EA has introduced that its upcoming Skate reboot will not allow you to play offline in order that the builders can “ship on [their] imaginative and prescient of a skateboarding world”.
Within the first of a brand new sequence of reports posts entitled “The Grind”, EA says Skate (stylized as skate.) is “designed to be a residing, respiratory massively multiplayer skateboarding sandbox that’s at all times on-line and at all times evolving”, as is the sport’s metropolis.
As such, as a way to implement “adjustments to the town over time, in addition to smaller issues, like reside occasions and different in-game actions”, EA says it wants Skate to be an always-online prospect and to “at all times require a reside connection”.
EA would not say whether or not it is concerned about bringing an offline mode to Skate later down the road, however it’s probably that we’ll have to attend till the sport is out for the studio to even contemplate speaking about doing so.
Elsewhere within the publish, EA says that the plan continues to be to launch Skate in Early Entry someday this yr, though there isn’t any launch date but. The studio says it is going to “share extra particulars” about its plans “each for day one in every of Early Entry and within the months that comply with” quickly.
As for the Early Entry launch itself, it represents “a place to begin from which new options, enhancements, and content material can be added over time”, and it will not signify the “completed model” of Skate, in keeping with EA. Feels like fairly boilerplate Early Entry stuff to me.
In case you’re on the lookout for extra Skate information, EA says it is going to launch The Grind posts “month-to-month”, so make certain to maintain your eyes open for the subsequent installment of the sequence someday in Could.
We might not have a Skate launch date but, however when the sport does arrive, it is launching in Early Entry for PC, PlayStation, and Xbox.
