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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
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.
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.
Fortunately, I don't care. I haven't bought an EA game since maybe 2010-ish and I have no plans to do so.
I boycotted back then and am happy to say I've stayed with it. Fuck EA.
How many “not buying it” comments will this post get before someone realizes it’s a free game?
not playing it, we have skater xl at home
To be fair, they're still not buying it
They could pay me and I still wouldn't take it.
"free"
Still demands saying.
Full circle, I have confirmed that I will not be supporting EA's Skate
Don't expect it to ever be supported either, not at least until the day Linux as a platform grows to a point where EA can't ignore it by blocking it like they also do for Apex Legends, Battlefield and more.
I forgot why I stopped playing Apex Legends.
I've been playing the Tony Hawk remastered to be fun as an alternative.
Cool. Not buying it then.
It’s f2p.
If you don't pay for a product, you are the product. And nowadays even when you do pay for a product, you are still the product as they sell your data anyway to get paid twice.
Can you finally post a gamingonlinux link without that guy's superfan trying to conduct an entire exposé?
Who?