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Were Arkane, Bioware, Rocksteady and Naughty Dog done in by live service strategies? (lemm.ee)
submitted 9 months ago by delitomatoes@lemm.ee to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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4 top tier single player games developers tasked to build live service games.

Naughty Dog hasn't released anything new, both sequels then silence. Suicide Squad kills the game studio. At least Arkane and Bioware are given chances to carry on with the next game.

We could have had the next big WB superhero game or Wolverine. Prey 2? There's a higher chance of Amy Henning working on a Soul Reaver game than ND coming out with an original IP

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[โ€“] macisr@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Arkane lost a lot core members because of problems with the last game, so yes for them. Rocksteady lost their two founders because of Suicide Squad. They just dipped in the middle if production. Pretty clear that they didn't like the direction WB was taking the game. Rocksteady was developing this for 7 years. They need this to work. So I kind of would say yea, they are probably done. Bioware, they are gone since a long time ago my friend, even before the last mass effect. Naughty Dog is fine i think, but that's because sony noticed that everyone was failing at doing live service shit and had the sense to pull the plugs before it all went to shit.

Arkane might continue as in name, but just as a puppet. Once a videogame company loses its core members or founders, it's the start of the end. Rocksteady is the same. They lost their founders and they are banking a lot in their game. Current BioWare doesn't have a single drop of their original dna in it.

[โ€“] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

sony noticed that everyone was failing at doing live service shit and had the sense to pull the plugs before it all went to shit.

Something tells me that if Naughty Dog didn't give Sony an ultimatum, Sony would have still been on board for building a live service game.