Skate has been de-live serviced by ReSkate, a modding platform downloaded 350,000 times—devs say they will comply if EA's lawyers come knocking
ReSkate makes Skate playable offline, and enables custom servers and maps. It's been an instant hit.
EA's Skate series has been released as a free-to-play online game, but players have expressed dissatisfaction with the lack of authentic skating culture and found the premium cosmetics and tidy maps unappealing. ReSkate, a modding platform developed by zee_x64 and ReGlitched, allows users to play Skate offline, on custom servers, with custom maps, and other assets.
The modders claim they are not attempting to undermine Full Circle, the developers of Skate, or to take away the live game, and they respect the developers' right to make money through microtransactions. ReSkate works with the current version of Skate and does not promote the unlocking of future premium content for free. However, ReSkate allows users to break out of the game's walled ecosystem, adding their own cosmetics, custom maps, and playing it without EA's servers and anticheat software, making it playable on Linux via Valve's Proton emulation.
Despite the mod's popularity, with over 350,000 downloads, EA has not yet commented on the situation, and the mod is open source, with over 70 forks on GitHub, which may complicate any future legal action.
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