Kotaku: Naughty Dog Laying Off Developers and Factions is shelved

[nongkris]

Last Of Us Studio Naughty Dog Is Cutting Developers

The PlayStation first-party studio behind Uncharted and The Last of Us Part II is laying off dozens of contractors

kotaku.com

"One source now tells Kotaku that the multiplayer game, while not completely canceled, is basically on ice at this point."

Good to see Jim Ryan's GAAS legacy still taking L's.

What's even more sad is the fact that they had a working Factions that could've shipped with the base game in 2020, but wanted to turn it into a full blown GAAS.

 

[Kokoloko]

Grain of salt.
Doesn't sound like a studio that is expanding…

Will have to see. TLOU 2 Factions sounded likea dream game for me and Im not much of an multiplayer gamer. TLOU universe, single player story experience but in an online game that gets expanded like Destiny/RDR online or GTA online.

 

[Heisenberg007]

'Shelved' implies canceled. The game isn't canceled. It's on pause.

The headline suggests the game is canceled. Should be edited.

 

[Petekilla]

Didn’t we already know that Factions development was paused? Schreier already reported it. The layoffs report is weird since it’s been reported that Naughty Dog was expanding.

 

[Petekilla]

Last Of Us Studio Naughty Dog Is Cutting Developers

The PlayStation first-party studio behind Uncharted and The Last of Us Part II is laying off dozens of contractors

kotaku.com

"One source now tells Kotaku that the multiplayer game, while not completely canceled, is basically on ice at this point."

Good to see Jim Ryan's GAAS legacy still taking L's.

Naughty Dog’s Online game wasn’t Jim Ryan’s idea you idiot. It was Naughty Dog themselves who decided to make it it’s own big thing. You can blame Jim Ryan for some things, but this isn’t one of them.

 

[nongkris]

Grain of salt.
Doesn't sound like a studio that is expanding…

Will have to see. TLOU 2 Factions sounded likea dream game for me and Im not much of an multiplayer gamer. TLOU universe, single player story experience but in an online game that gets expanded like Destiny/RDR online or GTA online.

Yep, Factions was my most anticipated game from all of Sony first party as a TLOU fan. The rumors of it basically being cancelled last year made me move to PC as my primary platform.

 

[Darth Vader]

Layoffs were in QA. Other studios are also laying off QA. Seems like a concerted effort to lower salaries or outsource stuff.

 

[nongkris]

'Shelved' implies canceled. The game isn't canceled. It's on pause.

The headline suggests the game is canceled. Should be edited.

Shelved, paused, and on ice basically mean the same thing. The game is basically dead and ND spent more than 3 years on this wild goose chase.

shelved
decide not to proceed with (a project or plan), either temporarily or permanently.
"plans to reopen the school have been shelved"

 

[ethomaz]

The game should be part of TLOU2 in 2020.
They lose a lot trying to make an standalone game.

It was one of my mot anticipated part of the game in 2020 but now? All the hype died to be fair.

The MP in TLOU was unique and innovate… a fresh take at time with all MP games going going into Gears like (even Uncharted took similar Gears formula).

It was really amazing.

But ND fucked it in 2020.

I consider TLOU Part 1 to PS5 and PC being a half backed product due the lack of MP… it I basically half of the game launched in 2013 or the remaster in 2014.

 

[AshHunter216]

Layoffs were in QA. Other studios are also laying off QA. Seems like a concerted effort to lower salaries or outsource stuff.

Seems like this article is part of yet another targeted media blitz against PlayStation.

 

[On Demand]

Should of just made the standard multiplayer like the first game and expanded it more. Not no gaas nonsense.

TLOU multiplayer was so damn creative and fun to play.

Are the servers even online anymore?

 

[Sircaw]

~This is a blessing and a tragedy at the same time, one, it's sad we will not get to play the game, but two, @Gamernyc78 @Satoru and @Bryank75 won't get their arses absolutely destroyed by me in a game.

And no @TubzGaming that is not a gay joke.

 

[John Elden Ring]

Time to get rid of this GaaS nonsense

 

[Swift_Star]

For Factions, it's better to get cancelled then to release as Redfall did, tbh.
Sad for the contractors, though.

 

[AshHunter216]

For Factions, it's better to get cancelled to release as Redfall did, tbh.
Sad for the contractors, though.

Yep, sucks if this story is true, but putting out a terribly received GAAS game would probably hurt them a lot worse than this news will.

 

[Dabaus]

Imagine wasting years of your crown jewel studios time and resources chasing trends. Stick to what you know and let the Havens' and Firewalks' of the world take care of multiplayer.

 

[Dabaus]

Last Of Us Studio Naughty Dog Is Cutting Developers

The PlayStation first-party studio behind Uncharted and The Last of Us Part II is laying off dozens of contractors

kotaku.com

"One source now tells Kotaku that the multiplayer game, while not completely canceled, is basically on ice at this point."

Good to see Jim Ryan's GAAS legacy still taking L's.

What's even more sad is the fact that they had a working Factions that could've shipped with the base game in 2020, but wanted to turn it into a full blown GAAS.

Thtas interesting, because Moore's Law is Dead said he heard Factions 2 was originally a launch ps5 game. I was like "that cant be right" but maybe it was?

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Get rid off this man(HE/HIS/HIM) ASAP. What a disaster.

 

[Airbus]

Still no news about factions for 3 years

Still no updates on new game project

More layoff

Time for Neil Druckman to go and bring Amy Henig back

 

[Entropi]

What a shame. Uncharted and TLoU’s multiplayer modes were great. Also, What’s behind the Druckman hate boner? Are people still mad about Joel? lol