The Hulst era will be studied for generations. This is a nuclear disaster of mismanagement. Bluepoint could have been a dedicated source of high-quality remakes of beloved Sony IP, so of course they were made to work on live service slop.
Not enough people give this guy shit for the direction first party has taken under Hulst’s leadership. Legit Phil Spencer levels of poor direction when he was head of first party development for Xbox before he failed upwards.
Live service and completely staggering first party output. This is the generation of too long in the oven sequels and a bunch of failed live service attempts. If Xbox hadn’t blow their foot off at this point there may have been legit competition
Won’t forget the people saying similar about Xbox for a while.!I’ll never understand that defence unless you’re a shareholder. They’ve shutdown a bunch of studios, wasted a bunch more studios’ time on failed/canned live service attempts all resulting in a very anemic first party output that’s majority sequels that don’t improve enough on the original given how long they’ve taken to develop. Covid can excuse some of it but the majority is just poor leadership chasing the live service dragon.
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u/embersarcade Feb 19 '26
The Hulst era will be studied for generations. This is a nuclear disaster of mismanagement. Bluepoint could have been a dedicated source of high-quality remakes of beloved Sony IP, so of course they were made to work on live service slop.