The Last of Us Factions, Naughty Dog’s standalone multiplayer game, unsurprisingly goes the game service route. The free-to-play model with microtransactions is confirmed.
Despite the critical and commercial triumph of its TLOU games, Naughty Dog is taking the time to develop The Last of Us Factions, the multiplayer mode. In the meantime, players continue to be on the lookout for even the tiniest bit of information, and a new job offer confirms what many had already suspected.
The Multi from The Last of Us free upon its release
Sony has an overflowing appetite for gaming services. The Japanese company plans to release two new GaaS by March 31, 2023, three in the following year and four in the following year. She does not hesitate to invest all her strength to achieve her ambitions and one of the headliners of this new spearhead will be the famous The Last of Us Factions. Multiplayer is possibly expected next year, at which point Naughty Dog intends to give news. However, information confirms that the multiplayer TLOU will indeed be a free-to-play game with a simultaneous release on PS5 and PC.
A piece of news job offer for a producer position, “Live Ops” is indeed looking for a profile capable of ensuring the launch of a AAA multiplayer game with this economic model. This isn’t the first time the studio has suggested The Last of Us Factions will be free to play upon release, and it’s even less surprising that Sony is openly showing its ambitions. Microtransactions will be present in multiplayer, it remains to be seen what form they will take.
News that is already worrying some players who particularly liked The Last of Us’ multiplayer mode when it was released. Some fear that the basic concept and gameplay will alternate, others a pay-to-win economic model, as is currently the case with TLOU Remastered. All you have to do is wait a few short months to get to the bottom of it. However, the stolen videos, leaked at the same time as The Last of Us 2, showed mechanics very similar to the original gameplay. Wait as they say.
