9mo ago

Sony Cancels Two More PlayStation Projects

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Sony Cancels Two More PlayStation Projects in Broader Retreat

Both were live service; one at Bend, one at Bluepoint. Bluepoint was helping work on God of War: Ragnarok until 2022, at which point they were developing this now-cancelled God of War live service game.

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Finally the live service bubble is popping.
I hope the developers working on these projects get put on to something else, instead of shown the door as is so often the case.
- I think the huge critical acclaim of Astrobot was also a very important lesson for them to learn. People often seem to glance over this recently.
  
  I stopped buying consoles when they started charging for online.
  Feels like I made the right decision.
Oh no, two live service cesspools didn’t get released.
Anyway…
Live service doesn't need to be shit.
There could have been games where there was just a brilliant idea for a game that keeps having engaging content on an ongoing basis with passionate devs.
But live service so an exec could check a box for their quarterly shareholder call was always going to be DOA.
- The game they killed 3 days after release might have been good but i haven't seen a single gameplay video or have any idea of what the game was about. Are they that scared of releasing a shit game and keeping it playable but dead for a while?
  
  Keeping it running has ongoing costs involved. It would just be setting money on fire.
  
  hero shooter with uninspiring designs that cost money whereas the top offerings in this category are all free.
- There's a live service DOA? /s
- Keeping engaging content on an ongoing basis seems to be such an unreachable target for most devs and game designs that it's undoing large swaths of the industry.
Sony bend? Make another syphon filter game damnit
- Best we can do is include Gabe Logan in a live service game as a paid character ($80).
- Bubsy 5D you said?
Aww cmon. Just one more try.

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