For all the people out there, do you remember one of these video games in that image?
Well, I used to play Super Monday Night Combat Battleborn, Hyper Scape, The Cycle Frontier, Gundam Evolution and a little a bit of Apex Legends Mobile. These games? The servers are shut down already.
I don't know which one stuck to me the most. I know one artist missed Wildstar fully.
Raycevick made a tweet mocking the video game crash's mythical panic, he happened to be in a call with a developer in the industry, one who had interviewed dozens of game companies.
Not 20-30+.
More 60-70+.
"Name them, I talked to them."
And, every single one of them had said the exact same thing during these interviews...
"Our next game is a live-service."
But here's something to consider, that the concept of there being a limited amount of viewers, every minute of your video that's watched, are minutes of someone else's video being ignored.
If enough viewers are watching a particular genre, should that genre become saturated, the quality of many individual creators in it becomes irrelevant. There is not enough time for all creators to grab the limited pool of viewers, no matter how good they are.
At the same time, it's been theorized that all AAA CEOs have a fentanyl addiction.
It's been a long time that I'm kinda exhausted of this live service game idea.
So, it all goes back to the "unplayable" live service games' image I posted.
Charging customers, maintenance costs don't work consistently.
The Visceral's Star Wars game and some others are cancelled by the game companies of live service business models.
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But what's not dead is the single-player games and people will talk about games in the upcoming days like:
Baldur's Gate 3, RE4 Remake, Hi-Fi Rush, Street Fighter 6, LoZ Tears of the Kingdom, SWJedi Survivor, Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty, Armored Core VI and what have you...
The future is uncertain at the moment.
I'll keep being an observer of this gaming world.