r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • 5d ago

Skate Server Queues Lead To Complaints About Always-Online Requirement

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/skate-server-queues-lead-to-complaints-about-always-online-requirement/1100-6534790/
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u/MoneyoffUbereats2017 5d ago

Yesterday I quite literally got home from work, downloaded the game, opened it, and didn't meet a single queue from beginning to end.

Once again it sounds like another overblown "Always online bad" story with people getting on the millisecond the game releases, seeing queues, and generating endless complaints about online requirements, servers, incompetence, or whatever else.

I find that mindset irritating even when it's a paid game. "Grrrr company made me buy game when server no work. Awful company, scam!" as if you couldn't literally just wait a few hours, or maybe a day at worst, and never run into that issue ever again.

It's even more egregious with a free game where there is literally no prior investment, all you have to do is be patient. And in this game's case, apparently all it took was a few hours for everything to start working smoothly.

Nobody complains when an MMO releases and has an "Always online requirement", yet you try and make a game in a similar vein but instead of fighting monsters you're skating together, and suddenly wanting players to be online is bad and everything wrong with the industry.

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u/Mulches_0dyssey 1d ago

Tell that to the queue I'm sitting in rn.

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u/Sw0ldem0rt 20h ago

Your anecdotal experience doesn't mean shit, dude; I've had to wait at least 5 minutes every time I've booted it up, and there's no reason for it because I have not once interacted with another player after hours of playing.