Sony Cancels Two More PlayStation Projects in Broader Retreat 24
Sony's PlayStation has canceled previously unannounced games at two of its top subsidiaries, the company said. From a report: The games, at Oregon-based Bend Studio and Texas-based Bluepoint Games, were both "live service" projects designed to draw recurring revenue from players. A company spokesperson confirmed the cancellations.
In a statement, the spokesperson said the two games were canceled "following a recent review" and that PlayStation will continue making both online and single-player games. Neither studio will be shuttered. "Bend and Bluepoint are highly accomplished teams who are valued members of the PlayStation Studios family, and we are working closely with each studio to determine what are the next projects," the spokesperson said.
In a statement, the spokesperson said the two games were canceled "following a recent review" and that PlayStation will continue making both online and single-player games. Neither studio will be shuttered. "Bend and Bluepoint are highly accomplished teams who are valued members of the PlayStation Studios family, and we are working closely with each studio to determine what are the next projects," the spokesperson said.
Concord effect continues (Score:3, Interesting)
So basically after Concord, the game who's failure apparently shortened the last Playstation hardware release trailer by five minutes (as it was supposed to be "future of Playstation family" was crushed by total gamer rejection of wokeness, every project is getting looked at from "is it woke?" lens and canned if it is.
Considering the language of the release, "valued members of PlayStation studios family", I guess we can wait for another two studio closures, or mass firings as studios as downsized to only do very limited support roles for non-woke studios.
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You didn't hear? Everything negative and everything that fails in this world is "woke's" fault and we need to be constantly told about this every single time. Never mind most folks arent culture warrioring drama queens, it's clearly "woke's" fault this game failed.
We're in fact lucky to have a fine culture warrior like Luckyo on this site. Without him we might not be constantly made aware of how evil anything even remotely associated with the left is.
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Kind of funny really. "Cancel Culture" and "Woke" started as left-leaning terms where the left would cancel "wrong stuff" and the right calling the left as "special snowflakes" for when this happens.
Now it appears everything is reversed. The right is calling stuff "woke" when they don't like it, and saying it got cancelled because "it's too woke". And it appears now that the right is really the special snowflakes because seeing a female, or a non-white person, or non-binary is suddenly offensive.
Of course,
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Of course, it also means something like Tomb Raider will get cancelled from both sides. The left for having Lara Croft be a bit too well endowed, the right for having a main character that's female and powerful and thus too "woke".
Though it's also true the term has lost a lot of meaning because everyone uses it to mean "what I don't like".
Your examples don't make much sense. No one wants to cancel Lara Croft for having large breasts, but the right certainly would for not staying in the kitchen. The only people, not everyone, that use the word woke are far right nutjobs. They are the ones that use it at all and incorrectly.
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was crushed by total gamer rejection of wokeness, every project is getting looked at from "is it woke?" lens and canned if it is.
It was a full-priced 5v5 hero shooter that didn't differentiate itself from established free to pay 5v5 hero shooters in an over saturated market.
But yah, maybe it was a weird band of incels rejecting games who's characters they don't want to fuck. Not the full priced clone of a dozen popular free to play games and launching in the same windows as like three brand new free to play hero shooters. Do you get paid to be this stupid? Like how...
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But it did differentiate itself. It was exceptionally woke.
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Believe whatever helps you sleep better at night.
Hope you find a PTSD support group for all the trauma that woke has inflicted upon you.
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You're projecting your mental weakness on others. Unlike woke who claim to get PTSD from the most minor critique, including reading old twitter posts, normal people are quite resilient and do not have this mental feeble-mindedness.
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Re: Concord effect continues (Score:1)
Were they like concord? (Score:2)
I wonder if somebody at Sony took a look at Concord, then at these games and actually went "Can these pull enough online gamers from other non-sony games to turn a profit, or are they like Concord?" and decided that, no, they can't.
"Live" games have "live" expenses to pay, at least with an off-line game there are generally minimal expenses after the sale.
Live games, PvP, PvE and such require a certain minimum number of players to "make it", and if there's a "comparable" game out there with an active userbas
As a body type B with voice type F (Score:2, Funny)
Should have let me design the game (Score:2)
I'm not a gamer, but... (Score:2)
...from what I've read and seen, games fail because developers and publishers focus all their efforts on monetization and activist politics, while producing uninteresting games with poor gameplay and no creativity. This is similar to the tsunami of sequels, reboots, and other assorted retelling of old stories in the movie biz
designed to draw recurring revenue from players (Score:2)
THAT is all the more reason I'm glad whatever those games were are dead.
I like games "designed to..." be fun, interesting, engaging, entertaining, thought-provoking, etc. When the design centers around monetization and that kind of mindset, I say a big 'fuck you', glad the projects are dead. There enough of that shit already.
I think a lot the supposed 'crash' in the industry can be blamed on whoever is making the design decisions, be they 'leadership', bean counters, or the programmers -- because many of us
designed to draw recurring revenue from players (Score:2)
that is to say, it's not a game
just a slot on the wall labelled insert coin