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.
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.
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.
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.
Yeah but that’s like calling diablo 4 a mmo, which it is not.
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.
Sounds like the game will never be on my computer
I’ve just confirmed that I’m not buying their game.
It’s free to play.
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
“Always” will last for 5-7 years max.
I give it 3 years max.
Then I will not have to worry about ever being a customer. Thanks EA.
Boooo
Sounds like a game destined to be an Epic and/or Prime giveaway less than a year after launch.
It’s free to play…
EA is always one step forward one step back.
They made a step forward?
Only the steps forward enforce by EU legislation.
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.
