State of Decay 3 may be launched as a live service title

John Elden Ring

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  • Undead Labs, the studio behind State of Decay, posted a job listing for a Senior Product Owner, indicating that State of Decay 3 may adopt a live-service model.
  • The job listing specifically mentions the preferred qualification of experience with online multiplayer, game live services, and operations.
  • The job listing mentions online multiplayer, which would be a first for the series after State of Decay 2 introduced cooperative multiplayer.
Undead Labs, the studio behind the State of Decay series, recently posted a job listing for a Senior Product Owner. The developer is looking for a candidate with experience in live services suggesting that the next installment may be much different than previous titles. The preferred qualification reads, "Experience with online multiplayer, game live services and operations."

The new job listing suggests that Undead Labs is moving to the live service model where the game will be supported for years. The live service model should keep things fresh as content is continuously added, making the game bigger and much more complex after launch.

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Sircaw

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This game could have been so fantastic, it has a niche place in the market.

Take the second one, just use a better engine, make sure it does not have the same amount of bugs as the previous one, and take their time to make it as best an experience as possible.

They could have turned this into an incredible 8.5+10 game and now they are all in on Live services shit.


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historia

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This game could have been so fantastic, it has a niche place in the market.

Take the second one, just use a better engine, make sure it does not have the same amount of bugs as the previous one, and take their time to make it as best an experience as possible.

They could have turned this into an incredible 8.5+10 game and now they are all in on Live services shit.


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Looking at ownership.

Yeah potentially great game. Sure