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Sony CFO, Lin Tao, recently participated in a Q&A following the company's latest financial results as per VGC. During the Q&A session, a caller asked about Sony's plans to continue pursuing live-service games in wake of issues experienced.

Through an interpreter, Lin Tao admitted Sony's live-service push is "not entirely going smoothly". The CFO cited "Last year Concord [shut down], and this year Marathon was postponed, so somewhat negative news has been coming out".

Not only was Concord shut down last year, but it was an historical failure. Abysmally low player numbers in the open beta suggested the game would be dead on arrival, but no one expected it to be shut down just a couple of weeks after launch with Sony offering full refunds.

 

[Topher]

Thank God the worst is over....oh wait....

 

[solidus12]

Can't wait for PlayStation to ditch Bungie. Worst acquisition ever.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Through an interpreter, Lin Tao admitted Sony's live-service push is "not entirely going smoothly".

If this is said on an official earnings call the corporate speak translation is - it's a fucking shitstorm and I desperately need to find a way to get a tax write-off on this turd.

 

[YCoCg]

 

[Hookshot]

I'm amazed Epic are still letting them take so much from fortnite. As soon as the Sony turds started floating I'd of demanded a renegotiation on what percnatage they get.

 

[Holammer]

Marathon & Fairgame$

 

[PeteBull]

That GAAS push was culmination of stupidy, only helldivers2 worked, and was big success, for the very reason it wasnt made for "modern audience" aka women, like rest of those 15 games, those CEO's are so greedy they think that those 2% of females who play multiplayer shooters magically gonna turn into 30-50% and at the same time those types of games gonna be able to retain 98% of male audience who's preferences are blood/sex/brutality/gritty stuff

There is a reason romantic comedy genre is extremly different to ppv boxing/ufc events- they attract totally different crowd (spoilers, we straight men can tolerate watching romantic comedy only in one particular scenario- we getting sex right after ).

 

[Hollowpoint5557]

Duh

 

[ecosse_011172]

That GAAS push was culmination of stupidy, only helldivers2 worked, and was big success, for the very reason it wasnt made for "modern audience" aka women, like rest of those 15 games, those CEO's are so greedy they think that those 2% of females who play multiplayer shooters magically gonna turn into 30-50% and at the same time those types of games gonna be able to retain 98% of male audience who's preferences are blood/sex/brutality/gritty stuff

There is a reason romantic comedy genre is extremly different to ppv boxing/ufc events- they attract totally different crowd (spoilers, we straight men can tolerate watching romantic comedy only in one particular scenario- we getting sex right after ).

In the real world, not all males are simpleton knuckle-draggers in their basements.
Judging by your posts, I suspect you're not getting sex... ever.

 

[Chuck Berry]

All this time spent on failed GAAS bullshit (aside from Helldivers) when we could've instead gotten a handful of rich singleplayer titles like MindsEye.

What a wasted gen

 

[analog_future]

 

[IFireflyl]

I'm amazed Epic are still letting them take so much from fortnite. As soon as the Sony turds started floating I'd of demanded a renegotiation on what percnatage they get.

 

[dragonyeuw]

 

[Paasei]

Men_in_Boxes dream is shattered.

 

[Scrawnton]

I think Sony is just gonna pretend they never announced FairgameZ and gaslight us into thinking it never existed.

 

[MLSabre]

Thank God the worst is over....oh wait....

The worst is yet to come.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

I think Sony is just gonna pretend they never announced FairgameZ and gaslight us into thinking it never existed.

I'm quite surprised they haven't shut down the studio yet.

 

[Scrawnton]

I'm quite surprised they haven't shut down the studio yet.

Probably trying to avoid the negative PR and are turning them into a support studio quietly. They probably stopped working on Fairgame$ last year and are supporting Bungie on Marathon. Jade Raymond doesn't need to stay there if they're on support duty.

Source: I made it the f**k up.

 

[PeteBull]

In the real world, not all males are simpleton knuckle-draggers in their basements.
Judging by your posts, I suspect you're not getting sex... ever.

Bro, im in my 40s, and from eastern europe, u can imagine how clubbing/dating scene was in early 2000s before smartphone/facebook/instagram/snapchat got invented? Back then u could actually find quality girl w/o double digit bodycount, tatoos, nose piercings, feminist views and all that "modern women" western bullshit.
And if she had her hair coloured in some fancy unnatural way- it meant she had daddy issues and i could work with that

Today in the west most women(there are some humble rare exceptions ofc, godbless) are of such a low quality its not even funny, they fucking have rosters where they talk to(aka fuck) 3-4-5 or more different guys at the same time, that alone from my pov is utterly disgusting shit, some guys(if they are thirsty af and come from scarcity mindset) are fine with that or just do simple strategy of pump and dump, but personly the thought of another guy recently plowing girl im about to sleep with is nasty af, this shit lingers, 5 or so days even

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

Probably trying to avoid the negative PR and are turning them into a support studio quietly. They probably stopped working on Fairgame$ last year and are supporting Bungie on Marathon. Jade Raymond doesn't need to stay there if they're on support duty.

Source: I made it the f**k up.

It's the most obvious move. My surprise is that we still dont know anything about it. I just can't believe they are operating as usual. It can't be.

 

[Trunx81]

Second time a Concord crashed and burned

 

[ecosse_011172]

Bro, im in my 40s, and from eastern europe, u can imagine how clubbing/dating scene was in early 2000s before smartphone/facebook/instagram/snapchat got invented? Back then u could actually find quality girl w/o double digit bodycount, tatoos, nose piercings, feminist views and all that "modern women" western bullshit.
And if she had her hair coloured in some fancy unnatural way- it meant she had daddy issues and i could work with that

Today in the west most women(there are some humble rare exceptions ofc, godbless) are of such a low quality its not even funny, they fucking have rosters where they talk to(aka fuck) 3-4-5 or more different guys at the same time, that alone from my pov is utterly disgusting shit, some guys(if they are thirsty af and come from scarcity mindset) are fine with that or just do simple strategy of pump and dump, but personly the thought of another guy recently plowing girl im about to sleep with is nasty af, this shit lingers, 5 or so days even

 

[L*][*N*K]

according to some people on Gaf Concord's failure is not historic, it is just mild.

 

[Scrawnton]

Second time a Concord crashed and burned

Headline idea: Sony's FAILED Live Service Push is a MARATHON Not a Race - Sure to Crash like a CONCORD

For real though... Live service SOCOM. It just makes sense.

 

[Trogdor1123]

"Somewhat bad news". If those are just somewhat bad, what do they see as serious?

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Thank God the worst is over....oh wait....

I wonder if this could actually do less than 1 Concord at launch. PlayStation Studios should pay all their employees to play this on launch day just to avoid all the "Fairgame$ had even less players than Concord" headlines.

 

[Mr Hyde]

Sonys live service push has been absolute trash and pushed me away from the platform. Sony seems to think that just because you're a big fan of the brand they can throw whatever slop that is the flavor of the month at you and you just eat it up. Well think again. Keep this up and you won't have many fans left. Clown shoes in charge right now.

 

[ecosse_011172]

All this time spent on failed GAAS bullshit (aside from Helldivers) when we could've instead gotten a handful of rich singleplayer titles like MindsEye.

What a wasted gen

 

[Moriarty1889]

Best news I have herd all day.

 

[drganon]

 

[Mr Moose]

I'm amazed Epic are still letting them take so much from fortnite. As soon as the Sony turds started floating I'd of demanded a renegotiation on what percnatage they get.

Sony and Epic are partners. Sony's invested billions into Epic.

 

[Topher]

I wonder if this could actually do less than 1 Concord at launch. PlayStation Studios should pay all their employees to play this on launch day just to avoid all the "Fairgame$ had even less players than Concord" headlines.

Concord looked more appealing than this shit

 

[diffusionx]

In the real world, not all males are simpleton knuckle-draggers in their basements.
Judging by your posts, I suspect you're not getting sex... ever.

 

[nowhat]

Best news I have herd all day.

Do you often find yourself herding news?

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Concord looked more appealing than this shit

Agreed. Concord looked terrible but at least it has that "I wonder which character is the most fun/powerful" factor going for it.

 

[DKPOWPOW]

 

[Sgt.Asher]

Men_in_Boxes

 

[Rush2112]

An idiot can only play one live service game at a time. If everyone starts making 'em, there will be too many live service games and not enough idiots to play them.

 

[tmlDan]

That GAAS push was culmination of stupidy, only helldivers2 worked, and was big success, for the very reason it wasnt made for "modern audience" aka women, like rest of those 15 games, those CEO's are so greedy they think that those 2% of females who play multiplayer shooters magically gonna turn into 30-50% and at the same time those types of games gonna be able to retain 98% of male audience who's preferences are blood/sex/brutality/gritty stuff

There is a reason romantic comedy genre is extremly different to ppv boxing/ufc events- they attract totally different crowd (spoilers, we straight men can tolerate watching romantic comedy only in one particular scenario- we getting sex right after ).

wtf did i just read

 

[Judge Magister]

"not entirely going smoothly"

 

[viveks86]

"not entirely going smoothly"

That's one way of putting it. But it still got them 40% of their revenue... so it's worth something, I guess...

 

[GermanZepp]

 

[Wishmaster92]

"Just a minor setback" yes please sony continue your tone deafness towards live service. I hope every one of those games fail enough for you to just focus on single player narrative games.

 

[Felessan]

An idiot can only play one live service game at a time. If everyone starts making 'em, there will be too many live service games and not enough idiots to play them.

It's an idiotic statement from someone who has no clue about state of live service market

 

[PeteBull]

wtf did i just read

The truth, did u think all the purple rainbow shit in gaas genre is to lure more teenage boys/young male adults? They already play that genre and are overwhelming majority of players, stupid woke sony CEO's wrongly thought they gonna sustain male audience and attract female audience on top(same train of thoughts EA CEO/bioware had with last DA:V), which obviously cant happen, ever.
For the simple reason men and women arent the same, we like/prefer/are attracted to very different things, very often opposite things

 

[adamsapple]

Thank God the worst is over....oh wait....

It ain't a sprint, it's a Marathon™.

 

[spartan30gr]

 

[justiceiro]

"Somewhat negative news" holy hell, dude, those execs should totally pursue comedy if they fail on the entrepreneurial field.

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

Thank God the worst is over....oh wait....

The fact that Sony is still financing the project but Jade has left means to me they are trying to savage the project. I feel like this won't be a hit for them.And unless it changes radically it will be a new Concord.