Your new service game Concord has failed on Steam and PS5 after just a few days. However, Sony still has high hopes for its initiative to bring new live service games to the PS5. Their next game is “Fairgame$” and comes from Jade Raymond, a well-known producer of Assassin’s Creed.
What kind of initiative is this? In April 2023, Sony announced plans to develop 12 new service games by 2026 that are supposed to function similarly to Destiny and GTA Online. 7 of the games were already known at that time. Later, the number was slightly revised downwards.
To achieve the goal of establishing successful long-term games, Sony has made significant acquisitions in recent years. Among other things, they acquired Destiny developer Bungie, but also Firewalk, who have now failed badly with Concord.
Despite the failure of Concord, Sony continues to believe in the idea. Hope is placed in Haven’s studio and their new game: Fairgame$.
This is Fairgame$. It was shown in May 2023:
New game compared to PayDay
This is what a journalist says about the next game: After the hero shooter Concord crashed, even though it was in development for 8 years, Sony remains confident that it should not be the same for the next game.
In summer 2023, Fairgames (Fairgame$) from Haven Studios led by Jade Raymond was introduced.
As a journalist said in a podcast, Sony is confident about the game (via gi). From internal sources, she heard that Sony feels good about the project.
What kind of game is this supposed to be? Fairgame$ will be more of an extraction shooter than a hero shooter, says the journalist.
In an initial presentation, the game was often compared to Payday – but Payday 3 is not doing as well as previously thought. Therefore, Sony seems optimistic about being able to fill a gap here.
The game also has the opportunity to learn from the mistakes of Concord.
Promising developer, but not heard from in 10 years
Who is the woman behind the game? Jade Raymond (49) is a video game producer best known for her work at EA and Ubisoft on franchises such as The Sims, Assassin’s Creed, and Watch Dogs (2002 to 2014). In recent years, she has had few credits for video games, frequently changing companies and positions:
She worked at Motive Studios and was supposed to work on a Star Wars game by Amy Henning there. However, she left her position for a “highly secret project” at Google, apparently to build Stadia. But that, as is well known, did not work out.
Since 2021, she has been working on her own thing with Haven Studios. Sony bought the studio in July 2022.
The studio plans to build the game together with the community and wants to gradually make it known through playtests, instead of hoping that players will all show up on day 1. With Concord, the principle of hope did not work at all: Why did Concord fail so badly on Steam and PS5, and did Sony burn $250 million on a woke disaster?
