We've expressed a certain creeping exhaustion with live service games more than once in these digital pages, and the catastrophic failure of Concord led to some predictions that the tide was finally turning against them. But maybe not, too. GDC's 2025 State of the Game Industry report says 33% of triple-A developers who responded to its annual survey are currently working on a live service game.
Across all respondents, 16% said they're working on a live service game, indicative of the fact that they tend to be bigger-budget affairs, made by larger studios and publishers that can afford to develop and maintain them. Interestingly, only 13% of all respondents said they'd be interested in making a live service game for their next release, while 42% said they would not. 29% said they didn't know, or that it wasn't applicable.
