Naughty Canine’s deliberate multiplayer sport set on the planet of The Final of Us isn’t any extra. The studio introduced Thursday that it has “made the extremely tough choice to cease growth on” what it’s been calling The Final of Us On-line.
“We all know this information will likely be powerful for a lot of, particularly our devoted The Final of Us Factions group, who’ve been following our multiplayer ambitions ardently,” the studio stated in a publish on its web site. “We’re equally crushed on the studio as we had been trying ahead to placing it in your arms.”
The Final of Us On-line was, at one level, imagined to be revealed to the general public this yr. The studio had launched a handful of items of idea artwork for the sport, however by no means confirmed gameplay.
Naughty Canine stated builders on the studio had been in pre-production on The Final of Us On-line for the reason that growth of The Final of Us Half 2, which it shipped in 2020. The web sport was “distinctive and had super potential,” the studio stated, nevertheless it was additionally a frightening job that it didn’t have the sources to dedicate to.
“In ramping as much as full manufacturing, the large scope of our ambition turned clear,” the developer defined. “To launch and assist The Final of Us On-line we’d must put all our studio sources behind supporting publish 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 out to be a solely dwell service video games studio or proceed to give attention to single-player narrative video games which have outlined Naughty Canine’s heritage.”
Naughty Canine does have a separate and brand-new single-player sport within the works; the studio teased this mission again in Might when it informed followers The Final of Us On-line wanted extra time to develop. The studio additionally plans to launch The Final of Us Half 2 Remastered for PlayStation 5 in January.
In its announcement, Naughty Canine offered a silver lining for The Final of Us On-line’s formal cancellation: “The learnings and investments in know-how from this sport will carry into how we develop our tasks and will likely be invaluable within the course we’re headed as a studio. We now have multiple bold, 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.”
Naughty Canine stated way back to 2018 that it deliberate to ship a multiplayer element for The Final of Us Half 2, a sport that was first introduced approach again in 2016.
The unique The Final of Us launched with multiplayer element of its personal again in 2013, which was additionally obtainable within the PlayStation 4 model, The Final of Us Remastered. TLOU’s Factions mode used deathmatch and group deathmatch sport varieties discovered in lots of multiplayer video games, and layered a metagame and story on high.
