NCSoft's Horizon MMORPG Reportedly Cancelled - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 21 January 2025 / 1,816 Views
NCSoft's Horizon: Zero Dawn MMORPG has reportedly been cancelled.
This is according to South Korean website MTN (and spotted by ResetEra), who states that at least three games in development at NCSoft - Project Pantera, Project H, and Project J - have been cancelled.
It has been rumored for a while that Project H was the codename for the Horizon MMORPG.
The report claims Project H and Project J were cancelled at the beginning of the year and developers are being moved to difference teams at NCSoft.
The Horizon MMORPG is a different game from the Horizon online multiplayer game that Guerrilla Games.
The next games from Bend Studio and Bluepoint Games, both live service, were cancelled last week.
It isn't known if the cancellations will lead to layoffs at Bend Studio or Bluepoint Games, however, Sony in a memo sent to staff said it's "working closely with Bend and Bluepoint to determine what are the next projects and plan to do everything we can to ensure there is minimal business impact."
Sony has struggled getting live-service games off the ground. Sony quickly shut down Concord following its release and eventually closed down developer Firewalk. Naughty Dog's The Last of Us Online was cancelled in December 2023 and a live service Twisted Metal game was reportedly cancelled.
Helldivers 2 is an exception to the live service troubles as the game was a smash hit.
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Project H was not a Sony developed or published game, and insinuating the cancellation is in some form part of Sony's live service push is a misunderstanding.
NCSoft licensed the Horizon IP ane have cancelled quite a few projects, they're having a really bad time right now and can't support all the projects they're working on.
Sure, but it's still a hit to playstations lineup, especially with all the other cancelations. Doesn't look good either way.
This is the one that likely would have worked imo.... you could make a good pve mmo out of horizon.
