Friday the thirteenth: The Sport will not be in the stores after this 12 months, writer Gun Interactive has introduced.
It is as a result of expiration of the Friday the thirteenth licence, set for December 31 2023.
— Friday The thirteenth Sport (@Friday13thGame) June 8, 2023
In a statement posted on the official Friday the thirteenth: The Sport Twitter account, Gun stated that after December 31, 2023, it’ll not have the ability to promote bodily or digital copies of the asymmetrical survival horror multiplayer sport. Although the assertion notes the sport will proceed to be playable “by way of no less than December 31, 2024,” supplied you obtain the sport earlier than the tip of this 12 months.
Whereas there will probably be no less than another 12 months of help for Friday the thirteenth: The Sport after it’s not in the stores, you will need to do not forget that the web servers have been shut down almost three years in the past. So for those who plan to purchase this sport, your solely choices of play are on-line by way of peer-to-peer matchmaking or by taking part in an offline match utilizing bots.
Moreover, Gun diminished the bottom sport’s worth to simply $4.99, and every bit of DLC content material has been discounted to simply $0.99. These costs stay “up till” the sport is faraway from storefronts on the finish of the 12 months.
Friday the thirteenth: The Sport launched again in 2017, and within the years following was met with authorized disputes over the model. This resulted in Gun halting all new work on the title in 2019. In 2021, Gun CEO Wes Keltner revealed all of the canceled content material that was initially deliberate, together with an Amongst Us-styled werewolf mode.
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