Life is Pain: Respawn Entertainment cancels unannounced multiplayer FPS

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Titanfall fans everywhere:

Granted, there's been no confirmation that the game was a Titanfall game, but people like myself dared to dream!

In a post on LinkedIn on Wednesday, Evans revealed that the “incubation project” she was a part of had been scrapped.

“The unannounced incubation project I was a part of for the past year was canceled this week, so I am joining the group of extremely talented and kind people in the games industry searching for a new role,” Evans said.

The incubation project, while announced, was expected to be a multiplayer FPS title if past job postings were any indication. As far as the theme, setting, or anything else about the game, that remains unknown.

Respawn Has Seemingly Canceled Its Unannounced FPS Multiplayer Game

Respawn has canceled its unannounced game that signs pointed to being a multiplayer first-person shooter (FPS).

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IGN understands this was a multiplayer FPS (for which at least one job posting was listed last year) spun off by members of an internal team that was formerly working on a Star Wars FPS at Respawn, which was itself canceled last year. IGN can also confirm that a number of individuals have been laid off as part of the cancellation. Though we are unable to confirm the exact number, it has been characterized as "small" by a source familiar with the project.

Respawn Has Quietly Canceled a Multiplayer FPS Incubation Project - IGN

Apex Legends developer Respawn has canceled an incubation project this week, and laid off an unknown number of individuals working on it in the process.

www.ign.com

The twisted logic of us Titanfall truthers was that EA didn't want to pay the cost of the Star Wars license on an entry in a crowded market, and shifted the project toward a smaller-scale multiplayer-only, possibly F2P FPS in a universe the wholly own. Titanfall 1 was itself, MP only, though it had a fair amount of 'radio play' during 'missions' to give the sense of a story being played through multiplayer matches.

Anyway, boo, hiss, and good luck to all the people laid off.

 

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Bluepoint also cancelled a God of War multiplayer live service game.

 

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GAAS are running low on gas

Thank god, one of the most ruinous recent trends in the industry

Jim Ryan going all-in on them was hilariously stupid when he announced it, and it is even funnier now after the Concord fiasco (which wasn't on the devs! The devs got screwed by the execs who kept their cushy high paying jobs)