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If you're Sony boss what would you do with Fairgame$?

Kotaro

Kotaro

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Would you stay the course and go for the trifecta, Concord + Marathon + Fairgame$

or

Would you delay, go back to the drawing board, do major overhaul, rebrand, but would require major extra cost and no guarantee for success
 
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LordCBH said:
Cancel it. Because a peak of 100 users isn't much better than a peak of 0.
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Releasing the game will only damage Sony's reputation - it is better to accept the financial loss and nuke the project now rather than release it, have the financial loss, and get dunked on by everyone again as they complete the fabled Concord trilogy.
 
I'm shutting it down... I'm halting all projects.

I'm getting rid of the free-to-play and GAAS crap.

I'm doing analysis and feedback from gamers.

I'm opening a new Japan Studio.

I'm fleeing the California headquarters and returning to Japan.

I'm creating two studios solely to make AA games or games with moderate or modest budgets... but where originality, fun, and art are paramount.

I'm pushing the PS6 to 2029 or later.
 
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Oh it's easy:
  • Back to deep dev cycle,
  • spend another couple hundred millions on it,
  • redo the entire visual style,
  • Overhaul the whole tech stack
  • add single player episodic campaign,
  • Roadmaps everywhere
  • release to great fanfare
  • Still fail spectacularly
At this point I'm in just for the entertainment value of seeing these OBVIOUSLY ILL CONCEIVED PROJECTS absorb so much stupid money, and blow away as soon as they release.
So I hope they're gonna spend way more money on this.
 
Nothing about the trailer for that game or the info released seemed like anything the core PlayStation audience wanted. It felt like a business suit hired a name they heard had recognition and directed them to make a product. It felt very "business-y business" in a way PlayStation is usually not.

I don't know what state the game is in, but first impressions and word of mouth are everything these days. Given what happened to Concord, Foam Stars, and Highguard as recent examples, I would think the lesson is pretty obvious: If your core audience is shitting all over a new game on the first trailer, and you don't have some way to pivot hard, what are you expecting? It seems unreasonable to just press ahead and hope the narrative flips.

Has anyone at PlayStation said anything about this game other than the announcement that Raymond had left the studio last year? Has it just been radio silence since the original trailer?
 
Release it.
Make a "Fairgame$ shuts down in X days" bet on Polymarket.
Put all my money on the option that will give the biggest payout, then shut it down on that day.
 
Cancel it and studiy every fu**ing aspect of Helldivers II to understand why this GaaS is successful (maybe the fact that even if you lose you laugh and have a good time, the GaaS policy is not predatory, there is NO POLITICS and/or DEI bullshit embedded and the costs were under control are some things that Sony should learn - and EVERY other studio, if Im being honest).
 
Said it before plenty of times. Replace the zoomer kids with hardened career criminals and goons taken straight from the batman universe. In fact, get a DC license and you get to raid the homes of the rick & famous in Gotham.
Joker's Safe Houses, Cobblepot Manor, Wayne Enterprises... The design document writes itself.

A visual what I'm talking about.

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Cancel it right away and shut the studio down. Cancel Horizon GaaS slop directly after. Revive Bluepoint. Fire Hulst and Druckman and every other slimeball in the company who promoted woke/live service slop.
 
Close it before even try to release, is DOA anyway, but you can hope people will forget it ever existed. Try to launch it and have 300 CCU would be another embarassing shameful badge in this already embarassing Sony's generation.

The only GAAS that had some kind of hope to succeed was Marathon because of Bungie's name, but even this one is failing hard. Is time to go back to do what made Playstation great all these years.
 
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I would close the studio, sell Bungie and hire an external studio to finish TLOU online since it was nearly completed. (Kinda like Helldivers 2 was made by an external studio).

Its still baffling how sony is giving away money to games that clearly will flop and the one live game that could do numbers was cancelled after hod knows how many millions invested and not even given to another studio.
 
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This charade has gone on long enough hasn't it? Close it down before it does any real damage. I'm fine with re-purposing the team for other games I actually don't want any good devs fired, just moved from this thing.
 
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I axe the project and put the developers on Socom for the PS6. If you are going to make mulitplayer games, at least make games the Playstation fanbase cares about.
 
Release it in early access and see if people like it. Then refund if it bombs and shut it down.

I dont like cancelling things devs have poured in years of their lives into. They cant put it on their resume. Cant show it off due to NDA. It's shitty. Just release a beta or something and gauge the reception.
 
Has to be f2p right? Ultra woke Payday 3 from Sony is going to do more harm than good guys. Free 2 play and slide it out the door so they can get it on their resumes but then just shudder it after launch.

If they charged for this they will have to issue refunds imho. I don't think they will ever see roi, it's crazy to think they would.
 
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SlimySnake said:
Release it in early access and see if people like it. Then refund if it bombs and shut it down.

I dont like cancelling things devs have poured in years of their lives into. They cant put it on their resume. Cant show it off due to NDA. It's shitty. Just release a beta or something and gauge the reception.
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It's also a bit silly to want to cancel it after NOT SEEING AN OUNCE OF GAMEPLAY.
 
Cancel it, mark it as a big tax deductible loss, oh and fire all the executives responsible for wasting billions, damaging the brand and barely releasing any actual games all gen, due to the "let's have all our studios make Gaas"
 
Buying the studio was so incredibly dumb. They've probably sunk so much money into this project that EVERYONE knows is gonna flop. I look forward to the CCU thread and journos pretending to like it.
 
Kotaro said:
Would you delay, go back to the drawing board, do major overhaul, rebrand, but would require major extra cost and no guarantee for success
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Based on what?

Release it in early access, test the fuck out of it, and make changes where necessary.

None of that "game comes out in 6 months! Here's a 'wink wink alpha wink wink'" bullshit they did with Concord and Marathon.

SEGAvangelist said:
This one should obviously be cancelled are completely reworked into something else. Fire the artists too.
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Based on what? We've only seen 1 CG trailer with zero gameplay or mechanics or monetization strategies. You're saying "obviously" like anyone outside of Sony/Haven and the few NDA testers it's had knows what this game is.
 
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