Will this soulless game ever become an actual skate game?
Avid enjoyer of skate games here... Soooo are we ever actually going to get a finished game or are we just going to be forever stuck with this until EA completes Brickswitch, announce that its a full launch, throws a paywall and completely forgets about the IP all together? The mechanics are great, but there is no soul whatsoever in the game. It all just seems so out of touch with their fanbase. I get its early access but for a full year(not including the private early access)? To top it off most of the early access has been them taking weeks just to add a few items into the game with different textures on them... REALLY disappointing. The challenges aren't even close to what skaters would even want to do. The garage manny challenge is the best example of that but there are so many more where I'll be doing the challenge and stop to question myself on who is actually wanting to do these odd tricks on these spots, then leading to you wondering who the heck even thought of them and if there was any thought put into it at all or if they just put a bunch of trick names on a dart board, closed their eyes and just starting chucking darts at the wall. The bigger challenges also should be reset as weekly challenges besides just having me do them once and then never getting anything out of doing them ever again. It's kind of a shame too because the bigger challenges were some of the more fun ones to do. It's genuinely at the point that it seems like the development team does not care whatsoever(that is if they ever did in the first place). Even to the point where most of the community parks just seem AI generated. Is there actually a team working on this game? or is it actually just a few ppl in a basement working on this slop?
I can go on forever about this but to cut it short, I would just really like to see the game actually gain some character. Give us plain clothing and boards that we can change the color of and actually customize. Throwing a bunch of items at players in which 60% of them are behind a pay wall is not customizing, that's just giving us options. Give us an actual story mode with actual skaters that we can skate with. Giving us actual points to doing things besides just hoping that the player base won't get bored making their own goals for things. Slow down on the microtransactions. Most of the player base is a younger audience, mainly children, who more than likely don't have the money for all of that. Let alone to buy a crappy set of trucks for more than $2. Actually has more microtransactions than most games other games today which is kind of absurd to think about.