Horizon Hunters Gathering Won't Be A Live Service Anymore, It's Claimed
PlayStation Stops Sending Live Services Out To Die, As Horizon Hunters Gathering Is Reportedly Rebooted
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Horizon Hunters Gathering is no more - at least in the form that it was announced in.
According to a new report from Bloomberg, Horizon Hunters Gathering is being rebooted following negative player feedback. This reboot will reportedly see developers strip away the live service elements and instead build the game as a traditional multiplayer title with a story mode.
Horizon Is No Longer Part Of PlayStation's Live Service Strategy, According To A New Report
As per the Bloomberg report, the reboot is still being handled by Guerrilla Games, the developer of the mainline Horizon games.
Despite the game getting this new lease on life, there is no guarantee that it has avoided cancellation. The studio has reportedly been told that it has until December of this year to "impress executives" with the next milestone. It's said that the reboot kicked off in June, giving the team roughly half a year to turn everything around.
Horizon Hunters Gathering was announced earlier this year. There was then a playtest in March, but it seems that the results were not what PlayStation was after. We noted that there were very few players on Steam, and given the threat of cancellation, it doesn't seem they were much better on PS5.
This comes after PlayStation has faced several setbacks in its live service endeavours. While its goals were always widely regarded as overly ambitious - even unrealistic - they have proven to be more disastrous than anticipated. Most notably, Concord was only playable for two weeks before it was taken offline, ending years' worth of planned content.