{"id":84816,"date":"2026-09-14T12:01:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T04:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=84816"},"modified":"2026-09-14T12:01:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T04:01:58","slug":"the-last-of-us-part-2-multiplayer-mod-cancelled-at-sonys-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=84816","title":{"rendered":"The Last of Us Part 2 Multiplayer Mod Cancelled at Sony\u2019s Request"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets-prd.ignimgs.com\/2025\/01\/10\/screenshot-120-1736503735002.png\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">A PvP multiplayer mod for The Last of Us Part 2 on PC is no longer going to be released after the mod maker says it was contacted by Sony Interactive Entertainment and asked not to release the project to the public.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">\u201cHey everyone, as you all know, the TLOU 2 Multiplayer mod that has been in development since January was supposed to [be released] this month,\u201d wrote modder Speclizer <u>via social media.<\/u> \u201cUnfortunately I recently received a letter on behalf of Sony Interactive Entertainment requesting for the mod not to be released. Extremely sad that this never got to see the light of day but I hope you\u2019ll continue to follow me onto the next project, this time something of my own.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Speclizer uploaded<u> 25 minutes of gameplay<\/u> for the mod back in June, with clarification the project began in January 2026 and was expected to be ready by this month. Development on the mod included a payment component via Patreon, which is unlikely to have helped it fly under the radar. <\/p>\n<p><output class=\"box-wrapper jsx-2673806401\" data-cy=\"article-video\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">The news may come as a disappointment to firm fans of The Last of Us multiplayer, considering Naughty Dog <u>cancelled its own official multiplayer project set in the world of The Last of Us back in late 2023.<\/u> The studio said, if it had released the game as planned, it would have needed to put all of its resources into post-launch content for years to come, harming its ability to develop future single-player games. In the aftermath of the cancellation, former Sony Interactive Entertainment executive <u>Shuhei Yoshida noted that he had played The Last of Us Online and thought it was \u201cgreat.\u201d<\/u> The Last of Us Online director Vinit Agarwal also maintains <u>former colleagues still message him to say it was \u201cthe best multiplayer game they\u2019ve ever played.\u201d<\/u><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\"><em>Luke is a Senior Editor on the IGN reviews team. You can track him down on Bluesky @mrlukereilly to ask him things about stuff.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/the-last-of-us-part-2-multiplayer-mod-cancelled-at-sonys-request\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A PvP multiplayer mod for The Last of Us Part 2 on PC is no longer going to be released after the mod maker says&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[9783,3358,969,1397,6674,1838],"class_list":["post-84816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-cancelled","tag-mod","tag-multiplayer","tag-part","tag-request","tag-sonys","wpcat-32-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}