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Warner Bros. Admits MultiVersus Underperformed, Contributing to Another $100 Million Hit to Revenue in Its Games Business

www.ign.com Warner Bros. Admits MultiVersus Underperformed, Contributing to Another $100 Million Hit to Revenue in Its Games Business - IGN

Free-to-play Smash Bros.-style brawler MultiVersus has significantly underperformed, publisher Warner Bros. Discovery has admitted, contributing to a further $100 million writedown for the company’s games business in 2024.

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3mo ago

Warner Bros. Admits MultiVersus Underperformed, Contributing to Another $100 Million Hit to Revenue in Its Games Business

www.ign.com /articles/warner-bros-admits-multiversus-underperformed-contributing-to-another-100-million-hit-to-revenue-in-its-games-business

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3mo ago

also they will now focus on Batman Mortal Kombat and Hogwarts

Warner Bros. Admits MultiVersus Underperformed, Contributing to Another $100 Million Hit to Revenue in Its Games Business

www.ign.com /articles/warner-bros-admits-multiversus-underperformed-contributing-to-another-100-million-hit-to-revenue-in-its-games-business

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People vote with their wallet repeatedly against live service games, and they keep releasing them. Eventually they'll stop, right? Right?
- 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.
- Do they though? The biggest and most profitable games right now are all live services. Consumers are very much voting for live services.
  
  They voted for a handful of them, and then violently voted against the next thousand.
  
  Same for every genre. For every Sonic or Mario there are 1,000 Bubsy's.
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubsy
  
  But they don't have any false expectations of making hundreds of millions of dollars, betting everything they have that it will.
- Yes but it’ll take years. Just keep the pressure up