Live service games are a mixed bag that can become cash cows with seemingly endless revenue, or fail miserably only to bring great loathing from players who see their favorite franchise dismantled into its bare essentials or feel their time and money have been wasted on a shallow clone for a cash grab.

Gaming giant Sony has canceled two live service games at Bluepoint and Bend, with a God of War live service project reportedly among them.

Since then, Sony has launched Helldivers 2, launched and shut down Concord, canceled a The Last of Us multiplayer game, and reportedly canceled an online Spider-Man game called The Great Web. Bungie is currently prepping its extraction shooter Marathon for expanded playtests in 2025.

With another two of Sony's live-service PS5 games cancelled and sent to the scrapheap, PlayStation fans and games media have started to truly map out the results of the company's Games as a Service efforts,

Sony reportedly shelves yet another one of its live-service games, marking its 11th such project cancellation in only three years.

Bend Studio and Bluepoint Games' live service projects have been canned, but the studios aren't shutting down.

Just a week after Sony canceled two live service games, it seems another PlayStation property set to get a multiplayer spinoff has been canned. A massively multiplayer online version of PlayStation's Horizon Zero Dawn from South Korean developer NCSoft has reportedly been canceled following an internal review.

There are rumblings that another live project may have been cancelled, the Horizon Zero Dawn MMO that Sony was making with NCsoft.

It's been a bad time for PlayStation live-service games, as now the Horizon MMO has reportedly been added to the growing list of canceled projects. According to translations provided by a ResetEra user,