PlayStation Nation |OT| Playing Astro Bot on the Horizon Until Dawn

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rapsuperstar31 said:

coolbeans said:

This whole situation is so confusing.  Factions II seemed like an easy shoe-in.  I can't fathom any of its most dedicated fans asking for more than understandable basics:

-Part II's gameplay foundation (of course)

-A decent variety of launch maps

-Avoid OG Factions' few missteps, like a couple of OP weapons (that were kinda pay-2-win)

-A non-intrusive cosmetic storefront

The more bad news I hear from this, the more I wonder what ND had in mind.  

I think that is what they had going on with it, until Bungie looked at it and told them this wasn't going to be something that kept people coming back to it for years to come.

That just sounds too reductive though.  Sure, Bungie reportedly went over there to gauge their live-service elements, but there has to be something more about ND getting swamped by their own ambitions or something.  Was there more of a unified shared world a la The Division going on?  Were there hours and hours of cutscenes?  Like, there has to be some kind of major timesink that got their team off-track.  Even something like an online shared hub akin to Destiny can take a lot of work to get right.