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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.
!stopkillinggames@lemm.ee
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.
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.
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!
Sounds like the game will never be on my computer
Of course not. It will always be online.
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.
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.
Wicked, nice way to tell me not to play it.
Then I will not have to worry about ever being a customer. Thanks EA.
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
Boooo
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.
The game is free to play, you don't see anyone complaining about Fortnite being always online. This is as nothingburger as it gets.
EA is always one step forward one step back.
They made a step forward?
NHL Hockey 95 was really good.
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.
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