It's been a bad time for PlayStation live-service games, as now the Horizon MMO has reportedly been added to the growing list of canceled projects.
Last week, PlayStation reportedly canceled a live-service God of War game from Demon's Souls remake studio Bluepoint and cut a live service game from Bend Studios, the Days Gone developer. It's now been reported by MTN that some of NCSoft's games have been canceled, too, and ResetEra users believe one of the culled projects is the Horizon MMO.
According to translations provided by a ResetEra user, three of NCSoft's games have had their development halted following a "feasibility review." These are Pantera, H (thought to be the Horizon MMO), and J. Fortunately, it's reported that developers on these projects will be moved internally, not laid off like the devs at Jar of Sparks.
However, Elden Ring Nightreign is also due to launch this year, and who knows, it may have continued the Horizon curse and come out around the same time, so maybe Sony decided to cut its losses now. We don't know what goes on behind the scenes - work could have been behind schedule already, or maybe Sony didn't think it measured up to its expectations.
