Playstation's Live-Service Plan In Shambles (not just concord...)

Sony are in trouble: the Playstation 'seal of approval' no longer guarantees sales. Concord is dead, and worry is setting around Fairgame$ and Marathon.

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[LilFeralGangrel]

I feel like we're in this weird era where a lot of the execs in too many corporations are making their decisions purely on the basis of vibes. Sony with Live Service, Square Enix with Crypto, NFTs and AI, Hasbro with everything it has been doing with Magic and DnD.

These people fundamentally do not understand the industry their corporations are in, they fundamentally do not understand their products, their customers/audiences, nor do they seem to understand business itself.

[sneedler]

Lets try and get it back like Morbius so we can watch it flop a second time. 😂

[aznhomig]

I am happy to see Jim Ryan's hopes for live service slop being the future of gaming going up in smoke.

[mrm]

It's a shame that those 200 million haven't been spend on an actual good game. 😕

[Doc-Glock]

Concord isn't just an embarrassing failure, it's an embarrassing _high profile_ failure. It's going to be interesting to look over and scrutinize.

At the same time, it's kind of refreshing to see people collectively just say "No" to something that was clearly eight years too late.

[lucasLSD]

Japan Studio died for this, 200 million to sell less than Gravity Rush.

[TDJunkie]

Let us all remember that this is what Sony Japan was killed for. Fucking disgraceful.

[pragmatk]

If you create a character, and it doesn't inspire someone to make fanart, you have a dead game.

[soundrogue]

14:14 I am sick and tired of live services; these aren't games but live services. I am sick of live services. Give us games we can play offline, not require PSN, etc, etc. We succeed when live services die.

[Cloud_Seeker]

"the best thing here is if good videogames comes out"
- And that is why we need to apply the stick, the stick and only the stick. We have tried telling them politely. Telling them harshly. Not saying anything if there is nothing good to say, and so on. They have refused to listen to anything but the stick. It is only when the stick comes out and come down hard and without mercy they care. They do not care about you, and we should not care about them. If you want good games. Apply stick until moral improves. It is the only way they listen.

[HiIThinkImReal]

"PlayStation does not have the entrenched audience who will buy their things sight unseen that they clearly thought they did."

Spot on. Sony fancies itself the Apple of the gaming industry - it is not.

[bikergirluk]

If only there was a way Sony could have heard the screams and read the concerns when they first announced their live service plan🙄

[BP-dnnv]

Notice that Jim Ryan conveniently left the company right before all these high profile failures came out.

[scottbyers]

My favorite thing is the $40 argument. No one played the FREE open beta lol. This game was an 8 year failure before it even released to the wild. Bungie better take heed for Marathon. They already have terrible history of launching games.

[tohur]

Sony of America runs the show now and gona run the PlayStation brand into the ground.. Sony of Japan needs to take back over the PlayStation brand

[darokdeed]

I enjoyed the faceplant that the game made.

[Valyn]

Helldiver's also has the critical booat that pure co-op games are an underserved market. Instead of the opposite that was Concord.

[walczak]

Its wild how these companies have streamlined making games so much that they forgot that theyre supposed to be innovative and creative. 2000-2015 was seriously a golden age and we had no idea. During those years the industry had the money to make awesome games but not the greed quite yet

[monody]

Problem with Concord's visuals is not the photorealism. Photoreal doesn't mean "goofy-ass".

[ogun]

I just laugh at another live service failure and keep playing my single player backlog