An MMO based on Sony's Horizon IP has reportedly been cancelled.

Horizon the robot dinosaur game, not Forza Horizon the racing game in case anyone was confused like me.

  • yesman@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Sony had like 10 subscription/ live service games in the pipe when Concord flopped. All canceled now.

    Evey games developer want’s a fortnite but they can’t understand that multiple games designed to maximize player investment and dominate their time can’t coexist.

    • lobut@lemmy.caEnglish
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      10 days ago

      But it worked so well with the multiplayer shooter Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League by Rocksteady Studios! /s

      I know it’s not an MMO but there’s parallels there

      I love the Horizon games (didn’t play the Lego version though) and it’s similar to the Batman games but don’t have any interest in an MMO or Live Action Shooter for them.

        • lobut@lemmy.caEnglish
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          10 days ago

          Yes, I’m in my 40s … I think at the time most people wanted an MMO of that RTS game.

          I don’t see the parallel between that and the lore of the single player story-driven Horizon Zero Dawn but hey, maybe I’m wrong and a Horizon MMO was gonna do gang-busters.

          • False@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            10 days ago

            As someone who played a lot of Warcraft 3 and really enjoyed the campaign before wow was announced, I was not pleased with the MMO announcement.

            • dogslayeggs@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              10 days ago

              Real question: after WoW had been around for a year or so, were you still unhappy about it? I never played any of the Warcraft games before WoW and had never played any MMOs before Wow, so I had no feeling either way about the announcement. I started playing WoW because two of my close friends and two of my coworkers were playing a bunch, so it was a good way to have more gaming friends than just my one gaming friend. Were most WC3 players unhappy about the announcement? It’s clear that millions of people ended up being pretty happy about it in the end.

              • False@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                8 days ago

                After WoW had been around for a year or so, were you still unhappy about it?

                Nah, I enjoyed WoW well enough for what it is. When WoW was announced there was a lot of skepticism on whether or not a company that was primarily known for their RTS games could make an MMO, along with a decent amount of “Who asked for this”. In hindsight I’m also a bit bitter that we never got and never will get Warcraft 4 though. To some degree Blizzard basically stopped developing games for a few years due to WoW’s success consuming the company.

                Were most WC3 players unhappy about the announcement?

                I think most of them would have preferred another RTS game.

  • lath@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 days ago

    According to the news, it’s one of several live service games cancelled by Sony.

    Concord spooked them very much.