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
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.
“Always” will last for 5-7 years max.
yeah hard pass, I used to play The Crew.
How many other MMO’s do you know that got an offline patch?
Dunno, but I know an awful lot of skateboarding games that are perfectly fun without being online 100% of the time. Same goes for racing games. Making them singleplayer, and fun, when you’ve already got the entire multiplayer aspect set up, isn’t hard.
I give it 3 years max.
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.
Welp back to Skate 3
The game is free to play, you don’t see anyone complaining about Fortnite being always online. This is as nothingburger as it gets.
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.
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.
Sounds like a game destined to be an Epic and/or Prime giveaway less than a year after launch.
It’s free to play…
Free to play, but you WILL pay
Nope, never had in the past—no matter how toxic of a P2W system a game has—not about to start now
Hey look it got EA’d
Yup. Guarentee this is a way for ea to try to get that sweet live service money.
Well it’s supposed to be free. So I think making it online-only is a way to make sure nobody can just cheat and get the cosmetics.
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.
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.
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!
I won’t be installing this garbage.
It’s an MMO
Even worse.
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.
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.
Wicked, nice way to tell me not to play it.
