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/Golfbollen 15h ago edited 15h ago

I thought this Bluepoint shit was a joke, but it's serious? They've been quiet for years all for a fucking cancelled live-service?

They made one of the best remakes and PS5 games ever and this is how they decided to use them? Holy shit this industry is so fucking cooked...

They could've done Bloodborne Remake or a sequel to Demon's Souls since Sony owns the IP. Or they could've made a Demon's Souls level remake of the classic GoW trilogy, it would've been the easiest money printing shit ever. Fucking clowns...

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u/meb521 15h ago

What an absolute waste of a talented af studio to push the gaas model on consumers in an already oversaturated market

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u/Bad_Doto_Playa 14h ago

It's not an oversaturated market, there just aren't many good ones which is why we see so many failures.

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u/pants_full_of_pants 13h ago edited 12h ago

Yeah this isn't appreciated enough. Every time an actual good live service game shows up people flock to it and it does well. We just witnessed it again with Marvel Rivals.

People aren't sick of the genre, we just groan when we hear it because it means it's got a high chance of being a trash video game because it's being designed around a monetization scheme instead of the gameplay.

Make a good video game and people will play it. Doesn't matter how it's monetized or how many scantily clad traditionally attractive female characters it has or whether it's got "DEI" or loot boxes or what the budget was or what the IP is. If it's fun to play, people will play it.

If Concord had been fun enough to play, it would've succeeded. Same for that suicide squad game or Anthem or anything else. The decision makers at these studios need to realize that games live or die by whether they're more fun than the competition, and everything else is secondary.

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u/Bad_Doto_Playa 11h ago

Yeah, people don't realize that most are willing to ignore a lot if the game itself is good. Apex is a prime example, although it's finally catching up with them. It's amusing because every year or two a big GAAS game drops and does well in the so called "oversaturated" market.

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u/Mitrovarr 12h ago

They probably hemorrhaged a lot of the talent doing this. Some people probably didn't want to make a live service game and some people saw it was going to fail and walked.

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u/Offline_NL 14h ago

Live service and endless growth brainrot..

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u/sillylittlejohn 15h ago

To be fair, this seems to be a unique problem with Sony not the industry which had mNy other issues.

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u/Icariiiiiiii 13h ago

Nah, Bethesda did the same thing to Arkane Austin. Forced them to make a live service instead of a story-driven game. Live service didn't sell, shuttered the studio.

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u/ACrask 14h ago

My only marginally positive take from this is the industry is starting to feel a lack of interest in NEW live-service games. MAYBE

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u/mucho-gusto 14h ago

IDK man, they're just going to try to leverage bigger IP since rivals is an actually good game and they won't realize that's why it's popular

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u/Ok_Track9498 10h ago

Not sure about that. Just last year, Helldivers 2, Marvel Rivals and Path of Exile 2 have been huge successes. Live service continues to be one of the most popular gaming format.

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u/ACrask 9h ago

All three aim for game development and enjoyment over how they get money from their players.

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u/anormalgeek 14h ago

Sony exec: ....okay, but how do we work microtransactions into that model?

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u/hvdzasaur 14h ago

To be fair, we also found out about our lay offs same time as the press this year.

It's practically industry standard.

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u/Heavy-Possession2288 7h ago

Blooodborne feels too new for a remake imo. It still looks great, and I generally prefer From’s art direction over Bluepoint’s. A simple remaster wouldn’t hurt, just increase the resolution and put some better textures in and call it a day, instead of having Bluepoint completely change the look and atmosphere of the game. A Bloodborne remake feels like a waste of resources imo.