Friday the thirteenth: The Recreation will now not be available for purchase after this yr, writer Gun Interactive has introduced.
It is as a result of expiration of the Friday the thirteenth licence, set for December 31 2023.
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In an announcement posted on the official Friday the thirteenth: The Recreation Twitter account, Gun stated that after December 31, 2023, it should now not be capable to promote bodily or digital copies of the asymmetrical survival horror multiplayer recreation. Although the assertion notes the sport will proceed to be playable “via a minimum of December 31, 2024,” supplied you obtain the sport earlier than the top of this yr.
Whereas there might be a minimum of yet one more yr of assist for Friday the thirteenth: The Recreation after it’s now not available for purchase, you will need to keep in mind that the net servers had been shut down almost three years in the past. So in the event you plan to purchase this recreation, your solely choices of play are on-line by way of peer-to-peer matchmaking or by enjoying an offline match utilizing bots.
Moreover, Gun diminished the bottom recreation’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 yr.
Friday the thirteenth: The Recreation 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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