In the context: As one player in the old school, I will never understand the attractiveness of the live service model. Between cheatedcine, nickel delicate transactions and friends, and the high children you have to play with, I do not see the value as a consumer. I am in a good company. The former president of PlayStation does not get it either.
When Sean Leiden Sony left in 2019, he was a shock to PlayStation fans. Lyden had spent more than half of his life with the company (32 years), with the last lack of higher executive positions, including the president, CEA CEO and Sony Worldwide Studios.
Lyden’s sudden departure came just before the appearance of PlayStation 5. At that time, there was a complaint about the conflict between him and the President of Sie Jim Ryan. Lyden later dispelled the rumors, Bloomberg told him that he left him attrition I felt just a good time “put the pin” in it.
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The former PlayStation coach recently sat to conduct an interview with Save State Plus (above) and said that regardless of only time, he did not agree to the increasing focus on Sony on the continuous liquefaction, including live games. Live service games and subscription models were not suitable for him.
In order to be honest, as you know, the company was making some strategic decisions about the place where they wanted to take the platform in the future with a strong focus in games as a service, live service games, formulation of subscription, and frequent turquoise, and what not, and this I did not know that, I do not know the vision. This new field of live games, everything that has been taken into account, seemed to be an appropriate time to step down after 32 years in Sony.
A long time before the PlayStation 5 version, Sony was transporting its business model to focus more on live service games and subscriptions. Leiden had a seat in the front row of these changes, so he chose to leave directly before all the main transformations of PlayStation Plus and began to produce the first party.
With great emotion, we announce that the head of studios around the world, Sean Leiden, will leave C. His leadership will be missed greatly. We wish him success in future endeavors and we feel deep gratitude for years of service. Thanks for everything, Sean!
– PlayStation (PlayStation) September 30, 2019
These restructuring fruits were a multi -layer game of multi -layer PlayStation game and multi -player Microtransaction games, which are at best. Sony has invested heavily in Concord, a massive fluctuation with the number of simultaneous peak players. It was so bad that Sony installed it less than two weeks later, making it the third faster Stir in the history of live service games, according to DualShockers.
Revelation is not very surprising. Laiden publicly criticized the general trend to which the game industry is heading. Last year in Gamescom, Layden pointed out that publishers stopped focusing on making games enjoyable and instead spending all their energy on liquefying it. Series PlayStation 5 and Xbox keyboards are also believed to have the last major leaps in console devices.
However, you do not have any sick will. Lyden was more than 30 years rewarding with the company and left good terms for green pastures. Sony suggested him goodbye in 2019, saying: “His leadership will be largely missing. We wish him success in future endeavors and very gratitude for years.