Watching companies like Sony ***** the bed like this because they refuse to acknowledge the similarities between the live-service and MMO segments (they're functionally the same thing, MMOs were live-service games before the concept even existed) and consequently spend no time actually learning about or hiring truly knowledgeable people to lead their big investments into a new part of gaming.
While this isn't, "Needs to spend $80B just to be able to ship some games." levels of bad, the hilarious overpayment for Bungie all those years back was a very very telling sign of how little Sony understood about what they were getting into.
And surprise surprise, they have a growing house of expensive dead/cancelled live-service games with only one meaningful hit to speak of. A hit that caught them completely by surprise, too.
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Re: Reaction: Sony's Live Service Push Has Been a Disaster of Utterly Insane Proportions
Watching companies like Sony ***** the bed like this because they refuse to acknowledge the similarities between the live-service and MMO segments (they're functionally the same thing, MMOs were live-service games before the concept even existed) and consequently spend no time actually learning about or hiring truly knowledgeable people to lead their big investments into a new part of gaming.
While this isn't, "Needs to spend $80B just to be able to ship some games." levels of bad, the hilarious overpayment for Bungie all those years back was a very very telling sign of how little Sony understood about what they were getting into.
And surprise surprise, they have a growing house of expensive dead/cancelled live-service games with only one meaningful hit to speak of. A hit that caught them completely by surprise, too.