WB sees its future games strategy to involve more live-service, mobile, and free-to-play games. "Rather than just launching a one-and-done console game, how do we develop a game around, for example, a Hogwarts Legacy or Harry Potter, that is a live-service where people can live and work and build and play in that world in an ongoing basis?", said WB Games CEO J.B. Perrette. More here: gamespot.com/articles/warne…
@shinobi602 Gamers seeing “one and done” 🤣🤣🤣
@shinobi602 Bad idea... Hogwarts was a fun game that everyone enjoyed playing and you sold huge numbers on that basis. The minute you turn that into a live service, you strip the fun out of it, meaning nobody will want to play it.
Someone needs to tell @wbgames that "one and done" is sort of the point of most popular/successful video games. Also, the idea that HWL is a "one and done" is out of touch. It hasn't even been a year since it came out. Given another year or two, people will be returning to replay it, and likely will continue returning to replay it well into the future. Because this is what gamers do when they really like single-player video games. It just takes time. It's not a "negative reflection" of the game itself at all. HWL was a massive success, one of the biggest in video game history. Not capitalizing on said success is a sub-40 IQ business decision.
@shinobi602 Hogwarts Legacy MMORPG would be cool. Just saying. Tho they should probably spend some time thinking what has happened to Suicide Squad.
@shinobi602 Come on man, they made 100s and 100s of millions of dollars in profit from Hogwarts Legacy+ it was the BEST Selling GAME of 2023 and they say this 💀💀💀💀
@shinobi602 Wonderful direction the games industry is going. Almost no interest in any GAAS games, so this strategy bodes well for my other burgeoning hobbies.
@shinobi602 Reading between the lines: Live-service games = digital theme parks Cheaper and higher margin than licensing their IP to Universal or Disney to do it for them