The web is awash with rumours about Sony pulling the plug on Fairgames.
For those of you who haven’t been following this game – and, frankly, we don’t blame you if you haven’t – this is the anti-billionaire co-op shooter from Canadian developer Haven Studio, which was founded by Jade Raymond and purchased by PlayStation a few years ago.
Of course, Raymond has since left the team, and the project is said to be in turmoil.
The Japanese giant did pool feedback via a small-scale alpha test recently, and it was largely negative, seemingly prompting the management changes at the company.
The source of the cancellation rumours seems to stem all the way back to an episode of the Pachter Factor, featuring notorious industry analyst Michael Pachter, in which he touches on the topic of Sony’s live service push.
“They turned all their studios into live service developers,” he says. “But that resulted in Concord being shut down and the developer closed, which then resulted in Jade Raymond being let go and [Fairgames] being cancelled.”
We think Pachter is just misspeaking here: it sounds like he’s associated Raymond’s departure with the project’s cancellation, which isn’t the case.
In a statement to Bloomberg when Raymond departed the developer, a spokesperson for PlayStation said it’s “committed to supporting Haven Studios and excited to continue the journey”.
Now clearly Fairgames isn’t coming together as well as Sony would have liked, and it doesn’t seem out of the realm of possibility that it could get cancelled eventually. But as things stand right now, at the time of writing, our understanding is that the game is still in development.
We’ll check with the platform holder, however, and share any updates if we get a response.
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