Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) failed with MultiVersus after Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League.

WBD announced this week that MultiVersus, the company’s Super Smash Bros. clone featuring characters from cartoons, movies and comics, has failed and that the fifth season will be the last. Once the servers are shut down, online play will stop, but offline play will still be available. But online is usually very important in this genre, which means the death of MultiVersus. Especially since there will be no updates and no new characters.

TheGamer first reported that players who paid $100 for the most expensive version of MultiVersus, the Founder’s Pack, were right to be disappointed. This purchase gave them a premium in-game currency with which they could buy thirty characters. What’s the problem? It is that there may be unspent tokens since there are 35 characters in MultiVersus. Many people on Reddit are expressing their frustration because they feel that WBD essentially screwed them over by selling a bundle of the game that didn’t have the right amount of life and support…

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When MultiVersus was first released in 2022, it was very well received by the public. But WBD followed an inexplicable strategy: instead of keeping the game playable, it disappeared after a while, only to return last May with a major overhaul, and by then the reception was lukewarm. MultiVersus was blamed by WBD for a $100 million loss, having previously posted another $200 million loss citing the failure of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.

So the lesson is not to pre-order games, regardless of their price. If the big publishers pull the rug and then run off with our money, they don’t deserve a penny before their product is released. Only then should you consider paying.

Source: PCGamer