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95% of Game Studios Are Making Live Service Games Now & That's Incredibly Sad

The Nerd Stash: "95% out of 537 game studios are developing or maintaining a live service game as it is necessary for long-term success, according to a report."

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Lightning7782d ago

Have fun with flops and lay offs....

Lexreborn282d ago

But there’s been flops and layoffs in mass droves and we haven’t been over saturated with live services games

z2g81d ago

It’s actually the opposite. The schedules are easier and they produce more money. That’s why they are making them. Economics 101 bro. You think everyone started copying the iPhone back in the day cuz it was doing poorly and everyone hated it? The trends go to what’s popular and profitable. Whether you hate them or not, gamers as a whole are voting with their money and the industry is responding. Sony included.

Redemption-6481d ago

Lay offs and flops are happening now. It has 0 to do with service games. Hell, without them, a lot more studios would have experienced lay offs. About 70% of EA's revenue came from live service games. Now imagine they didn't have them. Some gamers are something else, I have seen people hoping Rocksteady fails and layoff most of it's employees, just because they made a game some people didn't want or got their feelings hurt.

Themba7682d ago

This could cause the 2nd crash

Barlos82d ago

I think we need one tbh. The industry just seems to be a bit of a mess these days.

FunAndGun81d ago

The video game crash of 1983 (known in Japan as the Atari shock)[1] was a large-scale recession 0;in the video game industry that occurred from 1983 to 1985, primarily in the United States. The crash was attributed to several factors, including market saturation in the number of video game consoles and available games, many of which were of poor quality. Waning interest in console games in favor of personal computers also played a role.

Popsicle81d ago

There was a confluence of factors, but E.T. usually gets the blame.

Inverno82d ago

What's sad is how we went from expansions, to where we are now. The promise of "support" for games was never truly realized during the PS360 gens. Most games had MP shoehorned into em to have em "supported" with 15 dollar map packs. And when we did get SP DLC they were 10 dollar 40 minute long content. Now they purposely ruin games to "support" em with over priced skins and occasionally add more for people to do which turn out to be reskin/reused content. Why is it that people never complained about Oblivion's/Fallout 3/New Vegas/ Witcher 2/3/Cyberpunk's 30 dollar expansions?

NoFanBoy82d ago (Edited 82d ago )

Whats's sad are whales and people with no impulse control having to buy the latest junk and supporting souless cashgrabs. It won't stop until they do.

NoFanBoy82d ago

Simple just stop buying this slop and it will stop.

CrimsonWing6982d ago (Edited 82d ago )

Abhorrent really. The greed is disgusting in this industry and these a-hole publishers are ruining the hobby. I have yet to see a GaaS game where I feel like it’s on par with a traditional game and the stubbornness to keep cranking these out feels like it’s out of spite due to consumer backlash.

Why in the world would I want a Suicide Squad over Arkham City or Knight? Look at Square’s Babylon Fall… oh wait, you can’t. What about Avengers… oh wait, that’s delisted. Remember when BioWare went GaaS, because I sure wish I couldn’t remember.

Until a game feels substantially finished and like a traditional game, I will not believe in a GaaS game nor want to support it. You have to ask yourself what is the point of the GaaS model vs a traditional game? Is it to make a game better or is it to monetize a game that requires a consumer to continuously dump money into it?

Maybe I’m just too old-fashioned and am stuck in the way of the old days when you paid a single lump sum of money and got a fully realized game from start to finish. Seriously though, where did this industry go astray? Why is it we’re here and I don’t want to hear it’s because games cost too much to make. I literally sat here and watched the Arkham Knight vs Suicide Squad comparison vids and I am not seeing anything justifying the increase in development costs. W’e’re supposed to be moving forwards not backwards.

CrimsonWing6982d ago

Yea, I just wish it was like the good old days of gaming.

Barlos82d ago

Do you work for a living? Are you able to buy a car, the latest phone, games console, clothing etc? If so, capitalism is what allows you to do that, so don't make out that you're against it when you're a product of that very same model.

aaronaton82d ago

Yeh if only there were more games coming from communist countries...

jwillj2k481d ago

@aaronton @Barlos you can only see things as black and white. The macro economy is layers and layers of grey. Capitalism is the killer of innovation but I shouldn’t have had to tell you that. Go educate yourselves, it’ll eradicate your one celled organism responses.

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Tody_ZA82d ago

The industry has not gone astray. Publishers and executives have. There are dozens upon dozens of quality games, indie and triple A - there are actually too many for me to play. GAAS has become a cancer because publishers are forever trying to shoehorn mobile monetisation models and free to play monetisation models into full priced games, and the problem with doing this is that it literally CHANGES the way you have to develop your game.

Suddenly you aren't making a tight single player experience with a well thought out progression model and unique weaponry but mishing and mashing numbers and particle effects and status multipliers for the sake of loot, and instead of 5 great weapons you have 200 forgettable, filler, wastes of time. Borderlands did this right because it was a looter shooter without the forced monetisation, the game was designed around constantly finding new guns.

It comes down to game design and developer passion like any good product. That's why God of War can release a free DLC that plays better than Suicide Squad Kill The Franchise.

I'm playing an indie game Metal: Hellsinger that creams these garbage triple A titles in creativity and fun factor. Yet I'm also playing the Dead Space remake and it's awesome.

The old days of gaming weren't necessarily better - I'd argue there's way more quality now. The problem is publishers and apathetic consumers who don't really care about this stuff as much as we do.

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Top 30 Most Disappointing Video Games

Despite all the hype, marketing, development time and resources behind them, these blockbuster titles would disappoint fans.

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solideagle7d ago

I think I platinumed it, It was awesome especially the first time you come across the horde

peppeaccardo7d ago

One of the best open world zombie game ever. Very engaging great story graphics and all.
These mofo should go back playing starfield and change phil's diaper.
GFYS!!

thorstein8d ago

The Order 1886 wasn't disappointing.

It was great.

Maybe do an article about Games Journalists Lied About. That would be a good read.

FPSRUSSIA8d ago (Edited 8d ago )

I Agree The order 1886 is Great but Short to bad there wont be a Sequel since the Developers Moved on to other Platforms.

DustMan7d ago

I thought it was great while it lasted. As soon as things got interesting and the action picked up the game ended. When it was over I legit was like "that's all of it?"

jimb0j0nes8d ago

Sure, the campaign was terrible, but MW3 isn't even the top three most disappointing COD games...

anast7d ago

That's a lot of Bethesda games on that list. Where's Starfield?

TwoPicklesGood7d ago

Whole lot of Sony games with Forsaken, Days Gone, Risen of the Ronin, and The Order 1886.

anast7d ago

In reality only one of those Sony games is actually just okay, and the others are good to solid. Whereas the Bethesda ones are objectively bad.

Tacoboto7d ago

Two of those Sony games aren't Sony games and the two that actually are, Sony clearly agreed based on their cutting ties with longtime partner Ready at Dawn and their well-reported rejection of DG2.

I'd like to check out The Order someday soon and see how it holds up since that style of shorter game fits my mood lately, but Forspoken was uniformly panned and RotR is a sign that Team Ninja needs to ease off the gas a bit to focus on quality over quantity.

Tacoboto7d ago

Suicide Squad being at number 2 or even in this list seems like a freebie - its existence alone was disappointing, I don't think many people actually had positive expectations for it near release.

Not having Starfield at all feels like they're ignoring a huge conversation of last year. Even as someone that likes the game, ignoring its reception is head-in-the-sand at best and its restrictions were magnified by its release alongside Baldur's Gate 3. The disappointment many feel about it FARRRRR exceeds any disappointment people have for random third party titles like... Biomutant, and Exoprimal... Same could be said for reception around Forza Motorsport.

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Report: Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Future Seasons to Feature Batman and More

According to leaks, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League's future seasons will see the return of Batman as well as Arkham's Deathstroke.

-Foxtrot20d ago

So our Batman is actually dead then and died in such an awful way after everything he went through.

Meanwhile their big plan is to revive a version of him from a Medieval Elseworld

Wow. They really ruined the Arkhamverse in a single game.

TheKingKratos20d ago (Edited 20d ago )

It's not canon to me

Also it's so stupid to go with Brainiac instead of Darkseid for this elseworld story

DrDoomer19d ago

They must have brought in Neil Cuckmann to write and direct that scene.

0hMyGandhi19d ago

I can honestly imagine you hammering away that last "n" of his name on your keyboard and laughing hysterically to yourself.
Grow up.

Leeroyw19d ago

Gives sweet baby Inc a chance to make the next Batman diverse.

Knightofelemia20d ago

Medieval Elseworld really that sounds like a bigger mess then what the game is. Kudos I have respect that Conroy made some last voice recordings as Batman. But I am still not touching this game I myself I don't do loot and shoot and live service games.

Demetrius20d ago (Edited 20d ago )

Lmao must have been some jealousy management had towards the OG rocksteady guys, forcing them to make thus trash and ruin the arkham verse smh now I know we will never get another legit batman title cause the bozos ruined it smh

Hofstaderman20d ago

Wow WB is really committed to this train wreck....

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Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s First Season is Already Dead on Arrival

Season of the Joker offers little new story content, a recycled boss fight, and a repetitive grind to unlock its new playable character.

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Kaii25d ago

Having to do 1520 missions to finish the battle pass is perhaps the worst battle pass given by any Triple AAA company so far o_O

Repulsive last-ditch effort to get some cash, you've got some funky illegal shit dropping in the storefront though, launching discounted emotes from 1,700 ($17) to 850 ($8.50)

8 Yrs for this shitshow.

just_looken25d ago

If you head 2 the games reddit there are still defenders sadly

Lexreborn224d ago

If there are people who like the game they like the game. That’s not a defense if it’s their reality.

Knightofelemia25d ago

Sill one ugly looking Joker right up there with the Leto Joker. And this Joker still looks like he pitches left field.

anast24d ago

I need to figure out how all these people find money to fail.

RiseNShine24d ago

Possibly the ugliest joker of all time, at least that's something this game will be remembered for.