Transformers: Reactivate (console MMO)

[lastmaximal]

I think the hype needed for such a thing would have to come from at minimum an actual announcement of another run at the game. Which would mean at least some work done on the actual game.

"We're making toys for a game that doesn't exist yet" was, well, exactly what already happened. While doing it again might not go unnoticed, I don't think that'll get the level of reaction and hype needed for that sort of thing. If anything, the prevailing assumption will be that oh, it's other stuff they were going to release to tie in with the aborted game, that just happened to be far enough along to have money spent on tooling that needs to be recouped somehow.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

The thing is that concept art is already established ground for Studio Series.

 

[Sabrblade]

To push hype for another run at the game.

Can't have another run of something that never had a first run to begin with.

 

[GodSentinelOmega]

That’s the worst part really. While Studio Series dips into the WFC/FOC and Devastation designs. Those four figures will likely be all we ever see. Rise/Reactivate certainly had a lot of potential.

I mean, unless the do see the potential of delving into the concepts, like the Hearts of Steel boxsets. Though I wish They’d been able to do the HoS bots bigger than Deluxe scale.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

Deactivate will remain one of the franchise's most intriguing what-ifs for a long time. Not just a canceled toy, or a canceled wave, or a canceled season, or a whole canceled sequel to something. An entire canceled universe. An expensive game, in a seemingly new continuity, with new designs, with its own toyline. Poof. Gone. ... Except some toys actually got released anyway. But they just add to the intrigue. They're not homages to a canceled thing. They're relics from when it was in development, and it's possible they only saw the light of day because Hasbro really needed to clear out some warehouse space.

 

[GodSentinelOmega]

Agreed. Especially since the initial listing leak for said figures showed them in Rise packaging. Meaning that these had been in development almost as long as the initial game.

Relics indeed.

 

[Superomegaprime]

Just read the TF Wiki on the game, from the looks of things, this game was pretty much going nowhere, sort of, to many cooks in the kitchen sitution, yet no head chef to direct the various cooks, resulting in nothing seriously getting made outside of the trailer and the demo level, so pulling the plug on the game is likely for the best and whatever comes next, Hasbro will likely have more of a oversight of as they likely wasted a lot of money on this project, including making the toys, so they likely have made back a bit of that money with the two packs and the SS Gamer BB release, where're or not any other moulds exist is going to be apart of the biggest mysteries surounding the game, unless Hasbro is planning to take the desgins for many of their characters over to the next studio to work with, but the wiki does paint a picture of no one truly in charge of the project!