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After the catastrophe of Concord Sony is reportedly cancelling other projects including a God of War live service game (www.pcgamer.com)
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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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[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 4 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Like a subscription base game? World of Warcraft and other alike?

[–] icecreamtaco@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

no it's like fortnite or cod. They're usually quickplay multiplayer games with a low cost to entry, infinite grinding potential, and microtransaction hell

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 hours ago

Yeah, theoretically the exact model for monetization isn't as important, but many publishers are hoping to get players to pay subscriptions indefinitely.