Dear WB Games, read the crowded room

Imagine seeing multiple studios working on live service games get shuttered and games cancelled because of how oversaturated the Live-Service market is, and still dumping lots of money into more of those games.

That’s what WB seems to be doing, announcing in their latest earnings call that they will be focusing on turning their existing franchises into live service games full of monetisation and player-engagement.

[Gabrielmpf]

They go where the market goes. Unfortunately, people buy into this shit and it's not going anywhere anytime soon.

[KeyAppearance]

I guess the question is if that's really the case, we are seeing live games fail left and right, not every game is becoming successful, and the really successful ones are still the old ones like Fortnite, Apex, Warzone, Destiny

It feels like they are going where the market has already been a while back and wasting good IP

[PapaBop]

Which highlights the main problem with live service games... a gamer can only juggle so many at once. Many fail because they adopt the model while simultaneously releasing a sub par game, people jump off them quickly, it doesn't take long before they start feeling like a chore as opposed to a hobby. I think MK is the only IP WB could realistically do live service. Fighting game players are more likely to stick around and support the game giving it the stability it needs, look at games like SF6 and Tekken 7 for the proof.

[TheProfessional]

Zaslav is just as bad as Jim Ryan. Both make these awful, clearly corporate scum mentality decisions.