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[cormack12]

Source: https://variety.com/2025/gaming/new...ures-game-of-thrones-harry-potter-1236434385/

Warner Bros. Games has set a new leadership team and restructured its operations into divisions based on its four key franchises: Harry Potter, "Game of Thrones," "Mortal Kombat" and the DC Universe.

 

[Baemono]

Didn't Warner divorced from Discovery ?

 

[Flabagast]

Awful publisher

 

[SamuraiEdge]

Fucking Disgusting.

 

[KyoZz]

Give me a good Superman game.

But don't make me play as that terrible live action version please.

 

[Hookshot]

Harry Potter has 1 good game, the quidditch thing was apparently a failure. MK are coming off of a dud. Does GOT have any good games yet? What DC stuff is there? It's all been cack since Arkham.

 

[Kuranghi]

How far they've fallen since Arkham trilogy

 

[Mibu no ookami]

Probably making it easier to sell.

First they've broken off from the legacy media and now they have created divisions with their own cost codes which will make financially auditing them and doing due diligence easier.

 

[sloppyjoe_gamer]

Wasn't Shaun Himmerick the one at NRS that was disgustingly berating contractors when that whistleblower(s) came forward about NRS and crunch? Nice to see they promote the garbage people, but then again this is WB so it's not surprising.

 

[Xtib81]

WB not using the LOTR franchise to its full potential will forever be a mystery to me.

 

[MrRibeye]

WB not using the LOTR franchise to its full potential will forever be a mystery to me.

A Hogwarts Legacy style game set in Lothlorien would be cool (let's give Moria as a setting a rest for a while).

Game of Thrones having its own division makes me hopeful that we get more than just browser and mobile games now.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

WB not using the LOTR franchise to its full potential will forever be a mystery to me.

it takes talent. Not much in the entertainment industry nowadays. Definitely, not in WB.

 

[Rentahamster]

It takes a huge level of incompetence to mishandle IP this good. How do you fuck up free money?

 

[viveks86]

Probably making it easier to sell.

First they've broken off from the legacy media and now they have created divisions with their own cost codes which will make financially auditing them and doing due diligence easier.

Also gives them the freedom to sell piecemeal to different entities interested in each IP.

 

[Hudo]

After they've killed off Monolith, WB can go fuck themselves with their DC and Game of Thrones bullshit for all I care.
In fact, WB is one of the few publishers I'd legitimately like to see being bought by Tencent or Nexon, so I can watch their fucking IPs getting turned into mobile Gacha garbage.

 

[Saber]

They are still trying to get their pieces together after all the amount of turds that failed to sell. It fail so hard that even damaged Hogwarts.

 

[Hookshot]

A LOTR musou would be fun.

 

[Jesb]

I hope these guys completely dissolve. Fuck them.

 

[Loomy]

Didn't Warner divorced from Discovery ?

Not yet. At least a year away if it happens.

So what happens when the GoT game flops, and the next DC game barely moves the needle?

 

[diffusionx]

The GOT RTS game they showed looked pretty cool, but the devil is always in the details with that genre.

 

[pnutboy]

GoT stuff, especially using the likenesses from the show feels incredibly dated in 2025. Felt that way when they showed that new RTS

 

[March Climber]

What they're doing with Game of Thrones, they should do with their other properties. By that I mean licensing them out to other publishers/developers.

It doesn't make sense that they have D.C. locked away under "WB publishing only" by comparison.

They know that other developers could make fun games with them. Disney realized this with Marvel so it's not too late for WB to also realize this.

 

[calico]

GoT / Asoiaf as a franchise must be at like 5% of the potential of what it would have been if they hadn't shit the bed so badly between them. It's incredible that this was allowed to happen.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

Unlike Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings, whose universes are easier to expand, GoT without Martin is another mid tier fantasy with very little potential.

 

[ProtoByte]

Good idea in making it explicit that these fucking studios will work on IP and specific ones at that, but what kind of organization do they really have here? They have 1 studio that is reliable in making games regularly, one that has just one game under its belt, and 2 that need massive reform. Losing Monolith was a huge blow.

Probably making it easier to sell.

First they've broken off from the legacy media and now they have created divisions with their own cost codes which will make financially auditing them and doing due diligence easier.

These studios are worthless without the IP. They tried selling back when it was a sellers market and couldn't do it.

 

[Mibu no ookami]

These studios are worthless without the IP. They tried selling back when it was a sellers market and couldn't do it.

Presumably this would come with the IP now.

You have to factor in the initial split that removes them from legacy media and other weighty things.

Individual bidding wars for any of these IP could generate significantly more money than trying to find someone who is willing to buy all of it (including the debt of the parent company).

You either find a buyer for the film/tv/hbo business which includes the games or you find buyers who are interested in individual IP. Post Stranger Things, you don't think Netflix is going to be back in the buying business? They absolutely will be. I could see them buying Game of Thrones. You don't think Sony or Disney would drop 10+ billion for Harry Potter? They absolutely would.

DC could fetch a huge buying price from saying Universal or even Sony.

Piecemeal may be the way to do this thing.

 

[ProtoByte]

Presumably this would come with the IP now.

That's not a presumption I would make. Nothing of the sort has ever been suggested, and it really doesn't make any sense.

You have to factor in the initial split that removes them from legacy media and other weighty things.

Individual bidding wars for any of these IP could generate significantly more money than trying to find someone who is willing to buy all of it (including the debt of the parent company).

You either find a buyer for the film/tv/hbo business which includes the games or you find buyers who are interested in individual IP. Post Stranger Things, you don't think Netflix is going to be back in the buying business? They absolutely will be. I could see them buying Game of Thrones. You don't think Sony or Disney would drop 10+ billion for Harry Potter? They absolutely would.

DC could fetch a huge buying price from saying Universal or even Sony.

Piecemeal may be the way to do this thing.

Wow, you're actually talking about the whole thing. That's kooky af dude

 

[Danjin44]

 

[Super Lemon Drop]

Awful publisher

The most direct and honest assessment. WB needs to exit gaming. Let some other devs have those IP's.

 

[Mibu no ookami]

That's not a presumption I would make. Nothing of the sort has ever been suggested, and it really doesn't make any sense.


Wow, you're actually talking about the whole thing. That's kooky af dude

You don't know the first clue of what's going on here.

You don't know what the "whole thing" is because you're not keyed on what's going on.

First Warner Discovery announced they're splitting into two companies. Not Warner Bros and Discovery, but Streaming/Media and Global Networks. The whole point of doing this is to make it easier to sell since there are so many regulatory issues around owning CNN.

This split goes into effect next year, but what they've done is expand on that and say that they're building IP divisions out of the Streaming/Media company that will handle these specific IP. The entire purpose of doing that is to make it easier to sell them even more.

Yeah... kooky if you have no idea what you're talking about.

 

[geary]

Unlike Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings, whose universes are easier to expand, GoT without Martin is another mid tier fantasy with very little potential.

Give GoT to Warhorse to get a KCD like RPG