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.”
Gotham Knights is a example. Get ready to see Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, Batman, and Mortal Kombat all get that “live services” treatment.
Isn’t MK already pretty live-servicey?
At least it can still be played offline, though character unlocks do require an internet connection. They also replaced the krypt mode, which was itself pretty grindy, with a far grindier mode that’s far less fun this time around, so a significant chunk of the value is gone.
What is “always on” in a gaming context? I can’t imagine wanting a game that you can’t close.
It means you must always be connected to the internet as a form of DRM.
Constant connection to servers required to play, even if the entire game is being run locally.
Oh, that’s terrible.
Harry Potter was great as is… No need to change it.
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.
They have yet to learn their lesson.
Guess I’ll continue not playing any of their games
Game of Thrones
Wait there are game of thrones games which aren’t shitty mobiles or reskins of unrelated games?
Telltale did a series years ago. Plus there was an RPG on the 360/PS3 gen too.
Yeah, i meant more like the new ones since OP context seems to suggest future ones.
AGoT have really bad luck for games, that old RPG was decent RPG (but bad as specifically AGoT game) and the best AGoT games are mods for Crusader Kings 2/3.
I see.
After ruining their streaming and movies, they are focusing on their gaming division.
Another publisher to mark as ignored on steam
I didn’t know you could do this to entire publishers. TIL.
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
Just AAA gaming, which has sucked for decades.
Just capitalism, which has sucked for centuries.
Just greed, which has sucked for millennia.
Archeologists just uncovered a wooden structure that dates back 500,000 years, which could be interpreted to mean that we have had culture and society for much, much longer than we initially thought, which begs the question – how long have we always been selfish assholes? Only lately.
Corpos gonna corp. Here’s to the death of their kind
