general-discussion

[rigid cipher]

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[low berry]

we dont even have the deets yet

[hollow hazel]

The skate pass is gonna need like a cure for depression in it for me to wanna buy it

[stone echo]

it keeps blocking me from what i am typing, it keeps getting censored even though I am not typing anything defamatory or incorrect. I am on a 90 second timer just to post a comment

[hollow hazel]

This vexes me

[tiny prism]

More mouse bites

[low berry]

oh the 2 minute timer has come down

[hollow hazel]

I am better

[lusty ermine]

Yes we do, they posted what’s coming ,what’s expected, and what’s on their radar on twitter

[umbral comet]

I hear skate pass PREMIUM will cure it.

[placid anchor]

no grind drop?

[placid anchor]

na u need premium plus+ sigma edition

[cunning goblet]

Try it out and find out

[blissful forum]

This game is dookie doo doo poo poo brown
Ig ur good

[low berry]

i suppose. i was thinking about the refreshed map for 3 and the other little things that come with it. not just the game roadmap.

[foggy yacht]

idk if this is a good sign or a bad sign

[hollow hazel]

No not if you’re constructive

[short hollow]

And I'm guessing they decide what's constructive or not just like they do with the subreddit

[hollow hazel]

I’ve been plenty critical this last week and I’m still here

[tiny prism]

Same

[hollow hazel]

Just be reasonable it’s really not hard lol

[tiny prism]

I even get to post the silly sticker that got deleted

[hollow hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/dude-noice-nice-gif-12898274

[cunning goblet]

Just say what ya gotta say atp

[tall kernel]

anyone been able to buy all the new spring pop off items? im like 80 fire cracker tickets short from my last one

[low berry]

well you just got back

[low berry]

yup

[tiny prism]

Nono
I didn't get blasted for criticizing the game I got blasted for criticizing bethesda's Pete Hines lmao

[low berry]

lmao fair

[acoustic ridge]

it doesn't really matter whats constructive, sentiment is sentiment, if everyones saying the same thing it should be addressed.

Like most people don't exactly understand every issue but they know they don't like something, you can't expect constructive criticism most of the time. These people aren't game devs and psychologists.

The people paid to do the job need to do their job and figure out what they mean.

[tiny prism]

It's pretty easy to levy criticism without being toxic tbh

[acoustic ridge]

it is but just cause people get pissy doesn't mean you're justified in ignoring it.

[tiny prism]

Most of the numbers I've seen used in criticism here come from bad faith lmao

"erm player count" as if one platform of four, where the player count was never gonna even remotely match console, could properly be used to guess overall player count

Just don't work like that lol

Even if it could work like that it accomplishes literally nothing to bring up lmao

[acoustic ridge]

I think people lack perspective anyway, IMO the studio doesn't care about current player counts and sales. They won't start caring until after the full launch.

As for console vs pc, I disagree there, PC is a big factor and some studio's have paid the price for making it secondary. But you can make some guesses based on consoles too just by store listings.

You know highguard is dying as fast on console as it is on PC cause it hit page 2 in only a few weeks.

[tiny prism]

I've seen a lot of pc players not want to try skate purely because you gotta use a controller

[lusty ermine]

Bingo, devs don’t understand this anymore they don’t have the hunger….

[tiny prism]

It was never gonna be as big as on console

It's also not treated as secondary lol

[spice sandal]

Looking for ppl to do the new challs and own the lot with. Im 20k+ rip

[tiny prism]

The game across all platforms have feature parity

Bugs n all lol

[tiny prism]

Might have better luck in #1422220901973229759, all that happens here is arguing lmao

[acoustic ridge]

true but that didn't stop the high initial player count. And that doesn't really impact most games made with controllers in mind. A lot of the biggest releases even on PC (especially japanese games) have a controller focus.

[tiny prism]

A lot of people that wouldn't typically play or stick with the game would absolutely join at public launch just to see what's going on, an old legendary console only franchise finally on pc will always draw an inordinately large audience

Lowkey knick knack paddywack give a dog a bone tbh

[solid hamlet]

If it's there, you can go there*

-# *for moneys

[tiny prism]

Where is this even from

[lusty ermine]

I just see grayed out shii

[tiny prism]

I don't remember ever actually seeing it anywhere til now and I've seen just about everything related tot his game atp lol

[acoustic ridge]

[calm frost]

A certain scab might’ve whipped it up hehehe

[hollow hazel]

Could it be deep fried maybe 3 more times

[old haven]

My challenge are broke too. I’ve literally done everything in the game up to this point and now I’m gonna miss out on a player title and a jacket cuz my challenge is bugged out. 11/12 tasks complete and I’ve done them all. So frustrating

[tiny prism]

These dang scabs and they whips

[lusty ermine]

Don’t even put all your energy into it man. Just quit app for the day

[old haven]

It’s just so annoying man. I’m a person that likes to be a completionist, but now I’m locked out cuz of a bug that was out of my control. Very demoralising

[eager spear]

im a completionist... close ur game and reopen it

[calm frost]

Yes sir

[eager spear]

yolo

[low berry]

more glitter

[old haven]

Tried that. No luck so I guess it is what it is

[eager spear]

dang bro sorry havent got on today

console or computer?

[wraith willow]

Is there a grind article today

[calm frost]

Every days a grind, ain’t it

[old haven]

Pc

[eager spear]

ok im gonna see what happens later with me and let u know

[bronze isle]

Haven’t played in months

[old haven]

Wish there was a way to somehow reset it but there isn’t.

[opaque plank]

Is anyone else's return markers not working? I thought it was my controller and nope I switched to my second controller same issue. Checked my setting and they're all fine

[scenic gull]

Nice pfp

[summer adder]

imma get hate for this but can we get some juice wrld or fallout boy in game

[opaque plank]

Yeah I literally only hopped on to finish the event and hop off. Finished the Popoff week 3 challenges in 30min

[fallen haven]

Bro can’t be bothered to free skate

[waxen pike]

you can do like the rest of us and mute the in game music and play whatever you want

[stone echo]

if EA had created a fully fledged skate game with the same format as all of the other games, the DLCs would've happened either way. it wouldve been the best of both worlds

[opaque plank]

I have 100% of the achievements, all Neighborhoods lvl 10, all Skate Passes complete, and all Product and DIY boxes opened. I have literally nothing else to do since I have free skated every square inch of this game since September

[fallen haven]

[low berry]

welcome back

[rigid cipher]

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[stone echo]

fr

[cunning goblet]

Indeed the legend is back for the 15th time

[opaque plank]

They added different text to names W

[tropic meteor]

Anyone know where to get the clean 1111pts sequence with 360 spin & 50m grind so i can just get this iish over with

[scenic gull]

I rented a game from the library and the install disc is scratched beyond reading. Guess I wont be playing split fiction tonight L.

[cunning goblet]

Been like that, just never showed on mobile

[low berry]

i slide down the bridge towards the north end of the tunnel

[waxen pike]

i did mine at the stadium

[tropic meteor]

good shouts acc i didn't even think abt these, cheers will try out! 👍🏻

[slow creek]

what's up skaterinos, my cat broke my nice wireless mouse, AMA

[low berry]

makes…sense tbh

[slow creek]

did mine on the long meridian curb across from the market mile comm park

[slow creek]

yeah

cat and mouse or whatever

[waxen pike]

whats the cats name and tell it I said PSPSPSPS. Theyll know what it means

[placid anchor]

🥺🥺

[slow creek]

his name is wilbur and he's very cute

even if he is a criminal

[slow creek]

omg six hiiiii

[raven imp]

wait till seven pop out

[scenic gull]

Who came back for the 15th time? Looks like they left again xD

What. Where everybody go

[hollow hazel]

That one sticker deeply upsets me

[cunning goblet]

😭 😭

[solar valley]

Anyone else just getting infinite loading screens

[scenic gull]

Only when I boot up Halo

[iron mica]

whats the cats name

[scenic gull]

Thank you 🙇

[sudden gust]

How does auto exchange benefit those who complete the pass or collect all the items we want ? Why would I get more tix just to see them reset to 0 ..

[tiny prism]

It doesn't

[iron mica]

@brazen sage there is a board for you in the shop right now

if you dabble, per say in cobra chickens

[placid anchor]

its for everyone!!

[iron mica]

the geese update is here

[olive torrent]

I wager auto exchange benefits a pretty small group of players

[warm herald]

“Our big thing is don’t f**k it up”

[wispy forge]

Is it okay to mention other skateboarding games in here?

[worthy moss]

who knows

[warm herald]

I hope someone finds a glitch to get to the island for free

[gritty pond]

what do you mean for free?

[scenic gull]

Should let them know about that, otherwise more people will fall victim to that

[calm frost]

https://tenor.com/view/what's-that-tim-robinson-i-think-you-should-leave-with-tim-robinson-what's-that-thing-what-is-it-gif-14088229449576159970

You pay for glitches?

[wispy forge]

Well I’ve seen people mention session and xl here so, anyway what I was gonna say was I’m glad skate style will be coming console because that game looks nicee

Also @warm herald just create an alt lol

[gritty pond]

Please fix servers. Otherwise I will do an IRL spread eagle lasting at least 10 seconds (and it will not count towards any daily tasks)

[cosmic oar]

probably won't be fixed until season 3

[brazen sage]

i seent it 🪿🪿🪿
the sticker kinda weak tho

[brisk jetty]

Grom island and tutorial island are seperate places

[cunning goblet]

For an alt you have to do all the island missions before your able to explore it. Even then once you log off you'll be teleported to the main city

[fallen haven]

isle of mom

[brazen sage]

it might be based on daily reset time, i think i actually got a couple session in before getting tp’d to san van the next day

i wasn’t paying close attention tho because i thought id just get to stay if i didn’t leave

[cunning goblet]

Ohh gotcha, that would make sense since they run scripts for some stuff

Surprised I didnt get the Insider rewards again

[snow swallow]

that'll be season 5 surly

[wispy forge]

Well I just meant if someone wants to see what it’s all about instead of waiting a month. Besides if the tutorial island and Grom are different then it doesn’t matter

[brazen sage]

grom has an extra little crete park and the awnings are white instead of blue lol

[gritty pond]

Why are the servers down?

[queen path]

lmao are they charging for the island?

ts so ah

crAZY they got 2500 players in mid 2025 for skate 3

and 5 k players for skate.

[rigid cipher]

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[hollow hazel]

They are sad

[snow swallow]

Do we bring a date to the Grom ?

[queen path]

cant believe yall are letting them charge you for a game nobody plays

[hollow hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/confused-confused-look-confused-face-funny-funny-look-gif-4850532509577233362

[wispy forge]

Sounds about right from what I saw on the pictures but Jeffrey said a lot has changed. So I wonder if they’ve made some environmental changes like tried to make it more like a town instead of a bare island

[iron mica]

we live in a goose or be goosed world

[placid anchor]

funfact; the map so stale atp we are making spots inside buildings and under the map

[potent dock]

Did they announce no daily grind this week?
Whoops meant weekly grind*

[iron mica]

currently im getting goosed by the task bug

[queen path]

atp? ts been stale since release, i unistalled the game after playtest because they kept the map. if i ever reinstall im not leaving the intro map

[placid anchor]

you too?

[low berry]

that information will be in the weekly grind

[autumn perch]

No, but i can tell you what fc also didnt announce. Rollbacks on all the upcoming changes that everyone hates 😉

[wispy forge]

I think apart from rolling waves there are literally no other spots I see people at frequently

[hollow hazel]

No announcement of an announcement regarding the announcement

[iron mica]

yeah, I started with it, restarted, did about 3-5 event tasks then it bugged again

[snow swallow]

When's the Grom prix deathrace

[placid anchor]

🥺🥺🥺

[hollow hazel]

Augtober 32st

[agile copper]

There was never truer a statement

[placid anchor]

vert one of the handful of things that keep me skating, everythign else is non skating related lol

[placid anchor]

i didnt spam enough ig 😭

telling everyone to complete non challenge related tasks so it actually registers, then doing the challenge

[hollow hazel]

Why is chrome name cooler than purple I worked so hard for this

Can I please get like a holo effect or glitter

[iron mica]

honestly, I really just want my goose gear

[snow swallow]

You forgot to add * 2027

[tawny scaffold]

rolling waves is the best skatepark on the map not gonna lie, nothing else feels really authentic or fun for me besides maybe the diy and the street spots but even street is lacking

[low berry]

name bloodface i think. comes in here, says game dead or whatever, then leaves. its like seeing a shooting star every once and awhile.

[hollow hazel]

Wake up samurai, my tummy hurts

[placid anchor]

well you (we) aint getting the final ittem nor title

[queen path]

same as the loot boxes you pay and you get soemthign decent. you work for it and its ahh XD

[iron mica]

think it could be a goose suit?

[agile copper]

It isn’t, don’t buy into the ruse. Purple best

[placid anchor]

cant spoil that

but ill resume the "spam" until they reset the challenges for all

what are they gonna do? take away popoff tix ??

[hollow hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/band-the-muppets-rock-out-rocking-out-i-dont-like-spam-gif-5375842

[placid anchor]

funfact; some ppl stopped skating at rollin waves after they change the visuals💀💀

[frail herald]

Purple is dookie but I don't skate cuz colors. Two minute timer is worse. Mkay bye

[wispy forge]

The non skating related stuff is actually a good time. Have you seen those rooftop spots with a little shade, sofas around and tables around with TVs and stuff?

@tawny scaffold same for me, street skating is it but I think I’ve done every spot by this point. The map is lacking for sure but unfortunately none of the new areas (Grom, stadium) will fix that for street skaters

[queen path]

well, im just going to wait on that one team thats modding skate 2 to a new ip to release. going to be so lit

[strange zinc]

anybody else cant complete de pop-off tasks because the challenge goals are stuck at "10"
even when I already did all challenges w a party?

[snow swallow]

You gotta use your skater eyes for a better fit

[placid anchor]

exactly yeahh

non skating endeavours; social / building stuff, breaking the game (me), might sound* cringe but dancing is a thign

[unique field]

draining a server is crazy ⏸️

[old haven]

Yep same

[placid anchor]

#general-discussion message
working on it🫡

[tawny scaffold]

I would really like to see some spots inspired by iconic real life spots, like spots in LES, LA, Sacramento, SF, etc

[hollow hazel]

Aw dang I got Bette Davis eyes

[queen path]

WAIT the tutorial island is the dlc island XDDDDDD

ts cant get any worse

[placid anchor]

bro shhh we alr suffered thru that 😭😭

theres more to it as well

[iron mica]

i just did a coffin to stall and it was weird being stalled in a coffin for the brief second in space and time then i recollected on past springs - when there was more butterflies in the air? It seemed like the walk home was littered with catepillars waiting to abrupt.

the stall itself felt like that state of solitude in the world

[hollow hazel]

Really ?

[iron mica]

nah

[brazen sage]

i skated a tree for 3 hours on saturday

[snow swallow]

Love a good black/white filtered skate pic 🤌

[wispy forge]

I get it it’s like when other players get the vibe and join in without even needing to speak. Flying glitch is probably my favourite for me because you get to skydive with your friends lol

@tawny scaffold man yes we need stuff like that in game, but they would need to redo a lot of the city to make it work

[strange zinc]

forreal? 😱

[placid anchor]

do elaborate😭

[placid anchor]

yesss, some other minigames is dunking and 3 pointers if u havent tried that already :D

for 3 pointers; ollie then do a no foot air (not christ air) and bail

you can launch the board possibly/painfully into a hoop (trolley/dumpster) lol

[vagrant egret]

anyone else having issues with rocket air and hedgemont grind pop off weeklies not registering?

[wispy forge]

That sounds hella fun lol I gotta try that next time lol

You can alternatively set up a bunch of those bouncy objects in a line and try to use them to land on something you should try it haha @placid anchor

[sick widget]

Yooo

[iron mica]

yeah - a lot of tasks are bugged out. Even if you re-log sometimes it just ends up happening agian

[vale oak]

Community parks should be parks made by the community. Most upvoted parks should be rotated each week and remove the AI slop we currently have.

[vagrant egret]

yeah sweet sweet thanks for the response, guess I'll wait for an update from Jeff. Probably why they've been a bit quiet today, fingers crossed it's a quick fix and rest of the day goes smooth!

[sage jetty]

Release The Grind files.

[iron mica]

aye, relogging with temp fix it, but its annoying for the ones that take more time to do.

pretty fix dependent unless you can crank the task out before it bugs out again

[scenic gull]

Babaha yup i remember bloodface

[nova canyon]

someone to do pop off dailys

[cunning goblet]

He was a legend, now he gone

[low berry]

🕊️

[ivory temple]

Do we get stats tho? like how many kickflips, boardslides etc? does someone know?

[jaunty prism]

Hold up we have to buy the pass for the new island?

[rigid cipher]

Constructive feedback/constructive criticism is welcome and encouraged.

Insults, rage-bait, trolling, non-constructive comments will be moderated.
This will include, but not be limited to:

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[nova musk]

Oh yes isn't that super exciting

[scenic gull]

Yes, for Grom early access you need to buy pass, then it's free for a bit for an event, and then it's 500 rip chips for a 24 hour pass to go there

[ivory temple]

Idk if i like the 500 rip chips for a 24 hour pass :/

[jaunty prism]

It was a gif my bad

[scenic gull]

I understand why they are doing it, but I don't like it too

[jaunty prism]

Unfortunately when you go free to play this is what we have to deal with

[ivory temple]

i do too dont get me wrong but i feel like there could be better ways to waste our rip chips, especially for people who start new

[scenic gull]

I agree with you 100%

[nova musk]

I am completely sure that all these nonsensical decisions are being made by EA. i can't imagine being a developer that puts so much effort into programming, designs etc and taking decisions like these

Also this problem is not only happening with the skate game. Battlefield 6 is suffering with the same thing

[vagrant egret]

Not sure what happened but the new weekly pop off tasks finally tracked for me and I finished everything. Guess there's not much point of playing (outside of just skating) for the next week if I've already finished the pass?

[dull pilot]

if you have skate.Pass Premium in S3, you don't have to pay Rip Chips. you have unlimited access.

https://www.ea.com/games/skate/skate/news/dev-update-s3-skatepass-grom-and-the-future

[scenic gull]

Mhhm correct

[low berry]

scheduled message

[radiant summit]

So paywalled? Gotcha

[jaunty prism]

What happened to
“No map areas locked behind paywalls” this was one of the main talking points from the board room Ep.1

[low berry]

ripchips is not a paywall. all of the “free” stuff uses ripchips to unlock.

[calm frost]

lol

[tawny scaffold]

Read it again

[low berry]

ok i read it

[scenic gull]

it's a paywall in terms of the fact that it's early access if you BUY the pass

[iron mica]

we all get early access at the begining of the game, just make new characters if you really need to skate it the first month

[radiant summit]

“if you have skate.Pass Premium in S3, you don't have to pay Rip Chips. you have unlimited access.”

That means paywalled; I don’t care that you can pay rip chips for it you should even have to in the first place. Let alone get “unlimited” access since you pay them monthly

[jaunty prism]

That’s what I’m saying banking on fomo

[low berry]

premium just lets u skip earning in game currency. its still free to access.

[scenic gull]

Mhhm yep

[iron mica]

what else you gonna do with your rip chips? put em in the bank?!

[low berry]

thats not what a paywall is if there is a gate to open it for free

[iron mica]

earn interest?!

[low berry]

lol in game stock market like gta v

[radiant summit]

Just wait; next thing they’ll do is lower the amount of rip chips you can get per day and per challenge. Like they did already.
It’s a paywall man

[low berry]

its not a paywall just cus u say it is. u cant just change the definition of something.

[split vapor]

there’s no weekly grind today?

[scenic gull]

It is, you have to pay to go to the island early, while everybody else has to wait.

[median vault]

does access to the island go away after the month premium sub?

[tiny prism]

It's paywalled for a month, objectively
Only premium pass users can access it

[low berry]

yeah thats fair

[iron mica]

wrong, just make new characters and you get access

[radiant summit]

Considering I have to constantly spend rip chips to go there for only 24 hrs (whether I’m playing or not) does it matter??
They’re just doing this to then lower the amount of free currency obtainable to create FOMO around tutorial island

[tiny prism]

Not the same map version, they didn't update the actual tutorial Island

[agile copper]

Going from a
“Time gated IRL currency paywall”
To a
“Non-IRL currency paywall”
lol

[wise lynx]

is the premium grom gonna be different than the tutorial grom?

[tiny prism]

Yes

[dull pilot]

if you have skate.Pass Premium for S3, you'll have unlimited access to Isle of Grom.
you'll get first access for the first month, then we'll have an in-game event where it's open for everyone (no skate.Pass Premium or Rip Chips required).
after the event, skate.Pass Premium can access it unlimited, non-skate.Pass Premium folks can access it via the San Van Water Taxi in Hedgemont with a 500 Rip Chip Day Pass (24 hours from the time of purchase).

[low berry]

i think 500 ripchips is so trivial i dont understand why theyre even doing it tbh.

[iron mica]

whatdaya mean?! no bowl? Isnt that the addition?

[tiny prism]

I mean what I said
Tutorial grom and premium grom are different

[dull pilot]

correct.

[iron mica]

The overhead map looks so alike

[tiny prism]

Which also is not a good move imo

[agile copper]

So that people can’t just make new accounts to access the new grom

[low berry]

the game is built around spending ur ripchips. or buying svb for premium cosmetics.

[balmy aurora]

time for my biweekly hello

[agile copper]

Heheheheheh

lol

[agile copper]

Woah. Rare bre post

[radiant summit]

My point exactly I’m glad we could come to an agreement

[low berry]

i think they updated throughout so we will have to see the little things once we’re on the map

[iron mica]

I will be making new characters, if I don't buy the pass, to skate gromski... but I'll end up just buying the pass anyways

[calm frost]

are the devs going to acknowledge the community feeling their trust being broken?

[low berry]

a rare bre

[low berry]

😈

[split vapor]

wake me up when weekly grind is up

[balmy aurora]

woah its founder...and tyler!! @low berry

[low berry]

https://tenor.com/view/wake-me-up-inside-evanescence-amy-lee-gif-12122545

[low berry]

hiiii

[silk cypress]

There’s no way I bought everything for the Pop Event in the Shop, then finished all the Pop Event Missions just to see there a new item I could get in the shop and SOMEHOW don’t have enough to buy the Legendary item. How can these devs not make the item cheaper?? Or have us earn enough to get everything from the shop???

I didn’t even want majority of this stuff which is my fault for buying all of it I GUESS, but why put something I want AFTER doing all the event missions. Even worse, WHY ISNT THERE ENOUGH EVENT CURRENCY TO GET EVERYTHING YOU PUT IN THE SHOP????? It’s stuff like this that honestly pisses me off about the game, they can’t do math

[median vault]

Don’t hate me but I’ve been buying dlcs my whole life I might not have a problem paying ONE TIME for a map that we will have unlimited access to after one purchase … + the already skate.pass perks

[tiny prism]

Doesn't change the fact that we got lied to

That's my main issue

[iron mica]

People lie to you everyday

[dull pilot]

you have 6 more daily grants of Firecrackers for the rest of the event.
doing the co-op on the event challenges also gives you more Firecrackers.

[tiny prism]

Twice actually

[agile copper]

Speaking of which I need to do Pop off challenges

I’ve done like zero of them

[iron mica]

they are bugging out so I stopped trying earlier

hopefully that bug gets fixed before its over

[silk cypress]

I so I need friends to finish it? 😭💀😔

[calm frost]

nah its cool i guess

[median vault]

I feel like this is the biggest issue of it all … but at the same time bro things change 😭😭

[olive grove]

hi

[iron mica]

hello mr taco

[tiny prism]

Nah nah nah
I'm actually so tired of things getting worse bro
Every game

[low berry]

before another person says the 15m grab is broken ITS NOT!!!!!!

[split vapor]

but plans change 🙌

[balmy aurora]

free me from slowmode...

[tiny prism]

You gotta talk more

[low berry]

naaaaawwww

[tiny prism]

Then stay slow 🤷‍♂️

[low berry]

free bre 🦅🦅

[agile copper]

Talk in brick house lmao

[median vault]

I personally do not remember what the island even looks like , I wanted to hit the main map so bad I paid zero attention to the tutorial I just hope the island isn’t trash in general 😭

[calm frost]

dont buy it dawg. dont give in lol

[median vault]

Bro the premium pass is only $10 ?? I pay almost $30 for battle pass on cod . Support your habits my friends this is what comes with it 😭😭

[calm frost]

https://tenor.com/view/i-love-you-binh-gif-6142726653922245520

[tiny prism]

Just affirming them that it's OK to lie to us but your money ig :/

Game ain't gonna truly get better when everything is sectioned off and paywalled

[calm frost]

buying the pass is just etting them know were cool with them lying about no paywalls. we gotta just wait

[median vault]

Well I’m definitely gonna use a daily access thingy first idek what the map looks like , I really just want the pass for the extra stuff it comes with

[tiny prism]

Gotta wait a month for that

Exclusive to premium users for a month

(that's the lie)

(the other one is about how they handle tix)

[low berry]

go awf queen

[median vault]

Ngl don’t u need skate pass to even be able to buy stuff with tix? I see one section that lets you spend tix on items and then you need the skate pass to buy more which is kinda crazy

[low berry]

the issue was them not telling people their tix would expire after buying them even tho they transferred in the first season

and to your comment is that not similar to your cod battle pass u mentioned? real question i dont know

[tiny prism]

Yeah half the pass is locked behind the lower tier skate pass
Now we're gonna have a two tier pass with some things only purchasable with the premium
Which ALSO sucks

[calm frost]

gotta think bigger picture here dawg, they are paywalling the island behind the pass.

[low berry]

premium ➕

[tiny prism]

make a game for everyone
paywall an area to split the community
Very smart move tbh

[grizzled oar]

If people boycott spending money, they just shut it down. Someone’s gotta spend the money, I’m glad there’s people that are happy to

[tiny prism]

You're OK with being lied to?

[calm frost]

no they wont. not over this

[median vault]

I definitely see that bro. A lot of games are going the micro transaction route and a lot of those games honestly just sit at “ you’re either gonna buy or not oh well“ . I know here they do see everyone’s inputs tho

[modern radish]

im not gonna lie, i dont even care anymore, im just here to skate

[tiny prism]

What matters is if they even cares 💔

[low berry]

sodiumcheck got a couple hundred waiting to spend on this

[silk cypress]

number 1 reason why this players ask for this game to have offline

[tiny prism]

I don't even care about offline ngl

[calm frost]

they promised no paywalls, thats where this is different. if they let us know there would be dlc maps from the jump, it'd be a different story. theyre changing their story

[modern radish]

im just here to skate

[tiny prism]

They ain't makin it offline, that's never changing lol

[low berry]

im curious how many people bought premium for s1 and s2. im sure that alone is making this easy for them. i dont think most of those people are going to care about this situation.

[calm frost]

same, i just dont like people getting taken advantage of. even in a silly way like this lol

[tiny prism]

I bought em because I didn't think they'd pull stuff like this

[modern radish]

i agree

[tiny prism]

Wish I could ge my money back if this is how it's being spent ngl

[calm frost]

oh my gif went bye bye, how cute

[low berry]

yeah i feel ya

[tiny prism]

Esp with half the boards you can buy with real money not even displaying at proper full resolution in-game
Like that's crazy I love buyin a product that just ain't function

[slender wasp]

🤰

[grizzled oar]

It would be better if the skate.pass premium got early access before the season, then when season drops it goes public. Still incentivizes the pass, but makes it feel like a reward to get it and not a punishment to non premium

[tiny prism]

Would still be paywalled the same way, just shifted

A lie remains a lie

[chilly shale]

Is premium+ skate pass confirmed? I thought it was a very badly worded premium pack purchasable with $$$

[tiny prism]

It's fully confirmed

[calm frost]

yeah thats the main issue, i dont think people are grasping lol. the LIE

[tiny prism]

You don't want a two tier premium battle pass?

[iron mica]

its probably a simpler thing like - corporate said no unless it makes some money

which just translated poorly through the chain of how to pull it off

[tiny prism]

Piss off a large portion of the player base was definitely a good move

[calm frost]

well maybe some transparency from the devs would go down smoother?

just be honest with the community lol "we need money ong"

[tiny prism]

Real
Actual words not just the "we're listening" I'm so tired of reading and hearing we're listening
It means nothing atp
Tired of all the vagueposting

[low berry]

would it be different if the 500 ripchips was removed? like if they said isle of grom will have early access for premium passes but will be totally open access at grand opening of s3? any new player starting the game after s3 would always have access. game will always progress bigger and bigger ya know

[tiny prism]

No
It's still a lie

[faint helm]

Anyone remember the 2024 video where they were like "yes, you can customize your socks"

[modern radish]

no

[low berry]

yeah

[iron mica]

i will be darksliding my way to the bank

[blazing horizon]

Don’t understand why they didn’t have a dev post about time exclusive locking, at least something saying “we know we said this before, we need to alter our plans because of these reasons” shadow changing verbiage on a website just makes you look like you know you’re doing something shady

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[tiny prism]

Shadow changing verbiage and shadow removing the sticker from the server just felt awful to see

[median vault]

Bro I’m so confused how many damn skate passes are there 😭😭 I never bought any so idk

[modern radish]

too many

[tiny prism]

3
Free
Premium
Premium+

[modern radish]

surely you jest

[tiny prism]

You should know me well enough now that I don't often jest

Especially not things I care about

[modern radish]

https://tenor.com/view/love4elodie-phasmophobia-gif-2682337590161137440

[blazing horizon]

I don’t even mind if they do time exclusive for pass holders, I know people despise the idea that the make some money in this game but it kinda does have to happen, but that’s a double edged sword because anything that prevents people from playing together in a multiplayer game is self defeating

[tiny prism]

I haven't seen a game with this kind of potential in like, a decade minimum
And it's being thrown out for money

It sucks to see

[iron mica]

how do you think they could make it better aldy

from the current point

cards on the table

[tiny prism]

Reverse everything they decided to do since they announced tix wasn't rolling over and never go down this path again

Essentially everything I've seen from that announcement on has been to the detriment of players directly, whether it be their wallets or their trust

[iron mica]

IMO - parts of it, I agree with. I think the roadmap looks enticing in aspects but there is some bigger changes in there like that may impact a lot of players or split playerbase

[blazing horizon]

Do other games roll in season currency from season to season, genuinely don’t know

[tiny prism]

Some do

Not like this tho idk wtf they're doing here

"how can we make this the worst"

[iron mica]

I thought a lot of other games just progressed differently but still had the free and paid tiers

[tiny prism]

Skate needs to desperately take lessons from deep rock galactic with their f2p model

[iron mica]

rather designating a "level" rather than season currency earned or bought

[delicate shore]

i hate tix and how theyre handling it, all the issues would be fixed if you were just leveling up a battlepass like every other game

[low berry]

problem for me as been the communication. i would have been okay with it if they were upfront that tix would not roll over season to season- okay whatever.

BUT.

they are taking away paid tix that can be purchased at any time. people spent money on it. taking it away just breaks trust and doesnt make sense (purchased at anytime)

[tiny prism]

We love when devs literally just waste our money

Doesn't even go to anything
Just poof

Gone

[median vault]

I just feel like if you’re spending cash on tix it should . Even if you’re buying svb, then buying tix with it , that’s still basically spending cash

[blazing horizon]

Yeah don’t take away anything people have paid for, like if they specifically bought tix, but it seems like season currency would stay in that season, that seems to lineup

[iron mica]

I do want tot see some kind of numbers of highest tix amount right now "Bought".

I think that was very ill-timed, but I suspect it affects fewer people since you can't buy tix if you have capped out the season

[faint helm]

If you buy SVB through the Skate. website, you get bonus Tix. So they're essentially taking away something that you paid for.

[tiny prism]

Just don't let people buy more tix than they need to complete the pass
That's it
That's all they need to do

[iron mica]

I thought it greys itself out

no idea, I can't check because mine is greyed out

[low berry]

maybe but doesnt seem necessary to consider

[tiny prism]

I simply do not want to boot the game anymore so I'm not checking

I've heard several people say they bought extra for a rollover tho

Rip those guys money

[low berry]

it does

[median vault]

Idk how but I have 22k tix that I don’t get to use cause I never brought the premium skate pass , so I just stare at them all day - actually now I’m just gonna go spend them on the stuff I am able to buy without the pass if their gonna disappear Anways

[iron mica]

Yeah, you can't really account for auto-spend

def sucks for people saving for more interesting things

or don't have access to premium items

[blazing horizon]

I don’t even see why EA would remove those, that’s what they want irl $$$ for tix, incentivize that, who cares if they breeze through the pass in a week, you’ve got their $$$

[iron mica]

pssst just get rid of tickets entirely, make people play the season for content, and buy items with SVB

[tiny prism]

4 currencies sucks I'll say it outright

[median vault]

Yea all the currencies are throwing me way off

[iron mica]

do throwback bundles for seasons

easy win

put me in the exec room

im ready

[median vault]

Buying a premium pass , but still have to buy the tix to buy the items in the pass is crazy . They should be unlock-able through progress upon buying the premium pass . Cod doesn’t even do that and their known for milking micro transactions 😭😭

[low berry]

when i first started playing it took me a minute to get the names of everything right, including the district specific coin names, which i cant even think of right now.

[iron mica]

You can disagree, but these are all things the community asked for - just with the twist of al-kharid gateing the island's water taxi.

make it a mission then the taxi is free but players have to do missions to unlock that

[glad wedge]

yeah it's crazy that they're going on about transparency and listening to the community while changing the FAQ the way they did. like can they live by the words they're speaking? 500 whateverbucks truly isn't much, and it's not even a paid currency, they could've had this go over so far smoother with some of that "transparency" that they're always on about. but it all just feels so off

[iron mica]

do you think corporations are transparent

i'm being a sarcastic buns but its mostly a buzzword

[glad wedge]

no lol thank you for the tease, but i think their early business strategy for this game has clearly been fostering a core community, and they have flailed that extremely hard with all this

[iron mica]

sudden announcements of big changes with negative effects is no bueno - especially when spun to be positive, always

[glad wedge]

like i realise it's a buzzword, i realise corporations are stupid and suck, but this series has a fanbase that is trying and failing to like this game, and a developer that is only condescending to that fanbase is flaming the issue so much harder than it otherwise would idk

[iron mica]

Yeah, 100% agree. IDK, seems like the roadmap is a lot of what people are asking for but soured out with the monetization aspects

and sudden isn't transparent either for sure. Transparent is like - starting season 3, this goes into effect. Or probably warnings if you were to have TIX.

Or bought tix converting into SVB rather than auto spend (at whatever comparable rate)

[tame breach]

it was the same BS last season with the rollover announcement too.. last minute changes that affected the currect season..

then of course ppl expect the same to happen end of this season but another last minute change..

the most obnoxious part is being told "we said to spend your tix"

[iron mica]

forced to rat with the rat pack if you have the last page unlocked and enough tickets 😈

[glad wedge]

early access is evidently turning out to be a testing ground for monetisation strategies it feels like

[vagrant egret]

honestly feels spot on

[iron mica]

the speed that decision was made and implemented vs. some of the other things the community wants kinda hurts

[tame breach]

i'm actually pretty annoyed that i went out of my way to spend in the EA skate store to purchase SVB knowing the reward system would grant me extra tix which i was planning on banking for next season.. like thanks for just straight up wiping out my rewards

i've spent enough to earn 4700 tix doing that.. i currently have 17K tix in the bank, those will all be gone as i've also completed the pass

i guess not only did i play the game but turns out the game played me

[brittle hornet]

maybe they will give us 5 svb for any rollover tix !!!!

[iron mica]

its a goose or be goosed kinda world these days man

[brisk jetty]

How is the tix change legal?

How can you sell a currency, with the premise it transfers through seasons - and then decide it’s no longer transferring 2 weeks out from the transfer date?

Legally and ethically very very questionable

I will never spend another dollar on your game because of these anti-consumer practices

[glad wedge]

i have no idea about the law but saying all locations will be free forever and quietly redacting that seems dicey too on that front

[pallid violet]

Can anybody help me understand with the pop off challenge of this week, the “neither a bird, plane” one? I was thinking rocket air but I don’t think so?

[dull pilot]

Superdude

[pallid violet]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh. Thanks brother!

[charred crown]

Can someone help me get clips

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[terse ridge]

How would 1 do that

[old haven]

Hey man I have an issue with the new pop off challenges. I’ve completed all the new challenges but my progress is stuck on 11/12 with no missions left to complete and I will therefore miss rewards.

[slow creek]

William B. Bur, otherwise known as Wilbur, otherwise known as Butter Thief, otherwise known as Barfbag, otherwise known as Bottomfeeder

otherwise known as Isopod, otherwise Gravy Head, otherwise known as Insurance Fraudster

[dull pilot]

Please post on the Bug forums #bugs-and-tech-issues . I’ll follow up with the team in the morning when I’m working. (I’ve reported a few event tracking bugs.)

[old haven]

Thanks man

[dull pilot]

Quick question: did you log out IN a park? That happened to me and I had to teleport away to anywhere else in the city, do a regular challenge, quit the game, relog, then go back (and redo them).

[old haven]

I will give that a go now! I really can’t remember if I did

[worn jay]

im guessing there is no weekly grind cause of the news next week?

[split vapor]

did I miss something about weekly grinds?

no communication at all lol

[old haven]

Sadly it didn’t work

[worn jay]

im just confused a little why there wasnt a grind today

[tame breach]

honestly its prob for the best.. its only really going to be a re-hash of the latest disappointing announcements and a brief "its the last week of pop-off" with an issues list of things still not resolved

[brisk jetty]

If FC made decent clothes at 1/4 of the price I don’t think they’d have to resort to the recent money making methods we’ve seen

[tame breach]

i would solve two issues.. so rather than put Grom behind a gate, just let ppl spend rip chips on basic cosmetics and then keep SVB for premium cosmetics (but also lower the price at least at least 20%)

[kind turtle]

I bet plain black and plain white socks are going to be locked behind svb in the shop update

[tame breach]

the 3rd issue is tix rollover.. you just cant remove paid/reward (or any really) tix like that and expect ppl to not be up arms with such a short notice period.. just make those changes take effect in S3 so ppl are aware of the rules before the change

[acoustic bolt]

isnt the grind posted by now, jeff? any update on that?

[humble kite]

I feel like at this point they should drop the Skate. branding and just call the game itself the weekly grind

[brisk jetty]

These ideas make too much sense and not enough money

[tame breach]

hey do you want to go down to that local concrete patch and do some .. err .. wheel boarding?

[split vapor]

alr, but the least I expect is a “guys, we won’t have weekly grind this week for this and that reason”, instead of total silence

[humble kite]

par for the course. Probably going to go back on the rip chip thing and say that because of the change the isle of grom is going to be pushed back to implement the fix. That or they're only going to lower the price. That or they're giving us the silent treatment because we were bad little consumers

[tame breach]

(this goes for most things btw)

i just wish the mentality wasn't to maximise profit on an individual item like sure charge some stupid amt for something but only sell 100.. why not charge half the price and sell 10K ? its especially easy to do that for digital goods

[fallen haven]

[iron mica]

playyystation.

[tame breach]

lamp has nitro lol ... why is nitro suddenly a popular thing? are ppl getting free nitro somewhere? lol

[iron mica]

yeah, I think there is better probably better revenue or profit optimization based on how you do it but it also entices players to dip their toes into snagging stuff outside of the "welcome" bundles

[humble kite]

nah discord can kick rocks. Anyone giving them money after this palantir bs is an idiot

[fallen haven]

bruh

[split vapor]

to me it just sounds like a bad move, one of many lately

[fallen haven]

how else was I gonna post 5 mins of clips in 1 video

[humble kite]

upload to youtube

[kind turtle]

Webm file

[tame breach]

sorry i wasn't laughing at you its just the random PS emoji gave it away.... file sizes on vids i totally get if you want to post the actual file

[fallen haven]

PlayStation emoji is in the server unc

I assumed it was da font

[tame breach]

nope, thought it was a cross server emoji but the font surely helped 😞

[fallen haven]

I can’t post those 😔

[tame breach]

dang.. chat is complex

[fallen haven]

Can blue role

[acoustic bolt]

so i assume the grind is finished? like, absolute radio silence about it

yikes, what a flop. "we are listening"

[humble kite]

I hope so. It was pointless anyway. "Hey guys here's all the bugs we haven't fixed yet and a few screenshots from the community"

[fallen haven]

Y’all some playa haters

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[humble kite]

Don’t hate the player, hate the game. And in this case that is actually the case. It could’ve been so good

[potent dock]

The weekly grind doesn't return (that's today) 🥲

[tame breach]

gg well played haha 😂

[regal quest]

skateborb

[acoustic bolt]

#general-discussion message found it

[fallen haven]

Ain’t no way it was there the whole time

[tame breach]

hiding in plain sight

[fallen haven]

Nuts

[acoustic bolt]

just had to use your skater eyes

[frank tiger]

So I unlocked all the items for the loud and fresh. Only have 137 coins left and the vest popped up am I screwed. I did all the challenges, or am I being dumb

[split vapor]

so the pop-off tasks are bugged?

nice

[acoustic bolt]

well boys, time to enjoy the skating mechanics until the servers shut off, it was a pleasure trolling here

[glad wedge]

this message is too real lol

[split vapor]

it’s fine doing the same event missions 3-weeks straight, it’s not like they had 3 months for developing the different missions

[gray steppe]

do a boneless at the top of a ramp/vert skating pretty interesting wonder if theres anymore can do with it

[frank tiger]

Do these pop off missions reset every day or weekly?

[acoustic bolt]

weekly, and its the same missions each week

[split vapor]

weekly, so you can be gifted to do the same mission over and over

[frank tiger]

Thank yall, so I’m popped cause now I can’t get the vest.

[tame breach]

3wks of pop-off challenges/tasks + the free store currency gets you around 6900 (no co-op)... the whole set of loud and fresh items inc vest cost around 6500

[frank tiger]

Thank you I missed a week, to do the missions for a third time R.I.P, finished all the task

[slow crown]

I love this emoji

[tame breach]

gonna assume u also grabbed the free currency from the store?

oh even if u did 137 + 80 .. thats not gonna be the vest

[frank tiger]

Yeah most of it missed some days

[acoustic bolt]

am i missing something, vest?

[frank tiger]

Secret item for the pop off challenges.

[tame breach]

complete all 3 wks pop-off stuff and a vest is available to get with event currency

[ashen fern]

You are of no use

[tame breach]

well maybe this is then..
#general-discussion message

[thin sun]

I just did all the pop off challenges and they got reset

[median vault]

Not me in an empty city

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[molten geyser]

There’s only 2 other people in my lobby.

[ashen fern]

Hi I am back

[acoustic bolt]

#general-discussion message to catchup

[tiny yew]

Yes

[slow creek]

good evening skaterinos

[waxen pike]

how do i get rid of this slowmode chat?

[acoustic bolt]

leaving the server can help

[waxen pike]

the final solution

so is it slowmode for everyone? or do I gotta pay another microtransaction?

[acoustic bolt]

speak a stupid amount in here to level up, higher ranks dont have slowmode

[waxen pike]

I'll just complain every two minutes i guess

[cunning goblet]

You gotta be active in chat, Need anywywhere between 800-1000 messages

[waxen pike]

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[alpine sorrel]

Hi, is there anyone playing it on Mac?

[silent fox]

I don't think it's on MacOS

[neat moat]

No

Most people play on Xbox, PlayStation, EA app and Epic games store. Nobody is on steam because the whole fans/community/new players are on console

Luckily it is cross platform then

[harsh musk]

Not putting it on Switch 2, early was stupid. Just saying.

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[tired crater]

Sometimes this happens when you login just before the game gets updated (5pm GMT for me). You have to completely reset the game, otherwise you won't get credit for the challenges. Either popoff or dailies

[low berry]

.

[untold barn]

This game is sooo funny 1200 firecrackers for some zesty vest 😭😭

It’s so convenient that the last item is over double the amount of anything else in the shop 🥀

[tame breach]

event currency is pointless..

just award an item for completion of each task.. complete a whole week get another reward

complete all weeks get the main reward

[untold barn]

Oh and to top it off my games bugged and it won’t let me claim the spin degrees from the daily challenge 😔

[glass grotto]

See, I like this. This is a good idea.

[pulsar sonnet]

Why's there no weekly grind?😂

[glass grotto]

No idea. I figured they released with new weekly tasks, but I could be wrong.

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[tame breach]

its supposed to be same day as the weekly reset... its prob for the best though, there isn't anything else to report on that's not already been said and it's just gonna antagonise ppl again

[glass grotto]

Yeah, I guess that's fair. Last thing I want is for this chat to blow up with people parroting the same outrage as last week again. Yeah, I'm not happy with it either, not by a long shot, but ive made my position known

Though... I may finally post in the feedback channel proper soon enough when I get home from this horribly boring overnight shift. Something that won't get drowned out as easy

[gilded tinsel]

Guys are 1080s bugged? Maybe losing out on 2000 credits because I can't get these done I've done both the 1080 flip and 1080 spin what else does it want from me I already sent a bug report saying they won't compete

[tame breach]

i'm a bit of both columns here.. i dont think its productive when feedback isnt constructive but also i dont want there to be silence either.. for me thats the real killer, it means ppl either feel like they're not being heard or have just walked away and given up

[low berry]

that task is for a specific district right? I’ve never had an issue with that task. It even counts if you do a 900 with a revert at the end.

You can also do a 180 connected with a manual over and over to count as well.

[tame breach]

or cheese it from mcorp landing in brickswich 🙂

the other option is using the big blue ramp and doing the spins in 2 sections landing the first jump in manual to connect the second

[gilded tinsel]

Ok good news I finally got it, mightve been because it was a trickless spin?

[fallen haven]

Skate

[low berry]

yup

[fallen haven]

Skate it

[glass grotto]

Yeah. I just get sick of the folks who come in and just throw insults at the devs (or Jeff, who i still maintain deserves none of it and has been a great help), without anything to actually bring to the discussion of "ok what would be better"

which there are a lot of things that could be better, a lot better, that's what we're talkin about in here most of the time, but it's constructive

[tacit trail]

The problem is… a lot of the money side of things usually isn’t even completely in control of the devs themselves. And is down the publisher. If you just play the game for what it is, you can tell the devs care about the game, as it’s the best feeling skate title to date

[fallen haven]

Skate jeff

[tacit trail]

There are definitely other people you need to complain to before you start at the devs, but unfortunately they are usually the first to be getting the flack

[glass grotto]

...And when the people who need to be complained to get complained to, it's in one ear and out the other, because theyre still making money.

I do have faith that the devs can make this game much more solid in due time, but they've gotta be getting turned away from fixing the game and towards "how do we make more money" by the people above them, or something. It's just a theory. And would explain the heavy shop focus thus far

[stiff sequoia]

The smoothness of the gameplay shows how talented the devs are, it's like they're being held back from fully being in control.

[tacit trail]

Unfortunately that’s just how it is, which really does suck. But complaining at the devs themselves helps no less. The best way to really show you thoughts on a game is to give it a review or don’t spend money on in game items.
It’s a difficult situation… as I would love nothing more for this to be a single player title where the only thing I pay for is the game itself and maybe some DLC down the line

[desert storm]

So no grind? smashes phone and skateboard

[glass grotto]

See, I love the fact that this game isn't single player - I can always avoid other people if i want to, but co-opping spots with friends is amazing. Playing skate freely with others is something I love about this game. I love the concept, I just think it's been fumbled in a good many spots thus far. Generally the concept is something I've always wanted from a new skate game, though.

[tacit trail]

Only grinding I wanna be doing on my skate game is a smith to feeble

[tacit trail]

I dunno, I wouldn’t kind if it was a single player game with a multiplayer built on so I can then just explore with friends if I wanted to. Atleast then we’d maybe have some more interesting challenges 🤣

[glass grotto]

Consider me the exact opposite. I like their focus on multiplayer but singleplayer alternatives to the co-op things would be nice. I totally understand where you're coming from though.

[tacit trail]

I’ve just never been a multiplayer game fan so that’s where I’m coming… but I know most gamers now are in it for the multiplayer aspects. I’m just too old for modern gaming 🤣

[glass grotto]

I just have come to enjoy experiencing things with friends, tbh. It's why I jump at co-op modes in games a lot, like the ones in the last couple Far Cry titles, or Sniper Elite 5, Saints Row 2/3, etc

[fallen haven]

Can I flick it

[scenic gull]

I played last event and didn't get the final sweater cause I was too busy with other things but tbh, idrc. They always overprice the last item, it's been this way every event and I doubt they'll change it.

[unique sun]

I understand this sentiment but these are boneheaded decisions that do not require discussion a lot of the time, especially gating the new map off. Why should i have to calmly explain to them how bad of an idea the obvious is? Arent they paying people to think things through? Jeff is the homie though no flak on him

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[unique sun]

Dyno will you marry me? 😍

[acoustic bolt]

because they dont care. all signs point to that, anyone who still thinks this can turn around, is lying to themselves.

[tame breach]

lol weekly tasks completed 5/6 .. yeah coz the 6th task is now missing from the list 🙄

[past creek]

what is this goddamn game

[acoustic bolt]

bad

[unique sun]

If you tab over from the challenge tab though you might notice the new store rotation!

[tame breach]

broken... its just broken in probably every core area to some degree

[past creek]

https://tenor.com/view/pitowontwt-crowd-cheering-gif-26363569

[unique sun]

Dead Space Cardboard for $35? No thanks, im waiting on the $50 Mass Effect Styrofoam

[tame breach]

goddamnit the 1080 in brickswich has to be done again lol

[acoustic bolt]

brickswich?

[tame breach]

at least its cheesable .. i should known when it wasnt cheesing from MCorp so i used the blue ramp

[unique sun]

What is your power level at in skate since youve played since launch? gotta be way past that 10k achievement by now

[scenic gull]

I could make that for 0 dollars

[tame breach]

oh my rip score is only like 22K but there's a fair bit left on the table inside the builder boxes i have left incomplete

[unique sun]

The funny thing about the pricing on Dead Space is they own the IP so it could legit be any price they want and chose $35 :))))) more than a skin in fortnite that they have to pay licensing for and comes with 10x the goodies. Even a Star Wars skin in fortnite is only $20

[scenic gull]

Never heard of it, I think it's some new area

[unique sun]

That reminds me i dont play fortnite but even I almost downloaded it just to buy the Spongebob companion

[tame breach]

probably cost rip chips to get their i guess

[unique sun]

do we like the idea of locking it off based off rip score instead? Dedicated people wouldve earned it by now, others would buy items for rip score to early unlock it thus netting them profit

[acoustic bolt]

i honestly dont care about the ripchips requirement, do some dailies.

[unique sun]

nah imagine every game you played made you grind 15 minutes of your life away to essentially play it properly 👎

[scenic gull]

It's crazy how greedy some companies are, especially when it comes to their own ips

[tame breach]

as someone who just wants to skate around a map finding my own fun i am not interested in challenges to access parts of the map..

i will do the daily/season/whatever tasks but being forced to follow a series of bearings around or jump off a building into plants just to access part of the game/map doesnt float for me

[acoustic bolt]

very fair, i get that. i dont agree with basically every else that happened in terms of paywalling and such, also the timing of the.. island

[unique sun]

IDK its just a bad idea no matter what way i think about it. Theres a reason CoD/BF doesnt do map packs anymore. It splits your playerbase. Just never a good idea in this landscape

[scenic gull]

500 rip chips, what a steal!

[tame breach]

"hey wanna join us on Grom for sesh?"
"i cant gotta do 100 goals at 5 rip chips each before i can afford it"

[unique sun]

and then the challenges dont even register properly (last time i played at least) so that "ill be there in 5 minutes" turns into 15-30 real quick

[acoustic bolt]

im extremely disgusted that all of these addition are going ahead while the game is filled with bugs that they still havent patched. some that came from there own updates

[unique sun]

Its Early Access in everything but the storefront/monetization, its truly comedic. Had to make sure that was good first

[acoustic bolt]

some good reading over at /r/skate4

[scenic gull]

Me when I lie

[unique sun]

^^ they didnt learn from Battlefront reboot its so funny and they own that one too

[bronze sequoia]

Actually it's Skate Ꮞ

[unique sun]

its skate (not ever releasing so cant put a year in the parenthesis) to you bub

[tame breach]

I get they want skate. to stand on its own and not reboot the skate series as such.. but why all the cross references and then be so pedantic with the skate f our gif

[unique sun]

they needed to add a hyphen or The New, anything but a period lmao. Skate World? idk, Someone got paid 5 figures to add a period thats all i know

[acoustic bolt]

im glad its 'skate.'
the other name would ruin the series

[tame breach]

I wish I could relay a story here about a company I worked for and its new logo.. NOBODY checked and it was hilarious.. its definitely nsfw tho

[unique sun]

oooh def can shoot me the logo in the dms if you want 👀

[tame breach]

Incoming.. I hope your old enough lmao

[unique sun]

Reminds me of an episode of Nathan for You where he pitches the idea for a coffee shop irl to change their name to "dumb starbucks" and it was just the starbucks logo with dumb in front of it. and it went insanely viral and the coffee shop made a ton of money lmfao

[trail cipher]

🦆

[scenic gull]

When are we getting more s3 news? 👀

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[glass grotto]

I'm curious, dm me

[brisk jetty]

No weekly grind?

[pseudo willow]

I wonder how that mobile port is going

[latent orchid]

The bearings are the absolute least enjoyable challenges I’ve ever done in a game. Speedlines sound like it’s just those but even faster.

This is why I have to temper expectations when I see things on the road map. “New game mode” sounds great until it’s just collecting bearings as fast as possible.

[tame breach]

Gimme a bit I'll be back at my pc soon..

[latent orchid]

My realistic take is they either didn’t have a whole lot of news so they skipped it this week, or are releasing it today.

My tin foil hat take is they’re so disheveled from the backlash over the past week they are laying low until the s3 blog on March 5th. Anytime they say anything they get downvoted to hell so they figured what’s the point.

Or maybe Jeff was sick yesterday lol.

[upbeat swallow]

Jeff’s given up 🤣

[long parcel]

yo chat is the game dead yet

[ancient swift]

They don’t want to write anything this will start another angry mob in the chat

[long parcel]

yall ever thought how we never see the board people anymore after the game released

[latent orchid]

They are kind of in a no win situation. I think we all kind of assume the higher ups are the ones making the unpopular decisions that lead to negativity. But the folks who do the communicating or show their faces are the ones who get hit with the backlash.

[ancient swift]

Yeah for sure, a lot of these things were probably already in the pipeline too

[fallow fulcrum]

Doesn't matter what they write anyway, because "sometimes plans have to change. That's part of the deal when you're building in public" kiddo. But rest assured, they're here, they're listening and we're going to keep shaping skate. together... No idea who "we" is, but alright, you do that...

[long parcel]

https://tenor.com/view/monkey-sad-monkey-sad-edit-monkey-edit-üzgün-maymun-gif-15640172319982461811

[grim hazel]

I agree with you on the bearing challenges as well. They aren't the slightest bit enjoyable, and to be completely honest... if you are running co-op's, more than half the time people in the party **cannot **do them whatsoever.

[craggy gate]

When is skate 5 releasing?

[long parcel]

omg game's gonna die before it gets out of EARLY ACCESS. historical

[scenic gull]

In 2069

[craggy gate]

The game isn't in early access. They use that term as a shield against criticism for a half-assed game

[tame breach]

it was the year 20-NICE .. 😂

[tame breach]

i cant imagine what a non-early access version of skate. would look like tbh

[scenic gull]

Tbh, I don't mind them every once in a while, but they are definantly my least favorite, they can get stale for me pretty fast.

[acoustic bolt]

exactly what we have

[long parcel]

but hey slow-flips amirite?

[tame breach]

probably lol..

[tame breach]

slow flips can be steezy af .. especially when you can do it low altitude like over a volcano and get that low flying plane feel

[craggy gate]

Do people think the bridge will be extended to the other part of the map eventually? And if they do, how many rip chips for a day pass?

[scenic gull]

Haha, it's gonna be a great year for gaming for sure.

[long parcel]

F#####CK

[acoustic bolt]

pfft, no. the worlds not getting bigger. the bridge wont get fixed

[craggy gate]

I wish we would get a more concrete roadmap into the future. Feels like the game has pretty much been abandoned since launch

[tame breach]

i think we'll get over that bridge.. probably cost us a bus ticket in rip chips .. but it tracks for "new" features/areas so far in that most are copy/pastes of something that already exists with a minor tweak..

OTS -> OTL
Lines -> Speed Lines
Grom -> Paid Grom

Fun City? --> New Fun City maybe

[acoustic bolt]

next is stadium, paid entry

[long parcel]

any of u bought the S2 pass?

[tame breach]

would you like the Premium access or Premium+ access to that?

[craggy gate]

EA has to make money somehow, and it's not paywalled because you can buy with rip chips. I'm having a blast! I love EA!

[fallow fulcrum]

https://tenor.com/view/duck-flower-gif-20153808

[scenic gull]

It's gonna be 500 rip chips, take it or leave it

[craggy gate]

I think it will be 2000 if it's a big enough new area. That would encourage players to play the game more!

[long parcel]

left 2 seasons ago bro

[acoustic bolt]

i see, hes trolling, mods get him.

[bronze sequoia]

Start spamming skate 5 on every EA Instagram post and we will get skate 5 next decade 😂

[scenic gull]

I did, tbh I like most of what's offered in there so I think my purchase was worth it. However, I don't think I'll buy anymore passes.

[craggy gate]

Hopefully skate 5 can be monetized more heavily and released in pre-alpha. I love supporting Indie Devs!

[scenic gull]

HAHA imagine

[long parcel]

yo what if we ALL stopped paying for a half-assed game. imagine that

[astral socket]

Can’t wait !!!

[scenic gull]

That's crazy

[astral socket]

Pipe down 🪈

[tame breach]

waiting to find out what Premium+ means and how it affects Premium.. but $10 is worth not having to daily grind access to Grom when its added to the pass items which are mean to now include some branded stuff

[scenic gull]

It's my hard earned money, so I can do whatever I want with it as I please. Even spending it on a game I think is fun but does have some things that needs to be fixed/changed.

[craggy gate]

That's a bit of an exaggeration, it's a fully arse game

[scenic gull]

I am waiting on this as well. I'd wouldn't have to grind to get to Grom every day but, over time my rip chips probably will dwindle and I'll have to eventually do so.

[long parcel]

im glad u enjoyed the game friend. but it cant be better than crash team racing now is it?

[scenic gull]

I've never played that game, I don't think I ever will. It seems fine.

[craggy gate]

I imagine the plan going forward is to lock various areas and possibly even gameplay features behind rip chips to encourage players to buy a pass that expires so you keep resubscribing

[long parcel]

you're missing out bro

[scenic gull]

I don't think so

[astral socket]

Lowkey sucks👍🏼

[scenic gull]

What lowkey sucks is how people just come in here and ragebait/troll and think they are doing something, when in reality they are just embarassing themselves

[long parcel]

https://tenor.com/view/copium-cat-gif-27161395

[rigid cipher]

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[long parcel]

ay man don't let me stop u from enjoying skate. might as well get another season pass while you're at it

[astral socket]

Literally whats the point in your message

[scenic gull]

Trust me I don't think anyone is gonna stop enjoying skate just because your spewing nonsence messages about how much you hate it

[long parcel]

i literally said don't let me stop u why u mad bro

[vital laurel]

Id much rather pay full price for a good, complete, not cheap cop-out cash grab

Personally I'd take that everyday of the week

[solid hamlet]

thank you Dyno bot

[latent orchid]

Sadly I feel like even if/when we get all the features we want, the game will still be shallow due to it being live service. And yeah, there’s always just free skating, which I prefer, but the entire vibe around the map, chapters, and overall game direction just screams shallow f2p. I just don’t think it’ll ever feel the same way previous installments felt.

[acoustic bolt]

mods are sleeping

[scenic gull]

Free mac charger 👀

[tame breach]

next minute "i just need $50 for shipping and insurance" ... item never received

[scenic gull]

mods are sleeping

[long parcel]

mods abandoning ship

[solid hamlet]

Does the Mac charger come with the skate.™ (Early Access) Premium+ Super Membership pass?

[latent orchid]

If Grom and any future expansions are tied to a $10 pass, I’ll live with with that. I don’t like it, but it is what it is. But if the pass for those places is $20, that’s a little crazy. You’d have to spend $20 per month, every month, just to play the game. And that’s if you never bought a single cosmetic.

[long parcel]

nah but u can get on Grom for 24 hours

[solid hamlet]

The Mac charger comes with only enough rip chips for one trip to Grom?
Pass

[olive torrent]

no no the pass gets you unlimited access

[tame breach]

unlimited access per season.. so for 3mths

[olive torrent]

well yeah then you don't have the pass anymore duh

[solid hamlet]

but where does the Mac charger come into the equation

[olive torrent]

at the wall, i think

[tame breach]

u need it for mac and cheese

[solid hamlet]

And what if you add Kurt Angle into the mix?

[long parcel]

the mac charger is a lie. like everything else they mentioned before

[slow creek]

good morning skaterinos

[latent orchid]

For the season and that season only. The following season you’d have to pay again. It’s been confirmed in here by Jeff.

[olive torrent]

i don't want to brag but i might be getting a new macbook air 😏

[olive torrent]

yes passes are only for one season

if you have the pass you have unlimited access

[fervent girder]

Constructive feedback/constructive criticism is welcomed and encouraged.

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~there is no war in Ba Sing Se

[craggy gate]

I'd be very surprised if they went 20

[olive torrent]

i'm surprised they're going 10

for an area of the map

[solid hamlet]

thank you Dyno bot

[olive torrent]

not even like any actual stuff just.... an area of the map that was mostly already done

[slow creek]

did i miss a Grind or something

[tame breach]

there's just no information about prem+ to even start to gauge its price.. sure prem is $10 but are a couple extra fit slots and maybe some bonus cosmetic in prem+ worth doubling the price?

[slow creek]

also i thought the regular prem pass would get you free grom?

[modern radish]

Do we know the price of premium plus

[long parcel]

hmm curious what good does constructive feedback do? its not like they listen to u

[tame breach]

it will

[olive torrent]

for the first season, anyway

[tame breach]

no we are guessing/speculating

[modern radish]

20 bajillion dollars

[slow creek]

but theyre increasing the price to 10 instead of 5?

[olive torrent]

it's already $10 isn't it

[modern radish]

https://tenor.com/view/smile-fade-smile-fade-to-dumb-happy-to-straight-face-smile-fade-to-shock-smile-fade-to-curious-gif-4098180333973202457

[solid hamlet]

I assumed the premium+ plus price will get revealed during the March 5th news

[tame breach]

its 1000svb

[olive torrent]

isn't it 1000 SVB? it's been a while

[slow creek]

oh right

mb mixed it up woth the welcome pack

[modern radish]

That reminds me

https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExaG80ZmRla3A3b205bm1peTl4YzYxY29jNHdqMDQzcW8zM21xaHMzYiZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/GJpCLqEKYvsHlAlXGu/giphy.gif

[slow creek]

yeah they dont like links in here lol @jovial grove

[long parcel]

these snowflakes keep buying them anyway man 🙁 i just want the game to crash and burn

[modern radish]

“These snowflakes” how about you grow a spine and realize they aren’t the problem, it’s EA

[scenic gull]

Ignore him, you're giving him the attention and reaction he wants

[craggy gate]

I'm not going to insult people buying the pass

[jovial grove]

Did I post a link? I do not recall doing that.

[modern radish]

Fair, I let my anger blind me

Smth smth rage bait

[tight laurel]

Dm if you’re interested

[jovial grove]

I was writing a random message about a dumb idea I have lol, no link that I remember unless you're referring to something from days ago that I do not recall

[long parcel]

y u still here cass i thought u were skate.ing with ur new skate pass 🙁

[modern radish]

https://tenor.com/view/love4elodie-phasmophobia-gif-2682337590161137440

Me at the function

[cunning goblet]

Double it and pass it to the next person

[tame breach]

i know you'll love this
#general-discussion message

[slow creek]

oh oops i thought i saw your name as the poster but it was deleted so fast i mustve been wrong, my b

[acoustic bolt]

beat me to it hahahaha

[jovial grove]

I was writing... my ideas for a collective noun that distinguishes the devs who make the game feel fun from the people responsible for paywalling Grom:

Gromlockers.
Gromtators.
Grominators.
Gromwallers.
Wallists and Gromists.

Who has better ones?

-# I feel like we need to direct criticism at the right people in fairness to the people who have helped make this game fun, and would never support this decision. I hate seeing ordinary devs and other well-intentioned people catching flak for something they aren't allowed to publicly criticize and would have voted against. So I want to promote directing all criticism of that decision at the specific collective of people who support it, and not at "the devs", "Full Circle", etc.

[scenic gull]

Why are we responding to someone who has an ai pfp?

[modern radish]

https://klipy.com/gifs/do-not-take-the-bait-dont-fall-for-it

[latent orchid]

Even a $15 per month pass to skate all new areas is a $15 subscription… to a shallow game that’s worse than previous games. Within 5 months you’d already spend more than you would with a full priced game. 😫

[modern radish]

Yes, that is how subscriptions work

[craggy gate]

I'm still salty about f2p ngl

[slow creek]

it's managers who make all the decisions, not devs anyway

[placid anchor]

dw ill build us all a bridge to grom before any pass

[modern radish]

Not Jeff :( /j

[modern radish]

Guys, don’t worry, inferno got our back

[solid hamlet]

oh no, not this rabbit hole again. you're not getting me again

-# for the third time

[cunning goblet]

Did they fix the task for you

[slow creek]

they make jeff buy his own cosmetics lol i know he aint makin any big decisions

[scenic gull]

Shoulda known after the 1st time

[jovial grove]

But even managers is probably too broad, wouldn't you think? Don't you think there's at least one manager somewhere who agrees that this is a potentially game-killing decision, and unethical in light of marketing regardless?
-# Hence my position that we should think of a silly name to use to make sure they know we're specifically talking about them -- the Grominators or whatever -- and not their manager friend Steve who called this a problem before it became public.

[latent orchid]

Yes but say it out loud. The game in its current state is not worth a $15 per month subscription. It likely never will be. But that’s what it’s come to.

[placid anchor]

doubt but testing it now

[modern radish]

Season 3 leak: they will be adding more content, I think

[craggy gate]

It's $15 a month?

[modern radish]

Not confirmed

[placid anchor]

no, still cant progress with redoing challenges

[olive torrent]

hey it's not like you'll need rip chips
oh wait

[solid hamlet]

Stakeholders need another yacht. Please think of the stakeholders.

[cunning goblet]

Damn they done ya dirty

[rugged lance]

game isn't making enough money → monetization gets more aggressive → players get angry and leave → game makes even less money → monetization gets even more aggressive → ...

[slow creek]

as someone who works in an office, i think there is likely a small team of Decision-Makers ™, and everyone else just be doing they job. i doubt any of the Decision Makers ™ care much for the ethics of it

[modern radish]

https://tenor.com/view/classic-back-to-the-future-bttf-marty-mcfly-ive-seen-this-one-gif-19802188

[latent orchid]

We are speculating since the regular paid pass is $10. And Grom access is with a different pass. Unless they make the regular paid pass $5 and make the premium+ $10 👀😂🙏

[olive torrent]

what do you mean you've seen it, it's brand new

[long parcel]

but i just want to enjoy skate.pass and unlock the chicken suit 🙁

[placid anchor]

hi devs👋 can we reset all the popoff challenges on the map pls thx
-# many of us have our pop-off challenge goals tasks BUGGED and are unable to progress on it

[slow creek]

grom access is with regular premium

[modern radish]

Seagull

[tame breach]

i just dont think they can push Prem+ beyond being 50% more unless they start taking from Prem

[olive torrent]

i'd be surprised if it's not 20

[craggy gate]

That makes $15 sound possible. The blowback would be quite big though

[jovial grove]

I hear you, but I have to imagine at least some Decision-Makers were behind telling us they would not paywall new locations, and at least some percentage of those Decision-Makers meant it and don't think it's a good call for the game's marketing at the very least.

[scenic gull]

Guys I have some crazy s3 news ||The FitnessGram Pacer Test is a multistage aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues. ||

[jovial grove]

And I would still distinguish those Decision-Makers, if possible, from the Grominators.
-# Call me a corpo or whatever, I'm just saying. They're not all the same people. I just feel bad for people who are subordinate to the true villains being lumped in with them.

[slow creek]

i think the devil doesn't need an advocate

[olive torrent]

i wouldn't, they didn't do enough to advocate for us

[solid hamlet]

the blowback will be big regardless, but I suspect there will be some big FOMO items locked behind the premium+ pass

[tame breach]

access to the Premium store 😭

[slow creek]

it would be nice if we had literally any information at all lol when is the next announcement due?

[solid hamlet]

don't put that evil on us, Ricky Bobby

[long parcel]

#PullThePlug

[olive torrent]

weekly* grind

[solid hamlet]

March 5

[tame breach]

i've worked in offices, i've been the manager.. i get it lol

[craggy gate]

Looking at the steam charts all the recent controversy hasn't seemed to affect player numbers

[cunning goblet]

Im okay, did you know @low berry pushed off the curb, his skateboard wheels humming against the pavement as he glided down the quiet street. With a quick snap of his tail and a smooth landing, he grinned, already chasing the next trick.

[scenic gull]

Aka most if not all of the branded stuff

[jovial grove]

It's less about advocating for the less offensive management (the implicit "Devil" for whom I am "advocating" in your analogy), and more about making sure the people making the game specifically this much worse (by paywalling Grom) feel the resentment immortalized in a word just for them.

[olive torrent]

Good that's the stuff that should be monetized

Not map areas

[long parcel]

what number bro??? 🥲

[slow creek]

is tyler a skater or an animal with a tail? who's to say. the ai certainly doesn't know lol

[craggy gate]

Agreed

[slow creek]

i defo see where you're coming from. however i guarantee that there aren't as many people who disliked this idea as you hope for. and those that did, did not advocate hard enough for us, as stack said. so i think we should lump them all together lol

[tame breach]

AI mentioned.. commence outrage!

[cunning goblet]

Wym its all from the heart, @slow creek crouched low on his board, feeling the wind rush past as they picked up speed down the hill. They popped an ollie over a cracked sidewalk, landing clean and rolling away with a confident smile.

[olive torrent]

Kenji can't see names

[slow creek]

kenji cant see much of anything on account of not wearing their glasses rn

[cunning goblet]

You doing another all nighter?

[slow creek]

ew dont put my name in that slop 😂

[tame breach]

me when i say i've gone to bed but am still reading discord on my phone 😭

[slow creek]

nah i had a good sleepy sleep, just woke up a lil early and decided to boot up the 'cord

[jovial grove]

I hear you but I just don't agree that I know that. I don't think it's fair to demand they quit their jobs if someone who has more power vetos them and they are not allowed to talk without losing their jobs. Besides, I was not present for any of these conversations and did not witness their life, so how can I possibly be sure that I would conclude that they could and should have done more, or that I would have done more, in their position with their level of power and influence? I just don't know these people. All I DO know is that SOME people wanted this and SOME people don't, and I want a word directed specifically at the peope who definitely want this.
-# I understand the argument might be, "The result is the proof," but that's like blaming doctors for death and such. I think it's a fallacy to suggest that if an outcome is bad, insufficient effort was made by specific individuals to prevent it. I do think life is more complicated than, "If an individual works hard enough, their goal will be achieved, so if it isn't achieved, they didn't try enough."

[cunning goblet]

https://tenor.com/view/tired-confused-wake-up-squinting-gif-4201426486566488898

[scenic gull]

ai slop

[tame breach]

what if you could get a bunch of free AI cosmetics? no cost but specifically made using AI?

[olive torrent]

Pay artists

[slow creek]

i wouldn't take them lol yeah pay artists

[craggy gate]

This sounds amazing

[long parcel]

i thought this was a skate game

[tame breach]

no no.. not in place of artists.. to supplement the paid artist work

[olive torrent]

Pay more artists

[slow creek]

still no

[modern radish]

season 3 leak: skateboard

[scenic gull]

I would light them on fire

[slow creek]

yeah

[olive torrent]

That's still in place of an artist lol

[craggy gate]

What if AI makes better art than artists? Should we pay AI more?

[olive torrent]

It doesn't. Art is an expression of oneself.

[silk cypress]

Thank u EA for the most CORRUPTED BUSINESS PRACTICES, was really hoping for that in the new game. My wishes have been granted 🙂

[placid anchor]

seeing how an image gets generated is similar to seeing how processed foods are made

[modern radish]

"if a robot does something better than a human" not happening bro

[long parcel]

who’s expression is AI art’s?

[tame breach]

because i see AI as a tool.. its like taking away a CNC machine from a machinist and saying "here ya go make this part that would normally require 5 axis computer control but on that manual machine over there"

[olive torrent]

i think your statement is a bit too broad 😛

have you seen those surgery robots

[tame breach]

i think the problem is we are at the point of robots being better than humans.. maybe not in the creative space, but definately elsewhere

[craggy gate]

AI for sure deserves pushback but some people are way too critical

[olive torrent]

i think it's more like giving your CNC guy access to premolded parts from IKEA or something and telling him to use those to save money

[tame breach]

but that doesnt employ more machinists.. using the pay more artists option to not supplement with AI

[olive torrent]

huh?

of course it doesn't employ more machinists just like your method doesn't employ more artists

that was the reason for the comparison

[tame breach]

thats the point lol

[olive torrent]

what

[craggy gate]

AI will only remove jobs the better it gets. Especially entry level jobs

[tame breach]

it was an example that had the same outcome .. but references CNC as the tool not AI .. i'm just saying that restricting tools doesnt necessarily employ more ppl or make things better

[slow creek]

CNC isn't the tool

[placid anchor]

i am

[olive torrent]

yeah i think you missed where i suggested an alternative analogy or something

[slow creek]

inferno is

[placid anchor]

lmaooo

[tame breach]

can tell who is talking to who when ppl dont reply and 10 ppl are spamming words

[olive torrent]

i did reply

[tranquil creek]

like if youre gonna use the excuse that all these changes are to fund the project later, why not break that down to people ?

[slow creek]

AI is obviously a powerful tool which is why we've been using it to program enemies in games for half a century. generative AI is an environmental hazard at best

[scenic gull]

Ai will always be garbage and slop

[tame breach]

i did see that reply if you're talking molds

[slow creek]

AI art will always be worse than human art because it was not made by a human

[placid anchor]

it still needs a human for a prompt, and the end slop is going to be an imitation

[long parcel]

i thought this was a skate game

[tame breach]

not necessarily worse, but different.. since it cannot be compared to human art because it is not human.. it can be subjectively better art tho

[placid anchor]

it is definitely worse for .. the entire internet rn, google images and serach engines just cluttered with it

[jovial grove]

Is my art worse because it's made by a Wookiee? 😭

[placid anchor]

it will end up becoming the norm and we wont even know whats real or not anymore

[placid anchor]

you are exempt because wookiee

[tame breach]

only if you give me other wookie art so i can compare will i be able to answer.. then its still just subjective lol

[slow creek]

no, it's always worse. AI can not make anything original, it can only predict pixels based on everybody else's art. it does not have human creativity. if you like your art with six-fingered hands and droopy stroke eyes then that's on you

[placid anchor]

kenji have u seen it generate on bad sampler setting

or just low ql in general

[slow creek]

no lol

[placid anchor]

actual sleep paralysis demon

[slow creek]

i do not use genai at all

i have seen the will smith eating spaghetti test on wikipedia tho

[placid anchor]

oh yes

[jovial grove]

What about the person who writes the AI that reconstructs other art into something beautiful? Is the reconstruction of old art into new art only valid when achieved with hand-eye coordination? Or does the AI programmer get some sort of credit as an artist of another medium?

[slow creek]

if i tell you to run a race, would you give me the medal you won bc i'm the one who told you to run it?

[ancient swift]

Yall would argue over anything 🤣 how has it went from premium pass to generative AI

[tranquil creek]

should be used as a template. i trace all my renders

[jovial grove]

Right but is who is running the race for the programmer?
-# Or does the labor of the programmer earn exactly 0 artistic credit?

[slow creek]

neither the prompt-giver nor the machine are artists. the machine is a machine; the prompter is a thief.

[tame breach]

i derailed it.. sorry haha

[placid anchor]

not to talk down how impressive it is, the reality that our brains will struggle to tell the difference and esp me - it kinda ruins how u imagine, u mix in aigen stuff with real memories 🫠

[slow creek]

uhhh that's just you homes

[placid anchor]

yes but soon it'll be everyone, when its all around u and ur forced consciously and subconsciously to see it

[nocturne yarrow]

thats rough man, you should stop

[olive torrent]

it's not just inferno it's a LOT of people 😔

[placid anchor]

you know what i mean right

[slow creek]

no

lmao

[placid anchor]

okay thats acc good

[tame breach]

did you know that not all generative AI is based on sampling existing content? like its possible that AI can generate based on rules and also make decisions for itself where there is no human context given

[slow creek]

also to clarify my thought @jovial grove the person who puts the words in doesn't warrant any artist credit at all

[scenic gull]

Burryaga loves ai, I dunno who else here does

[tranquil creek]

i see u , but, gotta add the human in it, gotta deep fry it, gotta make it look ugly and true

[craggy gate]

I like AI

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[slow creek]

did you know that an AI is incapable of doing anything without human-given samples and human-defined rules?

[shut willow]

GenAI might be an obscure black box of a database, but it's nonetheless a database accumulated from training data

[grizzled oar]

AI this AI that, let me enjoy my skate before AI takes my job and I can’t afford the skate pass

[shut willow]

So the very principle of function is plagiarism

[scenic gull]

Me when I wanna rage bait somebody

[placid anchor]

and we are training it even without knowing

[jovial grove]

Nah I got that, but I was asking specifically about the programmer of an AI art generator, a forgotten soul who is rarely discussed in these conversations. I mean if you think about it, the programmer is just another artist whose brushes are lines of code and human beings who write prompts, and all the "real labor" (from the perspective of the anti-prompter), i.e., all the most difficult and skillful labor, was done by the programmer or programmers (more likely) behind the tool.

[craggy gate]

People cannot deny some of the memes made with AI have been next level. That's worth all the capital investment and job loss alone

[slow creek]

i want machines to do my laundry and wash my dishes so i can spend more time making art. i do not want machines to make my art so i can spend more time doing laundry and dishes.

[tranquil creek]

yes use AI . but edit the stuff like holyy. AI yes is mass plagerism , but once u render add your spice. or someones spice, just add a dooddle ffs

[slow creek]

ohh i get it, lmao good bait actually

[remote thunder]

AI is great , you’ll have those doomers for a couple more years until eventually AI takes over everything , even our grandmas who hated the internet when it came out now have smart phones, just let the skeptics and haters get behind

[shut willow]

I fear this isn't even sarcasm 😭

[olive torrent]

doesn't read like it lol

[slow creek]

no it doesnt lol

[placid anchor]

smart fridges😂

[slow creek]

wild

[scenic gull]

Idek why so many people are ragebaiting right now it's so weird

[slow creek]

when will todd release skyrim for the samsung smart fridge

[shut willow]

@remote thunder since you was so nice to argue with a thumbs down
What exactly is great about the currently hyped genAI bubble

[olive torrent]

i mean to be fair they're in slowmode

[mental raven]

th

[craggy gate]

People seem to think AI is only used in art. If you're against that fine but being against AI as a whole is genuinely silly

[tame breach]

i think people are too focused on chatgpt and sora type generative AI tbh

[tranquil creek]

human art can never be replaced🧱 ❤️

[olive torrent]

as opposed to what lol

[shut willow]

It is what the industry pushes rn in different forms

[remote thunder]

The whole argument “ Ai sTeAl aRt” is BS, yes it’s trained on existing art so what ? Every artist get inspired by something else, nothing is truly original

[shut willow]

It is what brings their ridiculous evaluations, and its potential is what they permanently boast about

[olive torrent]

what other problematic use of LLMs should i be directing my ire toward

[tame breach]

as opposed to AI that is rule based, mathematical etc without being trained on human samples

[olive torrent]

that "AI" doesn't make images and videos

[shut willow]

But that's not what the current hype is about at all

[scenic gull]

Ragebaiting be like

[olive torrent]

procedural generation is very chill

LLMs trained on peoples data without their consent... not so much

[slow creek]

did you guys know that in the Georgia town in which the Facebook AI server farm is located, the server farm uses so much of the town's water that people can't get running water in their homes?

[tranquil creek]

justice for mo_cap artists

[olive torrent]

did we know for the first time ever the WHO announced the world is in a water bankruptcy

[craggy gate]

That's my serious opinion, are you against all AI?

[tame breach]

i didnt specify that type tho, i just said there is AI that is different but got told no lol.. but there is.. might not provide the same ouputs (ie. imagery of humans with the wrong nunber of fingers) but can generate "art"

[olive torrent]

hm maybe it wasn't the WHO i thought it was

[slow creek]

man
greedy people suck

[scenic gull]

Yes I'm against all ai

[shut willow]

I mean yes we had video games using procedurally generated levels in the 90s already

[slow creek]

only humans can generate art, generative Ai can only predict which pixels should go where

[shut willow]

And that's not a bad thing, it was a nice feature of diablo

[olive torrent]

procedural generation is chill

cool even

[craggy gate]

I did an MSc to learn data science/ AI so I'm definitely not against it. You are against AI to review cancer scans also? What about Google search, that's AI. Medical research? They use loads of AI

[ancient swift]

I make AI write my excel formulas but I wouldn’t consider that art 🎉

[tame breach]

"only human can generate art ".. ok then

[mental raven]

im heavily opposed to minecraft's existence

[slow creek]

yeah

[olive torrent]

me too but only cause my friend group just started playing it but i banned myself from it years ago because i get straight addicted

[tranquil creek]

mehhh i like when artists add different textures and their own view of what they see within their eyes, THE WHOLE POINT of easter egg origins hello?????🤣

[olive torrent]

what are you even saying

you know what i'll just block you don't bother

[placid anchor]

🥺

[slow creek]

procedural generation is cool because it uses a set of predefined rules as its instruction set and isn't trained on billions of gigs of stolen data lol

[scenic gull]

I just said I'm against ai and try not to use it but unfortunantly it happens which upsets me

[craggy gate]

I think you are against generative AI rather than AI as a whole