EA has revealed a big Season 3 roadmap for Skate, but the promising addition of a new map area has been buried in yet more monetization mud. Skate has not only broken its promise of not putting map areas behind a paywall, it's also simultaneously injected a new strain of poison into the economy in the form of rentable areas.
Season 3 of Skate, per EA's blog post, will introduce the Isle of Grom, an expanded area that essentially adds new attractions and environments to the classic tutorial zone. "ALL players will have the opportunity to explore Grom during Season 3," EA proudly announced. But then the caveats come in.
