Warner Bros. Admits MultiVersus Has "Substantially" Underperformed

Warner Bros. Admits MultiVersus Has "Substantially" Underperformed

From TheGamer (Written by George Foster) on | OpenCritic

Warner Bros. Discovery has admitted during a recent investor's call that MultiVersus is "substantially" underperforming and has added another $100 million writedown to its game business.

Over the past few years, MultiVersus fans have absolutely been through the wringer. After the crossover platformer fighter was leaked long before an official announcement, its open beta broke records and drew in massive crowds, which quickly died down as it went into Season 2 and content came to an absolute halt.

MultiVersus let me down with its first season, but Samurai Jack and Beetlejuice are here to save the day.

MultiVersus was then taken offline for a full year so that Player First Games could refocus, which led to it being relaunched this Summer. That should have been good news, but the response to MultiVersus' comeback has been tepid to say the least, with a lot of fans seemingly leaving it behind after waiting so long for it to come back.

Although things seemed steady enough with the game continuing to get content updates and new characters fairly consistently (with Raven and Marceline having just been announced yesterday), it seems that Warner Bros. Discovery isn't all that happy about its performance and said...

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