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EA's Skate. devs confirm the game will be always-online with no offline mode (www.shacknews.com)
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[-] BrightCandle@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] ChromaticMan@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

It’s going to be a free to play game.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca -3 points 2 days ago

MMOs have always been like that

[-] Breezy@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

This isnt skate MMO though.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] Breezy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

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

[-] 4am@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

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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