Sony's plan has suffered another setback! "Fairgame$" creative director left midway

Sony's real-time service game strategy has been hit hard again - the shooting game "Fairgame$" under development under Haven Studios lost its creative director in the middle of R&D. This ill-fated work has faced many difficulties in its development process. As Sony's PlayStation real-time service plan continues to deviate from its original track, there are still a large number of unsolved mysteries in "Fairgame$".

After the great success of "Jedi 2", Sony has ambitiously announced that it will launch 10 real-time service games by 2026. However, the implementation of the plan has suffered repeated setbacks: the multiplayer shooting game "Star Special Attack" not only suffered a sales Waterloo, but also caused the game and studio to shut down; now the bad news has come again - the development team of the shooting game "Fairgame$" has lost another core member.

Creative Director Daniel De La Polo recently announced on LinkedIn that he had left Haven Studios and confirmed to join Warner Bros. Games Montreal Studios for the same position. For Sony, the departure of this core member not only impacted the real-time service strategy, but also made Fairgame$'s already bumpy development worse. The game has not disclosed detailed gameplay information since its debut in 2023 PlayStation launch.

This is not the first executive to leave during the development period—Jade Raymond, the head of Haven Studios, announced his departure in May last year. It is said that "Fairgame$" has secretly issued a closed-beta version to a few players, but the feedback is not ideal: the player described its previous alpha version as having a low degree of rigid completion, and the game mechanism attempts to integrate extracted shooting and battle royale elements such as "Fortnite" but it is clearly divided.

　　Although "Jedi Soldier 2" maintains a successful trend through continuous updates and linkages, Sony's real-time service plan is still under heavy pressure: it is rumored that many studio projects have been cancelled, including the multiplayer mode of Naughty Dog "The Last of Us"; the participation of the first player on "The Edge of Destiny" in the latest expansion pack of "Fate 2" did not meet expectations; Bungie's other work, "Marathon", was finally postponed to 2026 due to controversy.