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MultiVersus officially closes down and is delisted today

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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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        • ? Guest
          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
            30 May 2025, 14:25
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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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              • S simple@lemm.ee
                30 May 2025, 14:25
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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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                              • G golli@lemm.ee
                                30 May 2025, 16:02

                                Do you even have to pay hosting costs, if you put a game on steam or does valve not distribute your game for free?

                                If I'd have to guess the bigger issues with a game like this would be licensing or that delisting allows some form of tax advantageous asset depreciation.

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                                pipe01@programming.dev
                                wrote on 31 May 2025, 02:56 last edited by
                                #40

                                You don't pay anything to steam other than the initial 100 bucks or so, and the cut they take

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                                • O osprior@lemmy.world
                                  30 May 2025, 20:17

                                  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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                                  wondrous_strange@lemmy.world
                                  wrote on 31 May 2025, 07:24 last edited by
                                  #41

                                  What are you suggesting? That on once a game goes online it'll require the company by law to keep it running forever?
                                  How many companies would still release games that requires backend if they knew it's a never ending endeavour even if they'll lose money from it?

                                  Running the infrastructure to host the game's baceknd requires money, and releasing the server code as binary or open source is not something that'll happen.

                                  So what is the end goal?

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                                  • W wondrous_strange@lemmy.world
                                    31 May 2025, 07:24

                                    What are you suggesting? That on once a game goes online it'll require the company by law to keep it running forever?
                                    How many companies would still release games that requires backend if they knew it's a never ending endeavour even if they'll lose money from it?

                                    Running the infrastructure to host the game's baceknd requires money, and releasing the server code as binary or open source is not something that'll happen.

                                    So what is the end goal?

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                                    secret300@lemmy.sdf.org
                                    wrote on 31 May 2025, 07:55 last edited by secret300@lemmy.sdf.org
                                    #42

                                    Required games and games studios to build the game to be played offline or have the ability to self host the server.

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                                    • W wondrous_strange@lemmy.world
                                      31 May 2025, 07:24

                                      What are you suggesting? That on once a game goes online it'll require the company by law to keep it running forever?
                                      How many companies would still release games that requires backend if they knew it's a never ending endeavour even if they'll lose money from it?

                                      Running the infrastructure to host the game's baceknd requires money, and releasing the server code as binary or open source is not something that'll happen.

                                      So what is the end goal?

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                                      darkmetatron@feddit.org
                                      wrote on 31 May 2025, 07:57 last edited by
                                      #43

                                      The companies could shut down their servers, if they at the same time would release the software needed to run the servers.
                                      This would allow the creation of community servers, without any costs or responsibilities for the companies

                                      There was a time when multiplayer games all came with dedicated server binaries.

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                                      • O osprior@lemmy.world
                                        30 May 2025, 20:17

                                        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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                                        majesticelevator@lemmy.zip
                                        wrote on 31 May 2025, 08:15 last edited by
                                        #44

                                        It will never work

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                                        • G golli@lemm.ee
                                          30 May 2025, 16:02

                                          Do you even have to pay hosting costs, if you put a game on steam or does valve not distribute your game for free?

                                          If I'd have to guess the bigger issues with a game like this would be licensing or that delisting allows some form of tax advantageous asset depreciation.

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                                          sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                                          wrote on 31 May 2025, 08:30 last edited by
                                          #45

                                          Valve hosts it for "free" (30 to 15% of every sale), yes.

                                          I'm guessing this game has some phone-home DRM or something, and maybe it's only required the first time it's executed after installation ? They could of course just give the game a patch that removes it but I guess they don't want to anger the line investors and make it go down by working even a second on a "discontinued" game.

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