It was lately reported that dwell service tasks from Sony Interactive Leisure‘s Bend Studio and Bluepoint Video games had been canceled. In a current episode of podcast Sport Mess Decides, business insider Jeff Grubb claims Harmony is responsible.
Notable gaming insider claims Sony is “reassessing each single mission” after Harmony flop
Through the episode, Grubb reviews the Bend Studios and Bluepoint Video games dwell service sport cancelations are as a result of Harmony’s tumultuous launch through which servers shut down simply two weeks after its launch. He additionally claims Sony is at present “reassessing each single mission” with its present dwell service slate underneath essentially the most scrutiny.
“This occurred due to Harmony, like this needs to be clear, that’s what I’ve been instructed,” stated Grubb.
“Sony is shell-shocked from Harmony, and now they’re going round to each studio and so they’re reassessing each single mission, and if it’s a live-service mission, it has a whole lot of friction going in opposition to it stopping it from getting an opportunity to really come out.”
“And it’s nearly sure that they received’t be capable of get a greenlight on a dwell service mission, and so they know that,” Grubb continued.
Whereas that is in all probability excellent news to among the PlayStation gamers on the market, this does pose a little bit of an issue for builders. As Grubb mentions, underneath Sony’s dwell service push, studios had a “pathway” for funding from the corporate. It could be a bit harder to get funding from Sony for one thing extra conventional.
Earlier than the cancelations, Bluepoint Video games had been engaged on a God of Battle multiplayer sport. Particulars on Bend Studio’s dwell service mission will not be but public. Sony did affirm that it’s working with each studios to determine its subsequent tasks. Whereas it’s good to see this not leading to one other studio shutting its doorways, it might imply we received’t see something from each of those studios doubtlessly till subsequent technology.
(Supply: Jeff Grubb’s Sport Mess)