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

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Leynos said:

twintail said:

Sounds like you don't care if ppl lose their jobs tbqh. Sony isn't going to stop exploring live service games since they need that sort of content to supplement what their main studios are outputting.

and fwiw, Concord is pretty unique in how it handles it's meta game, very unlike what other shooters are doing. But marketing has been bad for the game. Hopefully it has a decent launch and can build an audience over time. 

I don't want jobs lost but gaas like this needs to stop. No the game is DoA. beta numbers. Twitch views. Preorder rank. YT dislikes are not painting a good picture. Yes, normal people pay for fuckwad executive decisions. My best friend was one of the thousands laid off last year from the industry(On his Honeymoon no less). MLB games and was managed by a hire from nepotism. Nepotism idiot wanted everyone to use Alienware workstations. No shock they kept breaking down.   My buddy went to work for the post office and they treated him better. However, he is still doing indie projects.

Just don't play it, dude. IT's not that hard. It's not like the company making it is doing this instead of  Sly Cooper or something. 

The medium as a whole is immensely diverse. There's plenty of room for you to only play like 5% of all the games that come out and still be overwhelmed. I don't like FPS games all that much, or online games or most JRPGs or sports games or most racing games or most puzzle games or any Live services....but I still can't keep up. People playing Concord and Helldivers and League of Legends and World of Warcraft and Call of Duty and Fifa isn't making games like Elden ring or God of War or Tears of the Kingdom go away. 

You don't have to wish for the entire genre/style to go away just because it doesn't appeal to you. You can just...not play it and move on with your life. The number of live services or games with microtransactions/etc is actually really low...they're just generally quite popular and therefore get a lot of attention. But again, you don't have to play these games if you don't like the models. I don't like them either....so I'm just going through Elden Ring and Tears of the Kingdom and FFVII Rebirth and Baldur's Gate III and so many other games instead. Because there are options. Many people love MMOs and Live Services. I am not one of them. There's plenty of room in the medium to cater to both of us. you don't need to try to invalidate an entire style of game.