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Blue Protocol to be discontinued in Japan, will no longer release in the west.
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this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2024
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Man, live service games are shutting down before they even release now, huh?
Dead service games
Love to see it.
At which point can the market be considered saturated?
Like, I would imagine that there's a finite amount of coomers willing to drop their wallets on skins or PNGs of their favourite waifu.
The game was a ripoff of phantasy star online 2 except with less slutty costumes, which is the main reason people play phantasy star online 2. The game was always going to be DOA.
Right now. It's saturated now. It's why there have been like tens of thousands of layoffs in the past two years.
Yeah, but most of those layoffs have been in traditional studios making traditional pay games, not GAS studios.
All of their funding is coming from the same sources though. Embracer makes 20 offline games and 3 live service games (these are not the real numbers, but just as an example), and that still affects the value of the investment that they can expect to take in from people investing in the video game industry. Now they can't make a substantial amount of their payroll, and they lay off half of their work force. Embracer may have been the poster child for the crash the industry is seeing, but they're not alone.