I was expecting to be disappointed at Bluepoint working on a God of War game. But working on a live service God of War game is so much worse. After Demon's Souls Remake, I was really hopeful for their next game. I loved it. It's my top 3 Sony games this gen with God of War Ragnarok and Astro Bot. I'm so disappointed.
I'm also baffled that Sony had them working on a live service game. I totally understood Sony wanting to make live service games, but I'm just blown away that it just seems to get worse and worse as time goes on. A lot of their live service stuff came from new studios (Bungie, Firesprite, Haven, Firewalk). I understood that strategy, even if it felt excessive to me. I thought Bluepoint was a safe studio to have making single player games.
And I was really hoping by now, that we'd be done hearing about the live service disaster.
Even if you thought you had to make like 15 live service games, how do you pass over so many of your strong single player studios to do that? Especially for a company that practically built it's fanbase the past few gens on single player games. Sony's first party was very strong during the PS4 gen, and a lot of that credit goes to their single player studios (Uncharted, The Last of Us, Horizon, God of War, Days Gone, Bloodborne, Spider-Man, Ghost of Tsushima).
I'm getting overly dramatic here, but why on Earth did they feel like they needed to spit on that fanbase?
To add onto that list: Firesprite had an Action Shooter of some kind, that got cancelled.
Concord [cancelled]
Unannounced God of War game [cancelled]
The Last of Us multiplayer [cancelled]
Spider-Man 2 multiplayer [cancelled]
Bend Studio multiplayer [cancelled]
Twisted Metal (Firesprite) [cancelled]
London Studio's co-op game (studio closed) [cancelled]
Deviation Games' MP game [cancelled]
"Payback" (3rd person Destiny spin-off from Bungie) [cancelled]
I feel like this is still missing some games.
Helldivers 2 came out and was a good success.
Fairgame$ is still in development.
Marathon, I think there's another Bungie project or two.
The hopefully positive point here though is that Sony continues to make a big reversal.
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