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Transformers Reactivate Game is Cancelled
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Jan 8, 2025 at 2:24pm CST
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After the DOA Concord, and the failure of so many hero shooters, INCLUDING OVERWATCH, plus having to compete with Fortnite and the Marvel Rivals juggernaut, it's no wonder that it was pointless spending more ressources on that TF themed hero shooter.
Too bad the whole thing will be buried for a tax return instead of being redirected into a kick-ass single player game like the Activision classics.
Comment by -Kanrabat-
Jan 8, 2025
After the DOA Concord, and the failure of so many hero shooters, INCLUDING OVERWATCH, plus having to compete with Fortnite and the Marvel Rivals juggernaut, it's no wonder that it was pointless spending more ressources on that TF themed hero shooter.
Too bad the whole thing will be buried for a tax return instead of being redirected into a kick-ass single player game like the Activision classics.
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Called it!
Comment by TOO MUCH ENERGON!
Jan 8, 2025
TOO MUCH ENERGON! wrote:The game was announced in December 2022 with a cinematic trailer and promises of a beta that never happened. Their next social media update was a full year later promising "exciting updates" in 2024. Here we are another full year later with nothing. But oh hey look, leaked gameplay from nearly FIVE YEARS ago. lol this game is never happening.
Called it!
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Comment by First-Aid
Jan 9, 2025
This makes me sad.
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Comment by DeathReviews
Jan 10, 2025
Sometimes, I must reap things untimely - even games...
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Comment by cloudballoon
Jan 10, 2025
I never needed a AAA Transformers video game with all the fancy shmancy (read: modern greedy crap) live-service, endless DLCs, pay-to-win crap. Just wanted a good single player TPS with decent graphics (WFC/FOC is still serviceable to this day) that moves the franchise forward. Cut the multiplayer aspect to save on development & support costs. A good game with awesome designs drives toy sales and franchise exposure to the general public. We had a winning formula with WFC/FOC/Davastation, is it so hard to get back to that basics?
I doubt I'll play Deactivate, er, I mean Reactivate even if it comes out because of its live-service focus. But I was interested to know how story driven it will be - even if the premise of human & Transformers banding together to fight some space snakes sound stupid/wasted potential on the outset. We are starved for more mature stories outside of Skybound comics.
Now it's all for naught. Oh well, I MIGHT get the two 2-packs as memoriam for what it could be... if they're on sale.
I doubt I'll play Deactivate, er, I mean Reactivate even if it comes out because of its live-service focus. But I was interested to know how story driven it will be - even if the premise of human & Transformers banding together to fight some space snakes sound stupid/wasted potential on the outset. We are starved for more mature stories outside of Skybound comics.
Now it's all for naught. Oh well, I MIGHT get the two 2-packs as memoriam for what it could be... if they're on sale.
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Comment by PerfectVision
Jan 11, 2025
"a winning formula"?Not in the eyes of the games publisher.
You said they spend too much money on the wrong thing about TF:ONE,it happens since PRIME at least (the actors),the ambitious failure that started it all before EARTHSPARK that is mainly remembered for a few things only.
Go back to replay these games if they are that great,as tyrannical as it sounds.The multiplayer rather than the playable cutscenes i suppose.
You said they spend too much money on the wrong thing about TF:ONE,it happens since PRIME at least (the actors),the ambitious failure that started it all before EARTHSPARK that is mainly remembered for a few things only.
Go back to replay these games if they are that great,as tyrannical as it sounds.The multiplayer rather than the playable cutscenes i suppose.
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Comment by noctorro
Jan 12, 2025
Tripple Dripple called it.
That thing was never gonna fly and if it did it would've been Concord.
Game dev managers need to start realizing, just make a good small single player game and then just finish the game and sell it on consoles for 30/40 euro's. Not the whole hero shooter live service crap. That won't work and over budget games also won't work. 10 guys can make a cool single player TF game in a year part time.
That thing was never gonna fly and if it did it would've been Concord.
Game dev managers need to start realizing, just make a good small single player game and then just finish the game and sell it on consoles for 30/40 euro's. Not the whole hero shooter live service crap. That won't work and over budget games also won't work. 10 guys can make a cool single player TF game in a year part time.
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Its administration that's the issue, not the devs. The admins are trying to maximize profit with minimal work, but simple story games don't do that. I'd live to see something along the lines of Horizon Zero Dawn for TF, or Jedi Fallen Order. Both had excellent storyline and were standbalone games.
Comment by First-Aid
Jan 12, 2025
noctorro wrote:Tripple Dripple called it.
That thing was never gonna fly and if it did it would've been Concord.
Game dev managers need to start realizing, just make a good small single player game and then just finish the game and sell it on consoles for 30/40 euro's. Not the whole hero shooter live service crap. That won't work and over budget games also won't work. 10 guys can make a cool single player TF game in a year part time.
Its administration that's the issue, not the devs. The admins are trying to maximize profit with minimal work, but simple story games don't do that. I'd live to see something along the lines of Horizon Zero Dawn for TF, or Jedi Fallen Order. Both had excellent storyline and were standbalone games.
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Comment by noctorro
Jan 14, 2025
Yes agree. High Moon got it right. A solid third person shooter, the auto-unique factor is you can Transform from a third person shooter to a racing / flying game so it's actually cheating.
And a story, you can write any sci fi war story you want and put Transformers in it. And it has a built in fanbase which is pretty strong I think. So a decent TF game not too high budget in making should be a pretty easy gig.
Those producers/managers are the problem.
And a story, you can write any sci fi war story you want and put Transformers in it. And it has a built in fanbase which is pretty strong I think. So a decent TF game not too high budget in making should be a pretty easy gig.
Those producers/managers are the problem.
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Comment by Blastback
Jan 14, 2025
Disapointing, but yeah, not shocking. Hopefully someone will pick up the IP and do something great.
Still enjoy the trailer.
Still enjoy the trailer.
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Comment by D-Maximal_Primal
Jan 20, 2025
At least we got 4 cool toys out of it before it died
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Comment by Sabrblade
Sep 2, 2025
Archived trailer from E3 2020:
This was the original reveal trailer for the game, animated by Digital Domain, they had planned to show this off at E3 2020- which obviously didn't happen. All credit for this massive discovery goes to @Optimuscan12K on Twitter.
By the end of 2020, the game was given to Splash Damage in full who fully rebooted the project with less than 12 months until release.
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Comment by -Kanrabat-
Sep 2, 2025
The textbook example of an aborted project. 
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Comment by Cyberstrike
Oct 23, 2025
So, Transformers via Titan Fall got canned. That sucks, I guess? 
Since I loathe first person perceptive games in general, this was never game I was ever going to play. I can't get mad that a game that I never had any desire to play to gets canned.
It sucks that the people working on the game got screwed.
Since I loathe first person perceptive games in general, this was never game I was ever going to play. I can't get mad that a game that I never had any desire to play to gets canned.
It sucks that the people working on the game got screwed.
