This is from earlier this month. But it didn’t really hit until seeing more Suicide Squad details.

“Our focus,” he continued, “is on transforming our biggest franchises from largely console and PC based with three-four year release schedules to include more always on gameplay through live services, multiplatform and free-to-play extensions, with the goal to have more players spending more time on more platforms.”

https://www.eurogamer.net/warner-bros-says-it-plans-to-transform-its-biggest-franchises-into-live-service-games

Gotham Knights is a example. Get ready to see Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, Batman, and Mortal Kombat all get that “live services” treatment.

  • nonearther@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    I see.

    After ruining their streaming and movies, they are focusing on their gaming division.

  • Blapoo@lemmy.ml
    4·
    1 year ago

    There must be more profit than last year.

    We’re witnessing gaming devour itself from the inside in pursuit of this impossible goal.

    Buy indie

  • AsterixTheGoth@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 year ago

    Ok.

    Who cares? This shit was tired decades ago.

    Committee design is what it’s always known to be. It has a name. Everybody here who has the basics of understanding knows what it is.

  • smoothbrain coldtakes@lemmy.ca
    1·
    1 year ago

    I could see it working for a fighting game but it feels like they’ve whiffed them recently. Wasn’t Multiversus supposed to be a pretty big game? I remember it lasting a few weeks of hype and then going into hibernation, something about an early access release and then a season 2? I don’t remember honestly.

    Mortal Kombat easily fits into live service bullshit, sadly, with all the skins and cosmetics that could be applied to battlepasses instead of cosmetic stores.

    All the great WB games in the past have never had this kind of monetization. All the Arkham games, Harry Potter; it’s kind of sad seeing them take this approach in the future but it’s just a cash cow even with a few whales.

  • Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.ml
    0·
    1 year ago

    They’re already beating MK with the live-service stick; they really fucking around about to make me a primarily Tekken player for the first time in like 20 years.

    • ampersandrew@kbin.social
      0·
      1 year ago

      Going to by the things the new Tekken has in common with the new Street Fighter, I don’t think you’ll escape that stuff in Tekken.

      • Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.ml
        0·
        1 year ago

        god fucking dammit

        What fighting games even exist anymore that are both satisfying and non-polluted by publisher greed? I don’t do shonen that isn’t DBZ anymore; so I can’t just backpedal to anime fighters for that-- and FighterZ’s dead in the water without rollback, so even that’s out

        • ampersandrew@kbin.social
          0·
          1 year ago

          Tons. Just not the latest crop with the biggest marketing budgets. For what it’s worth though, the live service nonsense in these fighting games doesn’t really get in the way if you’re not tempted by cosmetics. The real problem with MK is that you can’t decline wi-fi opponents, and the problem with Tekken is that the netcode appears to be unimproved from Tekken 7. These days, I mostly play Street Fighter 6, Guilty Gear Strive, and Skullgirls. Killer Instinct is getting one more balance patch soon, and rumor has it there’s a sequel on the way. GranBlue Fantasy Versus: Rising is coming out very soon with Under Night In-Birth’s sequel hot on its heels. There’s lots to play.

          • Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.ml
            1·
            1 year ago

            Granblue VS and Under Night In-Birth are both WAY too white for my tastes; and that’s the issue I have with most anime-fighters. Strive is lacking in proper melanin too; and from what I remember of Skullgirls’ playerbase, it’s like 90% 4channers-- that’s a pass from me big dawg.

            If they still made Soul Calibur iterations I wouldn’t be in this trick bag; because I hate having to put my faith in unverified hype-- I def don’t believe the IG announcement Wednesday is going toward a sequel, much as I’d like for that to be the case.

            • ampersandrew@kbin.social
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              1 year ago

              I know a sizable amount of the Skullgirls community, and I wouldn’t call any of them 4channers. I don’t have melanin on my list of fighting game criteria, nor do I know what’s acceptable for your standards, but that’s probably restricting your selection far more than live service shenanigans. If Tekken does it for you, then I hope you can tolerate its netcode.

              EDIT:

              I def don’t believe the IG announcement Wednesday is going toward a sequel

              The rumor was there was a sequel cooking long before IG became available again.

              • Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.ml
                1·
                1 year ago

                I don’t have melanin on my list of fighting game criteria

                Considering it’s like pulling teeth to get any kind of favorable representation in games these days, especially out of eastern devs, it’s a larger consideration than you’d think-- and frankly, with a response like that, I don’t expect you to have thought about any of the fuckery in this space that might shift a non-settler’s priorities. When the likes of Granblue or Under Night has Leroy Smiths, Eddie Gordos, Zasalamels, Jax and Jacqui Briggses, and Darriuses running around every iteration, then we can talk. Til then, I don’t fuck with anime fighters, and barely fuck with JRPGs.

                Live servicing things that never needed it is a much more recent irritant.