Good, live service games in general are dreck and I would take an experimental single player game over live service garbage anyday of the week.
I guess it would depend on the live service.
If God of War live service was you being a custom demi-god in that Universe with 1000hrs of reasonable grind MPARPG gameplay, good story, and a skill tree you couldn’t re-spec easily, I might be onboard.
If we are talking a GoW MOBA with loot box reskins, die in a fire the hard way.
Ok, but one of those is a realistic expectation, and the other is a delusional pipe dream.
Which is why I have never played Fortnite, Destiny, GTAO, and have hundreds of hours in Brotato, Binding of Isaac, Stardew Valley, and thousands of hours in Fallout and TES.
Preach!!!
And nothing of value was lost.
Please let them bring back Studio Japan and Studio Liverpool.
They don’t need to produce mega-expensive projects. I just miss there being some real variety in Sonys first party titles. They axed and consolidated so much that they basically just make one game in different flavors now.
They’re all great games… But like, adventure game with a balance of platforming, combat and “listen to some characters talk while you run around” gets a little old.
Isn’t Sony buying From Software? Let me put my idiot hat on for a second…
Looks like they’re realising the value of quality game experiences and are pivoting away from live service!
If Sony wants to survive this video game “crash” they have to copy the Nintendo-Strategy.
The early one or the right now one
The early one, they can’t skip building IP and a Brand based on Quality and jump directly to the Disney/Now Nintendo approach of suing everything.
Just had to be sure
they were planning on buying fromsofts parent company kadokawa.
that deal fell flat and they instead ‘just’ bought 10% of kadokawas stock,
making them a top shareholderHmm. That sounds more like they’re taking the posture of an activist investor. What’s the endgame, you think?
Or they’ll do Elden Ring 2 with GoW gameplay as a live service game because surely people just want a new but proven IP.
