After years of campaigning for Skate 4, followers of EA’s skateboarding sequence obtained their want with the merely named Skate — a free-to-play entry that launched in early entry in September.
It is attracted tens of millions of gamers, and it appears that evidently the inflow of gamers has brought about some complications for developer Full Circle.
In a weblog put up addressing the entire neighborhood, the dev staff shares its gratitude for the “help, suggestions and fervour”, however that it is “additionally right here for the robust love”.
“Issues haven’t gone as easily for a few of you as we’d have appreciated. Much more (we’re speaking tens of millions) gamers joined us in these first few weeks than we anticipated – and with that got here bugs, glitches, development locks, and efficiency points.”
Acknowledging a few of the early entry points seen thus far, Full Circle guarantees it’s going to be smoothing out the expertise over time, whereas stressing that this is not the ultimate sport but.
“Making skate. is a balancing act between delivering the recent content material from our roadmap, bettering the general participant expertise, and addressing your dwell suggestions,” the weblog put up reads. “We’re tweaking and fixing the sport – a few of it on the fly, and a few of it as a part of longer-term enhancements. However, issues will proceed to alter and enhance.”
Chief among the many issues gamers have been dealing with are softlock and development blocking bugs, and it appears these are a precedence for the staff — although some fixes will come earlier than others.
Along with fixing technical troubles, the staff says it is “nonetheless tuning development and rewards till they really feel excellent”, and is making modifications when Season 2 drops to make the season cross much less grindy and supply higher, extra beneficiant rewards.
By the use of apology for the bumpy launch interval, Full Circle is giving all gamers “2000 Tix and 500 SVBs” — although you will have to log in earlier than Season 2 begins on 2nd December to assert them.
All of it feels like a step in the suitable course; hopefully the staff can act rapidly sufficient and implement the suitable suggestions to maintain gamers engaged.
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