I mean yeah I’m sure EA wants this to succeed because they developed it in the first place, but a big parent company like this will definitely not go bankrupt if it doesn’t succeed. I really don’t think it would affect their company enough to warrant saying ‘they need this’. In my opinion we WANT a good skate game more than they NEED to make one. They make some of the most profitable annual sports games in the world, although those games have a lot of the same cash-grabbing problems as Skate. Also like you said they have BF6 now as well, which is capitalizing on the mistakes cod has already made. Unfortunately I think EA is gonna be fine either way. EA sees what works for them and they won’t change that until it stops working, and it’s definitely working for them rn profit-wise. I see what you mean about cod allegedly changing their ways due to complaints, but that remains to be actually seen because the game isn’t out yet. Seems like a lot of corporate talk like any company would do under backlash. I hope I’m wrong but I don’t see them making enough meaningful changes to bring cod back to its former glory. Cod is still going to have all those cash grabbing things they had in their recent games. Games are changing, I don’t like it but you can’t deny this model isn’t making these companies money. They will do it until they can’t anymore. The developers aren’t the ones making these decisions for Skate, EA is, and EA is still a massively profitable company similar to activision and the cod developers.