Titanfall fans react to canceling the shooter’s cancellation – is this the last nail of the Titanfall 3 and the franchise’s coffin?
Blog Andrew Joseph 30 Apr , 2025 0

titanium Fans are rolling up in the news EA canceled another incubation project at Respawn Entertainment,at the same time Many people have laid out on its hatch, Apex Legends, Star Wars: Jedi and the EA Experience team.
Bloomberg The cancelled game (codename R7) is reportedly a extracted shooter in the Titanfall Universe. While this isn't Titanfall 3 sequel fans have been clamoring, some are shocked by the fans' favorite Titanfall 2 There is still no sequel after nearly a decade.
“I just kneel down at Walmart,” explain One player, and the other Write: “I can't accept it anymore.”
“How many times will this happen before they finally give up and make us feel sad?” lament other.
However, not all fans see it as bad news, as some believe that the extracted shooter in the Titanfall universe could fail, killing the series permanently.
“The best thing that happens in terms of the ongoing existence of this franchise,” Being placed This redditor. “The Giant Extraction Shooters could fail, and the C-Suite executive would say ‘Look, people don’t like Titanfall anymore’, not the obvious reason is that no one asks for Titanfall XTS.”
“I'm fine, cancelled.” answer others, Following immediately Author: “Extract Sagittarius LMAO. Good Obstacles.”
“So tired of 'extract shooters'. They are so formulaic and boring. I don't want to rob a bunch of useless shit, camp in the attic or sit in the bushes for 20 minutes, or risk a large open-plan shooting. suggestion This fan.
“It's sad. Reading and extracting shooter. Actually it's OK.” Summarize others.
Respawn's approximately 100 jobs impacted include individuals in development, publishing and quality inspection workers, as well as smaller individuals working on the Jedi team and two canceled incubation projects, We reported one of them in March Another is believed to be the above extracted shooter in the Titan Fall universe.
These cuts have followed other layoffs over the past few years. Earlier this year, it reorganized BioWare, Transfer developers to other projects and Liberate others. The same is true 50 jobs canceled in BioWare In 2023 and Unknown numbers morein 2024, a larger restructuring leads to 670 workers Across the company, including There were about twelve workers at the time of rebirth.
In 2023, it appears Respawn Entertainment worked on Titanfall 3 “Seriously” for 10 months before throwing it away for Apex Legends.
Mohammad Alavi Burnettwork A lot of work was done on the sequel.
“Titanfall 2 comes out and does something, we’re like, ‘Okay, we’re going to make Titanfall 3, we’ve been working on Titanfall 3 for about 10 months, right? Seriously, right?
“We have new technology, we have multiple missions, our first one can play, which is equally excellent if not the thing before, right?
“And we feel very decent about it, but it's different from Titanfall 2, we know the revolutionary thing, do you know what I mean?”
So, what happened? According to Alavi, it was a combination of multiplayer teams, and the problems encountered prevented the experience from being quickly eliminated, while the Royals genre explosion exploded with the 2017 PUBG release.
“The multiplayer team sometimes tries to fix multiplayer because a lot of people love multiplayer. People love Titanfall 2 multiplayer,” Alawi said.
“But there are very few people who love Titanfall 2 multiplayer. And most people play Titanfall 2 multiplayer and think it's really good, but too many. It has too many twists and turns until they were 11 years old and they burned a little and they were like, they were, this is not my constant multiplayer game, it's not a year, two years, two years, two years, two years, right, for me, is it?
“So we're trying to fix this. We're trying to fix it from Titanfall 1 to 2, trying to fix it from Titanfall 2 to 3, and the multiplayer team is just about to die.
“Then Pubg came out.”
The rebirth of developers seem to be more interested in playing War Royal Level 3 battle maps with Titanfall 3 class compared to any standard Titanfall multiplayer mode they use. This prompted people to realize: Ditch titanfall 3, which may or may not be better than the ex, creating a great battle contest.
“At the time, I just became the chief narrative designer of Titan Fall Fall 3. I just came up with the whole story, the whole game, and I came up with the manny (Hagopian).”
“We literally canceled Titanfall 3 ourselves because we were like, we could make this game, and it would be Titanfall 2 plus a little better, or we could do it, which is obviously great.”
“And don't get me wrong, I'll always miss another giant. I love that game. Titanfall2 is my biggest achievement, but it's the right call. It's a crazy cut. It's a crazy cut.
Vikki Blake is a journalist, critic, columnist and consultant. She is also a guardian, a Spartan, a quiet Hilan, a legend and a permanent chaos. Find her Bruceky.