Sony opens new Bungie spinoff studio. Team LFG.
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poppabk
Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
'We are excited to become a new studio under the PlayStation umbrella and have already started work on our first exciting project - drafting our 'heartfelt thanks' studio closure press release. We hope to share more details about timelines for this closure soon"
Dirk Benedict
Gold Member
When I read information such as the X post that
Mownoc
provided, I come to the conclusion that many of the posters that were taking digs at the barely-formed studio are more than likely prophetic in nature. The language in the post is textbook Avoid at all costs.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
It looks like this would be the Marathon team.Those are some gay ass colors
Gamer_By_Proxy
Member
Looking For Grouphome? Bungie needs to retire! ha
HeisenbergFX4
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Dirk Benedict
Gold Member
GHG
Member
Their target audience?
The people who spend their time screeching and don't/can't afford to play games.
Amazing.
Fbh
Member
Our first game is a team-based action game that draws inspiration from fighting games, platformers, MOBAs, life sims, and frog-type games. Players will inhabit a lighthearted, comedic world set in brand-new, mythic, science-fantasy universe. We can't wait to reveal more.
yup.
No one wants that.
What we are all yearning for is a FPS; hobby-grade coop campaign; genre-blended, multi-mode competitive e-sports; meta-growth, choice + epic Battleborn Heroes! game
Paasei
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A frog is an amphibious animal. Maybe they try to say that their game will dry out after too much exposure?
pudel
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Yeah, I hear that first time....seriously, what is this?
SEGAvangelist
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cireza
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Is this a threat ?
Dr. Samuel Hayden
Member
More horseshit from Soyman Hulst, the worst thing to ever happen to Playstation
LordCBH
Member
Googling it gives me two results:
1) a reddit thread about RPG's where you can play as frogs
And
2) this stupid studio announcement.
I think they've made the term up.
BigBeauford
Member
Can't wait until 6 months after they release their game for everyone in that team to be
Looking For Gig.
Looking For Gig.
Angry_Megalodon
Member
Remember guys: Bungie didn't advice Factions cancelation on bad faith. Don't be conspirary theorists and all that jazz.
That money is better spent on spin-off studios like this. Circular economy, they call it.
That money is better spent on spin-off studios like this. Circular economy, they call it.
ChorizoPicozo
Member
Mobile gayme?
pudel
Member
StreetsofBeige
Member
In other words.....
"Gamers. We know Bungie is tanking hard, so to distance ourselves from that brand were making a new studio. Same people, different name"
"Gamers. We know Bungie is tanking hard, so to distance ourselves from that brand were making a new studio. Same people, different name"
diffusionx
Gold Member
Feels like a studio they are going to shut down in 3 years after Marathon flops.
Also Sony needs to get rid of Hulst, it's existential at this point.
Also Sony needs to get rid of Hulst, it's existential at this point.
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Chuck Berry
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Looks Fucking Gross
StreetsofBeige
Member
I guess LFGH was too long. I think it originally stood for Looking for Group Hug.
So this is what Bungie has become. Who would had known since Destiny 2 launched in 2017, Destiny 2 DLC, Marathon and spin-off LFG would be all they got in 2025. Who would even think Bungie would be broken up into two studios? Wow.
$3.6 billion well spent.
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Mibu no ookami
Banned
Hilarious, unhinged, and irrational reaction to a game that hasn't been revealed whether you're the target audience or not...
vaibhavpisal
Member
Taking a page from xbox marketing department I see.
But at least xbox makes a video to showcase its incompetence, instead of a threatening word salad.
But at least xbox makes a video to showcase its incompetence, instead of a threatening word salad.
StreetsofBeige
Member
Sounds like they got a great game in the works. lol.
"Hello, world. It's a delight to meet you, and we're very grateful to be joining PlayStation Studios.
Our studio is headquartered in Bellevue, WA, with team members working both on-site and remotely throughout the U.S. and Canada. We are a team composed not just of industry veterans who have shipped titles like Destiny, Halo, League of Legends, Fortnite, Roblox, and Rec Room, but also industry newcomers with fresh creative perspectives and skills. We are passionate about exceptional action-based gameplay, moment-to-moment game feel, and richly social virtual worlds.
The "LFG" in "teamLFG" stands for "Looking For Group." We are driven by a mission to create games where players can find friendship, community, and belonging. We want our players to feel excited when they log on to discover their teammates already hanging out online. We want our players to recognize familiar names and to make myths and memes out of each other. We want our players to love remembering that one time where they pulled off That Play that changed the whole story of the match. As we say on the team – dat's da good stuff.
We will make immersive multiplayer worlds propelled by action games that players can learn, play, and master for countless hours. We want to build our games with our communities, inviting players to be a part of our development process through early access playtests. It's critical that we stay nimble enough to react to player feedback, not just in our lead-up to launch, but throughout live service as we continue to grow the game and community for years to come.
Our first game is a team-based action game that draws inspiration from fighting games, platformers, MOBAs, life sims, and frog-type games. Players will inhabit a lighthearted, comedic world set in brand-new, mythic, science-fantasy universe. We can't wait to reveal more.
'Til then, we'll do our best! Thanks for reading."
– teamLFG
"Hello, world. It's a delight to meet you, and we're very grateful to be joining PlayStation Studios.
Our studio is headquartered in Bellevue, WA, with team members working both on-site and remotely throughout the U.S. and Canada. We are a team composed not just of industry veterans who have shipped titles like Destiny, Halo, League of Legends, Fortnite, Roblox, and Rec Room, but also industry newcomers with fresh creative perspectives and skills. We are passionate about exceptional action-based gameplay, moment-to-moment game feel, and richly social virtual worlds.
The "LFG" in "teamLFG" stands for "Looking For Group." We are driven by a mission to create games where players can find friendship, community, and belonging. We want our players to feel excited when they log on to discover their teammates already hanging out online. We want our players to recognize familiar names and to make myths and memes out of each other. We want our players to love remembering that one time where they pulled off That Play that changed the whole story of the match. As we say on the team – dat's da good stuff.
We will make immersive multiplayer worlds propelled by action games that players can learn, play, and master for countless hours. We want to build our games with our communities, inviting players to be a part of our development process through early access playtests. It's critical that we stay nimble enough to react to player feedback, not just in our lead-up to launch, but throughout live service as we continue to grow the game and community for years to come.
Our first game is a team-based action game that draws inspiration from fighting games, platformers, MOBAs, life sims, and frog-type games. Players will inhabit a lighthearted, comedic world set in brand-new, mythic, science-fantasy universe. We can't wait to reveal more.
'Til then, we'll do our best! Thanks for reading."
– teamLFG
Men_in_Boxes
Banned
I disagree.When I read information such as the X post that
I generally think the goals in their blog post are positive and represent multi-players potential pretty well. Vague? Sure.
But I am a multi-player centric gamer. I'm not sure how many commentors in this thread are.
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StreetsofBeige
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Looking for Employment
Lucifers Beard
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Further confirming to me that they have no fucking idea what they are doing at this stage.
The old, throw enough shit at the wall and something will stick. Bungie are a husk of their former selves and will never again reach the heights of the Halo series. Sony should really stop banking on them at this point and do what they were good at during the PS3 generation, making decent single player titles.
The old, throw enough shit at the wall and something will stick. Bungie are a husk of their former selves and will never again reach the heights of the Halo series. Sony should really stop banking on them at this point and do what they were good at during the PS3 generation, making decent single player titles.
StreetsofBeige
Member
Sony/Bungie have no excuses with this new LFG game.
People ragged on Concord (Firewalk), where some brought up they were too late to the game with a hero shooter and a Guardians of the Galaxy vibe.
People also brought up maybe extraction shooters have tapped out (hence TF extraction game cancelled) and the genre never really took off like other shooters with mainstream modes and BR. So Marathon might be too late again. If you wanted to hog the extraction gamers you had to come out earlier with Tarkov or Hunt.
LFG is a new studio with a new game. And as they stated they got "fresh perspectives and skills" from vets from shooters, MOBA and even Roblox. Let's see what creative genius game they got under their belt when the time comes to show it.
People ragged on Concord (Firewalk), where some brought up they were too late to the game with a hero shooter and a Guardians of the Galaxy vibe.
People also brought up maybe extraction shooters have tapped out (hence TF extraction game cancelled) and the genre never really took off like other shooters with mainstream modes and BR. So Marathon might be too late again. If you wanted to hog the extraction gamers you had to come out earlier with Tarkov or Hunt.
LFG is a new studio with a new game. And as they stated they got "fresh perspectives and skills" from vets from shooters, MOBA and even Roblox. Let's see what creative genius game they got under their belt when the time comes to show it.
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Mr Reasonable
Completely Unreasonable
It's pretty wild how far Bungie have fallen. From the "can do no wrong" studio to the "Oh no, they're making more games" studio.
Bummer.
Bummer.
Lunarorbit
Member
They don't deserve another studio. Bungie is a joke in my book. Instead of doubling down on single player games they still wanna chase the gaas nightmare.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
It's insane to me that they will do these incubation projects like this, Concord, Fairgame$, and Blundell's studio…. But didn't go all out to acquire the one studio who actually delivered a successful GaaS. Now Tencent has their tentacles in Arrowhead and it's probably too late.
nial
Member
Sony has consistently produced both, the narrative that they abandonded SP games is stupid.
For all the shit we give to an obssesive GAAS evangelizer like
Men_in_Boxes
, fuck me, the single player diehards on this forum are even more fucking ridiculous.
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realcool
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Men_in_Boxes
Banned
I like how people say this when it's clear PlayStation (and Bungie) have done a ton of internal testing and have shuttered numerous projects because they feel they don't need to throw them at walls to see what sticks.
Further proof that believing in and parroting a narrative is more enticing that following facts.