Gaming Industry
Remedy moves from F2P plan for Project Vanguard, now becomes Premium
"Due to uncertainties in creating a successful game to the rapidly changing free-to-play market and associated risks," they say.
Remedy has announced that they will change from the free-to-play plan for their project codenamed Vanguard, now known as Kestrel, to become a premium game with a strong, co-operative multiplayer component.
They claim that this change is due to the rapidly changing free-to-play market, posing risks to the project, returning from its proof-of-concept phase back to the concept phase.
Although they will be moving back to the Concept Phase of development, they won't be restarting from scratch, as they will rebuild from the features, assets, and themes they had already designed for Vanguard.
Vanguard was planned to be a Free-to-Play co-operative Player vs. Environment shooter that combines Remedy's narrative expertise and action gameplay, though not a lot has been shown of that, and now they have changed to a premium game still focused on the Strong co-op, multiplayer aspect.
The game, now codenamed "Kestrel," has yet to show anything relevant to audiences since it was announced in 2018, though that may be harder now.
The game was promised to be released on PC and Consoles, which consoles remain to be determined, though considering Remedy's other working titles, they might follow the pattern of releasing on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.
