Naughty Canine has determined to cancel growth on The Final of Us On-line after coming to a stark conclusion about the place it will take the corporate’s future if it had been to proceed.
It had been some time since any concrete replace on The Final of Us On-line, with murmurings suggesting Naughty Canine was planning on shelving it, which sadly turned out to be true.
You’ll be able to learn the complete assertion from Naughty Canine beneath, which additionally provides a nod to an formidable new single-player sport in growth.
Naughty Canine assertion on The Final of Us On-line
”We understand lots of you will have been anticipating information across the undertaking that we’ve been calling The Final of Us On-line. There’s no straightforward method to say this: We’ve made the extremely troublesome choice to cease growth on that sport.
We all know this information shall be robust for a lot of, particularly our devoted The Final of Us Factions group, who’ve been following our multiplayer ambitions ardently. We’re equally crushed on the studio as we had been wanting ahead to placing it in your fingers. We needed to share with you some background of how we got here to this choice.
The multiplayer staff has been in pre-production with this sport since we had been engaged on The Final of Us Half II – crafting an expertise we felt was distinctive and had great potential. Because the multiplayer staff iterated on their idea for The Final of Us On-line throughout this time, their imaginative and prescient crystalized, the gameplay bought extra refined and satisfying, and we had been enthusiastic in regards to the course by which we had been headed.
In ramping as much as full manufacturing, the huge scope of our ambition grew to become clear. To launch and assist The Final of Us On-line we’d need to put all our studio sources behind supporting put up launch content material for years to come back, severely impacting growth on future single-player video games. So, we had two paths in entrance of us: grow to be a solely reside service video games studio or proceed to give attention to single-player narrative video games which have outlined Naughty Canine’s heritage.
We’re immensely pleased with everybody on the studio that touched this undertaking. The learnings and investments in expertise from this sport will carry into how we develop our tasks and shall be invaluable within the course we’re headed as a studio. We have now a couple of formidable, model new single participant sport that we’re engaged on right here at Naughty Canine, and we can’t wait to share extra about what comes subsequent after we’re prepared.
Till then, we’re extremely grateful to our group in your assist all through the years.”
The upside is a significant sport developer is holding the flame alive for single participant gaming on the AAA tier. The unhappy half is that a lot weight is placed on creating an enormous ecosystem round a multiplayer title.
The Final of Half II Remastered is approaching January 19, 2024. It includes a host of extras together with a No Return mode.
