I honestly only laugh when read this kind of thing. Gamers are the most delusional crowd of fans of any entertainment media I follow. People LOVE live services. Most of people like the familiarity of understanding the game mechanics and even more so interacting with other players instead of playing by themselves

Most of people don't have patience, time or interest in trying new games. If this industry was geared towards new ways of playing we would not have the same IPs from the 80s selling so much. What's the difference in playing every FIFA released every year and playing a game as service anyways? 

I don't play live services but I'm the ONLY gamer in my circle of friends who don't play any of them. All the others, my family, my boyfriend, my coworkers, all play at least one game as service

I hope a lot

Seen another figure for Concord at 250 million. Seems a bit high but it is 8 years with CGI weekly episodes.

No mans sky and ff14 were horrible at launch. Yet they managed to turn the ship around. I honestly don't know what to hope for here. But these two games sold well initially and were perceived as high profile with the ff-ip or super new with the vastness of no mans sky. Concord has not really anything going for it.

Not enough for them to re-consider unfortunately.

Sony probably only expects 3 out of 10 GAAS games to be profitable and maybe one to break even. The hits pay for the flops. That's how it is in a hits driven business.

Yep. I played No man's Sky at launch and it was a good game just bare bones, I was happy with my purchase. Ff14 had a lot of players before 1.0. You can still see the videos of crowds coming out on servers to see the calamity happen before they shut down down to build A realm reborn. 

NMS Sky promised something unique and people were hyped for it. (personally never understood the hype as I kept asking ok I can go anywhere but do what? They never said so I never cared) FF14 is one of the most beloved IPs ever so people are always giving FF another chance even tho 13,15,16 are duds. They also had appealing aesthetics from the FF universe to a colorful universe. Concord has nothing that appeals to anyone. They would pretty much have to remake the entire game and redesign every character and rewrite them. FF can do that. Sony's not going to do that for a now-failed studio's first project that failed. If this were The last of Us online MP game and it was full of problems. Then Sony would try and rework it to save it.

Totally agreed hoever ps plus is a possibility cause they done it with Drawn to death and Starblood arena but like you said they'd have to rebuild the game from the ground up, they couldn't even get people to play the BETA. Game is dead and they're gonna seal the coffin shut cause they've learned this before. If they stick it on PS plus it'll do the same as drawn to death and not recover and people will complain it's a bad PS plus month.