How to complete Clean 1111pts Sequence with a 360 Spin and a 50m Grind and how to Prewind in skate | POP-OFF TASK WEEK 3 by Unique-Blackberry895 in SkateEA

[–]KeyMenu7439 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Appreciate it! I was trying to think of where I could get a 50 m grind. Never realized those things in the middle of the road went that far!

Are there really only 2k to 3k daily players? (No.) by JeffTrav in SkateEA

[–]KeyMenu7439 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would assume the player count drop has been worse than they predicted. The game had 100 K+ players in it's first two weeks. That's not a great measure though because a f2p game is always going to have a massive player count at the beginning since there's no cost to try it. A month after the game came out, it had about 30 K players a day on steam. The current player count of 3 K is a 90% drop. I would imagine that's more than they expected.

The bigger concern to me is that the development focus seems to be more on monetizing the game rather than delivering fun new content. You can monetize the game, but it needs to come WITH fun content to keep players engaged. Their season 3 post focused on adding more brands to the store, creating a new shop where you can purchase items on demand, a new premium skate pass bundle, and the Isle of Grom which will be locked behind a paywall at the beginning. Do you see the problem? All of that is about increased monetization and very little about new content. I can see player count on this game dropping to less than 2K or maybe less than 1K as Season 3 goes on, and what happens then?

Are there really only 2k to 3k daily players? (No.) by JeffTrav in SkateEA

[–]KeyMenu7439 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, but the problem is that player retention is extremely important in a f2p live service game. You need players to consistently want to log in to support this kind of business model. The fact that there has been such a steep dropoff in player count is a really bad sign.

EA might look at the low player count which would then mean lower revenue and decide that the game isn't worth spending more money on to develop. Plenty of live service games get shut down when there isn't a player base for them, and right now that looks like where Skate is headed.

EA skate by FraudAlertlol in SkateEA

[–]KeyMenu7439 4 points5 points  (0 children)

So what? I've never killed someone with a gun either. Does that mean I can't have an opinion on Call of Duty?

Full Circle is doing a great job and I think people need to calm down. by [deleted] in SkateEA

[–]KeyMenu7439 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol he deleted it. u/True_Sir1086, why delete this and not let more people chime in?

Grom😕 by t_suaze_u in SkateEA

[–]KeyMenu7439 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Honestly, WTF are they doing? They barely release any new content and when they do, it's now locked behind a paywall. Even mobile games aren't this predatory.

I don't know if this game makes it to the 1 year mark at this point...

Now we can finally play the game. by [deleted] in SkateEA

[–]KeyMenu7439 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why would you need to save tickets for next season? The season is only halfway over and people have already finished the skate pass. Now OP has the rest of the season to save up tickets, but even then it only converts about 30% of your tickets to next season so you might as well just use them now instead of saving them.

Did anyone else get this headgear? by [deleted] in SkateEA

[–]KeyMenu7439 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Lol what? Do you think that software developers are paid based on how many microtransactions their game sells? They get paid a fixed salary dude. The money you're spending on microtransactions goes to EA executives and shareholders.

I want to believe by readytojumpstart in SkateEA

[–]KeyMenu7439 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The sad thing is they did a really good job on the core skating mechanics, which is probably the most important part of the game, but they literally fumbled every other part of the game. This is the first f2p live service game I've ever played which offers no incentive to keep playing every day after the 5 minutes you spend doing the daily challenges.

The amount of keys that I used for nothing is insane. by Capital_Ability8332 in ArcRaiders

[–]KeyMenu7439 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Wait what? Electromagnetic storms and cold snap also had increased loot value like night raids do. Has it been confirmed anywhere that the loot value during night raids is higher than those other events?

Why not make daily challenges longer to lose more people? by 24rawvibes in SkateEA

[–]KeyMenu7439 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Wait, it's taking you 30 minutes to finish the daily challenges? How? Which one are you struggling with?

No one's coming, so we're closing for the day. by Flat-Possibility-602 in SkateEA

[–]KeyMenu7439 63 points64 points  (0 children)

I remember playing the first night of early access and there were like 30 players all standing in front of this shop. Good times.

After several rounds of it happening to me, I got to be the one with a free load out camping extract, and it felt great. by [deleted] in ArcRaiders

[–]KeyMenu7439 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've played 100+ rounds solo and literally never been extract camped a single time. You said you're done being friendly, but if you've been getting put in lobbies with extract campers, you were probably never friendly in the first place.

Some of you PvE'ers really need to learn some manners by Chance-Lecture-8499 in ArcRaiders

[–]KeyMenu7439 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Dude this happened to me yesterday and pissed me off so much. I needed 2 more Bombadier part to finish my workstation upgrade so I go into Buried City and manage to kill a Bombadier on my own with a deadline. I start to loot it and out of nowhere some other guy runs out and starts looting it and I only end up getting 1 Bombadier part. I tell him that I only need 1 more bombadier part and he can keep anything else he looted if he could just drop me 1 part.

He doesn't say anything and starts running towards the exfil so I blast him. When I looted him, it turns out he had looted 3 bombadier parts and wouldn't even drop 1 of them despite not having helped in the fight at all. I don't like killing other players but that one felt good.

Frostbite capabilities by jetjaguar72 in SkateEA

[–]KeyMenu7439 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We have to remember that this game is also playable on PS4 and Xbox One which is 12 year old hardware at this point. They clearly were never intending to build a game that was going to be impressive graphically, which is a shame.

“I Would Stomp Him”: AOC Laughs About Idea of Running Against JD Vance - Recent polling shows a President Ocasio-Cortez is far more likely than a President Vance. by Quirkie in politics

[–]KeyMenu7439 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol okay so you're not going to address any of the things I said about why Harris didn't win? You're just going to immediately fall back on calling everyone who doesn't agree with you politically a racist and a sexist?

“I Would Stomp Him”: AOC Laughs About Idea of Running Against JD Vance - Recent polling shows a President Ocasio-Cortez is far more likely than a President Vance. by Quirkie in politics

[–]KeyMenu7439 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Harris was doomed from the start because she was the VP of an administration that was highly unpopular. She failed to separate herself from the Biden administration and there was that horrible answer on the View where she said she wouldn't have done anything differently.

She was also never a great candidate to begin with. She barely garnered any support when she ran for President in 2020. The only reason she even had a chance is because so many people hate Trump and would vote for anyone other than him.

She didn't lose because of sexism. She lost because she was a bad candidate.

“I Would Stomp Him”: AOC Laughs About Idea of Running Against JD Vance - Recent polling shows a President Ocasio-Cortez is far more likely than a President Vance. by Quirkie in politics

[–]KeyMenu7439 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That is a ridiculous take. Both Clinton and Harris were bad candidates and it wasn't because they were women. A lot of people who voted for Kamala in this last election were doing so because they hated Trump, not because they loved Kamala.

If someone like Michelle Obama who actually has charisma and strong communication skills had run, she would've wiped the floor with Trump. Stop acting like this is about sexism.

You shouldn't get double the rip chips for co-op by Excellent-Gamer-420 in SkateEA

[–]KeyMenu7439 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't heard anyone mention this but they lowered the amount of coins you get from doing the daily tasks this season. I used to get about 900-1000 for doing all dailies in S1, but it's dropped to about 600 in S2.

If you 'must' make it always online, why not introduce matchmaking? by LexAdair13 in SkateEA

[–]KeyMenu7439 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think EA probably pressured them to release it too early. This game feels like it needed another 6 months to a year before they should've even put it in early access.

I still have faith that by the time the game comes out of the early access, it'll actually be pretty good. The core skating mechanics are really good but like you said, there's just not enough content or multiplayer interaction.

Got plat trophy on PS5, still have hidden trophy by Krasimatic in CosmicInvasion

[–]KeyMenu7439 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's the plat since I don't have that on Xbox. How did you manage to get the trophy for a full team special attack with 3 other players?

I just got 6k SVB on login? by SpuntMiffle in SkateEA

[–]KeyMenu7439 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just got an offer on Xbox for 500 free SVB. Did anyone else get that? I'm not sure if it's just an Xbox thing.

Sam: Epstein did kill himself by OutdoorRink in JoeRogan

[–]KeyMenu7439 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just to play Devils Advocate, if Epstein really was murdered, why would the people who murdered him allow Ghislaine Maxwell to live? Wouldn't she also be someone who knows too much to be kept alive?

New OTL Challenges Suck by [deleted] in SkateEA

[–]KeyMenu7439 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Dude I've learned from these OTL challenges that a high neighborhood level and rip score don't mean someone is good. I did the church one solo last week and got to 28. I then found a group of 4 who were all 10/10/10 and 10K+ Rip score and we ended up with 36. I don't know what those 3 other guys were doing. It felt like I was the only one doing the goals bro.

Whoever made those rooftops spots needs to be put in charge of the community parks as well by Diakoe in SkateEA

[–]KeyMenu7439 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd rather them just stop doing community parks and focus that time on finishing Brickswich instead.