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PlayStation Cancels Fairgames After Years Of Silence - Kotaku

Kotaku·Kenneth Shepard·about 23 hours ago
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Another one of PlayStation’s live-service games has crashed and burned, as Fairgames , the company’s online shooter that was being developed by first-party PlayStation developer Haven Studios, has been canceled.

As reported by Bloomberg , Haven Studios isn’t undergoing any layoffs as a result of the cancelation, as “the studio will shift its focus to collaborating with other development teams across PlayStation Studios, while also exploring new creative opportunities,” according to a statement provided to the publication by PlayStation. The decision comes after Fairgames ‘ recent playtest didn’t live up to Sony’s internal 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,” PlayStation executives Sean Decker and John Doyle wrote in an email to employees and verified by Bloomberg .…

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