The Death of Live Service Games

Singleplayer games that need an internet connection is criminal

Asmongold is right. Fortnite shows up, makes $3 billion in a year and the whole industry has been "chasing the dragon" ever since.

Live service isn’t dying, shit games are dying and there’s a lot of them

They expect gamers to do the same mindless daily battle pass grind on 10 different games every day forever, they are out of their mind.

Can't really say live service games are dying when gacha is still booming.

AAA Game Companies still act as if were still in a lockdown...

18:55, LET ME STOP YOU RIGHT THERE HOMIE! Borderlands was the first "looter-shooter" and it was not a liver service game. It was a 4 player co-op FPSRPG. Bungie took that formula and mixed it with Halo, gave us Destiny - then other games showed Bungie that Destiny could be monetized. Don't discredit the looter shooter genre like that lmao

My favorite quote from Suicide Squad KTJL marketing: "Captain Boomerang will use a mix of smgs, sniper rifles, and rocket launchers" Captain Boomerang BOOMERANG

More like "there's now way too many live service games, so people are forced to pick their favorite and stick to it"

The problem is not that they have failed live game services. The problem is that their priority is to make a successful gold mine/casino, rather than a good game. No one argues that there are good live services. Everyone knows that the priority is not the consumer, but corporate greed.

It is exactly the same situation as "everyone wants to snatch this Call of Duty crowd" trend that plagued the gaming 15 something years ago. Marketing does not seem to comprehend the idea of market saturation. Perpetually online or online-focused games require a lot of attention - this means the players usually have choice to focus only on one, maybe two such games at the same time. And why would they choose a newcomer to the genre, when original is still strong? Why choose some new looter shooter when Warframe is still kicking ass? Why choose new MOBA, when LOL and DOTA are there? Why go with new shooter if CoD, Battlefield, Rainbow Six and CS still go strong despite numerous hiccups? Horde shooters? You have L4D2 and Deep Rock Galactic. Battle Royale? PUBG and Fortnite. Team-based hero shooters have Team Fortress 2, the great grandfather of the genre and games like Overwatch and Paladins. Looters have Tarkov. Vehicular combat has World of Tanks and Warthunder. RTS games have Age of Empires, Company of Heroes and Starcraft. Trying to break into these niches with mere copycat titles is just not going to work - and most of those titles are just that - copycats, usually just with single gimmicks making them "different".

Almost like if you just follow the Fromsoft and Capcom plan of Releasing a good game, and then MAYBE make a DLC expansion for it, then people will buy all your stuff! Crazy how the successful strategy is the exact same one that we had 20 years ago too 😂😂

99% of my gaming time these days is spent playing and modding old single player games. I don't care if an entire industry of bad "live service" games and their developers go bankrupt and starve, I refuse to do chores for billionaires, or be "content" for "content creators."

Everyone wants to capture lightning in a bottle, but chances of lightning striking the same place twice are miniscule.

Sad the amount of money wasted, studios destroyed, games that could have been .. cancelled. All in the search of "all the money", companies not happy with "a lot of money"

Live service games are failing because they lack quality and content, while chasing money over player experience.

It's not that live service is dying, it's just that bad game is dying They should make good game and then monetize it and not make a game around monetization Gacha game is now mainstream cuz we got a lot of good one released but we also got a lot of bad one and those died. Some in few years some even in few months. They need to make more small scale game with more risk but also more innovation than big boring game

I really dislike how "not used to making these type of game" argument gets thrown out there when games like HD2, NMS, WoW, FF14 exist.

I'll never forgive the Live Service Games model for killing Platinum Games. (i know they're not dead, but they've never really recovered and make new products like they did before one of their executives got the brilliant idea that the company known for offbeat character action games with near flawless mechanics should make a generic looking live service game that's exclusive to Microsoft)

Did the consecutive failure of 3 live services games by SquareEnix around 2021-22 not teach other publishers this route is not a path to success? Babylon's Fall Marvel's Avengers Chocobo GP