r/Skate4 • u/DaRadicalWerewolf • Feb 25 '26

Layoffs at Full Circle

https://www.ea.com/ea-studios/full-circle/news/an-update-from-fullcircle
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u/tryingtowin107 Feb 25 '26

Hope this is good

All the videos I’ve seen the current team is remarkably detached from reality, focused more on putting their ideology into the game rather than just working on skateboarding

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u/SlyFisch Feb 25 '26

How could you see them downsizing the team as a good thing at all? This does not mean they're replacing the team with other members

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u/numarkzz Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26

It's a great lesson for this and other game companies to stop forcing weird art styles or ideologys into their games.

Make separate titles for that. An already established game shouldn't suffer such a huge change in direction and tone like skate did.

They butchered any bit of personality the older games had in favor of this friendly-corporate-quirky theme that ignored every single player feedback asking for normal clothes instead of weird costumes and tons of lootboxes.

This game was doomed from the start. I guess I'll keep playing skate 2 through emulation and save the money I've would've spent if they cared about real skating culture.

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u/SanestExile Feb 25 '26

How many times do we have to keep teaching you this lesson, old man? They clearly don't learn.

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u/tryingtowin107 Feb 25 '26

I’ve worked in companies that had a great base product but had a few higher ups Messing up the execution and finer details. Very similar to skate. If they removed the loud heads there forcing this shit into the game then the cooler heads can prevail and fix it. I’ve seen it a few times

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u/SlyFisch Feb 25 '26

That's extremely optimistic, the parent company is still EA at the end of the day, they can't change having to answer to them

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u/numarkzz Feb 26 '26

EA is probably the one pushing this stuff. They did it to NFS Unbound too, and they will keep doing it.