The Final of Us On-line Has Been Cancelled

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 stated it’s  was “trying ahead to placing it in your palms,” however “to launch and assist The Final of Us On-line we’d need to put all our studio assets behind supporting post-launch content material for years to return, severely impacting growth on future single-player video games.” Lastly, the developer additionally said that it has “a couple of formidable, model new single participant sport” that its engaged on.  Naughty Canine lately introduced The Final of Us Half II Remastered for PlayStation 5. The remaster will launch on January 19, 2024.  

The complete message concerning the cancellation:

We understand a lot of you have got been anticipating information across the undertaking that we’ve been calling The Final of Us On-line. There’s no straightforward approach to say this: We’ve made the extremely troublesome determination 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 have been trying 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 staff has been in pre-production with this sport since we have been engaged on The Final of Us Half II—crafting an expertise we felt was distinctive and had super 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 obtained extra refined and satisfying, and we have been enthusiastic concerning the route by which we have been headed.

In ramping as much as full manufacturing, the huge scope of our ambition turned clear. To launch and assist The Final of Us On-line we’d need to put all our studio assets behind supporting post-launch content material for years to return, severely impacting growth on future single-player video games. So, we had two paths in entrance of us: turn into a solely dwell service video games studio or proceed to concentrate on 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 know-how from this sport will carry into how we develop our initiatives and shall be invaluable within the route 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’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.

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