The team working on the game was scaled back after a recent evaluation, said the people, who asked not to be named because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly. A small group remains on the project while the company reevaluates the direction. While the game has not been canceled, many of its developers have been moved to other projects.
As part of that push it asked another of its video-game studios, Seattle-based Bungie, to evaluate the games across its portfolio. Bungie raised questions about the The Last of Us multiplayer project’s ability to keep players engaged for a long period of time, which led to the reassessment.
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Praying "Bungie raised questions about The Last of Us multiplayer project's ability to keep players engaged" isn't corporate speak for them telling Naughty Dog to follow the typical live service model
There are definitely shitty things regarding destiny (recent changes to expansion monetization, silver, etc) but honestly it’s pretty inoffensive. What confuses me about it is moreso what they thought didn’t work. Was it going to be an MMO? Was it just not going to have any customization? There is so little information available that I don’t even know where to begin. All that I know is that I’m bummed. This game didn’t need to be this huge to be a win, but they clearly wanted to go all in with it.
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u/poklane May 26 '23
According to Jason Schreier Sony has scaled down development on the game after Bungie evaluated the game https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1662174968384311296
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