EA has announced that its upcoming Skate reboot won't let you play offline so that the developers can "deliver on [their] vision of a skateboarding world".
In the first of a new series of news posts entitled "The Grind", EA says Skate (stylized as skate.) is "designed to be a living, breathing massively multiplayer skateboarding sandbox that is always online and always evolving", as is the game's city.
As such, in order to implement "changes to the city over time, as well as smaller things, like live events and other in-game activities", EA says it needs Skate to be an always-online prospect and to "always require a live connection".
EA doesn't say whether it's interested in bringing an offline mode to Skate later down the line, but it's likely that we'll have to wait until the game is out for the studio to even consider talking about doing so.
Elsewhere in the post, EA says that the plan is still to release Skate in Early Access sometime this year, although there's no release date yet. The studio says it will "share more details" about its plans "both for day one of Early Access and in the months that follow" soon....
