Spectre Divide shutting down six months after launch reminds us how hard it is to make a live-service game

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• maniel@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  • Or how the live service games market is oversaturated
  • Or how people are sick of live service games

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  • Poopfeast420@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Don’t think the last point is true, since there was a report recently that said almost 50% of game time over one month was spent on live service games.

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    • Chronographs@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Because they’re designed to suck up as much time as possible. You can easily have half the time soent in live service games but not half of the gamers playing a live service title at any given time.

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