Metro: Last Light dev removes multiplayer, focusing resources on single-player

**Blacksite** · 10-13-2012

Metro: Last Light will no longer include a multiplayer component when it launches early next year, developer 4A Games announced today on the game's official blog. Multiplayer had previously been revealed soon after the game's 2011 announcement, something the blog notes was "probably a mistake."

"Throughout the development of Metro: Last Light a small, dedicated team had been working on a number of multiplayer prototypes," the entry reads. "After E3, we decided to fold this multiplayer team back into the main group and focus 100% of the studio's resources on the single player campaign. As a result, Metro: Last Light will not ship with a multiplayer component." 4A Games believes that the game's single-player campaign is "what the fanbase cares about the most."

Whether multiplayer will be added post-launch as DLC or an update is uncertain. "Right now we're 100% focused on the single player campaign and not thinking beyond that. We don't like throwing away work though, it's a project we could potentially return to after Metro: Last Light ships."

via Joystiq.

Good move, I think. I'd like to see more developers take a similar approach.

**HellsJester** · 10-13-2012

Very happy about this info

**Sufi** · 10-13-2012

Good. Unless you're going to completely focus on multiplayer, don't. Too much competition out there.

**radgamer420** · 10-13-2012

Great news. If only more developers would do that.

**DarkVincent07** · 10-13-2012

two words

thank god

**Cybertox** · 10-13-2012

I always thought that Metro is more of a single player game than a multiplayer one. Good decision was done by the developing team.

**BoyBettaKnow** · 10-13-2012

I could never get into Metro:2033 I tried a few times but never really got it. Admittedly I only bought the game because I wanted to see how I could run it on high settings because it is a beautiful game! Just wasn't very fun for me

BBK. Tapatalking.

**Fon** · 10-13-2012

Originally Posted by BoyBettaKnow

I could never get into Metro:2033 I tried a few times but never really got it. Admittedly I only bought the game because I wanted to see how I could run it on high settings because it is a beautiful game! Just wasn't very fun for me

BBK. Tapatalking.

There was one part of the game I couldn't get passed by and it was the one in which you had to go through the town with those giant rat things around. The problem was that no matter what I did, they always sniffed me out and killed me so I gave up. The game is awesome though.

It's a good thing that these guys are focusing their efforts on single player!.

**Nuvian** · 10-13-2012

Originally Posted by Blacksite

via Joystiq.

Good move, I think. I'd like to see more developers take a similar approach.

Yep, most of these games offer under average multiplayer just so they can have multiplayer written on the box, its a shame, but that is the publishers fault in many cases.

**radgamer420** · 10-13-2012

Originally Posted by BoyBettaKnow

I could never get into Metro:2033 I tried a few times but never really got it. Admittedly I only bought the game because I wanted to see how I could run it on high settings because it is a beautiful game! Just wasn't very fun for me BBK. Tapatalking.

Yeah I rented it and was glad I didnt buy it because I couldn't get into it either. Maybe this one will be better.

**AlexMackAttack** · 10-14-2012

Originally Posted by HellsJester

HAHAHAHAHA. Yes. Classic Jim. Love it.

**DreDayDetox** · 10-14-2012

Very good news. Almost every developer should strive to do this. Maybe I'll play more games like I used to again.

**podsaurus** · 10-14-2012

Glad to hear it. Never thought 2033 needed it nor does Last Light.

**Joe Zombie** · 10-14-2012

Good news. Not every game needs multiplayer. What a breath of fresh air.

I've been following this game for a long time and I hope it delivers.

**Typical guy** · 10-14-2012

Originally Posted by Blacksite

via Joystiq.

Good move, I think. I'd like to see more developers take a similar approach.

LOL They'll be out of business before this game comes out! Don't worry, THQ has been going downhill all year and when they don't sell any games this Christmas, they're going to go bankrupt! If we're lucky someone will buy this game and finish it. Same with southpark.

**ps3freak18** · 10-14-2012

This is one of the most respectable things I've ever seen and dev do. Bravo for actually doing what so many devs should have done with games of the past. Don't just force in a Multiplayer because you know it gives your product more play time. Not worth it to deviate from what actually matters, the single player.

**Bravo9zero** · 10-15-2012

Finally Devs are realizing not every game needs multiplayer!
We need more single-player focused games.

**TDbank24** · 10-15-2012

Probably good news. I'm not against a developer trying multiplayer if done right.

Look at Uncharted for example. It's nothing short of an amazing single player game that didn't need multiplayer but yet ND tackled multiplayer and nailed it.

It all depends on the type of game.

**Canine99** · 10-15-2012

IF the Multiplayer had looked good I would have purchased Last Light day one. As it is now, I'm not paying the best part of £40 for a pretty short single player game, rumoured about 12 hours tops on official forums, I'd finish that in a few days. I will still pick up the game, when it's at the right price.

The Devs have been talking about multiplayer for this game for a long time, a reveal was supposedly close and now it's pulled! Call me cynical but I can see paid Multiplayer DLC announced not long after launch. A shame some gamers think pulling a promised Multiplayer mode is good/funny when it might now end up as paid DLC. I quote "we don't like throwing work away".

**Typical guy** · 10-15-2012

Originally Posted by Canine99

IF the Multiplayer had looked good I would have purchased Last Light day one. As it is now, I'm not paying the best part of £40 for a pretty short single player game, rumoured about 12 hours tops on official forums, I'd finish that in a few days. I will still pick up the game, when it's at the right price.

The Devs have been talking about multiplayer for this game for a long time, a reveal was supposedly close and now it's pulled! Call me cynical but I can see paid Multiplayer DLC announced not long after launch. A shame some gamers think pulling a promised Multiplayer mode is good/funny when it might now end up as paid DLC. I quote "we don't like throwing work away".

The multiplayer was probably terrible. THQ doesn't know how to do multiplayer. Look at WWE12 for an example. They probably plan on spending a long time working on the multiplayer and putting it into metro 3 a few years down the road when it actually works. I really doubt that will happen though since THQ won't be around to fund another game in a few months. Speaking of which, don't bother buying any of their games. Since the company will go under, the liquidators will probably push the prices down real fast to try to get as much money back as they can. So I imagine in 4 or 5 months every THQ game, no matter how new will be under $20 (or the Euro equivalent).