Gun Media is engaged on its subsequent asymmetrical on-line multiplayer recreation primarily based in an iconic movie 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 line with a submit on the Friday the thirteenth recreation’s Twitter account, the multiplayer recreation shall be pulled from storefronts on December 31, 2023 due to an expired license. Gun has additionally dropped the value of the bottom recreation to $4.99 and made every bit of DLC $0.99. It’s going to all keep at that value till it will get delisted.
Gun additionally famous that Friday the thirteenth will keep on-line till at the least December 31, 2024, one 12 months after the license expires. Given the “at the least” 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 growth, a lawsuit between the movie’s authentic 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 workforce.
“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 had been engaged on that we had been compelled to cease making. Some people suppose we stop as a result of we wished to. No. We had been compelled to cease, and it actually damage us as a workforce. It damage me personally. I fell right into a despair. My coronary heart simply obtained damaged, and followers are yelling at us like we had been doing this. Like this entire factor was our fault. It was arduous. Followers had 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 some of the painful.”
Despite the fact that 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 informed the outlet that he was making a brand new Friday the thirteenth recreation with a distinct studio that has “extra life like trying” characters and shall be reportedly “be completed in a distinct type to that of the earlier asymmetrical multiplayer title.”
It’s unclear what workforce could be behind this recreation, when it may be popping out, or when it may very well be revealed.
