Perhaps we should have predicted last night’s PS Showcase would disappoint when Sony opted to open with the irritatingly named Fairgame$, a multiplayer competitive heist game from the recently acquired Haven. This title has been criticised for looking like generic Ubisoft fodder, but when you consider the team is made up of ex-Ubisoft Montreal employees, including founder Jade Raymond, perhaps that shouldn’t come as a surprise.
Sony Interactive Entertainment and Haven Studios Fairgames has been delayed to the year 2026, based on a new report.
If true looks like Sony will have a stacked 26. If they do a showcase it will be trailers for games that we know about with a 2026 release.
Good to hear Fairgames is shaping up well internally and has positive reception.
I'll be surprised if fairgames does not get cancelled or end up as a free 2 play game
Clearly Concords failure has shifted priorities internally for games like this
I’m really curious how they handle it, they literally bought Haven studios based on just this game, it’s crazy.
Good until then I’ll be playing game pass games but dropping that once Sony releases its games love having all consoles.
Paul Tassi: "Sony recently reiterated its commitment to live service games with one big hit last year (Helldivers 2), one big cancellation (The Last of Us Factions) and one big failure (Concord). It’s no great surprise it is continuing down this road, given the way the industry is trending and the limited shelf life of its famed single player games. But it immediately made me think of a game that Sony is allegedly releasing that I have to believe is pre-destined to fail, Fairgame$."
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.
Concord is now cemented as not just an unfortunate release, but quite literally one of the biggest failures in gaming history. Can Marathon and Fairgame$ succeed instead?
If Sony learned anything from Concord´s epic failure, is that in a scenario where those games won´t feature a single player mode to warrant a price tag, they must make those upcoming GaaS games free to play on release and available on most platforms as possible.
sony Bend also making one gaas. Only hoping they can it before it’s too late like ND did
You think Sony is gonna throw good money at bad money by doubling down on Concord? They're gonna spend more millions turning it into a F2P game with a double digit player base? I'd wager this is concords launch party and farewell tour all wrapped up in the same month.
The F2P model needs to be built around the game's mechanics, systems and monetization purposes. In this Case it isn't as easy as Flipping a switch.
"The F2P model needs to be built around the game's mechanics, systems and monetization purposes. In this Case it isn't as easy as Flipping a switch."
I know it´s not a easy task. But if Forza Motorsport 7´s developers at Turn 10 could make it and got rid of the infamous loot boxes post-launch, Sony most definitely can make such changes and adjustments prior release.
Keep in mind that none of those games have a release date yet, so plenty of time to work things out.
Not that easy the gaas market is flooded then you got concord vs deadlock/marvel rivals soon if they toss it back out there going against a known ip and a company with a good reputation.
Marathon well that is bungie that already has had and is having firing waves a leader that spend cash on cars instead of the dev team and well look at destiny right now.
You think marathon a extraction shooter can it beat delta force cod next bf tarkov or that new tarkov like game that was tossed out in beta few months back forget the name.
Again though crowed market with a team that is shrinking a leader that has 0 f's to give.
Good on you Sony/pc gamers for rejecting horrible GaaS games. If we bond together we can get the industry back on track.
I think Marathon has a good chance, but I'd be very surprised if Fairgame$ turns out to be a success, looks even more bland and generic than Concord.
Marathon has a legacy branding attached to it. It will be radically different than the original but that is the allure of bringing back a title from long ago. How well they update it while throwing in some nods to that legacy.
Exactly, that's why I say i think it has a good chance. Plus say what you will about Destiny and Bungie, one thing you can't deny is they still have talent for satisfying gunplay. It has some serious GAAS fatigue going against it, but everything else seems positive for the game so far.
Can't say i have any interest, i gave up on GAAS games a while ago, they just irk me, but it has its place and an audience.
"I think Marathon has a good chance, but I'd be very surprised if Fairgame$ turns out to be a success, looks even more bland and generic than Concord."
I believe heist to be more fun than extraction but Bungie definitely has more experience and budge to deliver a better game with Marathon; BUT, since it´s game director got fired recently, one can only wonder what the future holds for that game.
@isarai "one thing you can't deny is they still have talent for satisfying gunplay." Do they? Firework also has a lot of talent developers that have previously worked on CoD & Destiny. Do their talent help Concord?
Yes they do, i never even got into Destiny past a few hours cause i don't like the structure, but the mechanics feel very solid. Cant speak for concord cause im not playing it, but it had a lot more issues that Bungie doesn't. Bungie has a pedigree, a history, and a far superior art team.
My biggest complains of Concord is actually the characters design, you don't feel like a badass from using them.
It's a shame they gave up so quick. The core is solid. Do something more interesting with it
I think it is actually smart... Leaving it on the market to continue get bad rep doesn't help... they should repackage it and released it as free to play.
First, fix up the skins of every characters...
What’s truly frightening is the audacity to think that flooding the market with endless GaaS games would have consumers lining up to devour them. GaaS games, in my view, are fundamentally flawed—anemic, repetitive grind-fests designed solely for recurring revenue.
There’s nothing wrong with extending a game’s life through additional content. Imagine if Suicide Squad had launched as a complete experience with depth like the 3 Arkham games before, then evolved with new villains, storylines, and environments over time.
But that's often impractical with current development budgets and timelines. Instead, developers churn out hollow shells, laden with monotonous quests and progression walls designed to artificially extend playtime while dangling paid content just out of reach, all in the vain hope of someday delivering a game that feels truly deep and satisfying… which I struggle to even recall a GaaS game that measures up to a traditional game in terms of feeling like a full experience.
This is written perfectly. Thanks!
"Instead, developers churn out hollow shells, laden with monotonous quests and progression walls designed to artificially extend playtime while dangling paid content just out of reach"
This part actually is the most annoying/upsetting for me personally.
It's making me feel like they perceive us as being dumb enough to fall for this.
And then, as it happened yesterday, Hello Games are throwing out their next 13.5GB update for No Man's Sky in comparison.
These GaaS titles such as Concord feel like "Here, I add some ice cubes in your water, that's 40 bucks."
Honestly I see these 2 flopping too. And they be even more honest, I hope they flop and SONY moves on from this GaAS fad that they're late to.
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!