Square Enix isn’t giving up on its lousiest live service game just yet

Despite Babylon’s Fall struggling with tiny player counts, Square Enix doesn’t seem to be giving up its fatal live service game. Because developer Platinum Games revealed his plans for Season 2 and other updates in an interview. Is that enough to get player numbers going again?

Babylon’s fall continues

Anyone who believed that Babylon’s fall had fallen is mistaken. Because Season 2 is already on the way. Square Enix and Platinum Games are not giving up their current flop game. On the contrary: The developer studio Platinum Games speaks optimistically about the future of the game and Square Enix seems to give the green light.

In an interview, the directors Kenji Saito and Takahisa Sugiyama go into detail about the upcoming updates. Apparently, the next season will all Babylon’s Fall players with one or more entirely new regions greet.

“In Season 2, we are shifting the setting away from the Tower of Babylon for the first time, and some will be central to the story.” (Source: Square Enix)

In addition, one terminates one new weapon type which is intended to enable “satisfactorily more responsive action gameplay”.

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The studio also promises to host another limited-time event. In Season 1 found one Collaboration with NieR:Automata instead of; at the next event, Square Enix may bring out the heavy artillery and rummage around Final Fantasy Heroes out of.

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Top priority for the studio is currently the game environment. You want to make this as exciting as possible.

“There were a lot of things related to the repetitive game cycle that we didn’t realize until after the game was released.” (Source: Square Enix)

Saito and Sugiyama also openly admit in the interview that Platinum Games hereby working on a live service game for the first time, which is why you mainly take into account the feedback of the players. In the next few updates, the studio wants to “solve each issue in turn.”

It sounds like Platinum Games will grow with the challenges and Square Enix doesn’t seem to have given up hope either. (Source: Square Enix)

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But is that enough?

Since the release, about the same amount of gameplay content has been added as was included at the start. Something has changed graphically too. But this could not cause a turnaround.

Player counts were last on PC shockingly low: Meanwhile, the live service game only saw one player worldwide. It might look a little better on console, but that’s not a good sign.

Platinum Games not only has to deliver good content, but also to the game a new coat of paint miss. Let’s see if Season 2 can turn things around.

The second season for Babylon’s Fall is scheduled to start very soon.