The Last of Us multiplayer game was roughly 80% complete ...

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Listen up: Former director of The Last of Us multiplayer game has claimed the cancelled online project was roughly “80 percent” finished when it was cancelled.

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Lee’s LelPodcast , Vinit Agarwal spoke about the game’s end.

The Details

Speaking about the games industry during COVID, where online games saw a boost in players, Agarwal dropped Sony put a lot of money into Online games including The Last of Us multiplayer. He claims the game was “doing well internally”, and the team “developed it to 80 percent completion”.

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Why This Matters

As people returned to the office, spending reduced. As Agarwal put it, “all the money that went into the industry, was not able to sustain. Because money was being pulled out, they had to also collapse the spending.

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Key Takeaways

• The Last of Us Multiplayer was one such casualty.
• Agarwal dropped: “A decision had to be made.
• Make this game, or make this next game that Neil Druckmann was directing, the president of the company.
• So, kind of naturally, you can understand what happened there.

The Bottom Line

I believe it was going to be fr big, but unfortunately couldn’t see the light of day. ” Agarwal describes this as a “devestating moment”, as he had spent seven years working on the cancelled game.

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