The Live Service Bubble is Finally Popping
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im kinda puzzled why live service games have such lame and ugly characters.. and the outfits are also lame and ugly too, which negates buying skins to improve the characters' appearances.
it must hurt their ego when their self-inserts are not very popular.
Almost all of the live service games I can think of that are successful do operate to some extent on "Sex sells" for their skins, though that definitely seems to be correlation and not causation. The First Descendant notably leaned very heavily into that and essentially died within a year.
Seems they are still alive with whales. They outlived a lot of western live services, but i agree theyll probably close in 2027.
Fanservice is a great bonus on top of good gameplay and gameplay loop/end game.
The rush for live service was always going to be stupid. Most gamers today have 1-3 live service games they play, and often aren’t playing all three at once, rather rotating between them. Thus it’s an absurdly difficult market to break in to as people have to weigh the opportunity cost of not playing other games much more heavily, and may not even consider playing this new live service unless one of their old ones shuts down/they don’t like it anymore.
Just have more gamers then. Oh wait, the consoles are incredibly expensive because of another "bubble"...
Fucking stupid silicon valley tech bro startup mentality clashed with reality. The flops are no surprise to them. They knew most of these would flop, but treat it like capital expenditure expecting that one of these might become the next fortnite. Then it'd've all been worth it.
Solid strategy for an investment firm, retarded dogshit for a game studio. Absolutely consumer-hostile.
What, you don’t think gambling your entire companies future on a game that has to become the next Fortnite to be successful financially is a bad idea?
Live service makes sense when done right. Fortnite shows a good idea of it working. Heck GTA Online shows good ideas.
I would love a game where if you bought a different game, you could play that character or that mode. So you have Mario Kart World, you bought the new Donkey Kong game, so you can now play Donkey Kong with enemies in Mario Kart World. People could be racing and you're battling various animals. Then someone skateboards by while Sonic the Hedgehog runs for some rings. I would love to create a character and give him the powers of the various games bought. Then team up or go against various people who bought other games.
I would love that, but I doubt anyone would make it.