Skate developer Full Circle announced this week that the next installment in the beloved skateboarding series will be a free-to-play live-service game, and the reaction has been largely negative. All 2,500 YouTube comments and every tweet I’ve seen has lamented the lack of a single-player campaign – despite the fact that the studio hasn’t said there isn’t one – and anger towards things like multiplayer, microtransactions, and the presumption that since it will be free, it will somehow be less “fleshed out”, whatever that means.
