DLC for skate? Nope

by Richard Mitchell { Oct 30th 2007 at 11:15AM }

Perhaps you are unaware of the full weight of the headline above. Let us break it down. Point one: skate will have no downloadable content. Point two: skate is an Electronic Arts product. Are we seeing the import of this message yet, hmmm? Anyway, on with the story. EA Black Box producer Scott Blackwood told EGM (via Eurogamer) that there are no plans to add downloadable content to skate because "We didn't want to go back and ask for more money to get more shoes and shirts," adding, "That's not how we wanted to enter this market."

What the hell is going on here? EA pumping out games with innovative concepts and not charging us for useless extras? We're frightened ....

Tags: dlc, ea, electronic-arts, skate

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

DjDATZ @ Oct 30th 2007 11:31AM

"What the hell is going on here? EA pumping out games with innovative concepts and not charging us for useless extras? We're frightened ...."

AHAHAHAHAHHAHA...awesome.

xenocidic @ Oct 30th 2007 11:36AM

how about EA shoving off French copies of the Orange Box to all of Canada?

yea , fuck them !

DjDATZ @ Oct 30th 2007 11:53AM

That's why you buy them off ebay for a cheaper price from the US and get the English version. :P eheheh right xeno?

itsburnsie @ Oct 30th 2007 11:56AM

"What the hell is going on here? EA pumping out games with innovative concepts and not charging us for useless extras? We're frightened ...."

I know Richard, I'm scared too.

cranium @ Oct 30th 2007 12:02PM

actually, EA has seemed less corporate lately. It makes me not worry quie so much about the Bioware buyout

Yuccadude @ Oct 30th 2007 12:26PM

Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!

I never had any problems with EA, I mean, they did give me Burnout 3: Takedown, which was a pretty decent game in which I did indeed take down other racers very often.

AnOffday @ Oct 30th 2007 12:26PM

I think you guys are missing the point here. It's not that EA are good guys now, and aren't charging us for DLC. It's just they don't want to make any DLC for this game. If they had changed they would make DLC for this game and it'd be free.

The bottom line is they don't want to spend the time to create DLC, and instead of just saying that they try to sound like the nice guys and say, "Oh we aren't making it because we don't want to charge you guys for it."

a.j. @ Oct 30th 2007 12:50PM

@7 EXACTLY. FUCK THOSE DUDES. They spin everything to make it look like they are doing us a favor. It should just read "We don't care about this game enough to make anything else for it..wait for Skate 2 where you'll get the same game, with a few additions..you know like the shoes and extra shirt for $59.99".

heurlin @ Oct 30th 2007 12:51PM

It just means that next year we are going to see "Skate 2008" . Instead of charging us $10 more for DLC, they'll charge us $60 more for a whole new game.

Scott @ Oct 30th 2007 1:57PM

@7,8,9 My thoughts exactly. You don't get props for NOT making DLC and then NOT charging for it. Wait, maybe you do . . . FYI everyone, I just decided that I WON'T make a machine that sucks all the air into a giant bag and then charge people to breathe. Someone should dedicate a website to how nice I am being :)