Five Nights At Freddy's Plus Seemingly Cancelled After Being Pulled From Steam
06.08.2023 - 10:37
/ thegamer.com
/ Scott Cawthon
Five Nights at Freddy's Plus has seemingly been cancelled and pulled from Steam following the recent controversies with Phisnom after a livestream of Security Breach's Ruins DLC.
It's not been the best week for Five Nights at Freddy's Plus, one of the biggest and most anticipated fangames officially endorsed by Scott Cawthon's Fazbear Fanverse Initiative. Towards the end of July, the game's creator Phil Morg (also known as Phisnom on Twitter and YouTube) livestreamed himself playing Security Breach's new DLC, Ruins. Fans weren't happy with Phisnom's reaction to the DLC, which ended with him tweeting "well, that was boring".
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Following the stream, one Twitter user called G0LD3NR4BB1T shared the tweet and jokingly said, "can we tweet this after FNaF+ comes out, it's only fair", causing them to get sent death threats and gory images. Phisnom saw this and made sarcastic jokes and apologies about the whole topic, causing him to be pulled from Five Nights at Freddy's Plus completely and have his Fazbear Fanverse Initiative contract terminated, as explained in this half-an-hour video.
As the main developer on Five Nights at Freddy's Plus and the one who initially created it, this led many to worry about the status of the game and if it'd end up seeing the light of day. Some thought that it would considering how many years of work had been put into it, but others thought that the creator's actions would see it being cancelled altogether.
Well, it looks like only one group can be right as it appears that Five Nights at Freddy's Plus has been completely cancelled. As pointed out by Twitter user JonnyBlox, the game's page on the Steam store has been updated to remove the ability to purchase it, instead displaying the message, "Notice: Five Nights at Freddy's Plus is no longer available on the Steam store".
Although Phisnom's contract termination has been made public in his video, it's worth noting that Five Nights at Freddy's Plus' cancellation hasn't been officially announced or recognised by Scott Cawthon or anyone else involved in the series as of the time of writing. That isn't a reason to believe that it might not be cancelled, as it seems pretty set in stone at this point, but it's yet to be addressed by anyone other than Phisnom.
Considering Phisnom has also had his contract with the series terminated, there's no chance that we'll see him return to finish the game at any point, so even if the game's cancellation never gets truly announced anywhere, it's looking like this reimagining of the first game is dead and buried.
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