… Perhaps, instead, this has more to do with Sony’s recent pivot away from live-service titles. Marathon notwithstanding, Sony has been on a bit of a live-service shutdown spree in the past year. …
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… Neither Landfall or Aggro Crab are live service studios, any update is a bonus not a right.” When another user replied and claimed that constant updates are “how the gaming industry works these days,” Landfall pointed out, correctly, that it has done a lot of free updates and has at least one more … …
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… Instead, it’s getting its final live-service update nearly a decade after launching. …
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… Marathon is not live-service slop . …
… Some former Xbox staff have also been uneasy with the trade-offs of Game Pass. “When you talk about a subscription that relies on content, if you don’t figure out how to balance the needs of the service and the people running the service with the people who are providing the content – without which… …
