Naughty Dog’s planned multiplayer game set in the world of The Last of Us is no longer available. The studio announced Thursday that it has made what it calls “the incredibly difficult decision to halt development.” The Last of Us online.
“We know this news will be hard for many, especially our dedicated The Last of Us Factions community who have eagerly followed our multiplayer ambitions.” the studio said in a post on its website. “We’re as excited about the studio as we were excited to put it in your hands.”
The Last of Us online should be announced to the public sometime this year. The studio had released a handful of concept art for the game, but never showed any gameplay.
Naughty Dog said the studio’s developers were already in pre-production The Last of Us online since the development of The Last of Us Part 2which was delivered in 2020. The online game is “unique and has enormous potential,” the studio said, but it’s also a daunting task that it doesn’t have the resources to handle.
“As we ramped up to full production, the enormity of our ambitions became clear,” the developer explained. “To publish and support The Last of Us online We would need to dedicate all of our studio resources to supporting post-launch content in the coming years, which would significantly impact the development of future single-player games. So we had two paths in front of us: either become a pure live service games studio or continue to focus on single-player narrative games that have defined Naughty Dog’s legacy.”
Naughty Dog has a separate and brand new single player game in the works; The studio announced this project back in May when they told fans about it The Last of Us online
In its announcement, Naughty Dog provided a silver lining The Last of Us online‘s formal rejection: “The insights and investments in technology from this game will inform the development of our projects and will be invaluable to the direction we take as a studio.” We have more than one here at Naughty Dog ambitious, brand new single-player game we’re working on, and we can’t wait to reveal more about what’s coming next when we’re ready.”
Naughty Dog announced back in 2018 that it planned to provide a multiplayer component The Last of Us Part 2a game that was first announced back in 2016.
The original The last of us already launched in 2013 with its own multiplayer component, which was also available in the PlayStation 4 version, The Last of Us remastered. ELEPHANTFactions mode took deathmatch and team deathmatch game types found in many multiplayer games and overlaid a metagame and story on top.
