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EA's Skate. devs confirm the game will be always-online with no offline mode
(www.shacknews.com)
Sounds like the game will never be on my computer
this post was submitted on 26 Apr 2025
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Of course not. It will always be online.
"Always" will last for 5-7 years max.
yeah hard pass, I used to play The Crew.
I give it 3 years max.
I've just confirmed that I'm not buying their game.
It's free to play.
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!
It's an MMO
Oh, well I guess I won't be buying it or playing it, then 😀
Even worse.
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.
Hey look it got EA'd
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.
MMOs have always been like that
This isnt skate MMO though.
The simple answer: No. The game and city are designed to be a living, breathing massively multiplayer skateboarding sandbox that is always online and always evolving. You’ll see bigger things evolve, like changes to the city over time, as well as smaller things, like live events and other in-game activities. In order to deliver on our vision of a skateboarding world, the game will always require a live connection.
But they're trying apparently.
And when they decide to shut it down, there’s no reason that the most recently downloaded map can’t just be played as-is.
If it’s a free-to-play game though I have less of a problem with this. But I still have a problem with it.
Yeah but that's like calling diablo 4 a mmo, which it is not.
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.
!stopkillinggames@lemm.ee
Wicked, nice way to tell me not to play it.
Boooo
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.
Welp back to Skate 3
Same as Tony Hawk. What a fucking scam.
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.
EA is always one step forward one step back.
They made a step forward?
Only the steps forward enforce by EU legislation.
NHL Hockey 95 was really good.
Then I will not have to worry about ever being a customer. Thanks EA.
The game is free to play, you don't see anyone complaining about Fortnite being always online. This is as nothingburger as it gets.
I'm sure FitGirl will think of something.
I'm being pedantic, but, Dodi and Fitgirl don't crack or reconfigure the games. They just repackage existing material into convenient downloads.
I don't think you are being pedantic at all. Fitgirl has nothing to do with cracking DRM or creating online bypasses. She provides an excellent service, but she doesn't pretend to be anything other than a repacker
"We're releasing a free to play MMO"
"I WONT GIVE YOU A CENT!"
"Yeah we said its free"
"WHY IS IT ALWAYS ONLINE!?!"
"Its an MMO so yeah, thats how they work"
"YOU CAN JUST TURN OFF THE SERVERS!"
"Yes, Free MMOs tend to work like that!"
"I WONT BUY ANY MICROTRANSACTIONS!"
"Ok"
"I WONT PLAY IT!"
"Ok"
"WHY ARENT YOU MAD THAT I'M MAD!?!"
the difference being that an MMO actually needs other players since it's a multiplayer game by design - it lives and breathes interactions with other players, quests, dungeons, and raids would work without them. A, essentially, skating simulator game that you're usually playing on your own, outside of dedicated multiplayer that is, does not need an always-online feature to function
Edit: nvm apparently it's an MMO skate game - disregard my comment