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.

Per Bloomberg reports, Sony has cancelled two more live-service games, one of which was rumored to be a God of War spinoff.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox

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.

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.

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

On Tuesday, a new report hit the internet suggesting the planned Horizon Zero Dawn MMO with NCSoft has been cancelled.

Sony has reportedly canceled a live service massively multiplayer game (MMO) set in Horizon’s world. In a partnership with NCSOFT, a Korean publisher, Sony’s MMO under the code names Project H and Project Skyline,