Developer Naughty Canine has introduced that the beforehand introduced on-line The Final of Us multiplayer sport, The final of Us On-line has been canceled. This implies growth on the title has been stopped for the foreseeable future. In a current assertion, Naughty Canine mentioned it’s was “wanting ahead to placing it in your palms,” however “to launch and help The Final of Us On-line we’d must put all our studio assets behind supporting post-launch content material for years to come back, severely impacting growth on future single-player video games.” Lastly, the developer additionally acknowledged that it has “a couple of formidable, model new single participant sport” that its engaged on. Naughty Canine just lately introduced The Final of Us Half II Remastered for PlayStation 5. The remaster will launch on January 19, 2024.
The total message concerning the cancellation:
We notice a lot of you could have been anticipating information across the undertaking that we’ve been calling The Final of Us On-line. There’s no simple solution to say this: We’ve made the extremely troublesome determination to cease growth on that sport.
We all know this information will likely 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 palms. We wished to share with you some background of how we got here to this determination.
The multiplayer workforce 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 super potential. Because the multiplayer workforce iterated on their idea for The Final of Us On-line throughout this time, their imaginative and prescient crystalized, the gameplay received extra refined and satisfying, and we had been enthusiastic in regards to the path wherein we had been headed.
In ramping as much as full manufacturing, the huge scope of our ambition grew to become clear. To launch and help The Final of Us On-line we’d must put all our studio assets behind supporting post-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: turn out to be a solely dwell service video games studio or proceed to deal with single-player narrative video games which have outlined Naughty Canine’s heritage.
We’re immensely happy with everybody on the studio that touched this undertaking. The learnings and investments in know-how from this sport will carry into how we develop our initiatives and will likely be invaluable within the path we’re headed as a studio. We now have a couple of formidable, model new single participant sport that we’re engaged on right here at Naughty Canine, and we can not wait to share extra about what comes subsequent after we’re prepared.
Till then, we’re extremely grateful to our group to your help all through the years.
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