{"id":30528,"date":"2026-02-22T11:44:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T03:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=30528"},"modified":"2026-02-22T11:44:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T03:44:36","slug":"skate-players-unload-on-ea-over-broken-promise-about-not-paywalling-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=30528","title":{"rendered":"Skate Players Unload On EA Over Broken Promise About Not Paywalling Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/a\/uploads\/screen_medium\/1837\/18375603\/4654670-skateisleofgrom.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>EA is bringing back the Isle of Grom in Skate Season 3, but fans aren&#8217;t happy about it because only players who have purchased a premium pass will be able to freely revisit the tutorial island. Essentially, it will be locked behind a paywall for everyone else, which goes against the promise EA made last year before Skate hit early access.<\/p>\n<p>Thus far, the fan response to EA&#8217;s announcement has been largely negative.<\/p>\n<div data-embed-type=\"tweet\" data-src=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Techusiast\/status\/2024535490175685073\" data-has-image=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-mce-disable-toolbar=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HiUgJYqW9c\">pic.twitter.com\/HiUgJYqW9c<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  \u2014 Roland Udvarlaki (@Techusiast) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Techusiast\/status\/2024535490175685073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">February 19, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<div data-embed-type=\"tweet\" data-src=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nkocharm\/status\/2024534025692430345\" data-has-image=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-mce-disable-toolbar=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">now what happened to this <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MTq8TDsx6V\">pic.twitter.com\/MTq8TDsx6V<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  \u2014 \u05b4 \u08ea \u02d6 \u08ea rei lynn ! \u1c14 \u0741\u208a (@nkocharm) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nkocharm\/status\/2024534025692430345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">February 19, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p>EA subsequently issued a response that it launched Skate in early access &#8220;so we could build it with players, not behind closed doors &#8230; Yes, sometimes plans have to change. That&#8217;s part of the deal when you&#8217;re building in public. We&#8217;re here, we&#8217;re listening, and we&#8217;re going to keep shaping skate. Together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading at GameSpot<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/skate-players-unload-on-ea-over-broken-promise-about-not-paywalling-maps\/1100-6538325\/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EA is bringing back the Isle of Grom in Skate Season 3, but fans aren&#8217;t happy about it because only players who have purchased a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3109,1924,16248,3392,188,12241,16247],"class_list":["post-30528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-broken","tag-maps","tag-paywalling","tag-players","tag-promise","tag-skate","tag-unload","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}