PlayStation 4 owners eagerly awaiting to see a sequel for The Last of Us now finally know how much longer before the long wait finally ends. Earlier this week, a special media event for the sequel revealed new details about the game, including its confirmed release date of February next year. The media event showed the game in action, but one aspect players of the first game have wondered about is multiplayer mode. At the media event this past week, it was confirmed that there would be no The Last of Us Part II multiplayer mode, and Naughty Dog has now explained their reasons behind the decision to not include such a mode.

An update regarding multiplayer: pic.twitter.com/CUd98LgJGC

— Naughty Dog (@Naughty_Dog) September 27, 2019

Naughty Dog provided an update on their official Twitter account regarding The Last of Us Part II multiplayer recently, following their big media event earlier this week. The tweet contains a lengthy statement confirming that there would not be a multiplayer mode at launch, and the reasons why it will not be with the game. According to the statement, given that the game’s single player campaign will be “Naughty Dog’s most ambitious and longest game in our 35-year history,” Naughty Dog decided to not continue work on their planned multiplayer mode  in order to focus on the single player campaign.

The multiplayer mode was supposedly going to build upon the Factions multiplayer mode from the first game, and Naughty Dog does leave some hope that their work on the sequel’s multiplayer could see the light of day. The statement says we “will eventually experience the fruits of our team’s online ambitions, but not as part of The Last of Us Part II.” How that might be seen will be revealed at a later date, but for those of us familiar with the franchise, sometimes surviving another day is all it takes to find a brighter future.

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