{"id":847057,"date":"2026-09-14T03:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T03:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/847057\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T03:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T03:48:09","slug":"last-of-us-part-2-multiplayer-mod-canceled-by-sony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/847057\/","title":{"rendered":"Last of Us Part 2 multiplayer mod \u2018canceled by Sony\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">A multiplayer mod for The Last of Us Part 2 on PC has had its release canceled after Sony Interactive Entertainment allegedly sent its creators a warning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The unofficial Last of Us Part 2 multiplayer mode was being developed by mod team Specizer and was shown off via extensive footage uploaded to YouTube this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The mod\u2019s development was partially funded via Patreon and included numerous custom features like perks and limited listening mechanics, as well as new maps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">However, according to the group, the mod will now no longer be released, at the request of <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Companies &gt; Naughty Dog [438 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/companies\/sony\/naughty-dog\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Naughty Dog<\/a> and The Last of Us owner, <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Platforms &gt; PlayStation [12,597 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/platforms\/playstation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PlayStation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cHey everyone, as you all know, the TOU 2 Multiplayer mod that has been in development since January was supposed to release this month,\u201d Speclizer <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"link-external\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Speclizer_\">wrote<\/a>. \u201cUnfortunately I recently received a letter on behalf of <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Companies &gt; Sony Interactive Entertainment [4,696 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/companies\/sony\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sony Interactive Entertainment<\/a> requesting for the mod not to be released.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cExtremely sad that this never got to see the light of day but I hope you\u2019ll continue to follow me onto the next project, this time something of my own. Thank you all for the incredible amount of support over the last year. hope to bring you something bigger and better soon!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Games &gt; The Last of Us Part 2 [311 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/games\/the-last-of-us-part-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Last of Us Part 2<\/a> was originally intended to launch with an official multiplayer mode. However,\u00a0Naughty Dog president and The Last of Us Part 2 director <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"People &gt; Neil Druckmann [292 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/people\/neil-druckmann\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Neil Druckmann<\/a> announced in September 2019 that the title <a class=\"link-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/news\/last-of-us-2-multiplayer-plans-axed-as-its-confirmed-game-is-on-2-discs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wouldn\u2019t include a multiplayer component<\/a> as originally planned because the studio \u201cwanted to take all of the resources to make this the biggest game we\u2019ve ever done\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Naughty Dog pledged to release a new Last of Us multiplayer offering after its work on the sequel was complete, however, those efforts also failed to lead to a release.<\/p>\n<p>It released the <a class=\"link-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/news\/naughty-dog-has-revealed-the-first-concept-art-for-its-last-of-us-multiplayer-game\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first concept art for The Last of Us Online<\/a> in June 2022, when Druckmann said the game had its own story, a brand-new cast of characters, and was as big as any of the studio\u2019s single-player titles.<\/p>\n<p>Explaining the decision to cancel the live service game in 2023, Naughty Dog said moving forward with it would have required the studio to dedicate all of its resources to supporting post-launch content, meaning it would have had to give up making the single-player experiences it is renowned for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A multiplayer mod for The Last of Us Part 2 on PC has had its release canceled after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":847058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-847057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}