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MultiVersus officially closes down and is delisted today

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  • S simple@lemm.ee
    30 May 2025, 16:13

    It's not going anywhere until people stop playing the games spending ridiculous amounts of money in them.

    Fixed that for you. The problem isn't the casual players, it's the people spending $500+ worth of skins and battle passes on one game. Those are the reason GaaS are so successful.

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    warm@kbin.earth
    wrote on 30 May 2025, 16:16 last edited by
    #20

    If people play, it becomes popular, which attracts more players, which attracts spending. Even if you spend $0, you are still supporting the type of game it is by playing it.

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      captpretentious@lemmy.world
      wrote on 30 May 2025, 16:24 last edited by
      #21

      I would venture to guess it's to avoid potential licensing issues that could arise down the road that they don't want to deal with.

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      • S simple@lemm.ee
        30 May 2025, 14:25
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        vivianrixia@piefed.social
        wrote on 30 May 2025, 16:40 last edited by
        #22

        This game could have easily been another Marvel Rivals. An absolute success using its strong IPs in a game type that is underrepresented. There's no other big name doing Smash Bros style combat, and definitely not outside of Nintendo's platform. The elements were all there to make this a successful game, but they completely blew the execution.

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        • W warm@kbin.earth
          30 May 2025, 16:16

          If people play, it becomes popular, which attracts more players, which attracts spending. Even if you spend $0, you are still supporting the type of game it is by playing it.

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          stovetop@lemmy.world
          wrote on 30 May 2025, 16:42 last edited by
          #23

          Not to mention the GAAS titles which are competitive in nature. The whales thrive on having a mob of casual players they can crush with their P2W advantage. If the whales were only matched against other whales, they'd win less and play less.

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          • Z zarxrax@lemmy.world
            30 May 2025, 14:43

            It really sucked because Smash Bros is basically the only other big platform fighter on the market. Multiversus was set up to actually be a viable alternative to smash, it was massively popular at first, and they had such an amazing library of characters to pull from. The game had everything going for it. And they just blew it. So badly.

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            stovetop@lemmy.world
            wrote on 30 May 2025, 16:45 last edited by
            #24

            The Nickelodeon fighter game is still available I believe, but you're still right in that there's still basically nothing to hold a candle to Smash Bros.

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            • S stovetop@lemmy.world
              30 May 2025, 16:45

              The Nickelodeon fighter game is still available I believe, but you're still right in that there's still basically nothing to hold a candle to Smash Bros.

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              ampersandrew@lemmy.world
              wrote on 30 May 2025, 16:46 last edited by
              #25

              Rivals of Aether II is a more realistic contender to Smash. It had a really good turnout at Combo Breaker this year.

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              • S simple@lemm.ee
                30 May 2025, 14:25
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                epicsninja@lemmy.world
                wrote on 30 May 2025, 17:06 last edited by
                #26

                This game leaves behind a legacy of extremely funny poor decisions and mistakes, culminating in becoming one of the few games that got to be shut down twice.

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                • S stovetop@lemmy.world
                  30 May 2025, 16:45

                  The Nickelodeon fighter game is still available I believe, but you're still right in that there's still basically nothing to hold a candle to Smash Bros.

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                  zarxrax@lemmy.world
                  wrote on 30 May 2025, 17:13 last edited by
                  #27

                  I bought the first Nickelodeon game a couple months after it released, and the online was already dead, I literally couldn't find a match. Just went ahead and got a refund on it.

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                  • G gradually_adjusting@lemmy.world
                    30 May 2025, 14:28

                    It's really gross how people's games can just be disappeared these days. GaaS is a terrible business model.

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                    tachyontele@lemm.ee
                    wrote on 30 May 2025, 17:36 last edited by
                    #28

                    It's going offline. You can still play it.
                    If you never owned it then it doesn't matter.

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                      30 May 2025, 15:10

                      According to the bean counters this will save them $17/month in hosting costs

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                      goretantath@lemm.ee
                      wrote on 30 May 2025, 17:58 last edited by
                      #29

                      Pretty sure hosting costa arent it, the only thing possible woyld be licensing issues for the IP's otherwsie they could leave it on steam forever and STILL make money off of sales. There are games that do this by making the players host their own servers each match.

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                      • S simple@lemm.ee
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                        goretantath@lemm.ee
                        wrote on 30 May 2025, 18:00 last edited by
                        #30

                        The reason that games are even hosted on "official" servers like these is to ensure the company can take the game down once the devs run out of time o the contract they made for all the IP's they use in said game. Otherwise its possible AND has been done before to let the players machines spin up a server each match.

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                        • G goretantath@lemm.ee
                          30 May 2025, 18:00

                          The reason that games are even hosted on "official" servers like these is to ensure the company can take the game down once the devs run out of time o the contract they made for all the IP's they use in said game. Otherwise its possible AND has been done before to let the players machines spin up a server each match.

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                          goretantath@lemm.ee
                          wrote on 30 May 2025, 18:01 last edited by
                          #31

                          The only issue was having to have a "matchmaking" server but even then, steam has the tools to replace that entirely.

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                            osprior@lemmy.world
                            wrote on 30 May 2025, 20:17 last edited by
                            #32

                            If you aren't already aware of it (and in the EU) please sign the stopkillinggames.com petition so companies can't just drop "support" (that these days means kill) games when they feel like it.

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                            • E epicsninja@lemmy.world
                              30 May 2025, 17:06

                              This game leaves behind a legacy of extremely funny poor decisions and mistakes, culminating in becoming one of the few games that got to be shut down twice.

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                              vitorobles@lemmy.today
                              wrote on 30 May 2025, 20:24 last edited by
                              #33

                              The worst part, the demo was actually pretty good.

                              They literally could have released this game with mod support, and sold it for $20 and it would have been a fun party game.

                              Instead, they kept going on with BS games as a service.

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                              • G gradually_adjusting@lemmy.world
                                30 May 2025, 15:41

                                I'm not playing them as hard as I can.

                                Live service games have been failing constantly, so unless the change is happening already I don't think they're deterred. That perpetual revenue stream is some exec's idea of a lottery ticket.

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                                nutinbutnet@hilariouschaos.com
                                wrote on 30 May 2025, 21:00 last edited by
                                #34

                                Same here. There’s been a few games I’ve seen on here recently that look interesting, even some “indie” titles, but as soon as I get to the Steam page and it lists online only, I’ve lost all interest.

                                Miss me with that bullshit.

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                                • S stoy@lemmy.zip
                                  30 May 2025, 15:02

                                  The business model isn't terrible, it makes money, but it is terrible for the consumer

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                                  cilethesane@lemmy.ca
                                  wrote on 30 May 2025, 21:05 last edited by
                                  #35

                                  The business model isn't terrible, it makes money, but it is terrible for the consumer

                                  I am aggressively opposed to anything that is profitable at the expense of the consumer. That is a terrible business model.

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                                  • T tachyontele@lemm.ee
                                    30 May 2025, 17:36

                                    It's going offline. You can still play it.
                                    If you never owned it then it doesn't matter.

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                                    gradually_adjusting@lemmy.world
                                    wrote on 30 May 2025, 21:12 last edited by
                                    #36

                                    It's not my game. I only wanted to talk about what they did wrong. Kinda just doing armpit farts at the funeral, yanno?

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                                    • C captpretentious@lemmy.world
                                      30 May 2025, 16:24

                                      I would venture to guess it's to avoid potential licensing issues that could arise down the road that they don't want to deal with.

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                                      spankmonkey@lemmy.world
                                      wrote on 30 May 2025, 21:32 last edited by
                                      #37

                                      Were any characters in the game not owned by Warner Bros?

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                                      • S spankmonkey@lemmy.world
                                        30 May 2025, 21:32

                                        Were any characters in the game not owned by Warner Bros?

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                                        captpretentious@lemmy.world
                                        wrote on 30 May 2025, 21:50 last edited by
                                        #38

                                        Potentially, I don't exactly know all the rights owners.

                                        But just looking at the roster, I'd assume Arya Stark might be the most complicated. While HBO falls under WB, unsure if ol' George signed away all rights to the character. And there's always future deals too, since rights holders can change hands.

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                                        • G gradually_adjusting@lemmy.world
                                          30 May 2025, 21:12

                                          It's not my game. I only wanted to talk about what they did wrong. Kinda just doing armpit farts at the funeral, yanno?

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                                          tachyontele@lemm.ee
                                          wrote on 30 May 2025, 22:02 last edited by
                                          #39

                                          Lol i like that phrasing. Yeah i hear ya

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