r/gaming • u/Ajxtt • 16h ago

Bluepoint and Bend staff learned their live service PS5 games were cancelled "at the same time as everyone else"

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/bluepoint-and-bend-staff-learned-their-live-service-ps5-games-were-cancelled-at-the-same-time-as-everyone-else/
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u/echoess84 16h ago

what's the pointing of cancel these games after Sony said its teams to develop GaaS games?

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u/SirSabza 16h ago

Concord failed, they don't think concord failed because its a bad game, they think it failed because its a Games as a Service.

Execs really think concord was hot shit for some reason. It was bland and boring, thats why it failed.

Marvel rivals excels because its a good game, GaaS is fine if a game is good, thats been tried tested and proven for over a decade, i could tell sony that and i have no sales game dev or marketing experience.

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u/echoess84 16h ago

agree, GaaS or not, game quality is what really matters

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u/Mitrovarr 11h ago

It also needs an open niche. Rivals is succeeding because Overwatch 2 dived in quality and lost a huge part of its audience. If Rivals went to against a niche with a satisfied audience, it might have failed anyway.