At What Point Do You Abandon A Live Roadmap?
Sometime during the design phase if you ask me.
I genuinely hope we are not headed toward significant layoffs over there as a result of this game.
Warner Bros. having the artists take the L for management’s poor decisions? They should be safe, that’s totally not gonna happen /s
200-300 active players seems to be gamers’ collective signal of, “fuck you for putting in stupid microtransaction live-service grindfests, you removed what makes games worth playing, so we ain’t playin’ them”. Payday 3 is around the same level.
Remember kids: Management will never risk a damn thing and even when they do lose they’ll be ok because they put all your money into a rainy fund. And they’ll blame every single person but themselves.
I’d wager that’s the floor because a non-trivial portion of that 2-300 are bots or something.
🖕Live Service🖕
It’s not the dev’s fault, they make what they’re told to make. But the President of media enshittifier MAXHBODISCOVERYDUOPOLY has stated that is what they will continue to force feed us in lieu of content we purchase to then enjoy full stop.
When a dev abandon a live service game, I hope they do what Marvel’s Avengers did: patch the game to work offline, unlock all paid contents, then has one final big discount before shutting everything off.