Let do something aboot the situation!!!!

[knexzor]

OCCUPY SAN VANELONA

Best post of 2011

[Mark the Sith]

Ok, as someone who works under the EA umbrella, a few things need to be brought to light. The skate 3 community is very, very small in comparison to some of the bigger releases. Millions of people play BF3 and Sims every day, only 100 or so play Skate. If you do a cost assessment of the website and servers, there's no way keeping the skate.reel going is profitable. Sure, there were tons of clips and graphics uploaded every day, but not that many users. Even the "community" isn't very busy, just the same people on both sites contributing on a regular basis. Now, there's inter-office talk that BB might be disbanded and reabsorbed within the company (similar to what happened to Pandemic) and if this is the case then there is zero chance of anything happening with the Skate series unless someone buys the rights to flickit. (Activision?) Maybe down the road on nextgen consoles, but not this generation.

But don't let that get you down, there's still hope. I've been talking to some colleagues over at Blackbox and one of my contacts is very aware of the issue with the skate.reel and she says that part of the issue has been the server restructure in North America coupled with crunchtime for SSX means skate.reel comes last on the list of priorities for EA and BB.

But they at least hear us, so that's a start.

[emericaridr11]

Ok, as someone who works under the EA umbrella, a few things need to be brought to light. The skate 3 community is very, very small in comparison to some of the bigger releases. Millions of people play BF3 and Sims every day, only 100 or so play Skate. If you do a cost assessment of the website and servers, there's no way keeping the skate.reel going is profitable. Sure, there were tons of clips and graphics uploaded every day, but not that many users. Even the "community" isn't very busy, just the same people on both sites contributing on a regular basis. Now, there's inter-office talk that BB might be disbanded and reabsorbed within the company (similar to what happened to Pandemic) and if this is the case then there is zero chance of anything happening with the Skate series unless someone buys the rights to flickit. (Activision?) Maybe down the road on nextgen consoles, but not this generation.

But don't let that get you down, there's still hope. I've been talking to some colleagues over at Blackbox and one of my contacts is very aware of the issue with the skate.reel and she says that part of the issue has been the server restructure in North America coupled with crunchtime for SSX means skate.reel comes last on the list of priorities for EA and BB.

But they at least hear us, so that's a start.

good digs sith, thanks for the info

[Ladd279]

http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/7799430.page

Saunders got a developer on his thread everyone post there

[saunders420]

thought just popped in my head. Best way for anybody to see that EA is dealin drugs with no substance.(DUMB METAPHOR) TWITTER.

I think if we got LOUD with Twitter, we might have another door of opportunity open, wishful thinking. I dont know how many of you use it but just Start using it for this sole reason to bash EA.

[Ayreon]

id be down for that

[Corey Webster]

So its not just me eh? Servers are down? For good? I need to get a cap card then...any suggestions?

[briden]

thought just popped in my head. Best way for anybody to see that EA is dealin drugs with no substance.(DUMB METAPHOR) TWITTER.

I think if we got LOUD with Twitter, we might have another door of opportunity open, wishful thinking. I dont know how many of you use it but just Start using it for this sole reason to bash EA.

Don't know how I missed this, but anyways I do have a twitter account but only ever used it for logging into stuff I didn't want to give my real info to. If somebody could make a little how-to for this, I'll blow their account up until I can't any more.

[jerr bear]

What about we live on with our lives?

[momadaddy]

What about we live on with our lives?

no

[Skatee]

threaten them with legal stuff

[Jack]

Dear [Insert Name]

The video game trilogy Skate has been amazing. We here at the Fluckit Forums are the last and most dedicated followers of this series. Over the years we've become a close knit community of skateboarders, artists, video artists, writers, and musicians. After only a little more than a year EA has shut down our servers. We don't ask for much. Please allow us to trade our in-game original art, in-game original skateparks. Please allow us to upload and download clips so that we can play this game the way it was intended. We know we'll never see another game. We'll never see a completely perfected build of the best skateboarding video game of all time. Isn't that punishment enough? Please let us play the way that we love, so that our community may continue to thrive and our friendships be built even stronger over time.

Sincerely,

Jack Barclay and everyone at Fluckit

P.S. - A backwards compatible patch for advanced free cam for Skate 1 & 2 would be lovely.




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[xRiverKing]

hmm looks good haha

[unplannedman]

Dear [Insert Name]

The video game trilogy Skate has been amazing. We here at the Fluckit Forums and LIKEbutter magazine are the last and most dedicated followers of this series. Over the years we've become a close knit community of skateboarders, artists, video artists, writers, and musicians. After only a little more than a year EA has shut down our servers. We don't ask for much. Please allow us to trade our in-game original art, in-game original skateparks. Please allow us to upload and download clips so that we can play this game the way it was intended. We know we'll never see another game. We'll never see a completely perfected build of the best skateboarding video game of all time. Isn't that punishment enough? Please let us play the way that we love, so that our community may continue to thrive and our friendships be built even stronger over time.

Sincerely,

Jack Barclay and everyone at Fluckit and LIKEbutter

P.S. - A backwards compatible patch for advanced free cam for Skate 1 & 2 would be lovely.




Edit as you see fit.

most likely garner a better response since the combined amount of people is more than just the amount of the people at fluckit

[saunders420]

unpllaned. working on a letter myself to send top a lot of sites. Ill post it soon.





edit-----EA FORUM... Got A DEV on the forum who might be willing to help. NOW that we have attention please leave a decent comment with HATEFUL words. Use as much anger towards the issues as possible just be nice about it. Show the forums your pain lol. http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/li....page#18706295



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[i am a snail]

Best post of 2011

[unplannedman]

I think I'm gonna send a letter to G4, specifically to the guys at X-Play, anyone backing this?

[Ladd279]

keep posting got a better response from admin.