Perhaps we should have predicted last night’s PS Showcase would disappoint when Sony opted to open with the irritatingly named Fairgame$, a multiplayer competitive heist game from the recently acquired Haven. This title has been criticised for looking like generic Ubisoft fodder, but when you consider the team is made up of ex-Ubisoft Montreal employees, including founder Jade Raymond, perhaps that shouldn’t come as a surprise.
Feedback from pre-alpha test was very poor
Chris Dring lied he said Fairgames Internally was received well. This is also the same Chris Dring who backtracked his statements about devs wanting to Skip Xbox because of their multiplatform strategy.
So much for his credibility on all things gaming.
Remember when Redfall scored well internally
I don't trust this phrase anytime it's used.
You're right just like how Herman said that Concord was "The Greatest Mp of the Modern era"
We shouldn't trust internal hype.
"Internally was received well" means the devs played it and then proceeded to circle-jerking their own work.
I'm glad it's failing. They're trying way too hard to make this live service slop work.
Stick to your strengths and double down there. Not hard.
Sony Interactive Entertainment and Haven Studios Fairgames has been delayed to the year 2026, based on a new report.
If true looks like Sony will have a stacked 26. If they do a showcase it will be trailers for games that we know about with a 2026 release.
Good to hear Fairgames is shaping up well internally and has positive reception.
I'll be surprised if fairgames does not get cancelled or end up as a free 2 play game
Clearly Concords failure has shifted priorities internally for games like this
I’m really curious how they handle it, they literally bought Haven studios based on just this game, it’s crazy.
Good until then I’ll be playing game pass games but dropping that once Sony releases its games love having all consoles.
Paul Tassi: "Sony recently reiterated its commitment to live service games with one big hit last year (Helldivers 2), one big cancellation (The Last of Us Factions) and one big failure (Concord). It’s no great surprise it is continuing down this road, given the way the industry is trending and the limited shelf life of its famed single player games. But it immediately made me think of a game that Sony is allegedly releasing that I have to believe is pre-destined to fail, Fairgame$."
Fairgame$ feels like it's destined to flop out the gate- that initial trailer felt full of that same instantly-dated 'fight The Man with a ragtag team of weirdos' energy that was prevalent in Sega's Hyenas (which they wisely cancelled.) Unlike Marathon I just don't see this standing a chance.
It will definitely flop, missed the boat by a couple of years. Agreed that Marathon has a decent chance of succeeding it looks genuinely good and interesting.
It can't be sustainable having all these expensive GaaS being DOA being balanced by the odd modest success like Helldivers. The aim is to find the new Fortnite or whatever but it's highly unlikely and seems to be a massive waste of money.
I mean hanging crap on simply a CGI trailer? You haven't seen gameplay. You know next to nothing. In the 'opinion piece' this quote says it all "It’s obviously far too early to draw any conclusions from a CGI teaser trailer" - so then what are we doing here?
Tone def? You can say any game is tone def. If it's not for you then that doesn't mean it's not for someone else. Gaas does not mean a game is going to be shit. But the nagain, we don't know anything because we only saw a CGI teaser trailer.
Not sure how exactly a competitive multiplayer heist game is tone deaf now, is the Payday series suddenly tone deaf now too? Nobody is ever allowed to make a MP Heist game? Payday is quite praised and respected, this is just a higher budget version.
All I can say is I'm not interested in it🤷
When I read the title I thought they mean it's tone deaf because it's another pvp shooter, that's trying it's hardest to be cool but instead they meant it's tone deaf because the game is about stealing banks and now in 2023 we have a economic crisis, do these people ever realize how horrible the scenarios in 99% of the games are, we were in Covid and TLOU2 had us kill people in the middle of apocalypse, didn't hear anyone talk about it being tone deaf!
The only part I have to agree with is that the developer is trying their hardest to appeal to edgy useless Twitter users that want to "eat the rich":
"You can then effectively sign up for a mailing list, but not before telling the developer which billionaire needs a “spanking”"
Oh my god is this the most teenager-ish idea I have seen in my life!