Another one of PlayStation’s live-service games has crashed and burned, as Fairgames, the company’s online shooter that was being developed by PlayStation’s first-party developer Haven Studios, has been canceled.
According to a report from Bloomberg, Haven Studios isn’t undergoing any layoffs as a result of the cancelation, but workers will instead be moved elsewhere in the organization. The decision comes after Fairgames‘ recent playtest didn’t live up to Sony’s internal expectations were.
“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,” executives Sean Decker and John Doyle wrote in an email verified by Bloomberg. “Combined with challenging market conditions in the PVP shooter genre, we have made the difficult decision to cease development on the game.”
