Would you have tried out the canceled God Of War Live service game? (Poll)

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twintail said:

Norion said:

Perhaps. It makes sense they'd wanna release at least one of the spin-offs to see how it performs and they're not gonna fully pull back from pursuing the live service model. Though the Lego Horizon game seemingly flopping that could make them reconsider since Aloy doesn't seem to have much pull if it's not a main game.

Lego Horizon not selling well is neither here nor there. They have a relationship with Lego and Lego wanted them to make a Horizon game. And they figured they'd explore it. 

if anything, it only shows that their non-live service games can also not be winners. 

Mar1217 said:

*Sigh* Welp at least they might have learned something from this whole ordeal. Though, I also see this as being only part of their fiscal restructuring and terminating the projects that seemed less ideal in their development so far.

I mean, Marathon the game by Bungie is still coming + another new IP from a smaller team that was created from the staff "exchange" last year.

Man ... The PS5 appart from some of the good 3rd party games is proving itself to have one the worst 1st party lineup in Sony's overall history

I doubt it. As you said, they're probably just cutting projects that aren't hitting their internal goals, nothing more and nothing less. Neither of these 2 games were even formally announced, just that the teams were working on something. 

I don't even think there's any cause for concern here outside of Bend and BluePoint seemingly having worked on live service titles instead of the expected SP games. Horizon MP is still rumoured to be coming. Fairgame$ is still coming. Marathon is coming. if those 3 work out then these other cancellations will mean nothing in the grand scheme of Sony's live service push.

@bolded, I think this is a really optimistic take. I think the main cause for concern, is that typically the Sony fanbase have been on the platform primarily for high quality SP game experiences. Its the backbone of the PS3 comeback and the PS4's success. Allocating resources to expand into live services is not an issue, if it has no material impact on the SP game experiences and release cadence. Up to now, it didnt seem to be too impactful, but with this latest news, its clear that outside of the games thats been announced, Sony has no other PS5 SP games coming. So there has indeed been an impact.

With regards to the live services game successes, I cant see the Horizon MP game becoming a massive hit, HFW is already showing a dip in the franchise popularity, I am not sure how they plan to take that audience and push live service/MP its not the right audience. Fairgame$ is looking like it will be cancelled soon after its released similar to concord. Marathon has a chance of the success that Sony want, but I mean this already costed them 3 billion. None of these decisions make any sense, and they certainly dont make financial success except in that one super rare scenario where they make a fortnight level franchise by some miracle.