Transformers Reactivate was going to be a big triple-AAA experience and unfortunately we were let down by higher up positions. It wasn't the developers fault but the people managing Splash according to many developers. This is just one side of the story and no doubt there will be more as time goes on. Transformers fans could have really, truly had an amazing game on their hands by the developers making the game. Unfortunately the vision was changed so many times and financial issues that Tencent pulled the plug on the game. Not even attempting to bring the assets to a new studio for continued development. Only time will tell how this story will unfold in the coming months. We as Transformers fans can only wait and see what kind of new Transformers game we will receive in the future... #transformersreactivate #playtfr #transformers
Is there a possibility for the game and assets to be handed to another studio. I feel awful for Splash Damage's employees, and I think a new studio who care about Transformers games should be handed the project and finish Splash Damage's work.
Wouldn't that essentially be forcing high moon a studio that only made single player games into a live service mold? Realistically? How well has that turned out so far?
Splash Damage should have went to kick starter near the end at the very least. Be clear as possible, get the fanbase involved and other gamers. Such a shame as this, along with Crimson Desert was my most hyped game.
Thank you for everything Robo. My heart goes out to the developers of this game, seems there were so many awesome ideas and creativity behind the game. Hope we do get some big TF game in the future. Have a good week.
Someone from Splash Damage, please, I beg of you, leak the source code! Let us fans complete it for you guys! Or at the very least so we can play the demo that others got to play.
Hopefully, one day robo team who brought the old tf games servers or a big gaming company will take over the canceled game and bring it back, playing a open world tf game would be the best thing that happened
So basically we all got screwed over, Hasbro, splash damage employees and us. It’s so upsetting to hear that THIS game would have been THE transformer game everyone would have wanted and now we can’t have that
As @revanlord05 pointed out, this game's cancellation is probably for the best so as to avoid it having become the next Suicide Squad game. However I also ge the sense from the dev's post that they made this big, rookie-level mistake of almost ALL creative endeavors, which is that they were trying too hard to make something "perfect" with each base-level concept that they lost sight of one fundamental rule of art: STICK TO SOMETHING. If they'd just chosen one path, even if they didn't think it was 100% up to their standards, they would have finished the game and made it as great as possible. It's that they were laying the foundations for this building, and then scrapping it and starting over, because the foundation wasn't "good enough". Just make a foundation, worry about that game being built upon it, and don't scrap it because the bare-bones concepts you have are obviously not perfect. This is hopefully a lesson they can learn from, and maybe any creative person reading this comment. Stick to your foundation, even if you don't think it's perfect, because you will build on that and add in or remove stuff to make it a great project as you continue. While I understand how devastating it must have been for the developers to realize their dreams of making a AAA Transformers game were snuffed out, I cannot help but feel like there was some major league incompetence that nobody who took on project lead just flat out told them "It won't be perfect now, obviously, just stick to one thing and build on that".
That likely because of the management constantly switching, It's hard to get a clear vision even from the foundation when you're getting told to take a different approach before u even finish it to begin with 😭
WELP! Bring us War and Fall of Cybertron! 😢 I was super excited for this game and even theorized it would be a great idea to bring in the Dinobots and even a cool Wreclers story line but I guess we’re not getting that now unfortunately
It really is unfortunate that this was cancelled I really hope that someone will pick it up and start working on it, but only time will tell and that could be at any moment.
I wonder if some of the old devs that worked on this that may have lost their jobs could start their own studio maybe get the assets back and start work on this again. Probably wont happen... its sad to hear about the hell its been through
Man, it's a shame because there was so much hype for this game, it was bound to be a HUGE success. How is it that companies cancel games like this and the Mandalorian game that was canceled, but give things like Gollum and Rise Of Kong their full support? If I was a company, I'd fund this without thought; I mean, there was so much support for it already and the gameplay already looks amazing. Shame that the upper management made the development so rough on the devs. Wishing them the best.
CALL ME CRAZY BUT, the devs should reach out to the fans, the community. Now idk how capable the TF community can be on this compared to the idk lets say the crazy sonic community where they fully rebuild, fix or create games better than the official ones, but the assets and code should be released for the community to collab somehow. I truly believe that the community can create at a former self or what it was to be
A free to play live service game would’ve been awesome, if they kept the support up and the characters coming, with multiple cosmetics to finance the game as well as the action figures. Such a bummer this got cancelled
I would love to join you about the investigation about what went on with TFR. I wish i could speak to the devs myself or even the Splash Damage company so we could potentially bring this game back to life by moving it to a different studio because this hands down would've been an amazing game. If you wanna dm and talk about TFR, i'd love to :)
I have a question for you guys if you were to pick a game studio to make the next big Transformers Game who would it be my money is on Insomniac for their work on Spider-Man and Ratchet and Clank, and also Saber Interactive because of Warhammer 40k. P.S. I am very sad to hear about the game and the development hell it went through but I hope that someday a new big Transformers Game will rise from the ashes of this dumpster fire.
Alright I know my play for Devil's advocacy won't go over well... but if you think about it, it kinda makes sense why Splash Damage higher ups would be nervous of the idea of a full "triple A title". Splash Damage's main focus for development is multiplayer, it's been that way for nearly a decade and is essentially their bread and butter. When you hear "Splash Damage", you typically associate it with multiplayer, and the only time they ever tried to branch out from that was Brink. Brink was developed with the idea of it being a big triple A experience, and I think we all know how that went down. My point is that Splash has a track record and it wouldn't surprise me if that track record was still on the higher ups' minds. Moreover, asking people who specialize in multiplayer to shift focus to designing narrative, level based mission maps would've been a huge undertaking. More money and more time essentially, and Reactivate was already years behind schedule as it was.
Gonna be honest i don't see how you could claim it was going to be an amazing game when they couldn't settle on what reactivate was gonna be but the devs post if real is interesting yet confusing he said the UE5 leak was a version years from the final of the build of F2P version but that leak has a water mark with the year 2023-04-12 (UE5 transfer finished in march 2023) and they said they wanted to change it to a AAA premium and tencent gave them a extra year to produce results but pulled the plug in summer 2024. the maths dont make sense we need a time line
Can you still play the certain Affinity build Robo? Or you can't anymore, because it would be cool to see more gameplay of other characters like Powerglide, Prowl, Hotrod and see how they play.
Wait…. So they pulled the plug in summer 2024…. Then who updated the trademark for the official site to 2025? It’s odd bc splash damage doesnt have theirs updated. So who has the official playtfr website now? Or if they still have access to it, why would they update the trademark just to announce it’s cancelled like 2 days later?
@frenzy-r12 probably the greatest question on everyone's minds. But I think that these games should almost die off. We keep repeating history and not moving forward. What happened to Reactivate is devastating because it would have pushed TF Gaming to a new level
@@celestialprimal very low chances. If the company didn't get paid for the assets they had made to that point. The assets won't be released or given to another studio. Tencent would have the highest stake in everything involved. Tencent would need to come to an agreement with Hasbro on everything made
Hmm after seeing the post i got a few questions first if nobody decided on a idea why couldnt they just make a mini poll between themselves and go off that its clear there was some opposing of ideas but like they dont have time for that and they acted like they did better to just all come together and decide on 1 2nd they should have just kept the unreal engine 4 game and updated off there cause rn id say unreal engine 5 is a major crutch its now harming games instead 3rd well just talk to your damn community sometimes you gotta talk then be silent and screw up
Maybe this is a sign that Transformers isn't ready to return to this turbulent gaming space. In my opinion, ditching the F2P would have hurt the game more than you think. Because it felt they were keeping the live service elements and gunning for an AAA pricing on top of that, it would've ended on the same trappings as Suicide Squad. Now that I think about it, maybe the cancellation was a blessing in disguise.
This news really sucks I was really looking forward to playing it the one thing that kinda ruined it for me is when they said they wouldn't allow you to create your own character that's when I knew the free to play was over the one thing that makes me upset is if they wanted to make it a free to play they should have asked for help from bioware cause they have been really successful with star wars the old Republic plus with bioware involved it could have had multiple choices so everyone could have used there own vision for the game
@@Dragonic_Wolf it wasn't until right up to the end of development that they decided to make it a 70 dollar price tag for a game. They were going to make it truly a good experience instead of that live service crap you see now days
The gameplay you showing is the Splash Damage or Certain Affinity cuz that the game I want to play also where was Hasbro in all this mess they wanted to focus on Gaming why didn't they check on the status of the game they spend money on it right now they're on mobile games till the next AAA transformers game which will come out when think of one. I wish the developers who work on this game the best of luck and hope they don't end up in some gaming mine like High Moon is with CoD. FYI this is the second game I want to play that got cancelled the first was Scalebound it got can in 2017
@joshualisojo4832 so when you see the massive open world. That is Dplash Damage. You can tell Bumblebee has lights on in that Alpha Demo. Where as the more vibrant atmosphere is Certain Affinity gameplay
@@RoboGamer1HD so that Certain Affinity gameplay .....why did tencent and Splash Damage pull the plug on it seem find to me I mean just change the shied and heath give it a little polish and got a game right there or were they looking for something a bit more fancy. Honestly if could I'll take Certain Affinity build and work on that with the open world but take out the Online co-op(unless fans want that) and make it single play base like FOC with Multiplayer and co-op Escalation or Horde to keep thing fun. Even better get High Moon Studios out of the Call of Duty Mines and have them work it I'm sure Activision would love that especially IF they are remastering WFC/FOC and Devastation and that is a big IF.
@joshualisojo4832 i much would have preferred the game to release with the Certain Affinity Gameplay or a mix of both. Maybe an open world like Splash but I feel like Splash storyline could have been great.
@@RoboGamer1HD You know if Splash just release beta build of the game they could have gotten a lot feedback from the fans to help with released instead of it cancellation , but I agree a mixer of Certain Affinity gameplay and Splash open world we could had another masterpiece right to next War for Cybertron, Fall Of Cybertron and Devastation
I’m pissed, heart broken, and betrayed. Just about all the transformers kind of suck. But the cybertron ones were master pieces. This could’ve been another one. What crap.
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Transformers Reactivate was going to be a big triple-AAA experience and unfortunately we were let down by higher up positions. It wasn't the developers fault but the people managing Splash according to many developers. This is just one side of the story and no doubt there will be more as time goes on. Transformers fans could have really, truly had an amazing game on their hands by the developers making the game. Unfortunately the vision was changed so many times and financial issues that Tencent pulled the plug on the game. Not even attempting to bring the assets to a new studio for continued development. Only time will tell how this story will unfold in the coming months. We as Transformers fans can only wait and see what kind of new Transformers game we will receive in the future... #transformersreactivate #playtfr #transformers
I wonder if there is anything Hasbro can do about it. Maybe there isn't, but... Just letting it die like this is wild.
Is there a possibility for the game and assets to be handed to another studio. I feel awful for Splash Damage's employees, and I think a new studio who care about Transformers games should be handed the project and finish Splash Damage's work.
@NekozillaGoji it might be possible but someone would need to buy the assets off of Splash Damage
@@RoboGamer1HD Where's high moon studios when u need them 😭😭😭
@@Cozza-1516 Pretty sure they're stuck in the Call of Duty mines now.
No.
Wouldn't that essentially be forcing high moon a studio that only made single player games into a live service mold?
Realistically? How well has that turned out so far?
Splash Damage should have went to kick starter near the end at the very least. Be clear as possible, get the fanbase involved and other gamers. Such a shame as this, along with Crimson Desert was my most hyped game.
They most likely were held down due to NDAs
Thank you for everything Robo. My heart goes out to the developers of this game, seems there were so many awesome ideas and creativity behind the game. Hope we do get some big TF game in the future. Have a good week.
Someone from Splash Damage, please, I beg of you, leak the source code! Let us fans complete it for you guys! Or at the very least so we can play the demo that others got to play.
A dev build will prolly get leaked in time
@@chaoticscripts7345I mean source code + dev build means we get the code and assets so possible win win?
Hopefully, one day robo team who brought the old tf games servers or a big gaming company will take over the canceled game and bring it back, playing a open world tf game would be the best thing that happened
@@_Game_Tech_YT now that would be the dream!
So basically we all got screwed over, Hasbro, splash damage employees and us. It’s so upsetting to hear that THIS game would have been THE transformer game everyone would have wanted and now we can’t have that
As @revanlord05 pointed out, this game's cancellation is probably for the best so as to avoid it having become the next Suicide Squad game. However I also ge the sense from the dev's post that they made this big, rookie-level mistake of almost ALL creative endeavors, which is that they were trying too hard to make something "perfect" with each base-level concept that they lost sight of one fundamental rule of art: STICK TO SOMETHING. If they'd just chosen one path, even if they didn't think it was 100% up to their standards, they would have finished the game and made it as great as possible. It's that they were laying the foundations for this building, and then scrapping it and starting over, because the foundation wasn't "good enough". Just make a foundation, worry about that game being built upon it, and don't scrap it because the bare-bones concepts you have are obviously not perfect. This is hopefully a lesson they can learn from, and maybe any creative person reading this comment. Stick to your foundation, even if you don't think it's perfect, because you will build on that and add in or remove stuff to make it a great project as you continue. While I understand how devastating it must have been for the developers to realize their dreams of making a AAA Transformers game were snuffed out, I cannot help but feel like there was some major league incompetence that nobody who took on project lead just flat out told them "It won't be perfect now, obviously, just stick to one thing and build on that".
That likely because of the management constantly switching, It's hard to get a clear vision even from the foundation when you're getting told to take a different approach before u even finish it to begin with 😭
WELP! Bring us War and Fall of Cybertron! 😢
I was super excited for this game and even theorized it would be a great idea to bring in the Dinobots and even a cool Wreclers story line but I guess we’re not getting that now unfortunately
It really is unfortunate that this was cancelled I really hope that someone will pick it up and start working on it, but only time will tell and that could be at any moment.
I wonder if some of the old devs that worked on this that may have lost their jobs could start their own studio maybe get the assets back and start work on this again. Probably wont happen... its sad to hear about the hell its been through
Man, it's a shame because there was so much hype for this game, it was bound to be a HUGE success. How is it that companies cancel games like this and the Mandalorian game that was canceled, but give things like Gollum and Rise Of Kong their full support? If I was a company, I'd fund this without thought; I mean, there was so much support for it already and the gameplay already looks amazing. Shame that the upper management made the development so rough on the devs. Wishing them the best.
CALL ME CRAZY BUT, the devs should reach out to the fans, the community. Now idk how capable the TF community can be on this compared to the idk lets say the crazy sonic community where they fully rebuild, fix or create games better than the official ones, but the assets and code should be released for the community to collab somehow. I truly believe that the community can create at a former self or what it was to be
A free to play live service game would’ve been awesome, if they kept the support up and the characters coming, with multiple cosmetics to finance the game as well as the action figures. Such a bummer this got cancelled
Man the gameplay of this looks so good man I can't believe it got canceled like what exactly happened they couldn't pay to get it made
I would love to join you about the investigation about what went on with TFR. I wish i could speak to the devs myself or even the Splash Damage company so we could potentially bring this game back to life by moving it to a different studio because this hands down would've been an amazing game. If you wanna dm and talk about TFR, i'd love to :)
I have a question for you guys if you were to pick a game studio to make the next big Transformers Game who would it be my money is on Insomniac for their work on Spider-Man and Ratchet and Clank, and also Saber Interactive because of Warhammer 40k.
P.S. I am very sad to hear about the game and the development hell it went through but I hope that someday a new big Transformers Game will rise from the ashes of this dumpster fire.
Ubisoft 😂
(Joke)
@gekonbox6990 Real funny.
I was curious about your take to these developments with Reactivate 🧐
An odd chain reaction sparked with Splash Damage's statement
This hurts on the same level as when TF Universe shutdown...
Instead sell the project to another studio or corporate with another studio 😢😢😢😢😢
By chance when will you post the Starscream robot and ALT mode artwork without watermark on the art?
@bouchamr when the developer who made them releases them
Alright I know my play for Devil's advocacy won't go over well... but if you think about it, it kinda makes sense why Splash Damage higher ups would be nervous of the idea of a full "triple A title". Splash Damage's main focus for development is multiplayer, it's been that way for nearly a decade and is essentially their bread and butter. When you hear "Splash Damage", you typically associate it with multiplayer, and the only time they ever tried to branch out from that was Brink.
Brink was developed with the idea of it being a big triple A experience, and I think we all know how that went down. My point is that Splash has a track record and it wouldn't surprise me if that track record was still on the higher ups' minds. Moreover, asking people who specialize in multiplayer to shift focus to designing narrative, level based mission maps would've been a huge undertaking. More money and more time essentially, and Reactivate was already years behind schedule as it was.
Gonna be honest i don't see how you could claim it was going to be an amazing game when they couldn't settle on what reactivate was gonna be but the devs post if real is interesting yet confusing he said the UE5 leak was a version years from the final of the build of F2P version but that leak has a water mark with the year 2023-04-12 (UE5 transfer finished in march 2023) and they said they wanted to change it to a AAA premium and tencent gave them a extra year to produce results but pulled the plug in summer 2024. the maths dont make sense we need a time line
could they not just ask xbox or playstation for help with funding ?
Could you share some more gameplay? I'd love to see Soundwave in action!
@Blankblackbox soundwave is kinda broken unfortunately. He doesn't have animations so he would need to be fixed up before he becomes playable
@RoboGamer1HD Aw. Thank you for answering, though, it's appreciated!
Can you still play the certain Affinity build Robo? Or you can't anymore, because it would be cool to see more gameplay of other characters like Powerglide, Prowl, Hotrod and see how they play.
@@ShellshockDM187 unfortunately these 3 characters are either not playable or not fully complete.
But, I can probably show Powerglide
I mean lets be real here, i love transformers games to death but i knew this was gonna either be canceled or die a year out of launch
Wait…. So they pulled the plug in summer 2024…. Then who updated the trademark for the official site to 2025? It’s odd bc splash damage doesnt have theirs updated. So who has the official playtfr website now?
Or if they still have access to it, why would they update the trademark just to announce it’s cancelled like 2 days later?
@bryconator1021 it's an automatic thing. It automatically updates via a script or code for the website
@ ah ok
It’s cause of GTA 6 the fire brothers said that wouldn’t of surprised me man it’s cause of that I agreed with him saying that
Why change the character designs if the toy designs were already finalised?
@aryudsoh probably updating textures and to make it their own. But truly it doesn't make any sense
Legion enemy's look like the Forunner enemy's on Halo 4
@kallumpuklowski8806 the ai wasn't very well developed in the game
Can we get a link to play the game or something. At this point no cares if it’s unfinished or sum like that. Just let us play something
😢 if they're canceling this game completely... Then why not bring back the old transformers games WFC and FoC?
@frenzy-r12 probably the greatest question on everyone's minds. But I think that these games should almost die off. We keep repeating history and not moving forward. What happened to Reactivate is devastating because it would have pushed TF Gaming to a new level
Layoffs should be illegal, change my mind.
is it possible for another company to take over still?
@@celestialprimal very low chances. If the company didn't get paid for the assets they had made to that point. The assets won't be released or given to another studio. Tencent would have the highest stake in everything involved. Tencent would need to come to an agreement with Hasbro on everything made
@RoboGamer1HD crossing my fingers that tencent makes the right decision
Hmm after seeing the post i got a few questions first if nobody decided on a idea why couldnt they just make a mini poll between themselves and go off that its clear there was some opposing of ideas but like they dont have time for that and they acted like they did better to just all come together and decide on 1
2nd they should have just kept the unreal engine 4 game and updated off there cause rn id say unreal engine 5 is a major crutch its now harming games instead
3rd well just talk to your damn community sometimes you gotta talk then be silent and screw up
Maybe this is a sign that Transformers isn't ready to return to this turbulent gaming space. In my opinion, ditching the F2P would have hurt the game more than you think. Because it felt they were keeping the live service elements and gunning for an AAA pricing on top of that, it would've ended on the same trappings as Suicide Squad. Now that I think about it, maybe the cancellation was a blessing in disguise.
You're arguing against your own point
This news really sucks I was really looking forward to playing it the one thing that kinda ruined it for me is when they said they wouldn't allow you to create your own character that's when I knew the free to play was over the one thing that makes me upset is if they wanted to make it a free to play they should have asked for help from bioware cause they have been really successful with star wars the old Republic plus with bioware involved it could have had multiple choices so everyone could have used there own vision for the game
@@Dragonic_Wolf it wasn't until right up to the end of development that they decided to make it a 70 dollar price tag for a game. They were going to make it truly a good experience instead of that live service crap you see now days
The gameplay you showing is the Splash Damage or Certain Affinity cuz that the game I want to play also where was Hasbro in all this mess they wanted to focus on Gaming why didn't they check on the status of the game they spend money on it right now they're on mobile games till the next AAA transformers game which will come out when think of one. I wish the developers who work on this game the best of luck and hope they don't end up in some gaming mine like High Moon is with CoD. FYI this is the second game I want to play that got cancelled the first was Scalebound it got can in 2017
@joshualisojo4832 so when you see the massive open world. That is Dplash Damage. You can tell Bumblebee has lights on in that Alpha Demo. Where as the more vibrant atmosphere is Certain Affinity gameplay
@@RoboGamer1HD so that Certain Affinity gameplay .....why did tencent and Splash Damage pull the plug on it seem find to me I mean just change the shied and heath give it a little polish and got a game right there or were they looking for something a bit more fancy. Honestly if could I'll take Certain Affinity build and work on that with the open world but take out the Online co-op(unless fans want that) and make it single play base like FOC with Multiplayer and co-op Escalation or Horde to keep thing fun. Even better get High Moon Studios out of the Call of Duty Mines and have them work it I'm sure Activision would love that especially IF they are remastering WFC/FOC and Devastation and that is a big IF.
@joshualisojo4832 i much would have preferred the game to release with the Certain Affinity Gameplay or a mix of both. Maybe an open world like Splash but I feel like Splash storyline could have been great.
@@RoboGamer1HD You know if Splash just release beta build of the game they could have gotten a lot feedback from the fans to help with released instead of it cancellation , but I agree a mixer of Certain Affinity gameplay and Splash open world we could had another masterpiece right to next War for Cybertron, Fall Of Cybertron and Devastation
I’m pissed, heart broken, and betrayed. Just about all the transformers kind of suck. But the cybertron ones were master pieces. This could’ve been another one. What crap.
38th to like I don't believe it's canceled
@@Nyjahformers-w1f I would be shocked to see it live again
Why cant you share everything you know if the game is canceled?
Well shit.
Do you think this is the end for good Transformers games?
I don't think so but it really hurt the Transformers Gaming scene
SO that mean he couldn’t exit 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
DEUS VULT BROTHER!!!!!!
The cancelation is a lie
On one hand I feel bad for the developers hard work going to waste, but on the other this game looked really bad.
The game did not look bad at all
It looked like a generic multiplayer shooter
Hasbro BYE, Splash damage BYE , High Moon studios BYE, everyone else involved BYE 👋🏾