EA's Skate. devs confirm the game will be always-online with no offline mode

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
- 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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