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[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 66 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Sony said in 2022 that it wanted to release 12 live service games by 2025, but by the time 2025 rolled around it had cancelled eight of those projects and effectively walked away from the entire strategy.

Good people have to die for idiot king to realise their own stupidity. RIP Bluepoint, you guys are so close to remake Bloodborne.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

The plan was one company making TWELVE live services in one year.

Hey, Sony execs, quick game : make me a list of 12 currently running, succesful live service games, from any company. Oh, and don't count mobile shit, you're a console seller, that's not the experience you're providing even if you wanted to.

Bonus round : estimate the rough cumulated gaming time of all of your user base and divide it by 12. Now estimate the level of engagement these freaking games require. And take into account that there may also be other games around, and some people may want to play them too, amazingly.

Oops.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

if they were making 12 of anything, they were expecting some to succeed and some to fail

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 4 points 2 days ago

And since a live service game comes with the expectation that it's not complete and will get more content later, making so many expecting most of them to fail is a big fuck you to anyone who actually bought the ones that get abandoned.

[–] undeffeined@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

They really don't think these things through, do they?

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If Sony is walking away why the fuck is that abomination Horizon game still being worked on that literally nobody fucking asked for

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

12 planned, 8 cancelled, 4 still alive, horizon one probably one of those 4, probably kept alive because it's almost finished and it's a known IP?

[–] KenOh@feddit.online 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That's exactly it. They were TOO close to making BB remake a reality, so they had to be stopped.

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

We all know it's all about Bloodborne.

[–] HereIAm@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Definitely. It's too bad I can never replay the original Blood born again. Game's great, love the story, art, gameplay. But it only uses 20% of my GPU so it's just pointless to play it now /s