People vote with their wallet repeatedly against live servic and games, and they keep releasing them. Eventually they’ll stop, right? Right?
Warner Bros. Admits MultiVersus Underperformed, Contributing to Another $100 Million Hit to Revenue in Its Games Business
Submitted 5 months ago by simple@lemm.ee to games@lemmy.world
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Tilgare@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Katana314@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Now that I think about it, this idea was probably a good one for standard release, not live service. People get enticed by IP rights even if they don’t necessarily devote hundreds of hours to a game like this.
It works for things like Injustice. They see a Batman/Superman fighting game even if they aren’t going to hit Gold rank in competitive. Even if they only hit 10 hours, they paid the entry price.
icecreamtaco@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yes but it’ll take years. Just keep the pressure up
Zarxrax@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The game was in a pretty rough state when they relaunched it, but they have been slowly improving it a bit at a time (it often feels like 2 steps forward, 1 step back). I feel like the game is in a pretty good spot though. I enjoy it and am looking forward to season 4.
poke@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I feel like this game suffered from releasing in an unpolished state. Its competition is Smash bros, which is incredibly polished but has bad networking. Even with smash’s issues though, it felt way better to play than this did. They could have fixed all the issues, but the first taste I had of the game was negative, and I just don’t feel like it’s worth my time to go back.
With so many games coming out, I feel like the first impression is more important than ever, but more and more games are instead releasing in a poor state with the idea of fixing it later if it makes money.
chakan2@lemmy.world 5 months ago
They would’ve done better with the IP to license it to Nintendo. Smash is the end all for this type of game.
fern@lemmy.autism.place 5 months ago
If you mean plat fighters, Rivals 2 is making waves by being a good game first and a platform to sell IPs last.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That’s definitively untrue, and why would Nintendo take that deal anyway?
BmeBenji@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Reading this headline feels so fucking surreal right now. Who could possibly care?
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Anyone who wants to know more about what people are responding to in the industry.
BmeBenji@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I’m sorry, I don’t mean to say nobody would or should care I just mean my head has been so filled with anxious thoughts that hearing about a corporate video game not doing well profit-wise sounds like an onion article headline to me.
Again, I don’t mean to say it’s irrelevant it just sounds irrelevant
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 5 months ago
This is a fighting game without offline multiplayer. Brilliant decision.