| Qwark said: Funny that they cancelled factions but thought releasing this garbage was a good idea |
| Ryuu96 said: *Looks at Bungie* Wasn't it Bungie that partly influenced Sony to cancel Factions? And Sony was asking Bungie to look at their portfolio of GAAS titles? I'm genuinely curious what Bungie thought of Concord now and if they said it would be a hit. Though again, there's still Helldivers 2 and that was a huge success but honestly at this stage, it's pretty damn obvious that Factions would have been hugely more popular than Concord. Someone cancelled Factions but went ahead with Concord. |
Bungie had questions about long term play, and Naughty Dog apparently took it to heart and cancelled the game.
Bungie gave Naughty Dog feedback that Naughty Dog found extremely helpful when making what was likely a very smart decision to not go all in on a service game
— Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier) August 1, 2024
There was a little bit more information in his article last year.
Hard to say exactly what the issue with Factions was.
Some people think maybe the game was just bad to play.
I think given what Naughty Dog is structured around, the issue was probably scaling up the game. ND usually spends massive budgets on ~20 hour games. Not really conducive to making games that people play for 1000 hours.
