Sony has canceled Fairgames (aka Fairgame$) three years after the live-service shooter was announced, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. No one at its developer, Haven Studios, is getting laid off, and instead Haven will support other Sony Interactive Entertainment-owned studios, according to that report.
Farigames recently held a playtest and, according to an internal email reviewed by Bloomberg, feedback from that playtest didn’t live up to PlayStation’s expectations. “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 said in the email. With “challenging market conditions in the PVP shooter genre,” Sony decided to cancel the game.
Fairgames reportedly had been reworked multiple times since its 2023 reveal. It would have been the debut game from Haven, which was founded in 2021 by former Assassin’s Creed producer and Google Stadia Games and Entertainment head Jade Raymond, who has since left the studio. Haven was acquired by Sony in 2022.
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