The only good live service game is a cancelled live service game.
And Warframe.
Digital Extremes should be the industry’s example of how a live service game should be managed. It’s butthole-clenching to think that they were almost bought by Sony a few years ago.
At least Tencent is hands-off I guess :/
They also have the advantage of having gotten in when the getting was good. You can’t just do again what they did with any kind of consistency for success, or everyone would.
Sony is a Japanese company yet they want to target the Western gamer with their live service game and use a Western studio to make it. Like do they not know how often people play f2p games in their domestic market? The F2P market in East Asia is a lot bigger than here in the West. And the average western F2P player spends less money then the average Japanese F2P player. Also they keep trying to make a live service game with triple A realistic graphics which is the dumbest thing they can do. Cost too much money and doesn’t attract young and Asian players.
Like even Nintendo has success in the F2P market with Fire Emblem and Animal Crossing.
The key sections (they wanted a cash cow):
Fairgames, announced in 2023, was part of an ongoing initiative from the Japanese gaming group to release so-called “live-service” games, ones than continue to generate sales from in-game purchases long after they’re released. The game had been reworked several times over the last three years and was planning for a re-reveal with a new title.
A recent test of the game with thousands of players did not deliver the results PlayStation expected, the company said in an email to employees on Tuesday.
“While the test demonstrated strong operational excellence, live ops readiness and community engagement, player feedback and retention results were mixed and fell short of the goals we had set,” wrote executives Sean Decker and John Doyle in the note, which was reviewed by Bloomberg News. “Combined with challenging market conditions in the PVP shooter genre, we have made the difficult decision to cease development on the game.”
PlayStation has canceled several games and closed multiple studios in recent years, including Bluepoint and Dark Outlaw Games. Its live-service initiative, for which the company had said it would release more than a dozen games, has mostly been unsuccessful.
I they want my money, maybe they could just go back to also releasing their games on GOG.
I’d then be really happy to pay!
