Skate 4 is an E3 2017 no-show, and people are pissed

"Do not 🥃trust to hope.🅺 It has forsaken these lands." So said Eomer in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, but he may as well have been talking to fans of EA's Skate series going into E3 2017. The rumor mill has a tendency to let things spin out of control like a flubbed 360 flip, and wishes that we might finally see a Skate 4 have been dashed now that the EA Play press conference has come and gone.
All those hopes and dreams for Skate 4 can be traced back to a (what we now know to be ill-advised) tweet made earlier this year by Daniel Lingen, a senior mana๊ger for community engagement at EA. Earlier this year, he tweeted out a simple, cryptic message that could only be interpreted as a sign of the Skate series continuing with a new sequel. EA CEO Andrew Wilson later the idea by stating that EA isn't currently working on a new Skate, but the rumor was already out in the world and ingrained in the hearts of the hopeful.
#skate4
Plenty of people took to 🥀Twitter to express their frustration w🅠ith EA seemingly ignoring this franchise with diehard fans:
"The floor is Skate 4" EA: pic.twitter.co♍m/4iKHTix4M9
Well, guess I should probably take down the &ldqu🎃o;Welcome, Skate 4” party banners I put up this morning.
People watching that care about NBA Live: 13People watching that care about Skate 4: 2,043,899,154#EAPL൲AY
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skate 4 will bring my father back
After Skate 4 was nowhere to be found as the press conference wrapped up, those desperate for something - anything - to believe in drowned their sorrows in what they wished were Skate 4 screens. In case you're wondering, those are Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 and Razor Freestyle Scooter, though with just how obsessed EA is with 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Star Wars Battlefront 2, yo🐻u'd be forgiven for thinking that Darth Maul could have a place in Skate 4.
LEAKED SCREENSHOT FROM SKATE 4 #EAPLAY pic.twitter.com/ꦗSPRFcggYa🧔N
SKATE 4 IS LOOKING SO DAMN GOOD #EAPLAY #E3201🌳7 pic.twitter.com/XXFnKﷺBaFpD
And then... EUREKA! A brilliant realization: get John Boyega to tweet his opinion to EA! If it worked for getting a single-player stoᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ✃ᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚry campaign into Battlefront 2, who's 🎐to say Boyega couldn't will Skate 4 into existence?!
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John Boyega, please tell EA about how much 🍸you l🃏ike #Skate4
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