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MultiVersus is a Smash Bros. clone that feels like a smartphone game, spoiled by its monetisation (www.eurogamer.net)
submitted 5 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 45 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Oh boy. £120 to just unlock the base characters or "dozens and dozens" of hours of grind for each of them.

We'll see how this goes, but I see this going the way of Suicide Squad. I wonder when, if ever, Warner Bros. Is going to learn that players are actively pushing back against corporate greed and live service games are already way past the limit of microtransactions that players deem acceptable.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Zaslov's plan is everything has to actively make money and all the free space on screen should be making money. Fuck the creators who make the things he sells, he wants the creations to always make money. Things that don't make money aren't culturally valuable and are thrown away. So that's the directive WB seems to be following and Multiversus is the latest casualty to Zaslov's Plan.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

WB already fucked things up before he arrived, and Zaslov has just made things worse.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

This is the guy that's largely responsible for reality TV taking over all channels Discovery owns, so yeah. This was sadly to be expected.

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