Man, I am so sick of Titanfall 3 leaks. Leaks themselves aren’t the problem, and if there really was a new Titanfall coming next year, trust me -no one would be happier about it than me. I just can’t take the fake-outs anymore. We’re currently on round four of someone spreading rumors about an impending Titanfall 3 announcement, and at this point, I simply refuse to engage with any of it until Respawn itself makes it official. And this doesn’t count as engaging with it, alright?
I understand why this keeps happening. Titanfall 2 was a masterpiece that unjustly underperformed, and it deserves a big sequel to prove that Titanfall is a tentpole franchise with a tentpole-sized fanbase. But continuing to lie on the internet about the existence of Titanfall 3 isn’t going to make it real. Two years ago TheGamer’s editor-in-chiefStacey Henley wrote that she’s done caring about Titanfall 3 rumors. Now I need the rest of you to stop caring, too.
A Brief History Of Titanfall 3 ‘Leaks’
This is a brief history of Titanfall 3 leaks because a comprehensive one will fill my entire writing quota for a month. That’s how many times we’ve been bamboozled by rumors that lead to nothing.
I’ll start by acknowledging that some rumors and leaks have been more credible than others. We know for a fact thatEA canceled a Titanfall-related game in 2023. According to Giant Bomb’s Jeff Grubb - who is a journalist and not a random leaker on Twitter - the game he called“Titanfall Legends” would have brought back BT and Blisk. We don’t know at what stage of development this project was in, but according to Grubb, it was never supposed to be Titanfall 3.
If we go back a little further, there have been more Titanfall 3 leaks with less reliable sources. There isn’t a year that goes by without a corner of the internet getting extremely worked up about the potential of a sequel that never comes to fruition. Back in 2021, the rumors got so bad that Respawn community coordinatorJason Garza had to personally shut them down during a livestream, telling people not to get their hopes up because Respawn had nothing in the works.
In 2022, rumors of a sequel kicked up again when someGameStops in Germany started offering pre-orders for Titanfall 3. GameStop eventually removed the pre-order and explained it was an error, but that didn’t stop people from getting themselves extremely worked up about it.
In 2023, Respawn CEOVince Zampella said that Titanfall 3 was not in development, and yet, just two years later,people believe an internet rumor that Titanfall 3 is nearly complete, with a single-player campaign and multiplayer mode, and about to be officially announced. Come on everybody, this is just getting sad.
Wishful Thinking Isn’t A Superpower
I have sympathy for the copium; I really do. I want Titanfall 3 just as much as everyone else, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to help spread every unfounded rumor I hear - and as far as I’m concerned, they’re all unfounded until the official word comes down from Respawn.
Nothing good comes from this. You’re not keeping Titanfall in the conversation, and you’re not showing Respawn how badly you want it to be real either. Everyone knows you want Titanfall 3. Respawn knows you want Titanfall 3. Whether it happens or not comes down to whether Respawn wants to make Titanfall 3, and whether or not EA thinks a series with two financial flops is worth a third go.
If we could all be just a little bit more discerning about the things we believe on the internet, I sincerely believe we’d be living in a gosh darn utopia right now. We’d all be running on walls and driving mechs, and we wouldn’t need Titanfall 3 because we’d already be living it.
