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.
Looks like we dodged a bullet with God of we’re live service.
Lmao. GoW live service? Fucking hell it’s video games by committee.
A God of War live service game? Who the fuck signed off on that? I’m glad the article was able to zero in on the blistering stupidity of such a thing.
Live service deez nuts. Shitty trend that needs to die.
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.” 🤤🤤🤤🤑
Good riddance. Seems like Sony got the message; we’re sick of everything being a “live service”.
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.
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.
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
When a game cost that much to make and didn’t launch with big numbers, there was no prayer of it ever making money.
