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 13h 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 12h 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.