[Free] skate. is now a free-to-play game on all platforms

You forgot to add Epic Games' link.

Worth a try - yes. Expect a proper skate. game - no.

since steam is a "ad free" platform (as far as i know), what is the catch? is there a paywall to most areas or some ridiculously skill grind scheme?

Patate!

OUT WITH THE OLD
IN WITH THE NEW

!addlicense ASF s/1412681

or for recent releases

!ALA s/1412681

Note: (Free on Demand) (Not in BY CU IR KP RU SY)

I've played it a few times during beta since at least last year. Only time would tell if there was a release. Evidently, because of that, it's already in my EA library.

I wouldn't have been surprised if it was a paid game, as it's something with microtransaction protential. I see they only have a couple DLCs for cosmetics and stuff for now. But at its core, it really just does feel like a F2P game anyway. Kind of like if Tony Hawk was a Jet Set Radio game.

and is (... permanently?...) free-to-play

AFAIK, Skate was always promoted as releasing as a free-to-play/microtransaction game. Similarly, the Early Access page for Steam has, as far as I'm aware, always listed it as "Free in Early Access 'and beyond'."

Seeing as there's no indication of it being a time-limited/copy-limited/etc offer, the topic's more suitable for the General forum than the Deals forum (as it isn't "a Deal" by any typical metric).

Worth a try?

Probably not. The devs were apparently very unresponsive during EA and the game apparently didn't release in a good state (lacking gameplay breadth, technical polish, and massively limited [relative to what was expected] multiplayer [gameplay, communication] elements).

If you strip away all the negative "this isn't the game we wanted" and positive "this game is great for nonsensical reasons that don't relate to anything coherent and I swear I wasn't paid to write this review" comments on Steam, then you're left with a "this game has potential to develop into something fun, but isn't super great now- being only good for the skating itself, but not for anything you can do with the skating or for longevity aspects- and didn't meaningfully improve on perceived major flaws during EA despite constant feedback, meaning it launched in a very rushed state".

(Fair bit of reviews expressing disdain for the art style the game uses, as well, though I'm not seeing why there's any issue there myself.)

In short, unless you see signs of something that tempts you- like limited duration cosmetic unlocks or similar (the game does apparently have seasonal challenge passes, so may want to look into those to see what they offer)- probably not worth even considering the game until it's had a fair few major updates.

Thx for the info.

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Anyone else having problem with PlayStation?

I saw something in the terms to play about 2K and using your browsing data etc.

Is lthis like the clause in Borderlands that lets them spy on you or something? I declined. I only play borderlands on console now for this exact reason.