Horizon Hunter Gathering to restart and risk cancellation: Will it no longer be an in-person service?

According to a new Bloomberg report from Jason Schreier, Guerrilla Games is developing a Horizon Hunters Restart in Gatheringa real-time service multiplayer game project set in the Horizon universe. The studio has reportedly decided to make major changes to the game in response to Very negative feedback Received during testing phase.

Bloomberg quoted sources as saying that the work would begin last June with clear goals: Eliminate the entire instant service component. The title will no longer be designed to expand over time with updates and new content; instead, it will become Features story mode and smaller-scale cooperative multiplayer.

Risk of cancellation?

Schreier added that the game might even risk cancellation. There will be guerrilla games It will take until December to convince managers As the next phase of development progresses, a large portion of the Horizon Hunters Gathering team will be transferred to another project, which will also be evaluated later this year.

These rumors need to be treated with caution, even though they come from a well-known and reliable source like Schreier. It must be said, though, that this comes as no surprise: Horizon Hunters Gathering has never generated a huge amount of enthusiasm among the public since its release, and recent beta testing doesn’t seem to be reversing that trend.

If confirmed, this could be another The long list of PlayStation live streaming service strategy failures It started in the Jim Ryan era. All that’s left is to await any official communication from PlayStation and Guerrilla Games to learn the fate of the project.