@shinoff2183
I appreciate that individuals here and there don’t, but if you look at how people react to multiplayer games now, it’s clear that people want a live service, even if they don’t want the publisher to call it that.
Look at Battlefield V. Tha game had maps released here and there for about a year and half, which is actually pretty typical for a Battlefield game (only 4 got map packs later in it’s life cycle). Yet the entire narrative around that game now is that the devs abandoned it.
Or look at Red Dead Online. People talk about that game being “dead,” and the community even had a funeral. Which you’d think would mean that the servers were down (that’s what it used to mean), but it actually just meant the game was just being maintained in a status quo, not as a live service.
Heck, people’s complaints about Halo are even more evidence. People used to play Halo multiplayer to have fun. Now people can’t see the point in playing the game if there aren’t new skins to earn.
