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You can start ringing the new Skate's death knell, because EA says it's online only
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Well, as the others already said, it's a matter of taste and different factors play into it, but your argument with the AI is precisely why I find this decision so jarring: You don't need nor want unpredictability in a skating game.
It's not a competitive genre where the unpredictability makes it interesting. And I remember watching a video of a guy playing Skate where NPCs would constantly walk into his path and it was the most infuriating thing. If there would've been no NPCs, no unpredictability, the game would've been better.
Of course, with an MMO, other players will probably have no collision. But if you can still see them where you're skating, they'll still get in the way of you seeing what you're skating on, particularly if you run into trolls.
I'm not completely negative to the MMO concept. Maybe it is fun to see just the sheer chaos of hundreds of others skating in the same place. Maybe they have some sort of idea to actually make interaction with other players relevant in some way. Maybe it's kind of cool for folks to log into the Skate MMO and just hang out. Or maybe it's only an MMO hub-world and you don't have to see other players on the individual courses. But yeah, I'm just not holding my breath.