After having ceased production on Hyenas in September, SEGA says developer The Creative Assembly will shift focus back to doing what they do best: real-time strategy games. SEGA CFO and Koichi Fukazawa stated:
To put it simply, Creative Assembly was good at offline games in the RTS genre, but they took on the challenge of developing Hyenas, an online game in the FPS genre. However, although the game itself was good, we decided to cancel the development of Hyenas because we did not think it would reach a quality that would satisfy our users when we considered whether we could really operate this as a competitive online game for a long period of time.
While this might come as a blow to fans of games like Alien: Isolation, based on our own experiences with Hyenas it was probably best for SEGA to pull the plug. The game was fine, but it just didn’t really click with us as SEGA fans despite the heavy handed SEGA fan service. Hopefully The Creative Assembly gets a chance at another game outside the RTS genre, but for now it seems unlikely.
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I’m glad for more offline strategy games, but at the same time Gen Z plays a lot of Fortnite. That doesn’t mean they will play Hyenas though. That’s probably why they cancelled it. Too expensive to keep running and not enough players. Meanwhile Total War still sells to the hardcore audience. Hopefully this means other ones like Valkyria Chronicles, Sakura Wars, and Shining Force? I hope???