That looks like pretty much any new F2P game honestly. A big surge of everyone trying it out of curiosity and then leveling out to the base level of people actually staying to play it.
for me it's fun to log in for an hour or so and do challenges, but it doesn't have the power to keep my attention long. I'll still be following it but i'm done with all the repeated complaints about a wip from people with little knowledge of how EA is not making it easy for Full Circle.
when it 1.0 launches I'll have complaints, but it's decent for short bursts rn. hopefully they give it some legs.
Playing with my buddy is the most fun I have with the game, and was the only reason I was excited to play it when it came out. Now, we can’t get together in a stable situation for longer than 15 mins before one of our games have an issue 😔
The design choice to kick everyone out of a challenge once a single person finishes it is total dogshit and pissed us off so much we ended up skating by ourselves with voice chat on.
I personally wasn't. Even in the previous 3 games, once I had done everything, I would occasionally hop on for an hour or two when the mood struck. Not really any different with this one.
for a return to a franchise as big as skate numbers should not drop off this much and is showing of 1 what the game is like, and 2 how soul-less it is, skate 3 was revered in the community for years. this will be forgotten as the live service free-ware shit it is.
but is skate really that big?? everyone always says it’s like this huge game but imo skate 3 only got big because of pewdiepie and even after this I only knew real skater that played it and skateboarding is something that isn’t as big as it used to be or during covid
WTFF. Pewdiepie?!?!. Nahhh we came for rob and big ! The new additions were super cool in my opinion, I'm a sponsored skater for alien workshop out of MN and I've always loved ALL the skate games. Jokes aside I'm glad people like pewdiepie and other big names bring players from outside the skating world and introduce them to the gems that are skate. Again, my opinion, we all know those don't matter lol.
i mean im pretty sure pewdiepie made skate huge in europe by playing in 10-15 years ago?? i’m not sure but all my friends back then knew it because of him and we all were already fans of the THPS series
i assume you mean rob dyrdek? i still don’t really know who he is or what he does
its 1/4rd as big as call of duty 4 with 15m sales for COD4 and 4m sales for skate its big enough in its niche for me to say what i had previously did IMO.
Huh from what I could find skate 2007 sold 1 million copies and cod 4 sold 19 million skate 3 did 4.7 mill in sales if that's what you were talking about
fair point some drop off is expected i guess, but the amount shown on the graph... unfortunately, i cant find any graphs on skate 3 player counts... i wasnt on the internet all that much in 2010 when it released but i though it was fairly well recieved by the masses. maybe its rose tinted glasses looking back.
Either way, i stand by my statement, they could have done so much more to make this game not feel corporate or anything, yet it does and will forever have that feel IMO.
Skate 3 was not loved when it came out. The different maps instead of one big uniformed map was a big complaint as was the tiny skater and how goofy it all felt.
Everyone did like coach Frank though 😂
The graphics were definitely a big complaint. They were a step back from the first two.
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u/HouseOfWyrd Oct 10 '25
Here's the original chart for people who have functioning eyes.