The much-loved 2014 shooter Titanfall is being put to rest once and for all. Developer Respawn Entertainment has confirmed that it's halted sales of the game effective immediately, and that it's being pulled from all subscription services on March 1, 2022.
This upsetting decision comes after years of struggle. Respawn has been fighting against hackers and DDoS attacks for some time now, to the extent that the game would often become unplayable. Things got so bad that the once-beloved game eventually ended up with a "mostly negative" rating on Steam.
Clearly, at this point, Respawn figures it's easier to simply cut its losses and give up - especially considering the fact the studio's focus on Apex Legends meant that only a handful of staff were working on Titanfall anyway.
It's not all doom and gloom, though. Titanfall's servers will continue to be maintained for the "dedicated players" who already own the game still want to jump into a match every now and again. But if you haven't already purchased it? You're out of luck, friends.
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Respawn also stressed in its announcement that the end of Titanfall the game doesn't mean the end of Titanfall the franchise. There is plenty more to come - although it's unclear if the developer was simply referring to more Apex Legends, which is of course part of the Titanfall universe.
"Rest assured, Titanfall is core to Respawn's DNA and this incredible universe will continue," the studio said. "Today in Titanfall 2 and Apex Legends, and in the future. This franchise is a north star for the calibre of experiences we will continue to create here at Respawn."
Titanfall 3 confirmed? No. But you already knew that. We've been doing this dance for years.
Multiplayer. The team evaluated Titanfall and listened to both feedback and analytical research from gaming journalists and identified two major concerns: there was not enough content for players, and at times the game became too chaotic.
The simplest reason is that Titanfall is the oldest game in the company's catalog, and naturally studios need to stop supporting games as they age. But with Titanfall's history of hackers over the past few years, the game's removal likely has something to do with the bevy of DDOS attacks that players have seen.
A former Respawn employee reveals Titanfall 3 was in the works at one point and explains why it was ultimately abandoned. While Respawn is enjoying the continued success of Apex Legends, as well as its Star Wars Jedi games, there remain fans who are desperate for the studio to put out another Titanfall sequel.
Ultimately, though, EA's timing miscalculation was a big problem. In trying to knock out its competition with two shooter releases in a single month, it instead hurt its own bottom line.
Titanfall 3 aimed to expand on the franchise's world incrementally, with strong new features and a devotion to new multiplayer mechanics. Despite enthusiasm for the project, it was ultimately cancelled – and questions have long lingered about the reasons why.
“It was the right call.” Respawn Entertainment worked on Titanfall 3 "in earnest" for ten months before ditching it for Apex Legends, a former developer has revealed. Mohammad Alavi, who became narrative lead designer on Titanfall 3 before it was cut, told The Burnettwork that much work on the sequel had been done.
While EA COO Peter Moore told investors on a May 2014 call that the game had sold 925,000 retail copies in the United States during its launch month, that number came from an external NPD Group report that Titanfall was March's top-selling game. NPD Group reported it was April's top-selling game as well.
Titanfall 2, despite being a masterpiece (in my opinion), was overshadowed at every single angle. It wasn't the most successful FPS of that holiday season. That was Battlefield 1, a game that forced Activision back to the drawing board on how to please their fans.
Titanfall, the first game in the series, was released for Xbox One and Microsoft Windows on March 11, 2014. On April 8, 2014, it released for Xbox 360. The game was mainly multiplayer focused with no real single-player campaign included.
Titanfall 2 was up to a recent date plagued by hackers and matchmaking issues making it unplayable on all platforms, and was considered as abandoned by the devs at Respawn.
No, we are not detecting any problems with Titanfall 2 right now. The last outage detected for Titanfall 2 was on Tuesday, February 27, 2024 with a duration of about 30 minutes.
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