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

[Norion]

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 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.

I do think if it gets cancelled that the failure of the Lego game could potentially be a factor in that decision cause it is a bad sign for the appeal of the Horizon IP outside of the main games. The lack of interest compared to The Skywalker Saga is very stark even when taking the better reception of that into account, like people barely cared when it was revealed to the extent that the main discussion surrounding it was it getting a Switch port. There's also that the VR game didn't make much of a splash so the IP likely having poor spin-off potential is a fair assessment I'd say.

Now this isn't to say that they should cancel it, it's probably worth releasing at least one of these live service spin-offs to see how it performs but I don't have high hopes for it.