Skateboarding video games are a hell of a great time and EA’s current skate, the free-to-play title aiming to reboot EA’s once-cherished sequence, is attempting to lure of us again into the thrills of digital ollies and kickflips. And since it’s a free-to-play sport from a AAA writer in 2025, it’s obtained microtransactions and seasons and all that stuff. Whereas we principally tolerate this silliness in video games these days, some stuff is simply too costly and too ugly to move with out remark. As a substitute of throwing cash on the display for a pores and skin of house zombie-stomper Isaac Clarke from Useless House, followers of skate have taken to the web to throw shade on the builders for promoting such an unsightly model of Clarke for $35 bucks (h/t comrade Pitts at GameSpot). That’s like, a complete meal at Taco Bell as of late (with possibly a drink when you’re fortunate). It’s additionally the worth of many full, full video games you’ll be able to play from begin to end. That’s most likely what’s left of us so sore: skate. Is the kind of sport you might as soon as plunk down a reasonable sum for and be completed with it, however is now yet one more nagging pockets leech attempting to financial institution in your nostalgia.
You should buy 3 Useless Sapce video games with that cash (and possibly 3 Skate video games) — Diogo Rodrigues (@Rodrigues_520) October 7, 2025 The scenario reminds us simply how far we’ve come from an period of gaming that felt extra respectful of our money and time. One fan over on r/SkateEA factors out that 2010’s Skate 3 had an Isaac Clarke pores and skin–but it surely was free and appeared extra devoted to the character’s look within the authentic sport.
It’s an actual disgrace as skate appears like a great time in any other case, stuffed with the entire loopy stuff we’ll by no means have the ability to do in actual life on a skateboard. And as one other fan on Reddit opines, the sport’s battle move (skate move?) simply accommodates “ugly equipment and clothes together with phoned in feeling graphics for decks” as an alternative of stuff from precise skate manufacturers. And if ever there was an trade that was ripe for having its aesthetics reduce up and bought in little bits, it’s the skateboard trade. With its numerous legendary designs, from the epic birds of Birdhouse Skateboards to the attractive paintings discovered in your common Factor board (which used to my model of selection again within the day), there’s a ton of cool designs that might be packaged into the sport as a becoming tribute to the trade. I’d nonetheless be irritated if these price $35 a chunk, however not less than they’d really feel a bit of extra related. C’mon, EA.
