The Last of Us Online may have been canceled due to internal disagreements with Bungie over how to moderate the project.
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The Last of Us Factions was an online multiplayer mode originally introduced in the PlayStation 3 version of the game. Despite the quality and clumsy gameplay, the gaming community fell in love with the competitive nature of the online multiplayer along with great game mechanics.
It would make sense for the developers to continue this successful endeavor with a worthy sequel, but the team ultimately decided to put Factions 2 on hold and not pack it with the controversial sequel and instead expand the lore with an ambitious structure that will never see the light of day.
Sony Interactive Entertainment is pushing its luck a little too far with the online multiplayer side of games. The company reportedly denied Bend Studio permission to work on a Days Gone sequel and has given the studio a quarter of a billion dollars to work on an online multiplayer game that received a negative reception at launch, while pulling the plug on The Last of Us Faction's project.
