The island, which will be renamed Isle of Grom, is essentially the tutorial area you play when you first start the game, but the team has added to it with new playable areas and skate spots not seen ...

Though the bulk of the backlash centers on the cost, and in particular, how devs have gone back on their word. In the lead-up to skate’s Early Access launch, devs assured, “No map areas [will be] ...

Skate players were explicitly told map areas would not be "locked behind a paywall" ...