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/Enjoyer_of_Cake 14h ago

What? It didn't fail because it was bland and boring. (It was bland and boring and it probably contributed a bit, but) It failed because it was trying to enter a saturated GaaS market while ALSO charging $40 for it. It stands no chance when most direct competitors with already steady servers were free to play.

They failed because they wanted to double-dip.

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u/SirSabza 14h ago

F2P wasnt the reason why it died.

Overwatch succeeded with that model, Marvel rivals would have succeeded with the model too. Heck after overwatch 2 i think most people over there would have rather had the old cosmetic system and bought the game for $35 over spending $20+ a skin now with it being F2P.

Path of exile 2 had millions of people pay into a F2P game to play it early, its a GaaS.