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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[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 9 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 hours ago

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.

[–] Soulifix@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 6 hours ago

About as good as Castlevania being a pachinko game.