T18:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T18:50:07","slug":"ea-is-charging-skate-players-35-for-a-cardboard-dead-space-skin-and-it-took-me-40-straight-minutes-of-game-crashes-to-confirm-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/ea-is-charging-skate-players-35-for-a-cardboard-dead-space-skin-and-it-took-me-40-straight-minutes-of-game-crashes-to-confirm-it\/","title":{"rendered":"EA is charging Skate players $35 for a cardboard Dead Space skin and it took me 40 straight minutes of game crashes to confirm it"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This week, the first season pass arrived for the recently-reborn Skate in an update that\u2014as a quick glance at the Skate subreddit<\/a> will tell you\u2014isn’t being received very well<\/a>, with players complaining that a spattering of superficial challenge additions are being used to justify a pile of new microtransactions.<\/p>\n

The most reviled among Skate’s new monetization vectors is the Isaac Clarke bundle, which offers players the opportunity to roll around San Vansterdam as a cardboard-and-duct-tape knockoff of the Dead Space protagonist for the price of 3350 San Van Bucks, which shakes out to around $35 USD.<\/p>\n

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If that price alone didn’t feel contemptuous enough for you, the bundle’s got all the usual grimy monetization trappings: It’s a limited time offering. It’s got stickers and emotes crammed in to rationalize the price. And it costs just <\/em>enough SVB to force you to buy more premium currency than you need if the bundle’s all you’re interested in.<\/p>\n

That all felt grimy enough to me already, especially when players have noted that Skate 3 had an Isaac Clarke skin<\/a> that only cost the amount of time it took to enter a cheat code\u2014and that one wasn’t cardboard. But it became particularly egregious when I fired up Skate myself and ran into repeated crashes for 40 minutes before I could check the in-game store.<\/p>\n

After making my character\u2014I was starting a new account\u2014the initial load into the tutorial took an unsettling amount of time. After a solid two minutes of watching the kickflipping load screen graphic, I was finally dropped into the world, where I proved myself worthy of an initial skateboard with some basic movement and climbing.<\/p>\n

The Issac Clarke skin was FREE in Skate 3 and looked better.<\/a> from r\/SkateEA<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n