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EA's Skate. devs confirm the game will be always-online with no offline mode
(www.shacknews.com)
Welp back to Skate 3
this post was submitted on 26 Apr 2025
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Sounds like the game will never be on my computer
Of course not. It will always be online.
"Always" will last for 5-7 years max.
I give it 3 years max.
Same as Tony Hawk. What a fucking scam.
Wait, Tony Hawk 3+4 will be always-online? That killed all my hype for that.
Fuck modern games.
1+2 was so, presumably.
1+2 is not always online on ps5, in fact I can't get it to go online at all!
May have been PC only. Realistically these are usually a form of DRM which is not necessary on consoles.
Was it? The Switch version wasn't, at the very least.
edit: It sounds like 1+2 had an offline mode for Steam Deck, so that's better than completely always-online.
Yes
I've just confirmed that I'm not buying their game.
It's free to play.
Even worse.
A free to play EA game that is always online. Ew.
I was just pointing out that you don't buy the game. A more appropriate comment might have been something like, "I won't be buying any of their content".
Even more reason not to buy the game!
I won't be installing this garbage.
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Oh, well I guess I won't be buying it or playing it, then 😀
So people are paying full price to buy a rental that will be taken away in the future whenever EA decides its not worth running the servers any more.
It’s going to be a free to play game.
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Amazing how they can just hack off large sections of the customer base with such ease. Might as well not worry about steam deck support if no offline mode.
Never give EA money. Even for FTP shovelware, they're just going to wreck it. Company of vampires and necromancers squeezing games out of the gamedevs they already sucked the life out of.
Apex Legends is the perfect example of this, what was once a great game has now become the milkcow of EA. Literally made them 3.5 billion $ and they keep removing servers and just switched to even worse servers than they had before. They also put huge pressure on the devs to make skins rather than improve the game.
Andrew Wilson is literally a Ventrue Prince.
I'm fine with this if it means that other players in the game world are real people. Jumping in a session and hanging out with other random skaters sounds like a neat concept.
But if it's going to be single player only then EA can go fuck themselves. In that case I'll just pirate the game.
Edit: I bothered to actually read the article; it's the first one. It's an MMO and apparently the game world will "evolve" and "change" as well. This has potential to be a dream come true for me if they pull it off. But it's EA so I'm not going to hold my breath.
No matter how good it is though, because it's always-online, that means it's going to go away eventually one day.
I can still play Skate 3 any time I want. If it were always-online, it might be unplayable by now.
Wicked, nice way to tell me not to play it.
Boooo
I mean I thought it was a given when they first announced the game but still good to have it verified.
Still changes nothing for me at least in not ever intending to play this, I'm assuming, microtransaction ridden, psychological manipulative, live service trash.
Sounds like a game destined to be an Epic and/or Prime giveaway less than a year after launch.
EA is always one step forward one step back.
They made a step forward?
Only the steps forward enforce by EU legislation.
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Then I will not have to worry about ever being a customer. Thanks EA.
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