Gaming as service article on Kotaku

"Games as service keeps the community engaged, but also the team - the team's excited about getting stuff out there."

As a result there will be "smaller pieces of content" releasing more frequently, and "more communication" from the studio in a bid to keep the community engaged.

"Part of having the game as a service is that we're really embracing it to be agile and flexible in how you develop," said Duffy.

Jump back to quoted post19 Jan 2015, 11:13 AMMirage357

It's a good article, as a player of both LoL and WoT not to mention the long awaited WOW (world of warships, not word of warcraft).

Unfortunately I don't think CoH as a game could ever fit into that niche. But Relic itself sure could learn a thing or two from both Riot and Wargaming, not to mention just about every developer out there could learn a thing or two from Blizzard.

Games are changing this is true but CoH is far from being in the category of 'service' games. Though I do believe they fit into what blizzard classifies as 'familial'. We can only hope Relic/SEGA have something up their sleeves to keep up with the way the industry is changing.

EDIT: just noticed that this also applies to the article nigo posted.