The developers at Full Circle said it wants skate. to be an 'living, breathing massively multiplayer skateboarding sandbox' that is 'always evolving'.
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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.

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I’m past the point of putting up with this sort of thing for games I want to play. I just don’t go near them anymore.

Welp back to Skate 3

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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.

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It’s going to be a free to play game.

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MMOs have always been like that

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This isnt skate MMO though.

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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.

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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.

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Yeah but that’s like calling diablo 4 a mmo, which it is not.

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The game is free to play, you don’t see anyone complaining about Fortnite being always online. This is as nothingburger as it gets.

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Right, because Skate 1 through 3 were always-online? Give me a break.

They took an awesome offline-playable game and ruined it. That’s very shitty of them.

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That much was obvious, it already killed all my hype for it when I found out it would be free-to-play.

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Then I will not have to worry about ever being a customer. Thanks EA.

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I’ve just confirmed that I’m not buying their game.

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It’s free to play.

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Oh, well I guess I won’t be buying it or playing it, then 😀

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A free to play EA game that is always online. Ew.

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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”.

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I won’t be installing this garbage.

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Even more reason not to buy the game!

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It’s an MMO

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Sounds like a game destined to be an Epic and/or Prime giveaway less than a year after launch.

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It’s free to play…

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Free to play, but you WILL pay

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Nope, never had in the past—no matter how toxic of a P2W system a game has—not about to start now

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Andrew Wilson is literally a Ventrue Prince.

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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.

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“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!?!”

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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

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Wicked, nice way to tell me not to play it.

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I’m sure FitGirl will think of something.

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I’m being pedantic, but, Dodi and Fitgirl don’t crack or reconfigure the games. They just repackage existing material into convenient downloads.

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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

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