Sony Live Service Woes continues as PlayStation administrator Jade Raymond leaves external testing

Jade Raymond leaves Haven Studios, Sony owns developers online multiplayer shooting game FairgamesThe game reportedly conducted an external test delay in another blow to PlayStation's real-time service ambitions.

according to BloombergRaymond left the company she founded a few weeks after Fairgames' external testing and obviously didn't perform well. The game should expire in fall 2025, but is now delayed until spring 2026.

As Bloomberg said:

The PlayStation leader did not give Haven employees a reason to leave her departure, but this was done on this issue after an external test of Haven's first match, online shooter Fairgames. Some developers in the Haven said that fear the game is received and its progress, and they demand not to agree with the game because they have no right to speak out.

Sony temporarily sticks to Haven and Fairgames, with new co-station leaders Marie-Eve Danis and Pierre-François Sapinski in place.

It was more trouble for Sony's embattled live service ambitions, and now it seems to have been completely retreated. While Arrowhead's Helldivers 2 took a groundbreaking blow, the fastest PlayStation Studios game ever, selling 12 million copies in just 12 weeks, Sony's other live service games were cancelled or suffered a disastrous launch.

Indeed, Sony's Concord was one of the biggest video game disasters in PlayStation's history, and lasted for weeks after the low number of players shouting out loud. Sony later decided to kill the game completely and shut down the developers.

After Sony has canceled the last multiplayer game for Naughty Dog. Earlier this year Sony reportedly canceled two unannounced live service gamesone is the title of God of War developed in Sapphire, and the other is in the work of developer Bend.

Sony announced plans in February 2022 Launch more than 10 live service games by March 2026and later Promotion will bring different types of games to different audiences. It spent a lot of time on the studio acquisition, as part of Drive, bringing fateful developers Bungie, Jade Raymond's Haven Studios and now closed Firewalk Studios.

But in 2023, Sony President Hiroki Totoki said the company is reviewing 12 live service PlayStation games in its work and promises to launch only six of them by the end of the fiscal year 2025, meaning by the end of March 2026. Totoki said Sony said when the other six on-site services should work harder, we will work harder in certain important situations: “We don't want to: “We don't know, but we have to work harder, but we have to work harder, but we have to work harder.”

Bungie is still flying the live service flag, Destiny 2 is ongoing and launches will begin later this year later this year. Earlier this month Sony announces a new PlayStation Studio called TeamLFG and makes fun of the first gameThis is a real-time service incubation project. The Guerrilla Horizon Multiplayer game is also under development.

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