Sony is going hard on live-service games

12 more live services just means 12 more minimum viable products like the rest that have been coming out lately.

I wonder if they are going to fail as hard as Ubisoft with their desperation to get a live-service game that sticks.

No thank you, will pass on that

Live-service is pointless at this time. I wish more companies would do CDPR's approach to Witcher 3 and give us small free DLCs whilst we wait for meaningful content, rather than live service SP games like Ubisoft are somehow managing to churn out.

So the plan is pushing nothing remotely fun or entertaining and wanting us to move elsewhere, such as Steam. Gotcha.

I hate live-service type of games.

It'll only work, for me, if they don't slack on the quality single-player games. There is a way to foster good live-service games, but publishers nearly always lean too heavily on the monetization elements instead of the actual game. If Sony can manage the common pitfalls of live-service games, like pushing the game out too quickly to try and capitalize on the monetization while the devs finish the game, no good narrative, having major story and back story points presented in some obtuse manner - like putting them on a website instead of in the game, over-charging for mediocre "expansions", obviously having any kind of pay to win microtransactions.... it would nice. Shocking, but nice. There's a lot of ways to screw things up. We'll see if Sony has the willpower and fortitude to produce the kind of quality they seem to hold dear in their live-service titles.

I wonder how many they are expecting/hoping to be successful. Live service games have such a high failure rate but the ones that make it big, make it real big.

Genuinely disgusted hearing/reading the words "Live Service". Games are not a service

NxtDoc said:Sadly, modern publishers disagree. To quote Jim Sterling "They don't just want some of the money, they want all the money"