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Harvey Randall

Former Sony boss says the industry's obsession with the 'mirage' of live service games is futile: 'The highway is littered with people wanting to take on Fortnite'

Fortnite Take the L emote silhouette image.

One thing I'm at least reasonably confident that we at the good ship PC Gamer share with you lot is the fact we're all a little sick of live service games. As fellow PCG writer Ted Litchfield put it in the article I just linked, "Surely we've seen enough to know that trying to retrofit a singleplayer studio into a 'live service machine go brrr' moneymaker is not a smart bet."

Joining the crowd of nodding heads on this particular matter is Shawn Layden, a former Sony exec who left the company in 2019, who was part of a multi-developer interview with The Ringer's Lewis Gordon.

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