Unconstrained from the trap of a sunk-cost fallacy, Naughty Dog has cut its losses on The Last of Us multiplayer title, moving ahead with the development of The Last of Us Part 3, but what is discarded can be repurposed. Though the genre experiment may never have gotten off the ground, its inception in the first game's Factions mode is still fondly remembered, and a scaled-back version of what they had in store for the standalone multiplayer title would be a welcome addition to round out the complete package of The Last of Us Part 3.