Fares could not say what Hazelight's next game is, but he was happy to elaborate on what it's definitely not. While
many video game publishers are diving into the deep ends of live-service games and NFTs — games that encourage players to spend money via endless updates and controversial "non-fungible tokens" that utilize the blockchain to confer ownership, respectively — Fares emphasized that the buzzword-laden zeitgeist is not for him.
"Live service? We'll never have that," he said. "People can work with that, and I'm not saying replayability is bad for every game. Some games are actually designed for it. I'm just saying [for] the games we do — story-based games, most single-player games — the focus on replayability shouldn't be there because that's not what it's about. We already have a problem that people are not even finishing single-player experience games, so why focus on replayability?"
Fares had even harsher words for NFTs, saying that he'd rather get "shot in the knee" than include them in future games.
