Let do something aboot the situation!!!!

[saunders420]

Seriously...You think if everyone contacted the Directors of each gaming website, Think we could make this a worthy story. Backlash out at EA for abandoning a year old game without any informative information regarding to what's going...?

I have started an email to Justin O'Kelly (GameSpot)
Director 415-344-2515
justin.okelly@cbsinteractive.com

but I dont think anything will happen, it is Gamespot.

[Ladd279]

Hmm couldn't hurt but I have no idea what to put lol

[agusbmxarg]

What about a video? A serious video, talking about what's happening, and maybe it could get featured in some site? idk.

[CKYdude93]

Lets draft a strongly worded letter here so we can copy and paste it out to a bunch of these sites. This shit needs to be fixed.

[MarcoPoloUSN]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=6wUvW-7cSKI

[saunders420]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=6wUvW-7cSKI

WIN epic music

[MF JORDAN]

Lets draft a strongly worded letter here so we can copy and paste it out to a bunch of these sites. This shit needs to be fixed.

sounds good

[mattyman512]

What you need to do is give everything that we can do with what the game has given us. You need to send them links to the skate community websites and show that its still very much alive. Throw them everything like videos, photos, parks and graphics and show how much the community has changed through out the years and explane how EA has totaly given up on us.

Explane that they never seem to solves issues out on the ea forum, there hasn't been a blog update for ages, also no more game updates, website is down as well, the support team is just reading from a script and not actually helping us out at all and also we paid for this game and hardly any features have been working very well.

I see people still buy the game and then they get nothing from it! Its just wrong and they have conned us! Get MajorNelson involved from xbox live and get the ps3 community leader involved. We need EA to notice us! It seems like EA doesn't seem to notice us here or on the EA skate forum so I think we shud take it to the Sims Forum and Battlefeld Forum and call the new thread 'look what EA has left behind' and show everything we can offer! A game like this should never die because there is so much room for it to grow.

Sorry for the essay lad!

[CKYdude93]

We should all go on the chat/phone chat at the same time one day and complain.

[CKYdude93]

What you need to do is give everything that we can do with what the game has given us. You need to send them links to the skate community websites and show that its still very much alive. Throw them everything like videos, photos, parks and graphics and show how much the community has changed through out the years and explane how EA has totaly given up on us.

Explane that they never seem to solves issues out on the ea forum, there hasn't been a blog update for ages, also no more game updates, website is down as well, the support team is just reading from a script and not actually helping us out at all and also we paid for this game and hardly any features have been working very well.

I see people still buy the game and then they get nothing from it! Its just wrong and they have conned us! Get MajorNelson involved from xbox live and get the ps3 community leader involved. We need EA to notice us! It seems like EA doesn't seem to notice us here or on the EA skate forum so I think we shud take it to the Sims Forum and Battlefeld Forum and call the new thread 'look what EA has left behind' and show everything we can offer! A game like this should never die because there is so much room for it to grow.

Sorry for the essay lad!

^This ^1000 Times ^This

[Ladd279]

I sent email to justin about our problems and ea it wasn't 5 mins later when I received a email back from Justin saying he has sent it to new department to look into it further. Let's hope he'll help

[fallingskyline]

Just filed a complaint with some harsh but ment words to EA, i doubt they'll answer since they do care more about people playing actual games like BF3 and not skate...

[unplannedman]

I'll send one to gameInformer, they always seem to care about what's going in the gaming community

EDIT: When you guys send emails, make sure you guys spell everything correctly I don't don't mind it over on forums, but If we want them to takes us seriously, then we'll have to spell everything in correct english.

[unplannedman]

This my letter to the Editor-in-Chief of gameinformer

Hi, you don't know me. I'm just a gamer who enjoys reading your magazine. But this isn't about that. I'm part of the Skate 3 community. Now you may be thinking "Skate 3 community?" Well, let me explain that to you. It's more than just people who goof around and upload funny clips to the skate.Reel and goof off. It's group of people who have a common interest in making videos, complex graphics, and dedicated teams. While we all have lives to follow and jobs to work, this is a common hobby we all share and love to do. But EA has given up on the community, and started to focus on more "important" things like Battlefield 3 and The Sims. Don't get me wrong, those are both great titles, but I really want the reel taken care of. You see, sometime around the middle of November, the skate.Reel stopped working for Skate 3 and Skate 2. While everything works fine in-game, On the website it loads a blank screen for everything except for graphics, and for graphics, you can't send to game, it will just say "cannot retrieve in game graphics". And for Skate 2, the reel "works, you can still upload things, but when you search your name to download your clips to make a video, it says an error has occurred. Some of us have gone to customer service, but you can tell that they're just reading from a script, and don't care what's happening. The EA Skate community is very much alive. Here are some websites with proof of that fact:

http://likebuttermag.com
http://skatefluckit.com

And then here some videos of customer support conversations (not mine):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wUvW-7cSKI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN7DXl1UbN4

There are more conversations like this, you can go to customer support and try to talk to them about the problem.

This isn't letter wasn't written to complain about the problems Skate 3 and 2 are having. This letter wasn't written to tell you that after Skate 3 made enough money EA abandoned us. No. This is about how we still love this game, there are people that still play it, and we don't want it to die. If there is any way, you can get through to EA about this, please I beg of you, do it.
Sincerely,
Jay

(P.S. I checked EA's list of games that they put the servers down for, and Skate 3 and 2 aren't on there. They have to give us a 30-day notice about that.)

[Benutzer1Oliver]

This seems all pretty hopefull. But we can't change what ea is planning. It's all about money, we can't change ea, they'll have to spend thousends maybe millions of dollars for a new game and the skate community is just too small.
Yeah the support team is ridiculous but this is how it is, they're useless for every game.
Also if you want to get help, contact Cuz, he helped us when the servers where down the last time though he has nothing to do with the skate. series anymore. He has connections to people who might care about such issues.

[Slamooh]

Where is batPOTman when we need him ?

[Deacon]

Ok I have an idea!

Why don't we see how big the community really is outside of LB and Fluck it. There are plenty of people who upload videos on YT that aren't part of fluck it or like butter community.

We could use one of the free online petition sites, if anything just to collate the numbers etc. Get people to leave their GT/PSN and which games they own from the series.

Spam the graphics page on the site with links to the video and petition etc.

Between us, we must have a fair few subscribers on youtube. Lets create a short video of what we have brought to this game (PVR I will need your help here for clips from PS3 peeps) and what we wnat EA to do, and each post it on our channel with a download link, and ask people to DL and post the video on their channel as well.

Its not gonna cost us anything to do and can't hurt right? Never know we might get a big response, if we do send it to EA.

Anyone down?

[CKYdude93]

Ok I have an idea!

Why don't we see how big the community really is outside of LB and Fluck it. There are plenty of people who upload videos on YT that aren't part of fluck it or like butter community.

We could use one of the free online petition sites, if anything just to collate the numbers etc. Get people to leave their GT/PSN and which games they own from the series.

Spam the graphics page on the site with links to the video and petition etc.

Between us, we must have a fair few subscribers on youtube. Lets create a short video of what we have brought to this game (PVR I will need your help here for clips from PS3 peeps) and what we wnat EA to do, and each post it on our channel with a download link, and ask people to DL and post the video on their channel as well.

Its not gonna cost us anything to do and can't hurt right? Never know we might get a big response, if we do send it to EA.

Anyone down?

We have to take the fight to EA so I'm down. Put this thread on LB and we can spam the EA forums each day with separate threads. Maybe a drastic increase in Forum posts will get their attention. Let's formulate what we want in this video.

[i am a snail]

OCCUPY SAN VANELONA

[agusbmxarg]

Word ^^

[unplannedman]

This my letter to the Editor-in-Chief of gameinformer

Hi, you don't know me. I'm just a gamer who enjoys reading your magazine. But this isn't about that. I'm part of the Skate 3 community. Now you may be thinking "Skate 3 community?" Well, let me explain that to you. It's more than just people who goof around and upload funny clips to the skate.Reel and goof off. It's group of people who have a common interest in making videos, complex graphics, and dedicated teams. While we all have lives to follow and jobs to work, this is a common hobby we all share and love to do. But EA has given up on the community, and started to focus on more "important" things like Battlefield 3 and The Sims. Don't get me wrong, those are both great titles, but I really want the reel taken care of. You see, sometime around the middle of November, the skate.Reel stopped working for Skate 3 and Skate 2. While everything works fine in-game, On the website it loads a blank screen for everything except for graphics, and for graphics, you can't send to game, it will just say "cannot retrieve in game graphics". And for Skate 2, the reel "works, you can still upload things, but when you search your name to download your clips to make a video, it says an error has occurred. Some of us have gone to customer service, but you can tell that they're just reading from a script, and don't care what's happening. The EA Skate community is very much alive. Here are some websites with proof of that fact:

http://likebuttermag.com
http://skatefluckit.com

And then here some videos of customer support conversations (not mine):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wUvW-7cSKI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN7DXl1UbN4

There are more conversations like this, you can go to customer support and try to talk to them about the problem.

This isn't letter wasn't written to complain about the problems Skate 3 and 2 are having. This letter wasn't written to tell you that after Skate 3 made enough money EA abandoned us. No. This is about how we still love this game, there are people that still play it, and we don't want it to die. If there is any way, you can get through to EA about this, please I beg of you, do it.
Sincerely,
Jay

(P.S. I checked EA's list of games that they put the servers down for, and Skate 3 and 2 aren't on there. They have to give us a 30-day notice about that.)

So nobody cares about the letter I wrote?

[Ladd279]

I'll send one to gameInformer, they always seem to care about what's going in the gaming community

EDIT: When you guys send emails, make sure you guys spell everything correctly I don't don't mind it over on forums, but If we want them to takes us seriously, then we'll have to spell everything in correct english.

Hmm i see... Might want to proof read your letter theres some improper grammar in there. Just ex: This isn't letter wasnt

[CKYdude93]

Hi, you don't know me. I'm just a gamer who enjoys reading your magazine, but this isn't about that. I'm part of the Skate 3 community. Now, you may be thinking, "Skate 3 community?" Well, let me explain that to you. It's more than just people who goof around and upload funny clips to the skate.Reel. It's a group of people who have a common interest in making videos, complex graphics, and dedicated teams. While we all have lives to follow and jobs to work, this is a common hobby we all share and love to do. EA, however, has given up on the community and started to focus on more "important" things like Battlefield 3 and The Sims. Don't get me wrong those are both great titles, but I really want the reel taken care of. You see, sometime around the middle of November the skate.Reel stopped working for Skate 3 and Skate 2. While everything works fine in-game, on the website it loads a blank screen for everything except graphics and you can't even send the graphics to the game as it will just say "cannot retrieve in game graphics". For Skate 2, the reel "works", as in, you can still upload things, but when you search your name to download your clips to make a video, it says an error has occurred. Some of us have gone to customer service, but you can tell that they're just reading from a script, and don't care what's happening. The EA Skate community is still very much alive. Here are some websites with proof of that fact:

http://likebuttermag.com
http://skatefluckit.com

Also, here are some videos of customer support conversations (not mine):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wUvW-7cSKI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN7DXl1UbN4

There are more conversations like this, but it's pretty useless to go to customer support and try to talk to them about the problem.

This letter wasn't written to complain about the problems Skate 3 and 2 are having. This letter wasn't written to tell you that after Skate 3 made enough money EA abandoned us. This letter is about how we still love this game, there are people that still play it, and we don't want it to die. If there is anyway you can get through to EA about this then I beg of you, please do it.
Sincerely,
Jay

(P.S. I checked EA's list of games that they put the servers down for, and Skate 3 and 2 aren't on there. They have to give us a 30-day notice about that.)

^Fixed

[unplannedman]

Hmm i see... Might want to proof read your letter theres some improper grammar in there. Just ex: This isn't letter wasnt

I didn't say anything about grammar

[Ladd279]

I didn't say anything about grammar

Dude grammar is just as imporant as misspelling man

[CKYdude93]

Dude grammar is just as imporant as misspelling man

More important to me.

[madsser]

More important to me.

[oKwiider]

cool i just got 3 updates for sims 3 for the android...

[CKYdude93]

I wouldn't call myself a Nazi. Let's go with.... um something like a Nazi but not quite. HA GOT YOU! BURN!

[madsser]

I wouldn't call myself a Nazi. Let's go with.... um something like a Nazi but not quite. HA GOT YOU! BURN!

[unplannedman]

Hmm i see... Might want to proof read your letter theres some improper grammar in there. Just ex: This isn't letter wasnt

Also, saying "this letter wasn't" is not improper grammar. If you'd actually read the whole sentence, you would've read "this letter wasn't written" which is the exact same as saying, "this letter was not written" which is proper grammar

[Ladd279]

Also, saying "this letter wasn't" is not improper grammar. If you'd actually read the whole sentence, you would've read "this letter wasn't written" which is the exact same as saying, "this letter was not written" which is proper grammar

No if you would read you originally wrote "this isn't letter wasn't" so stop trying to find accuses to argue I was just pointing out you had other problems in the letter since you was all about not misspelling

[unplannedman]

No if you would read you originally wrote "this isn't letter wasn't" so stop trying to find accuses to argue I was just pointing out you had other problems in the letter since you were all about not misspelling

I know, but my point is, if you'd posted the whole sentence instead of taking it out of context, my grammar is fine

[CKYdude93]

I know, but my point is, if you'd posted the whole sentence instead of taking it out of context, my grammar is fine

Sorry dude, but no it isn't. Your sentence reads "This isn't letter wasn't written to complain about the problems Skate 3 and 2 are having." Break it apart and it says "This is not letter was not written to complain about the problems Skate 3 and 2 are having." First, it doesn't make sense. Second, it's a double negative. I'm no english teacher, and will never be one, but I'm good at it.

[unplannedman]

Sorry dude, but no it isn't. Your sentence reads "This isn't letter wasn't written to complain about the problems Skate 3 and 2 are having." Break it apart and it says "This is not letter was not written to complain about the problems Skate 3 and 2 are having." First, it doesn't make sense. Second, it's a double negative. I'm no english teacher, and will never be one, but I'm good at it.

Oh shit, I just realized that, I was so tired when I made those replies that I read over the obvious mistake

[Roke]

Where is batPOTman when we need him ?

haha good one

[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.

[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



EXPLAIN YOUR ISSUES

[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