For EA, this was an admission that the company has been listening to the fans, even if it hasn’t moved as quickly as most would have liked. Skate 4 is still apparently in early development, with some insiders saying it has been recently rebooted.
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Parry admitted that fans “commented [Skate 4] into existence,” which is a stunning achievement all its own. Through various hashtags and chat spam, the fan base showed EA that it wanted a new Skate game. The voices were so loud, in fact, that Skate 4 was a higher trending topic than many of the new games EA announced at past conferences.
In addition to the chat spam and trends, Skate fans used a ton of different memes to help force EA’s hand, in a way. These memes showed EA both how desperate players were for a new game and how much of a long-running joke the lack of a Skate 4 announcement had become.
Some of our favorite Skate 4 memes focused around the idea that players were becoming increasingly more despondent every time that EA didn’t announce a new game. Others mashup existing meme templates to fit the Skate 4 concept perfectly.
Now that Skate 4 (or a new Skate game) has been officially announced by Electronic Arts, there will likely be a new game to take on the role of meme king. Considering how EA announced and then didn’t really talk about Dragon Age 4, it seems like BioWare’s upcoming sequel is a strong candidate to take up the Skate 4 mantle.
However, there was something perfect about Skate 4 because the concept was so simple and the fan base was so voracious for another one. BioWare has had a few missteps in its recent tenure, and so its upcoming games might not work as well.
Maybe Skate 4 lives on as the meme game forever, or at least until the sequel officially releases. Either way, a new Skate is in development and that’s all that most fans care about at this point. Who would have thought 2020 would give gamers a new Half-Life game and confirmation of Skate 4?
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