Highguard is dead.
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we might be seeing the end of the production of live service games.
Are they going away? obviously not.
Are they proving to be unable to build a sustainable playerbase time and time again? obviously so.
I am betting this will be the year investors shy away from live service game production entirely.
Live service is basically impossible to crack into nowadays. Anyone who plays live service has 2-3 main ones that they rotate between and breaking into that rotation/replacing one is very difficult.
Marvel Rivals pulled it off in late 2024, which really put a damper on the Concord defense of “it’s impossible to make it in this field.” And it REALLY highlighted the difference in character design philosophy between those two games. Heck, Helldivers 2 found success earlier in 2024.
That said, it IS a tough nut to crack and a formula for success seems unattainable. It’s worth trying as much as any other business venture. It’s NOT worth spending a half billion dollars chasing the dream. As always when it comes to western devs these days, there is a retarded fear of reining in budgets. That’s what’s really hurting them.
Marvel had the advantage of the preestablished ip worth hundreds of millions though, all devs had to do is make it not suck
That still asking for a lot. Remember that Avengers game?