Costly Flop “Multiversus” Shuts Down In May

Player First Games has announced that the upcoming fifth season of the Warner Bros. live-service platform fighting game “MultiVersus” will be its last. The new season launches February 4th, with the game servers being shut down on May 30th at 9am US-PST.

Once the season ends, online features for the game will no longer be available, the game will be delisted from the PlayStation Store, Microsoft Store, Steam, and Epic Games Store. The title will still be available for offline play with local gameplay mode against A.I. opponents or up to three friends.

Players must install or update to the latest version of the game and create a local save file on their desired platform, allowing it to be playable offline with all earned and purchased content. As of today, players can no longer make real money transactions in Multiversus.

“Multiversus” launched in early access in 2022, wrapped its beta testing in 2023, then launched in May last year with 26 playable characters – a number that will rise to 35 by the time the fifth season ends.

The game has been a massive failure for Warner Bros. Discovery, the title reportedly taking a $100 million writedown for the company’s games sector. Combined with the even more costly flop of live-service title “Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League” last January, it was announced last week that Warner Bros. Games chief David Haddad would be leaving the company.

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