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MultiVersus Has Been Shut Down Until 2024 (www.ign.com)
submitted 1 year ago by simple@lemmy.world to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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I had a lot of fun with this game but the developers have made the very weird decision of temporarily shutting down the game until next year.

The devs said they're going to rebuild parts of the game and add way more content and do a sort of "soft reboot". They announced this plan in March, but the game has officially shut down today.

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[–] priapus@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

WB fucked this game over. It's a small dev team and WB forced them to work on overpriced monetization rather than improving the core gameplay.

[–] FullFridge@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wow, I remember when this was going to be the Smash killer. I never played it though so I guess that says everything really. How's the Nickelodeon one doing? I remember these both came out within a few months of each and were basically the same thing?

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I conflated the two entirely, so that couldn't have helped.

[–] Sinnz@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Both are pretty much dead

[–] koreth@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This probably doesn’t bode well, but there is at least one example out there of an online game doing a really successful soft reboot: Final Fantasy XIV. The launch version of that game was pretty bad, but the rebooted version is still one of the most popular MMOs a decade later and is regarded by many players as one of the best entries in the Final Fantasy series.

Hopefully that’s the model the MultiVersus devs have in mind.

[–] Seilorks@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

That wasnt really a soft reboot. They shutdown the game and remade it from the ground up. It's an entirely different game that shares the same name and timeline as the failed one. A realm reborn takes place after the events of the failed mmo.

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