“Live Service? Oh it never works. I mean, these people delude themselves into thinking it might but…
it might work for us…” -WB, after watching WB’s Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League tank
Enough people are naive enough to buy into a live service game with a Harry Potter coat of paint. Just look at the first game, a paint by numbers “baby’s first RPG” that made serious bank off of millions of oblivious gamers and transphobes.
Well that makes it easy for me, I just won’t buy the game.
In other words, Warner Bros has learned absolutely nothing from their recent Suicide Squad failure. One would think that after the first time they forced a single-player focused dev team that regularly produced hits to make live-service garbage, they’d have learned something. Hogwarts Legacy wasn’t even that good of a game, largely due to the live-service elements it already had, but it sold way, way more than Suicide Squad.
I don’t give a heck, I ain’t playin’ that terf ass shit.
You heard it here first folks, the guys with the most money have declared taking risks is officially dead. They will only pursue guaranteed profits. They’re so completely addicted to the stuff that they cannot take a paycut or have a bad quarter, even though they will be given Golden Parachutes if the company folds.
Capitalism has turned into a complete joke with people who literally think they are owed profits by simply existing. It’s similar to the ad industry where they think we owe them viewing their ads because they paid for the ads, and by not viewing them we’re breaking some kind of social contract. Bullshit.
This is what happens when laborers are alienated from what they produce.
It’s hard for me to think of a company that is public and that I actually care about other than a few indie devs. But once is grows and becomes public it’s all downhill.
It bothers me a lot that WB had Hogwarts Legacy (which sold great, out sold Call of Duty, and generally did fantastic) and Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League (which unsold, got bad reviews, and has probably killed it’s development studio) and came to the conclusion that they need to go all in on more games like Suicide Squad.
Live services have proven revenue though. Look at how they all 100% succeed in being 100% profitable!
Look at anthem!
Y’know what, go for it. If people want more after putting down a Jewish uprising then let them pay for it. If they don’t pay for it, then WB gets kicked in the teeth by their own greed! Win-win!
Besides, how’re they gonna top the premise of the first game? Presumably the intro/tutorial will be bombing a pride parade just for a taste of the tone.
Don’t forget directly funding hate groups through the profits going to JKR!
Of course not, I’m among the people she targets constantly with her BS.
I’m also getting modded for even saying anything negative (about her?), I guess 🤣 Gross. Good luck keeping your post up 🤷
Why not make it a full MMO, while you’re at it? Hogwarts Legacy 2 could be the WoW-killer we’ve been waiting 20 years for!
They won’t be thinking it should be a live service when people play the game for maybe 30 minutes then ask for a refund because of low quality.
The depressing thing is a live-service Harry Potter game would probably make WB a ridiculous amount of money. Lock the best brooms and wands behind a paywall, pay real money to buy House points to win the House cup, all sorts of ways to squeeze money out of players.
