I thought it was a fake game with the "Rated E for Entitled", but it has a Steam page! (link)

It's crazy to me how fast these live service games are being shutdown if they aren't deemed to be super popular. Concord was the biggest one but now we have Highguard being shutdown shortly after release. To me, this is setting a very bad precedence for future of live service games for better or for worse. Because unlike single player games where if the mutliplayer shuts down, you still have the main game... If a live service game shutsdown like Concord or Highguard, well you lose any money that you spent on skins and etc.

So what this will do is basically make sure that people don't spend money on new live service games until they can make sure that it won't shutdown which for free to play games especially is really bad. This will also ensure (even more so than it already has) that unless the game is a big hit right out of the gate, people will likely just stick to what they are already invested in since why spend money if there's a big chance the new game will be shutdown in a few weeks to months?

But honestly, I am not too sad about this because I dislike how many companies are placing insane bets on live service games. Perhaps if it crashes and burns enough, they can come to their senses.

Well, the problem of those games is that they usually have only one chance to grab the attention of the users, and if it fail they can't rely on word of mouth to help them because it's slow and not always effective. That's why so many of them shuit down so soon.

But then we see new hits happen, like Arc Radiers (even thought this is a paid game), and that will always be enough to convince some publishers that they'll have the next big hit in the genre.

No steam machine full stop I reckon, unless they sell one without any SSD or ram.

https://videocardz.com/newz/valve-no-longer-promises-early-2026-for-steam-machine

If I was valve, I'd take it as a blessing cause the steam machine was terribly configured. RDNA3 + 8GB of vram is the the cuckiest of cuckholds with no Ai upscaling to help. Hopefully by the time the shortages chill off, Valve can upgrade to RDNA 4 and 12 or 16GB of vram. Or even Intel if they are willing to do a fire sale on a B580.

I do hope they still release that controller tho. I get the feeling steam frame will also be delayed.