I have yet to actually play it (on console so I'm stuck on the error messages), but after reading around on the forums and realizing this is apparently a live service game.. yeah Eff that. Always online game? This **bleep** is gonna fail just like Suicide Squad did, just like 90% of all other live service games have. EA, if you are paying attention, you are making a HUGE mistake turning this into an always online game.
If it truly will be F2P, meaning NOTHING is behind a pay wall EXCEPT cosmetic BS, then give it an offline mode. There are loyal fans of the Skate series that have been waiting for a LONG TIME for this, most of us being much older than the live service model, and you're basically saying "F*** you" to all of us by forcing us to rely on servers to even play the game.
This model has been proven to fail time and time again and your game is NO DIFFERENT. It WILL fail, you WILL have to shut down servers to support it, your customers and fans WILL jump ship/turn on you/boycott your company and games.
I've personally done it with with Ubisoft and Blizzard already after the AC crap they've been spewing over the years and the Diablo 4 debacle with Game Pass - "D4 will NEVER come to GP, so buy it at full price!" 6 months later, "oh yeah we lied, thanks for the money now that's it's free for you."
Just the two cents from a long time gamer who's tired of seeing companies make bad business decisions in hopes of appeasing a younger audience with the attention span of a goldfish.
