The obvious answer is to abandon GaaS as a concept and focus making more great single player games like the ones that put Playstation into a clear lead in this generation of the console wars.
However, we’ve seen that a massive failure in the space isn’t enough to deter the truly greedy coughWBcough, so who knows?
WB doubled down, after Suicide Squad failed horribly and Hogwarts Legacy sold fantastically they decided they needed to stop making games like Hogwarts to focus on more live service games.
Peak shareholders moment
Alan Sugar needs to teach this lot some basics of selling.
I love multiplayer games, and I want more of them. But I don’t want live service games. Multiplayer is not synonymous with live service, and single player is not its opposite.
If you’re going to do GaaS, shit needs to be free. Nobody wants to pay money for the ability to pay even more money.
If someone would buy the rights to Anthem and finish it, they could have a goldmine.
Some other article said it simpler. If the game launched for free and they focused on microtransactions for skins, they’d be one of the live service games that brings in the money.
Hopefully, in the trash bin.