10 Triple-A Video Game Paywalls That Came Out Of Nowhere

The first and second Skate games both featured Party Play modes, where up to four players could play together locally in pass-the-controller multiplayer.

But when Skate 3 launched in 2010, this feature was conspicuously absent, with only online multiplayer available out of the box. 

If you figured that the developers simply decided local multiplayer wasn't worth their hassle anymore with the undeniable decline of couch co-op over the last decade-plus, that wasn't quite the case.

Rather, a few months later EA later revealed that Party Play had been ripped out of the game and would be sold separately to players as part of the San Van Party Pack DLC.

It's never, ever going to be a popular decision when a sequel paywalls features that were just part of the package in previous games, and given that Skate 3 was basically the last truly great AAA skating game, it's all the more depressing that its brilliance was tainted by EA's greed.