Please stop forcing us to play in groups

I feel like these silly little mini games are just a crutch for the developers because what do these "challenges" have to do with actual skating? Where in real life do groups of sponsored skaters get together and "get points" together? It just seems so tacky and non-skating, its really disappointing to see the developers push this stuff as if everyone is welcoming it. This is a skateboarding game and people who play it expect to skateboard, not deal with these annoying "tasks" and "getting points".

They should focus on making better skate spots, I swear to god some spots are purposefully made so people can't skate them in a certain way, like a place that would make a good wallride doesn't have a smooth wall but instead has these stupid little crown-molding pieces on it that prevents someone from using it. Theres other examples of this kind of "next gen skate stoppers" that the devs have put into the game because they only want to "allow" people to skate a certain way.

Doing a matchmaking for challenges would be amazing. I think it would fix a lot of issues and I would be much more incentivized to play with others because then I would be able to more consistently get the party bonus for the season challenges that I missed all last season. But it anyone wants to add me as a friend on EA to party up you are more than welcome to. 

I don't mind group challenges being part of the season pass, but they need to implement optional matchmaking so I don't have to try to party up with randos when none of my friends are online. At the very least that should have been implemented with OTLs but it'd be nice to be able to do it on any challenges.

I’m in the same boat brother, I either just wanna be left alone or when I finally do look for a party to play with nobody wants to join my party. I figured I would give the own the lot challenges a shot on my own because I’ve been able to do everything else on my own but they severely handicap you for not playing with a party so I can only get 10-15 challenges done before running out of time. I get what they’re trying to do, but I don’t want a vast majority of tix or other content locked behind party play when I don’t have people to play with :(