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Full Circle / EA confirm again that skate. will not support Linux, Steam Deck or macOS
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I was wondering why it won’t support Linux and the answer is anti cheat. Having played skate 1 and 3, I wondered why an anti cheat was needed. Apparently it’s an online game.
I have never played skate online before. Why would I want to play online over like just skating obstacles by myself? I’d rather have a skate able game in my pocket without multiplayer than multiplayer
If it's f2p I'm assuming there's going to be microtransactions to generate the income. Cosmetic microtransactions are conspicuous consumption and the 'value' comes from others seeing the items. Like skins on Fortnite, kids love showing them off to each other and that's what generates the frenzy that means they buy them. Add in a few other dark patterns (limited time sales, dodgy conversion into fake money, loot boxes, etc) and you've got a game that uses kids to extract massive amounts of money from their parents for nothing.
Unfortunately, this feels like the dominant model for a lot of big studio games now. I'm sure the next bit disappointment will be GTA. Although, interestingly FIFA / EA FC sounds like they're starting to realise that this might not be enough and are putting more effort into offline gameplay.
It's funny because a lot of the reviews claim the multiplayer just feels like a shared singleplayer experience with close to no interaction. There's also supposedly no communication possible between players, and there's only a single multiplayer game and that's just a time trial for the highest score.
The anticheat is probably just to protect their awful ingame purchases.