Skate’s 15-year journey to becoming a live service game has seemingly been well worth it. Less than a month after it’s public early access launch, developer Full Circle announced that Skate has reached an impressive milestone few games of its kind ever reach.
More than 15 million players have dropped into Skate since it released September 16. It’s an undeniably impressive figure in an era where the viability of newer live service games is on the decline. But there has been a lot working in its favor since its highly anticipated launch. This new, free-to-play version of Skate translates the last game’s meme-worthy virality extremely well, quickly becoming one of the biggest games on Twitch and social media. It also doesn’t sacrifice the core of what made the original series fun in the process.
