Horizon MMO from NCSoft Reportedly Canceled

Several projects at NCSoft have reportedly been abruptly canceled, including a Horizon MMO.

NCSoft has been having a bad time, with co-chairman Kim Taek-jin recently stating, '’If we don’t turn around in 2025, there will be no future for NC again.’‘

And now, according to an interview with MTN on January 13, 2025, members of the undisclosed new product development team, including ‘Pantera,’ ‘H,’ and ‘J’ under the CBO of NC Lee Sung-koo, were notified to stop development.

Projects H and J have disappeared from the company’s organizational chart in that time, and Project H appears to be an MMO based on Guerrilla’s Horizon franchise.

PlayStation Live Service Woes Continue

Concord’s failure seems to be causing wider casualties

This comes after PlayStation also shelved a God of War live service title. It increasingly seems like the company has made a U-turn on a live-service future after the disastrous launch of Concord last year, which led to the game being shut down by Firewalk Studios.

Guerrilla is still thought to be developing a GaaS version of Horizon, but given the demise of similar titles, it could end up on the shelf with its stablemates.

With the industry suffering massive layoffs everywhere in the last few years, this will undoubtedly lead to further damage. Given the sums involved in the development of live service games, everyone involved is going to end up taking a significant hit, with developers likely to take the brunt of it.

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