Agree. The "just make good games and they will sell" platitudes are completely reductive. A game can be good and still not be what people want. It's why so many companies are just following the mobile and service money. It's less risky. AAA has been creatively bankrupt for years.
Its over man. Our only hope is when Batman goes public domain in 2035, or if WB goes under before that.
Would be hilarious if true. I like his gimmick here, only because it's so easy to rile us up. It's endearing.
I know Harry Potter is a mega IP, but DC characters like Batman and Superman are just as big if not bigger. I don't think the IP was the issue here.
Roblox, Minecraft, and Fortnite are games dominated by gamers in the 10- to 18-year-old age range. Companies don't care that this demographic doesn't work or have money, the parents' money is just as valuable.
Hogwarts: Legacy proves your theory wrong. 22 million copies sold and counting.
I think his concern lies with games that aren’t based from Harry Potter.
The Harry Potter IP has never been a cash cow in the video game space until Hogwarts: Legacy came around. All we had before was the movie-based games that were all mediocre and sold unremarkably. There's no reason the same success can't be had with DC properties.
So they put out a product that will sell even less than the Arkham games and tarnish the reputation of the studio behind the project? Makes sense.
Love how they leveraged one of their best studios to make a GAAS project, and not only did it fail, they lost the founders in the process. Smart business!
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is saying, the fact is that the exec or senior manager that realizes that their days in their position are numbered when talking to investors in these situations, they're going to think like this.
Same could have been said about making Hogwarts: Legacy. I doubt any of the previous Harry Potter games ever sold more than 6 million copies and yet somehow, they hedged their bets and it paid off.
Younger gamers don't mind live service games, sure, but younger generations also don't give a damn about franchises nearly as much as older gamers, which is the bread and butter of WB games.
Good question.
Funny you say this, the MultiVersus account just tweeted so I'm assuming it's coming back
How's Multiversus working for you WB?
They released Hogwarts Legacy with a lot of success (mostly due to the IP). It was single player and no MTX. Mobile gaming deserves more than being a F2P wasteland. It basically tells me the publishers just want to extract as much money as possible than make anything of quality. WB doesn't seem to have an identity and seems to just chase trends trying to catch lightning in a bottle. I think publishers need to stop being charity cases by offering trash to consumers and expecting them to pay more for it. Quality games matter in the long run. Don't string people along with empty promises (roadmaps) and ever-changing strategies that tell me the publisher is just throwing shit at a wall hoping something sticks.
. Need less superhero games anyway.
Imagine if Insomniac thought the same thing about Spiderman when they got the license
This statement is too vague to have any meaning.
If I was a third party I’m not spending a billion dollars of my own money to develop a game to only sell 6.5 million copies, that is absolutely terrible.
Show me your "top games of the year" threads on NeoGAF. Installed games does not prove your preference.
That's a game no one wants to play. There are far more unsuccessful SP games than successful ones too. We'd be wasting our time.
You don't think a company like WB is studying the market, looking at a game like Lethal Company, and learning from it? Come on now...
That's the narrative but the Live Service market has grown faster over the last 10 years than any other segment of the core gaming market.
Newer? Nope it's been done to death and consumers are starting to show hard pushback against it as evidenced with Suicide Squad,Gotham Knights,Avengers,Skull and Bones etc. There's been so much pushback that Sony started rethinking their live service commitment with the cancelation of Factions and the Firesprite gaas game.
Just read what I just wrote,this is the most oversaturated market with the less growth possible....They are all chasing Fortnite not realizing that while there is still a Fortnite players won't have time to dedicate to a new thing unless it's for a couple hours before they abandon it and go back to Fortnite...
