>Just straight up cancelled after 5 years in development, over $1 billion invested, and being in an essentially finished state
Is live service cancer finally dying?
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why didn't you show those billionaire b*stards who was boss?
>why didn't you show those billionaire b*stards who was boss?
I did, that's why they lost money on this pos
But.. but we did. We literally killed it.
We did by showing zero interest in their big soulless blackrock funded cashgrab
Lol they know what they are doing and how scummy it is. whatever always appreciate the hustle
>zero interest
>hourly threads
sure not what they wanted but lol
how am I supposed to play as a drag queen now?
Play Starfield and pick the male body type but choose foid pronouns.
Don't worry sis baldurgate3 still exists
someone post the webm
Why not release it anyway?
Actually bothering to release it makes the shifting of illegal cash harder to cover up.
This. You’ve got to realize video games are just a front for shipping third worlders to white countries at this point. I love video games but it’s so obvious it was created to dumb down and infantilize males from defending their homeland. Meanwhile third world savages get FREE EVERYTHING from our governments
Your meds, chud.
Tax obligations plus maintenance would make it even more expensive. Not counting even more eroding of the SEGA brand, can you imagine 40 million views more on content shitting on the game?
probably fear of causing irreparable damage to their brand like overwatch 2
It's a multiplayer only game they would have to continue to put money into it to maintain servers, make patches, and add additional content. Literally no one played the beta, they knew it had no chance. If they just released it and abandoned it that would damage Sega as a whole. This way it will be forgotten about by literally everyone except this board.
Wasn't it a close beta?
Yes but it still only peaked at about 600 players, I would assume no one even bothered to try to get into it. It also didn't help that the few people who did play went on social media and shit all over it. They probably made the prudent financial choice to cancel the game and let it be forgotten.
Why did they decide that previewing the game with troony streamers would be a good decision.
when Spellbreak closed they released the client and server for free so players can host and play themselves
https://sbcommunity.itch.io/spellbreak-community-version
GaaS shit hat this unfortunate expectation of actually delivering content after your shoddy barebones release.
tldr is tax reasons, they can write it off and lose less than they would if they released it
Game servers, maintenece, advertising etc. costs a lot.
And pay for marketing and all that other stupid bullshit?? Frick that. They bit a bullet instead of eating a rocket.
Tax write off means they lose less in the long run.
I literally never heard of this game until it got canceled. You sure its not just a marketing trick, and they wont pull a "We heard you! Its back!" trick?
That's what I thought. I don't care to look the game up though, just from tertiary information it sounds stupid.
I don't think they could get away with that after the shit the beta got. The coverage of every media outfit would be "Hyenas is back. If they really heard us, it wouldn't be."
it was cancelled specifically cause it was better to axe it than tarnish their reputation with it.
Wish Bethesda knew how to do that
They gave up moderating their forums. It's only people shitting on it there. It's over
>You sure its not just a marketing trick, and they wont pull a "We heard you! Its back!" trick?
Considering all the layoff, yes.
SEGA are dumbasses I am glad they lost money
THIS IS PUNISHMENT FOR FRICKING UP TOTAL WAR WARHAMMER 3!!!!!!!!!!
DON'T FRICK WITH GAMERS!!!!!!!!
FRICK HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO DECEAT THE GIGA homie WITH DUBS DISABLED!?!?!
the janitors are okay with this gorilla beast mothafricka just killing anyone where he goes
how does development bloat to $1b when you aren't making gta 6? how big is the fricking hr department
The 1Bil super game was a series of games, Hyenas among them. No idea what the others were
I doubt Hyenas was part of that, the Super Game seems all Sega Japan and even they seem to forgot that Hyenas even existed.
medieval 3 better not be amongst them.
Amogdem?
indeed
Hyenas was 100 Million, as
said it's a bunch of games that make up the 1 billion dollars, this is a bad sign for the rest though.
This horseshit cost 100 million to make and it didn't even make it to the finish line? Everything has an overblown budget these days but come on, Witcher 3 was delayed multiple times, had a 60-ish million dudget with half of that being marketing, accounting for inflation which ~75 million today.
Halo Infinite cost $500 million. Big companies are just absurdly inefficient.
>Big companies are just absurdly inefficient
Not to mention that the coof fricking obliterated any and all improvements to the status quo for at least a decade.
join the ack
>>Just straight up cancelled after 5 years in development, over $1 billion invested, and being in an essentially finished state
Source on this?
Source is he's a fricking moron who read a financial statement that said the company spend $1B on a ton of projects over 6 years, of which this was one of them, and that means in his moronic mind that they spent $1B on this game
Sega did say something about ~$1bil for their 'AAAA SUPER GAME' initiative before but it's not Hyenas.
Nothing. Just Ganker making something up and just repeating it over and over again. See: Halo infinite cost $500 million.
I'm glad they didn't add any anthro Hyenas because I'd be pissed about the models becoming Lost Media.
Oh shit, it's cancelled?
Abought fricking time
>over $1 billion invested
actually? there's no way that's true, right?
3x as much as Cyberpunk?! The most expansive game ever. Come on kid. Use that brain of yours. Its all expanses sega had.
>Star Citizen
>500mil
>TBA
idk that's just what josh moon said on his show yesterday
Did rackets pull any new stupid stunts this week?
Why do you believe everything you hear on the internet?
No and anyone else who thinks this is even remotely true is a braindead moron. "SUPER GAME" was just a stupid Engrish name that Sega gave to a group of projects and HYENAS was one of the games in that group.
It's not canceled yet. I advised the dev team on some fixes and the game will be releasing soon with an updated roster.
That would actually have a chance of being somewhat successful. What idiot believed the actual designs would not be widely, strongly reviled?
Apex Legends ruined an entire generation of games
This would atleast find a niche of horny shut-ins who would cash out for endless cosmetics.
Right now the troony designs appeal to no human being.
They're even worse voiced and in motion:
>Hehe, let's stick it to the rich by killing the poor.
The game was so weird with it's message.
>FRICK THE RICH, LET'S KILL EACH OTHER TO STEAL THEIR SHIT AND THEN USE IT TO ADVANCE OURSELVES IN THEIR SOCIETY.
> That drag queen trailer
The hips on the drag kween goes, swish swish swish!!
What kind of sad person would think this is 'cool' and 'extravagant'? This is made by people who never drank an ounce alcohol or listen to loud trashy music or smeared a wall with obscene comments.
...what?
i feel like not even the chuddiest of chuds would make something this bad as a parody of shitty woke games
wokies keep outperforming even /misc/ when it comes to racism and such
That’s the best part
>killing people
>hahaha just like my video games
What psycho wrote this
>No trailer for The Pro
At this point, I'm convinced he was added in at the last second just to fill in their quota for "white" characters in the game.
Ha, true. Maybe that's why they gave him a mask, since they didn't really want to add him.
Wait I was wrong, there is a trailer for him starting at 2:20 ( https://youtu.be/W-mN_MeSmxs?si=sOUxQx4jThhZPQ0y&t=140 ).
>Galaxia's voice
Almost identical to the Saints Row reboot in aesthetic and tone, how long are we going to suffer the millennialcore genre?
Until enough studios get dissolved that the senile moneymen in charge of major corporations start recognizing the pattern.
i will now buy your game.
Someone post the real set of character portraits.
Lame, create the characters in AI instead of just copypasting them from fighting games.
Nope. They just actually saw this was specifically DOA. There are still more live-service games coming considering Sony bought Bungie specifically to overlook something like a dozen live-service games after their success in milking Destiny2 players. On that note, I'm pretty sure Marathon is also Live Service slop too which is yet another reason why I won't even bother trying it.
GO WOKU
GO BROKU
Hyenas are cool
I really do not understand how some generic looking shooter game ends up having over a billion dollars invested, most of it is money laundering right?
>mfw digits
such an obvious Ganker insert
To be honest I feel like this guy would be a better fit.
Ganker'd be using the fawkes mask rather than nixon's. Gay and stereotypical, but associated with anon for better or worse.
The nixon mask is the safe, overused cliche creatively bankrupt people fall back on.
Tricky Dick if he vidya
TIGHTEST
CREW
EVER
>that nose
Arrest him, he's stealing the air
christ this game would have been fricking atrocious
>the crack
>the taint
Vidya writers should also go on a failed strike for the good of the rest of the people on this planet
Payday guy?
Check 'em!
So happy to see nu-CA get absolutely demolished.
Companies need to realize that unless you have a really unique idea for a multiplayer game, people are not going to stop playing the ones they've already invested hundreds of hours into just to play yours especially for something as niche as extraction shooters. The people who play them are literal cheating psychopaths who get off on the ability to torture other players. They're not going to jump ship to your lovey dovey SJW frick the powers that be sort of thing. Like maybe change the gameplay into something a bit more player friendly or something.
You don't need a unique idea just really slick gameplay and potent advertising which Hyenas didn't have. Art design is included in advertising when the explicit goal of a project is to earn money, they killed their own game by trying to look good to their peers. Apex succeeding despite it's horrible characters was only thanks to the Titanfall devs FPS experience and Battle Royale shooters having a large audience with very few good options.
By "unique" I mean something interesting with the gameplay or artstyle or characters or yeah, if there's something not being fulfilled with existing games then you can try to go for it, but Hyenas had really interesting going for it. Seemed like its target audience was all over the place too trying to appeal to the extraction shooter market, older millenials with the retro pop culture stuff, but in a totally Zoomer way and nobody liked anything about it.
Older millenials don't even play games I'm having trouble understanding why people are thinking any demographic is asking for this. This is a woke urbanite platitude kind of thing that goes across gen lines it's what happens when timid STEM workers get trampled by loud propagandists.
>Older millenials don't even play games
This just isn't true
t. old c**t
This game is basically a product of lazy token female employees and """creatives""" sitting around the studio's cafeteria not doing any work and going:
>Wouldn't it be BADASS if we added (the most universally unappealing shit you've ever heard of in your life) in OUR game?
Then a bunch of meek, easily-cowed programmers going yes ma'am.
>M-Maybe we should focus on making the game fun inste-
>WHO SAID THAT?! WHO'S THE CRACKA ASS PROGRAMMER WHO FRICKING SAID THAT?!
You're right about 80% of the staff going along meekly, but it's usually guys in charge that want to virtue signal.
The guys in charge don't go to dev meetings, they hire someone who believes in the message to do that.
The oldest millennials were children in the 80s. Less likely than middle millennials but still likely to be a decent amount.
Hell, my mother was in her 20's when games really came about and still spent a large portion of her time on them until the day she died. Generational effect is minimal.
Older millennials were born in the early 80s and we're still playing games. I look at the game and I see some kind of 80s and 90s nostalgia going on, but it's done way too ironically and tongue in cheek. I love 80s and 90s nostalgia, but I really hate that.
The only thing I can guess is that there's a certain portion of Zoomers who cling to 80s and 90s nostalgia even though they at most they were babies on the tail end of the 90s.
yeah, the woke city-dwellers don't play games and if they do, it's madden or fifa or fortnite or whatever.
It was just shy of $100 million in dev costs. A billion dollar game being cancelled just before release would be making a lot more news than this and this is already a big catastrophe. Sega's "supergame" isn't even close to being revealed
I bet the boomer execs who thought this game would be a good idea are going to skate by clean and just try it with something else.
Fricking NO ONE thought the game actually looked good and interesting, it's been ridiculed since fricking announcement. It was so fricking soulless and unoriginal it couldn't of been made any other way than an out of touch committee of boomers making a stylistic design of the game based on what they think teenagers like, and then just trying to force out a game solely based on that and no other ideas to go on.
My hate for the people behind the design of this game cannot be understated.
>cancelled after 5 years in development
>over $1 billion invested
There's no fricking way they invested 1 billion into that trash heap. This is money laundering.
That's because they didn't and you should stop believing whatever you believe here without any sources.
>get ESG money to make game
>cancel shit
>write loses as tax writeoff
>keep ESG money
pretty based if you ask me
>ESG fund dies
>suddenly even fricking Disney says "we wanna change and not divide people any longer"
And people seriously thought corporations care about anything but money. If being a nazi gave you hundreds of billions you would see all those companies swing the Third Reich flag 24/7
Hell, back when being a Nazi did get you lucrative contracts thats exactly what we saw
BMW used to produce cars with swastika badges, now they do rainbow flags
it ain't dying yet. sega will just fund another one from ngs whales
This whole thing reek money laundering.
Did you like her new look?
>over $1 billion invested
it was 100 million
They had one job.
It's funny because they easily could've tied it into the Sonic franchise somehow doing this.
Still would've been shit andclosed down in like a year but would've had enough ™ power behind it to at least make it to the finish line and recoup at least some cost, most likely.
That'd actually be a pretty original premise for Sonic: A group of Mobian criminals called that call themselves The Hyenas raiding space stations/ships. Probably a bit too violent for Sonic but if you made the npc guards robots instead of cloned humans it would work.
>ai generated bullshit
Either post actual hyenas or kindly get the frick out.
>Have a game where you play as Space Hyena Pirates.
>Do it in the style of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Street Sharks or Biker Mice from Mars, embrace the Saturday Morning cartoon aesthetic.
>Steal from a rogue's gallery of cartoon supervillains, all while the Terran Empire tries to capture you.
I'd play it
I will now buy your game
>people still in denial over Hyenas being "super game"
Oh come on, that game had higher budget than TW3 or MGSV
It's fricking incredible how out of touch they were.
The team developing Virtua Fighter literally put rollback netcode up against "robust dynamic leaderboards" as two competing features, and willingly chose the latter instead
To be fair, Sega doesn't even care about VF
Sega can't even afford to make games on that scale numbnuts, why do you think Yakuza games kept taking place in Kamurocho?
Hyenas' characters makes me want to apologize to Battleborn's characters because I might've been too harsh on them.
>likes cartoonish kiddy characters
>hates quentin tarantino kino characters
typical Gankerincel
Was Hyenas supposed to be that "super game" Sega was talking about?
The Super Game never existed. When Sega talked about "Super Game" they were refering to a bunch of games made by multiple developers. This might have been part of it but the general idea was reviving a bunch of old IPs to see what sticks- Not make a new extraction shooter.
>but the general idea was reviving a bunch of old IPs to see what sticks- Not make a new extraction shooter.
No, at least one of them (believed to be Hyenas) was a western developed new IP with an intended american crime culture theme quote "like Grand Theft Auto".
>over $1 billion invested,
And where did you get that number from?
My ass.
There were actually people paid to shill this here
>start devoloping a game purely based on trends to make money for the piblisher but the game itself is marketed with a "capitalism bad" message.
>decide to make the logo of your game a hyena wit dead eyes.
>You game is dead and cancelled before it arrived and the corpse of your studio is devoured by your piblisher.
pottery
>over $1 billion invested
Where did all the money go? This game looked generic as frick and had practically 09 marketing, the first time I heard about it was gamescom 2023
>Where did all the money go?
Managers
They showed up and told the developers whose dreams were crushed over the past year if they've made progress and to give a report at the end of the day.
They take that report the next day and report with it to another manager above them.
The manager chain eventually reaches the CEO. Nobody does anything with those reports but report to a higher up.
It's a common practice to burn money nowadays
Honestly wouldn't be surprised if that's true, the Jap are very corrupt when it comes to these matters
Also, if the money was indeed laundered there would be a whistleblower sooner or later, these giant conglomerate companies usually don't get away with this sort of shit
Creative Ass is in the UK and receives state funding already, Sega's half a world away
and this is why socialism is bad. now the entire uk people have been enslaved by their giga corporations and are dutifully paying them extortion money disguised as monetary aid. just because they're "too large to fail". companies must be allowed to fail no matter how large they are because if they don't then they will just end up dragging their entire society down with them when they inevitably fail.
the money got lost in the laundry while their current flagship title had one guy pushing db updates for it
>over $1 billion invested
moron
JOIN THE -ACK
>over $1 billion invested
citation needed
Imagine giving a bunch of people one billion dollars and they return with a drag queen who was groomed as a kid. Would you not cancel that outright too?
Go woke go broke
This was a game built entirely around NFT's wasn't it? It's very telling how the trailer ends and what greedy Sega executives envisioned...Every character reaching out for that Sega MERCH. Every character looks like a Anarchist yet their eyes light up at the sight of CONSUMING PRODUCTS from corporations, Cosplaying as characters (advertising for a company for free)
It was the perfect caricature of modern woke types and what braindead useful idiots they all are
>Every character looks like a Anarchist yet their eyes light up at the sight of CONSUMING PRODUCTS from corporations
There's got to be a term for this kind of person.
Leftist.
White
funkopunk
heh
best one
>Every character looks like a Anarchist yet their eyes light up at the sight of CONSUMING PRODUCTS from corporations, Cosplaying as characters (advertising for a company for free)
I think the premise would actually work as a straight up spoof but that would require some self-awareness from the creators
>that would require some self-awareness from the creators
We only do quirky self-awareness now
DAE college students poor?
Where my fellow suicidal men in dead-end jobs at xDDD
>Coverage trying to shirk responsibility away from lower and middle management, developers and designers and trying to make it all about "muh investors muh corpos"
Embarrassing. This project was rotten by incompetence from the ground-up.
this game apparently had an openbeta and it barely reached 100 people?
>Why does no one want to play as any of the Pronoun Posse?
We will never know.
It was a closed beta and I think it had about 1000-2000 people. Anyways considering game was canceled less about a few days after the beta ended, I think the decision had been made long before.
>closed beta
no it wasnt, you had to "request" access that was given freely
had the chance but even as neet i value my time and have a little self-respect left to not play this shit even out of morbid curiosity
>Is live service cancer finally dying?
lets hope so
This one is so dumb. What is the tree on the left even attached to? Meanwhile look at this masterpiece.
>look at this masterpiece.
You complain about one tree, meanwhile there isn't a single identifiable object in your "masterpiece"
Outside of the pool everything looks like nothing
Are you blind? It's a bunch of couches and lamps by the pool.
No, there are supposed to be couches and lamps by the pool, but not a single object looks like a couch or a lamp.
looks like absolute shit
not a single part of it looks like a real thing
$1B? Ridiculous. It was only $882M.
i wouldnt mind a game about actual hyenas
>i wouldnt mind a game about actual hyenas
Only if they're anatomically-accurate hyenas, i.e. the females are futas (with clitdick and pussy).
The problem is - as always - the ones who suffer here are the code monkeys on the floor. The rich CEOs don't lose anything at all, they just fire a bunch of peasants to make up for the loss.
All of them believe in the same politics. Frick off moron.
You have fallen for the most basic of class warfare diversion tactics, enjoy your boot
You're so lacking in self awareness it's unreal.
This is just the default assumption. That only spooky vague publisher could be at fault no matter how much the devs appear and clearly show they believe the same things.
Is this Japanese game, like Marvel's avengers by square?
no
More like "super lame" am I right fellas?
Was Hyenas Japanese game?
JOIN THE ACK
>sega can waste 1 billion on worthless projects that are sure to fail
>cant pay them 1k to port VF5 to pc
>every other franchise get the recycled no budget treatment
I absolutely despise this company on so many levels. Releasing YACKuza 3 times a year? Frick off with that boring ass game where you do nothing but talk to perverts for 2 hours straight.
Quick rundown of wtf happened.
Always ignored the hyena threads.
The "closed" beta came out and was predictable terrible.
Then SEGA announced they were cancelling before launch (they never gave a solid date it would launch in the first place.)
You now know the HYENAS lore.
Beautiful. Corpo cucks failing big leagues and burning borrowed money.
Beta had like 2000 steam players, right? And even then, some were just there to laugh at it.
Yep, I don't think the game had one genuine fan apart from 10 viewer streamers that had disillusions that this game was gonna make them big.
Xaxaxaxaxa
where am I going to get my gacha, games-as-a-service, lootbox hero shooter fix now?
>chuds and incels have the power to cancel games now
We've become too powerful, being able to summon tortanics at will.
it’s payback time, libtards. billions must cancel.
>Sega announced the news in a press release, stating the cancellation was due to “the lower profitability of the European region.”
Hahahaha, stick to sonic, gays.
Actually make an adult only Sonic game and we're good.
Yes. When you think about it, pretty much every single smash hit game in recent memory was single player focused.
>Elden Ring
>Baldur's Gate 3
>Spider Man
>TLOU franchise
>pretty much all of sony's games for that matter
Most of the big flops I can think of were multiplayer games. All those ripoffs of overwatch, fortnite, pubg, etc. I think part of the reason is that there's only so many multiplayer games people can play, especially when they all demand your attention with battle passes and other progression systems. You only really need a few in your life. But singleplayer games are one-and-done, people will keep buying them.
Once I bought the battle passes for two live service games and tried playing and keeping up with them both. Never again. I came home from work and logged into one game to complete the checklist, then log into the next game and complete its checklist, then it was time for bed. It was soul crushing. If you want to play and keep up with two or more live service games you literally can't have a life.
These devs don't understand that people who play live service games already have their game and they've built up their account for many seasons with skins, borders, rank rewards and other bragging rights. They're not gonna give up that shit for some new half finished live service game. That's why you see games like Halo Infinite losing 99% of its players after a month. It's just live service players trying out a new game then going back to their old game where they already have all the stuff they worked for.
Halo Infinite lost 99% of its players because it was a shit game with no updates and it's only now that they started turning things around.
Sounds like the story of every other new live service game.
Yeah, a lot of multiplayer games seem to ask too much for you these days. Specially games with constant updates and changes to game play that you need to remember after taking a break.
Probably one of the reasons why TF2 seems to have a constant fanbase because the game barely changes every year so people can easily come and go as they please.
multiplayer games got too big to be successful
the suits want them to make millions of dollars every week so they have to keep putting in worse and worse monetization tactics and now that battlepasses are not making money anymore we'll get to experience something even worse
Battlepass model works if your game already hits critical self-sustaining mass and is actually something people want to play and gets people on board for it and also has enough cosmetic options to justify its existence.
That's why shooters still do it while Dota 2 is abandoning it.
Yes... I saw your new game in development called Hyenas
And it made me think it was a piece of SHIT!
This game is BULLSHIT!
No, just because Sega had a moment were they weren't totally moronic doesn't mean the other companies will. Sony specifically is going all in on this shit.
Man, I hope so.
>over $1 billion invested
Are we just making numbers up now?
Anon is slightly right, Sega invested a billion dollars into multiple games with multiple companions, I believe Sega announced a 120 million dollar loss recently which is likely Hyenas and one more unnamed game.
>companions
Companies.
i tried the beta and for me it was a buggy mess. Lots of level geometry didn't load in, floating shit, and it was impossible to play alone because there were too many enemies and also i couldn't get into any lobbies probably because it had no players also it was boring garbage
>Is live service cancer finally dying?
No unfortunately. SEGA were just late to a trend that's already been monopolized
Sega has had so many frickups over the decades and still went through with them against their better judgement, says a lot when they cancel one.
JOIN THE ACK
Looks like they finally joined the -ACK
i thought it was just some meme phrase but its actually real
>CA
It never had a chance anyway
>5 years
thats a really long time to take a shit
The obsession these people have with drag queens is embarassing. Drag has nothing to do with being trans and the fact they push this shit so much shows they only support progressive shit as long as it's loud and obnoxious.
Post all the acks and ywnbaws you want, I don't give a shit, I'm just telling it how it is.
every normal degenerate knows this
You think /vpol/ cares about facts?
literally who gives a damn shit about drag
they are dudes who wear make up to look like oman and be as loud and annoying as possible as far as im concerned its hideous and i dont want to see it and dont want it forced down my throat i dont give a shit about your fAcTs
>normies become aware Larry Fink is directly responsible for Blackrock's egregious hand in the mass dissemination of troony/Black person bullshit
>ESG funding comes to a grinding halt
>Hyenas immediately canceled and CA announces mass layoffs
This isn't coincidence.
You forgot
>ESG is now getting rebranded with a new name
>>ESG is now getting rebranded with a new name
Yes. It's called ~~*inclusive capitalism*~~ now.
Best part is that people will continue to shit on it, no matter what he calls it, until he reworks the entire thing so cramming your shit full of Black folk and trannies isn't the best cost/benefit way to raise the score. But then it wouldn't serve well as a propaganda tool.
Who is that wild and silly looking guy?
Oob on inkbunny
Larry is just one of the many behind this bullshit, even if Blackrock is extremely powerful.
No, grossly mismanaged shit is finally dying.
Lmao, no, not until we know what the other projects Sega spent $1B on are.
As long as Activision continues to talk about how they make a billion dollars a month selling battle passes and skin packs in Call of Duty, and Fortnite, GTA Online, Apex, etc. do the same thing, every other publisher on the planet is going to keep chasing that high.
And publishers will continue to make the mistake of thinking they can just make their own version of what's already popular and people will magically abandon the game they've invested hours into to play your game.
Ubisoft is probably panicking right now that they missed the certification window and XDefiant is going to launching right next to MWIII.
Sony had allegedly 12 live service titles in development, Bungie consultants had them smother Last of Us 2 multiplayer because there was no monetization plan, and then they shut down their studio that was made of former COD devs anyway. So it'll be interesting to see what happens over the next 5 years.
This will only get worse as the Warzone platform continues to exist since it can just remaneuver and "absorb" popular subgenres, e.g. extraction shooters with DMZ, it being COD's battle royale mode in general, while also still being fricking Call of Duty.
If Sega was smart they'd pull a Nintendo and start figuring out what single player stuff in their catalog they could use for a modest turnaround.
Everybody thinks they can just hop on the bandwagon and live service is just the 2020s version of everybody making their own Call of Duty/cover shooter in 7th gen.
Sony has potential tens of billions of dollars, and their entire slate of AAA games for the next few years, wrapped up in live service games like this. They won't let them be failures nomatter how much they suck.
>make game called Hyenas
>no hyena characters
>over $1 billion invested
This number keeps getting bigger and bigger with every thread...
Yes it's annoying. According to Sega's financial and planning documents it was only $882M, not $1B.
Yeah, these dumb chuds really think Sega would drop $748M on a game? Sega only has $580M to work with! I'd be surprised if they ever planned on using more than $317M!
Live service games are never finished, moron. Each day that game lived, it would've cost Sega hundreds of thousands in server costs, updates, maintenance, patches, cosmetics, community management, marketing, etc. forever because that's what a LIVE service is, fricking moron.
Real talk though, how long do you think before Square-Enix pulls the plug on this? Like presumably they'll have the first month where they'll pay a shitload of streamers east and west to play it. Six months?
Have they even announced its pricing model yet? E.g. F2P or having a retail release or what?
Was this supposed to be the "Super Game" that Sega was talking about or is there an additional project being worked on?
>is there an additional project being worked on?
this
There's multiple, but this is one of them. We'll see if they'll pull the plug on others or not, though there's no way to be sure considering they haven't even announced the other titles yet.
1 billion for multiple super games. Around 120,000 for Hyenas and one more, 2 got cancelled and Sega announced a 120,000 loss
knowing sega they cancelled the new jsr game and skies of arcadia remake.
>they cancelled the new jsr game
At any other time I'd be sad to hear that, but I couldn't really give a shit at this point. Would love it if Sega bit the dust now or got bought out, they've been total shit for the last decade.
They couldn't possibly get worse with a new head at the top.
Well, Bomb Rush Cyberpunk already got made, so there's not much reason for Sega to try and recapture their audience when their lunch was already eaten.
>game is called "Hyenas"
>not about hyenas
My kind of poster
I don't think cute/sexy anthro girls could save this game
>Live service dying
As long as there are breasts and/or memes, live service games are where the real money is at
>game called "Hyenas"
>no hyenagirls
>game called "Hyenas"
>you don't play as a hyena
>game called "Hyenas"
>no mischievous hyenas
Obligatory note about how the first litter of Hyenas dies before they're even born because the umbilical isnt long enough and they get stuck in the pseudopenis so by the time they rip it open and are born they're already dead from hypoxia
Sounds like an horrible evolution strategy.