Herman Hulst - live-service games (Might) launch on PC & PlayStation on day 1

[TubzGaming]

Considering that the thread title is a lie, can anybody change it?

Hermen didn't CONFIRM that live service game WILL launch day an date on PC.

He exactly said in the 7:11 "I THINK going forward we'll see AT LEAST a year between releases on our PlayStation and PC, POSSIBLY with THE EXCEPTION of life service games. Live services games are a little bit different in nature, because you want to have a really strong community and engagement right away, right when you go live. So we MIGHT, in the case of our live service offerings, go day and date between PC and PlayStation platform."

A thread title that would be closer to reality would be "Hermen Hulst mentions that live service games might possibly release on PlayStation and PC day as an exception".

Because I smell that once people see that Sony's live service games don't release on PC or don't do it day one some may start calling Hulst a lier when it wasn't the case, as happened with Jim Ryan and the 'we believe in generations' interview where some claim that he was saying that they weren't going to make crossgen games when in the interview mentions that they were going to continue supporting PS4 for years and also detailed the reasons of why.

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[Vertigo]

To some extent I think the console launch should come a bit before pc just for quality reasons to be honest.

When it comes to gunplay for instance weapon sandboxes would need different tuning for controller and mk/b. I don’t want to get into the details as to why it’s a huge effort to consistently work on.

Then there’s tons of other issues that will arrive from pc. Cheating, general issues users will have getting the game to run. There are modern day solutions to this stuff sorta but even that will take time to build for these games.

And this is while launching the game to begin with, which will undoubtedly have a variety of gameplay systems needing attention.

Like they bought Bungie for this kinda of stuff but it took them years themselves to build and for many things still working on them. If everything is from scratch I dunno. Unless there’s some kind of magical engine they’re all working on that’s has this shit built in lol

It may just serve them best to give a 6 month launch window for both versions.

Also gives them time to course correct a disastrous launch or reconsider something that’s flopping.

 

[KiryuRealty]

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Herman Hulst's name is still spelled incorrectly!