Titanfall Mobile Card Game Cancelled

The mobile card game spin-off of the Titanfall series, Titanfall: Frontline, is cancelled due to difficulty with creating an experience that matched the original games.

Both developer Respawn Entertainment and publisher Electronic Arts have long planned for Titanfall to become a strong franchise in its own right. Inside this scope was the introduction of Titanfall spin-off mobile games, with mobile card game Titanafall: Frontline acting as an example of this plan in action. However, things have not gone quite as planned, as this Titanfall mobile game has now been cancelled.

This news was revealed on the official Facebook page of Titanfall: Frontline where an update was given announcing the title's cancellation. The update reads "Titanfall: Frontline’s closed beta will be winding down in the next few days, and servers will go offline on January 20, 2017."

The statement, which was also added to the Titanfall: Frontline website, also gave reasons about the game's cancellation. Apparently, it seems as though there was difficulty transferring the feeling of Titanfall gameplay from its fast-paced shooter roots into a mobile card game. "We’ve learned an incredible amount in the beta test of Titanfall: Frontline, but in the end felt the experience wasn’t ready to deliver the intense action-packed gameplay synonymous with Titanfall."

Titanfall: Frontline was being developed by Particle City, under the publishing eye of Nexon and as part of a long-term relationship to make Titanfall spin-off games, including an Asian market free-to-play multiplayer game. It definitely looks as though this agreement is still standing, too - at least according to the statement released. "While it’s never easy to cancel a game, we’re excited to take some of the concepts we saw resonate with players and build off of them in future Titanfall mobile games."

Even though this might be seen as something of a speed bump when it comes to Titanfall cementing its place as an EA established franchise, the publisher has frequently put forward its dedication to make Titanfall a big part of the gaming landscape. This was further reiterated last year, when the Chief Financial Officer of EA, Blake Jorgensen stated that the publisher had plans to work with Respawn for "many, many years to come." Let's hope that this mobile game failure will just be a minor blip.

That being said, the Titanfall franchise has been through a rough time of late. Despite Titanfall 2's huge critical success, with the shooter seen by many as one of the best games of 2016, the game's sales haven't been as good, with sales being disappointing actually. Considering the clear quality of the game itself, hopefully Respawn Entertainment will have lots of time to try and build upon the great gameplay of the Titanfall series so far.