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Sony Cancels Live-Service Shooter Fairgames After Recent Playtests
In a tale as old as time, PlayStation has apparently cancelled yet another live-service game. This time, it’s the Haven Studios-developed Fairgames, the PvP heist and extraction shooter that was announced years ago. However, Haven Studios has reportedly survived the ordeal and will now fill a supporting role for Sony’s bigger studios.
As reported by Bloomberg, Fairgames is no more. The game was reportedly cancelled after recent playtests “fell short of the goals we had set.” Haven Studios executives Sean Decker and John Doyle penned a note to employees stating, “While the test demonstrated strong operational excellence, live ops readiness and community engagement, player feedback and retention results were mixed and fell short of the goals we had set.”
“Combined with challenging market conditions in the PVP shooter genre, we have made the difficult decision to cease development on the game,” the note continued.
Haven Studios will luckily live on as the studio won’t be closing down or facing any layoffs as a result of the cancellation. Instead, the studio will be shifted towards a more supportive role for other PlayStation developers.
This isn’t surprising news considering PlayStation’s efforts this generation to push into the live-service market have been met with one catastrophe after another. While Helldivers 2 was the outlier in this situation, other live-service games including the historical blunder of Concord and the failing state of Bungie’s Marathon haven’t exactly put PlayStation in a favourable light with gamers (and that’s not even including its controversial decision to cease physical game disc production in 2028).
PlayStation’s initial plans to tackle more live-service games hasn’t panned out the way the company probably expected, with more cancellations, studio closures and layoffs than actual releases this generation. With Fairgames just another victim of the live-service curse, we can only hope Sony takes this moment to do a bit of self-reflection.
Source: Bloomberg
Original article on GLITCHED
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