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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to c/games@lemmy.world

In the graveyard of live service games Concord may just be the biggest headstone, and that seems to have focused some minds over at PlayStation. Previously the noises coming from Sony were all about the importance of live service games to its future strategy, and it had announced plans to launch more than 10 live service games by the 2025 fiscal year, which ends on March 31, 2026.

Now? Not so much. A new Bloomberg report reveals that "following a recent review" PlayStation has canceled two unannounced live service games in development at subsidiaries Bend Studio and Bluepoint Games. Bend is best-known for Days Gone and, back in the day, Syphon Filter, while Bluepoint mainly handles high-profile remakes like Demon's Souls.

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[-] RangerJosie@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

The more canceled live service games the better.

Make a real game or don't bother.

[-] Shape4985@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago

Thank fuck now more effort can be put elsewhere instead of live service slop.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Lmao. GoW live service? Fucking hell it's video games by committee.

[-] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

This was inevitable as soon as games started getting the budgets of blockbuster movies. No one wants to invest that much money into a project without getting some oversight and control in return.

Of course, very, very few people who have access to that kind of cash have any design sense whatsoever, and even fewer understand the creative process, or what makes games "good"... so they ask for shit that they think will be "safe" money-makers, and we get what we get: endless, samey, soulless shlock.

[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 months ago

While playing the single player masterpiece which was God of War, I absolutely thought: "The only way to make this game better is if I had the luxury of buying a battle pass to grind for seasonal cosmetics along with a dozen other people." 🤤🤤🤤🤑

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub -1 points 6 months ago

I’ve played each game and they are all awesome.

[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 months ago

Would be better if you can earn skibidi toilet emoji dances for Kratos

[-] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

Would love to see a kratos twerking emote

[-] yeather@lemmy.ca -1 points 6 months ago

Play Fortnite

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It’s for the best. The series deserves better than live service.

[-] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

So the fuckers can learn!

[-] mechoman444@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Looks like we dodged a bullet with God of war live service.

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

There's always the option of just not buying a game when it releases.

[-] shindig1457@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

The problem being that execs often learn the wrong lesson from that. Instead of learning that this type of live service game isn't wanted by the market, they're likely to learn that this series of games or this character is no longer wanted.

[-] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah, cancelling this seems like a good call.

[-] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 months ago

god of war live service? wtf???

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 0 points 6 months ago

Stupid question, but was is a live service game?

[-] DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 1 points 6 months ago

The worst thing about a live service game to me is that they only work when you can connect to the official servers. Many live service games have shut down and there is no offline mode to continue playing. Sometimes you still pay full price for these games. Sometimes games like The Crew, shut down after you spent money to play it and then The Crew 2 comes out so you pay full price for essentially the same game and the first one doesn't work anymore.

[-] Etterra@discuss.online 0 points 6 months ago

Good, live service games are cancer.

[-] john89@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

I disagree, they have their place. Counterstrike, for example.

Call of Duty and Battlefield would be better if they followed Counterstrike's release model.

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