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Plebcouncilman, do games w After the catastrophe of Concord Sony is reportedly cancelling other projects including a God of War live service game

All I read here is that there are still 8 too many live service games in development. Are execs addicted to gambling or what? Because that’s exactly what live service game development is. Also I would like to know what kind of research they are doing that indicates that more live service games is what the market wants, when people who play them rarely ever switch once they find the one they like and at this point there are entirely too many of them.

Stovetop,

Live service games that become successful can make billions of dollars, so everyone is trying to be the next big one. Having a ton of concurrent live service projects is the “throw shit at a wall and see what sticks” strategy. They expect most to fail but hope that the 1 that succeeds makes up for it and then some.

Plebcouncilman,

Hence why I called it gambling.

AFC1886VCC, do games w After the catastrophe of Concord Sony is reportedly cancelling other projects including a God of War live service game

Live service deez nuts. Shitty trend that needs to die.

rimjob_rainer,

Live service games generate a constant income with minimal effort once it’s live. It will only die if players stop spending money on such games.

andrew_bidlaw, do games w After the catastrophe of Concord Sony is reportedly cancelling other projects including a God of War live service game
@andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works avatar

I can’t imagine how it sucks to being these devs. They obviuosly earned more and lived better than me, but I’d have a hard time parting with some project even if they are all mismanaged unborn messes.

Krudler,

I was a professional developer in a wide range of gaming areas for about 20 years… Looking back, I can honestly say that 95% of the work I did ended up as a vapor… The 5% that made it to market were so fleeting…

I derived my satisfaction not from completing projects, but solving the underlying problems. That kept me very engaged.

But yeah, not everybody sees things this way.

djsoren19, do games w After the catastrophe of Concord Sony is reportedly cancelling other projects including a God of War live service game

Good! Wonder what trend the brain-dead CEOs are going to chase after now. Cozy games?

eronth,

Platformers.

SoupBrick,

Especially if Silksong comes out this year. I could see a board memeber pointing at it saying, “IF THAT FLAT GAME CAN MAKE A MORBILLION DOLLARS, WE CAN MAKE ONE SO FAST AND GET SO MUCH MONEY!”

Soulifix,

But then someone will remind them "sir...that's what mobile gaming is"

CileTheSane,
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They’ll ask the AI what to make then ask the AI to code it and use AI art.

ShinkanTrain,

Just ask “what is making money” to get the answer. It’s still live service and gacha shit, but I’m sure they’ll try to add machine learning to it somehow cause you gotta have that

kandoh,
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I think they’re going to jump ship for straight up gambling apps. That seems like the growth area now.

icecreamtaco,
@icecreamtaco@lemmy.world avatar

Since games take 5+ years to make now we’re probably in for a wave of metaverse products.

djsoren19,

Ooh, this seems like an excellent guess.

TommySoda, do games w After the catastrophe of Concord Sony is reportedly cancelling other projects including a God of War live service game

I don’t even know what a God of War live service game would be like but I can’t imagine it would be good.

Soulifix,

About as good as Castlevania being a pachinko game.

Ephera,

It would certainly be weird, after their recent games were so story-driven. You can’t tell a good story, if you need to always keep the end open for possible expansions.

vaguerant, do games w After the catastrophe of Concord Sony is reportedly cancelling other projects including a God of War live service game
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Bend is best-known for Days Gone and, back in the day, Syphon Filter

Are we just gonna pretend Bubsy 3D never existed?

newthrowaway20,

Damn. Bubsy 3D to Days Gone. What a redemption arc lol

Snowclone, do games w After the catastrophe of Concord Sony is reportedly cancelling other projects including a God of War live service game

11 days? How is that even enough to see if it could many money? It sounds like they were very excited to pull the plug at the first hiccup

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

When a game cost that much to make and didn’t launch with big numbers, there was no prayer of it ever making money.

NuXCOM_90Percent, do games w After the catastrophe of Concord Sony is reportedly cancelling other projects including a God of War live service game

GoW as a live game isn’t the most out there thing. Tens of people liked the multiplayer mode in Ascension (?) and the reception to the roguelite mode was generally very favorable. And the core game already had gear based progression that could map to something like what Ghost of Tsushima has (that has hundreds of people who like it…).

But having frigging Bluepoint spend cycles on this? I am sure that the studio asked for something more than just remakes but… what?


I don’t think it at all matches “Never ask me about my past” Dad Kratos and nobody likes Atreus enough, but one could easily imagine an “open world” live service game where new gods and factions are added every few months and you do quests for or against them.

DoucheBagMcSwag, do games w After the catastrophe of Concord Sony is reportedly cancelling other projects including a God of War live service game

cancelled God of War sequel

“That’s bad!”

Live service

“That’s good!”

Omgboom, do games w After the catastrophe of Concord Sony is reportedly cancelling other projects including a God of War live service game

Oh well thank god then

henfredemars, do games w After the catastrophe of Concord Sony is reportedly cancelling other projects including a God of War live service game

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

Kolanaki, do games w Alan Emrich, the game designer and writer who coined the term '4X,' has died
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Named it 4X; but the X stands for words that begin with E.

Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate.

Why aren’t they 4E games? 🤦‍♂️

Deceptichum,

Because the Ecks is what you hear in all of them.

wandermind,

4Ex

warmaster,

Scott Pilgrim’s Civilization

lud,

Thats Stellaris

daniskarma, do games w Alan Emrich, the game designer and writer who coined the term '4X,' has died

May he rest in eternity.

droporain, do games w Alan Emrich, the game designer and writer who coined the term '4X,' has died

Now with 4x death!

FrostyCaveman, do games w Alan Emrich, the game designer and writer who coined the term '4X,' has died

Oh damn, thats a name I admittedly haven’t heard in a while. This guy had a huge impact on the games I played growing up. Still play the Master of Orion games every now and then. RIP

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