Gun Media is working on its next asymmetrical online multiplayer game based in an iconic film franchise, however its first one is about to get the axe, as Friday the thirteenth: The Sport is getting delisted on the finish of the 12 months. Nevertheless, this official announcement comes proper as an unofficial report of a brand new Friday the thirteenth recreation has surfaced.
Why is Friday the thirteenth: The Sport getting delisted?
In keeping with a submit on the Friday the thirteenth recreation’s Twitter account, the multiplayer recreation can be pulled from storefronts on December 31, 2023 due to an expired license. Gun has additionally dropped the worth of the bottom recreation to $4.99 and made every bit of DLC $0.99. It’ll all keep at that value till it will get delisted.
Gun additionally famous that Friday the thirteenth will keep on-line till a minimum of December 31, 2024, one 12 months after the license expires. Given the “a minimum of” half, it’s doable that servers will keep up after that.
Friday the thirteenth: The Sport has needed to fight licensing points for years. As famous by YouTuber Matt McMuscles’ dive into its development, a lawsuit between the movie’s unique screenwriter and the present rights holders stopped all content material for the sport after a number of years. The lawsuit’s sluggishness meant that Gun and Illfonic needed to transfer on. Gun CEO Wes Keltner defined within the aforementioned YouTube video how the ordeal affected him and the group.
“We cherished it, and it was taken from us,” stated Keltner. “That day nonetheless haunts me. We had so many concepts, a lot content material we have been engaged on that we have been pressured to cease making. Some of us assume we stop as a result of we wished to. No. We have been pressured to cease, and it actually damage us as a group. It damage me personally. I fell right into a melancholy. My coronary heart simply bought damaged, and followers are yelling at us like we have been doing this. Like this complete factor was our fault. It was arduous. Followers have been confused, and we weren’t allowed to say a lot. F13 was one of many best issues to ever occur to me, but additionally one of the crucial painful.”
Although the solar is setting for Gun’s Friday the thirteenth recreation, one other is seemingly on the horizon. In an interview with RelyOnHorror, longtime Friday the thirteenth composer Harry Manfredini instructed the outlet that he was making a brand new Friday the thirteenth recreation with a unique studio that has “extra lifelike wanting” characters and can be reportedly “be finished in a unique fashion to that of the earlier asymmetrical multiplayer title.”
It’s unclear what group can be behind this recreation, when it is likely to be popping out, or when it might be revealed.