The Warner Bros Games Disaster And Wonder Woman Reboot - Luke Reacts

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[@marlow21]

i will never feel sympathy for WB game studios since patenting the nemesis system from the shadow of war/mordor.

[@Railmesenz]

I agree! It hurts me just to think about how many games there could have been with the nemesis system. Think of all the advancements other companies could have made with the system instead of WB

[@Golden.Control]

That’s not the developers choice.

[@BigBellyBites]

replaying their older games to get the taste of ssktjl out of my mouth and i realized they have been super predatory with dlc long before battle passes became a thing

[@megadoomboy5412]

@@Golden.Control wb game studios is the publisher not the dev

[@andrewstokes6859]

Man forget all that I made they lock the real ending behind dlc and pay to play

[@FredThePhoenix]

I don’t understand. Wonder Woman seems such an easy character to video game into. Lasso of Truth for persuade, action combos, sword/shield, spear, bracers for parries, story in the DC universe, Themyscira to explore and the Greek Pantheon to fight. How hard can this be? What the hell

[@shinichiizumi2242]

why wouldn't you just use the shield to parry

[@bdeamon1]

Counter point: All the stuff you said, but put her on War World or Apokolips so she can be as violent as she wants to robots and aliens. She has to save captured or mind controlled members of the Justice League who give her more weapons as she liberates them, and she uses the lasso to brainwash robots and para-demons for the nemesis system

[@mcruz4571]

We are talking about professional game developers, who can only develop one type of game...😂

[@dantauche7917]

You could say something like that for ANY franchise/game series. Ideas are easy on paper/in theory, but…..*shrug* idk where I was gonna go with that you’d think it’d be that easy lol

[@GodChaos333]

It’s probably because executives want mechanical reasons to include live service or micro transactions at the least. And it’s causing issues. Just a guess, but I wouldn’t be surprised if revenue opportunities is what’s on their minds for the game design.

[@mintnite]

I always feel bad for the devs, but hearing that WB is losing even MORE money is music to my ears

[@mintnite]

Although i'll stop laughing when they make Hogwarts Legacy 2 live service 💀

[@mcruz4571]

Professional developers who can only develop one type of game... it's not that strange... it's like an architect who can only design buildings and not houses, it's part of your profession to be able to do both, I understand that you can be better at one of the two, but you have to be able to do both, and do a good job in both cases.😂

[@theninjamaster67]

​@@mcruz4571 The dumbest take I've ever heard.

[@carlito5224]

​@mcruz4571 That is literally not true at all with Monolith. They developed some of the most renowned games since their inception starting with F.E.A.R. A high class action horror game with quality AI and gameplay to this day. Then Condemned: Criminal Origins putting more focus on the horror element and pure emphasis on first person melee combat, almost a complete departure from F.E.A.R. and that's not even including their underapreciated No One Lives Forever games taking inspiration from classic spy movies and spy parodies. Monolith have never stuck to one formula and milk it, they always innovate on it and move on. Correction No One Lives Forever was before F.E.A.R but F.E.A.R really put them on the map.

[@Byrvurra]

I don't. What the hell have they been doing for nearly a decade?

[@t3tsuyaguy1]

These executives genuinely think people are sheep. They think that they can buy an audience. The want ownership of certain IPs because it has high "brand value", but they actually think people who are fans of Dragon Age, will buy anything that is labeled Dragon Age.

[@suchins3947]

but there are people who bought dragon age blindly cos of the label ... unfortunately for the devs vast majority of dragonage fans identified themselves as NON-BUYNARY

[@Born2DoubleUp]

I mean there's ALOT of sheep out there. look at the people that pay to get a game 2-3 days early before everyone else 😂

[@Bjorn_R]

Those people do exist, its like the people who buy the newest iPhone every year for no other reason than "new = good". But apparently there are not enough of those people in gaming 😂

[@panzer00]

​​​@@suchins3947 there's only like a tenth of a percentage of people who identity as "non-binary" on the planet. You expect me to believe that they all bought Veilguar based on the sales figures?

[@garjian0]

There are people defending DA:TV to this day, flag in one hand for their side of the "culture war", flag in the other for Bioware, who cannot accept that any aspect of it is bad. Iirc, one of the biggest issues people had with Kill The Justice League, was the fact that you're supposed to kill the Justice League, and they like those characters, Batman in particular. Finally, brand recognition is the literal lifeblood of Multiversus. It is the only reason the game ever existed, and the only reason it ever had an audience. The monkeysphere is a far more influential system than people give it credit for, I believe.

[@chilbiyito]

The wonder woman game is either gonna be a small scope game despite it's budget or end up being cancelled

[@luhedi6303]

Or worse…live service. 😥

[@baki484]

The latter at this point.

[@cami5173]

Literally who even wants a Wonder Woman game right now? It’s like 6 years too late for being relevant

[@zunny9040]

@@cami5173anything can be relevant when done right. And people have been waiting for something other than the freakin' bat.

[@EchoDoctrine]

Luke nails the executive idiocy: “well you guys made a game of the year single player, just do that but multiplayer with a battlepass & microtransactions, line go up, 💰”. SMH 🤦

[@radostinavramov8175]

No wonder Trump is now a kinda CEO ... 😅

[@Spigan818]

Imagine patenting an actually cool innovative mechanic to make sure none of your competitor is use it and then having it held hostage behind a Wonder woman game

[@greed-1914]

Yeah. By the time the patent expires, WB will have used it in like three games total. It will be like other game patents that expired but the industry moved on and didn't use them anyway

[@jessekoepp3928]

Reminds me of the way Konami patented the ability to play tiny little games (atari level basically) during loading screens so we wouldn't be bored out of our minds waiting. They implemented the feature in a whopping three games of their own, never did it again, but their patent ensured nobody else could either. Thanks a lot Konami..... Edit: I just noticed OP profile picture lol, dude I literally used that EXACT picture for my facebook profile for years during December cause I thought it was funny.

[@zunny9040]

And proceed to never fcking use it

[@CreepSoldier]

Its kinda poetic that the company that patented the nemesis mechanic now doesn't have the devs with know-how to make a game that uses said mechanic. As always, everything just gets wasted by greed and incompetency.

[@Knuspabrot]

I wouldn't be surprised if the highest levels of suits, the ones who decide what goes into the games without ever having played a single one, simply have forgotten that they patented it. The legal department did that, and they didn't bother to notice, and no one talks to each other about it because the suits keep 100% of control about all decisions and giving a shit gets you fired.

[@elvickRULES]

I feel bad for Monolith. They patched Shadow of Mordor to fix an online only trophy/achievement when they were shutting down the server function for what was needed. And I’ll always respect that. I doubt the SoW stuff was their choice.

[@midasredding]

I still cannot believe WB patented the Nemesis system and have yet to do anything with it since. Maybe the Wonder Woman game might implement it but at this rate we might see maybe one or two games with that incredible mechanic, and won't be available for other studios and companies to use until 2035

[@ankura-e8f]

@@midasredding the problem Is that wonder woman has awful villans, she always worked better as a guest in the comics of other characters because her Lore and villans are stuxk in the pulpy and corny Golden age of comics, they tried to make her this cold ruthless amazonian killer tons of times, but her pet keeps being a kangoroo and her némesis a giant woman, and i think she still has that dumb invisible jet

[@UhohGundam]

Nothing wrong with them get a patent on the system if you create something, you definitely should be able to profit from your creation for a reasonable amount of time and not have to worry about a copy cat product just like in every other industry........ But gaming does its evil and unethical 😂 They should be using it for a new Batman that's what the system was originally made for but that trashed it because they didn't want it competing with Arkham.

[@RichardPhillips1066]

They probably no longer have the talent to use it

[@Goob_V10]

@@UhohGundam It's not patenting it that's the problem. It's the fact they filed a patent so no one else could use the system, but then didn't do anything with the patent for years. It's a very typical greedy corporate strategy. To patent everything you can regardless of if you have plans to use the patent yourself or not.

[@SH1NK1R01]

@@UhohGundamyou’d be singing a different tune if a single car company patented gas tanks and made it so other cars can’t have tanks that hold gas. It’s like you don’t think. It was unethical the whole time.

[@RHQ7]

WB is such a mess now, they can't get anything right.

[@UhohGundam]

The game side is just a fun little thing they do lmao 😂 yeah they were down 1 percent last year is profit but still made 16 billion. They have some of the biggest ips. Harry Potter, LOTR, game of thrones, looney toons, dc universe. Game studio is like the Xbox division for Microsoft yeah it's cool but if it doesn't profit who cares not the main money maker.

[@baki484]

You'd think they'd wake up.

[@furrygecko]

I was in the industry for 20 years as a dev on AAA games. I still have no idea what execs add. They’re a bit like police interactions: the best you can hope for is a neutral outcome, and there’s almost no limit to how negative the outcome can be.

[@farsawoos]

It's unfortunate that Monolith has gotten implicated in WB's shit. These guys did F.E.A.R. and No One Lives Forever, which were SO GOOD. :(

[@Xevonarin]

We're not in a gaming crash. We're in a AAA crash. And even then, this isn't ALL AAA games and studios affected, rather those consumed by avarice cynically seeking unlimited money glitches. For all the criticism AAA gaming rightly receives, the problem isn't inherently scale or budget... it's intent. Purpose. A game lacking a genuine creative vision that exists only to print money for cynical shareholders who haven't played a single videogame in their entire lives will almost always fail and hemorrhage money in the most catastrophic of ways. That isn't all that surprising when you consider that non-gamers are dictating the directions gaming should take with only a financial interest in the medium. Of COURSE that doesn't work, and you're an idiot if you ever thought it would.

[@Bucketus.Lord.of.Buckets]

A brand is a promise to your customers. If you go against your brand, you break that promise, which breaks the trust and faith that loyal customers had in you. Rocksteady learned it, Bioware learned it, and many other studios will or have learned it. Some have suffered dire consequences.

[@deathsyth8888]

"Android" Wilson as Disney CEO would have been a trainwreck. If you think Disney was bad, with him at the helm, it would have been up to another level.

[@Red_Lanterns_Rage]

you don;t think Disney isn't already a trainwreck? LMFAO!

[@deathsyth8888]

@@Red_Lanterns_Rage More of a trainwreck.

[@SimonBannow]

thats why we need him at Disney

[@NostalgiaNet8]

I miss the F.E.A.R series.

[@megadoomboy5412]

Same here. No one ever talks about it though

[@strenifstrecs2551]

We all do.

[@upgoesfrazier7890]

I did think they should do a remake

[@Sagan_Blandard20XX]

Play Selaco. Monolith isn't making it out of WB alive.

[@SheldawnSea]

I miss Condemned

[@gsd2603]

I swear the formula is there and these execs refuse to see it. Games used to be made with fun in mind first. They see success like Fornite and drool/tunnel vision over the money, while disregarding that a game like that was made with fun in mind and Then the money came. What is so hard about this?

[@slurpingmario8006]

To be fair with the “friendship” idea: Wonder Woman was always a symbol of peace and love despite her warrior spirit

[@Calladim]

Just had this horrible concept applied to me at my job, from both sides: Guy from our office comes in, gives orders that slow down progress and result in extra work. Guy from our customer's office comes in, demands changes and then gets upset we dont have what we need later...because we used everything we had to make those unplanned changes. 🤦

[@adf211]

Amazing, the only positive profit studio WB has is Avalanche, the studio that made a single player game. Learn your lesson WB?

[@garchompart2600]

I can't believe we almost got a Flash game and they just canned it because of Ezra xD They really have no idea what the fans want

[@vinnythewebsurfer]

There is a reason when all those months ago, WB stated to their investors that they were focusing on their big 4: Mortal Kombat, Harry Potter, Game of Thrones (lmao), and Batman. Specifically Arkham Batman. Everything else does not matter and will be dealt with. Now look at how things are. Multiversus’s funeral is coming, Suicide squad is already buried. There is no Injustice 3 happening or any other DC game. What do you think is going to ultimately happen to Wonder Woman?

[@halstonconnally1367]

Too bad, I was actually looking forward to their take on Wonder Woman. I am a huge Shadow of Mordor fan, and figured they could do her justice.

[@suchins3947]

yes they will create a wonderful wonder woman .... it will be a black trans lesbian who will lecture all of us about male privilege while girl bossing 24x7

[@klavicus2276]

Me too! Also waited and waited for this game to come so much potential and cool foundation why do some ppl make it so complicated and stupid just cause of freakin money… smh

[@Smarkey-c8b]

hehe, I helped creating the news article in Belgium back in 2017 that triggered the investigation. Love that this is still talked about :D

[@kaylemain2006]

I was looking forward to the WW game. In my mind, an open world game maybe set in themyscira full of mythological baddies and an updated version of the nemesis system plus a polished arkham combat adapted to WW's capabilities sounds amazing. Alas, WB is braindead.

[@Kyrieru]

Wonder Woman should be the easiest property to convert into a game. The player doesn't need to know anything about her, or be a fan. It could survive purely as a really cool mythology based action game, and would easily pull people into being more interested in Wonder Woman as a property. Yet modern.....writing, modern EA monetization, modern AAA open worlds trends in general, so many things seem likely to just tank it. Ever since I heard about it I've held onto the slim chance that it might just be a cool action game.

[@JohnDoe-hm9mi]

WB needs to sell they are incompetent. Live service is a plague that is poisoning gaming.

[@dO-123-m8h]

WW is doomed. They hired a bunch of crappy MMO devs in the past couple of years.

[@SpaiceCowboy]

The timing couldn't be worse after the disrespect she got in SSKTJL... We can't catch a break with gaming industry these days

[@CrackDavidson1]

Man, monolith is a legendary studio creating the og blood, fear games, the no one lives forever stuff... This really sucks. Seems like all the old greats have fallen...

[@Thegoodsherman2]

And condemned 🥰

[@lm4585]

I have been wanting a WW game since AA. Hopefully it turns out good whenever it relases.

[@44zeex]

Lets not kid ourselves. WB games is only staying afloat because Hogwarts Legacy sold hella good. Just do what Hogwarts Legacy did WB!

[@UhohGundam]

Or the fact it's parent company is willing to keep it alive, like Microsoft does with Xbox. Fun side project could make you tons of money if it's a hit. That then leads people to movies and merch and whatever else like the shadow games.

[@kkay000]

It is shocking how comedically incompetent warner bros is at managing to somehow mismanage every single developer they have.

[@TriggerJim88]

The pivot on the Wonder Woman game should be WB get some of their good writers in to write a cool story of a single player linear narrative game that's fun to play. Devs focus on making playing as Wonder Woman fun, incorporating whatever her recognisable abilities are, not just as combat but tweak them to change up how you move across the map - for fun times between cinematics. So they can use or make minor reworks to use already created assets. That's it. No in game store.

[@RollingStone501]

Wonder Woman should be easy. I mean God of War exists.

[@PettyCrow-n9c]

Wonder Woman is very different lol. Contrary to how most people may think, she's not "Kratos with tits"

[@noamias4897]

The unique incompetency within management of the gaming industry is infuriating, sad and entertaining to witness all at once It’s sad to see talented developers and workers be laid off and poorly treated while the executives get bonuses and shuffled around. It’s infuriating to see products be ruined. But it’s also entertaining to see people with long careers make so many dumb and obvious mistakes

[@ZEREN_X]

Now everything made sense of why we never saw any new footage after that initial 2021/2022 reveal trailer 😂

[@justyouraveragenerd7688]

Quidditch Champions is live service in a sense, but it's a one-time payment. The currencies needed to purchase in-game items HAVE to be earned through gameplay and there is zero option to buy your way through it at all. No currency packs with "bonuses" or microtransational DLC, just the price of admission.

[@thedarktyrant]

I don't really get what's wrong with the "friendship" system. Wonder Woman inspiring others to do better is absolutely something she'd do. Batman and Superman also do it.

[@huntern3071]

You know if WB games studio goes under...maybe we can finally have the Nemesis system patent go away and other games can finally use it

[@Guzmania]

WB doesnt understand that gamers age and leave. The fans that love the Arkham series is probably in their mid 20s and 30s. The teenage gamers probably dont know what the Arkham games are and WB need to rebuild the fanbaze from scratch now.

[@PettyCrow-n9c]

Rebuilding that fanbase with Wonder Woman is a losing strategy

[@UhohGundam]

Idk why they just didn't use the system with Batman what they originally had it designed for, but higher ups didn't want it competing with the Arkham series so they pivoted it to the shadow games. Or they could stop with the cringe super hero gamea

[@feathercompressor]

On behalf of all Davids, I apologize for the stupidity of these particular Davids. Only a few of us can be trusted with leadership, especially when not in an underdog situation. I recommend replacing all C-suite Davids whenever a merger happens.

[@fd502]

3:10 Oh my gosh why does the CEO of EA look so fake that it looks like there’s a small alien inside his head piloting him?

[@carlito5224]

His face comes off and it's revealed to be Plankton underneath. Lol

[@klavicus2276]

He indeed looks creepy

[@SomeHippy]

I would love a "enemy to ally" system for a necromancer based game. That would be awesome to be able to resurrect elite enemies into an undead minion that is capable of getting way stronger than a normal undead minion.

[@Lee.keebum]

That's literally shadow of war

[@SomeHippy]

@@Lee.keebum Yeah I know. I was thinking that as I was typing it..... I guess I mean more command possibilities but yeah. Essentially I'd like a Shadow of War but MORE!........ dor

[@Thehughesgaming]

Them using the nemesis system for friendship would have been baffling, like it just strips out everything that makes the system fun

[@bensxbd]

I’m all about second chances. As far as I’m concerned, I’m willing to give Rocksteady the opportunity to redeem themselves with a new game

[@honoramongscars649]

JUST SAYING the friendship sim does fit in line with Wonder Woman as a character. It being more focused on her being able to gain allies to team up with/help her defeat Circe and Cheetah. I get the intention behind it (especially after the army addition stuff in Shadow of War.)

[@ping4d064]

i wish they’d just cancel this game cause when it fails WB will still have the audacity to claim it’s the fault of wonder woman as an IP and make even less projects that involve her, just like they cancelled the flash game cause of ezra miller

[@GrantHutcherson]

🤨8 fuckin’ years now to making a Wonder Woman game?! They on dat musky yakshit,bro! 😆

[@SachinJames89]

Who, in the right mind, wouldn't want a sequel to Constantine movie and the videogame!? Even Keanu would agree with the project... 🤷

[@JetDusk2]

Isnt the nemesis system integrally about making enemies your friends, why is that a hang up? I don’t see why that’s a bad idea for a super hero game. (Granted its just an idea, there’s no details but I don’t see anything inherently wrong with the concept considering the kind of character Wonder Woman is)

[@azarhielsombrelame5659]

Let's be clear, a full priced game with or without DLC must not have other monetization schemes, not even cosmetics... All those things should be earned in the game.

[@zerodawn09]

a wonder woman game with the nemesis system could work. out of the big three shes works the most but yes it needs to be not live service and more down the og way and not a freindship system.

[@VaneWalker]

Make SLOP get FLOPS

[@Red_Lanterns_Rage]

yep, FAFO make garbage 💩get the dumpster fire 🔥

[@isisbarfuss558]

This news about the Wonder Woman game is disappointing. It was the only new game from WB I was looking forward too.

[@MilkWasABadChoice17]

These companies like WB just want a cash cow like Fortnite that they can milk forever because the executives don't understand what their customers want. Even Sony is feeling this pain right now. It's always better to have a well balanced portfolio of games: a few big AAA games with more AA games to supplement those bigger games (and maybe a few indie published games), where there is a comfortable split between single player and multiplayer/live service based. Nintendo comes to mind when I think of this.

[@artemisia4718]

Wonder Woman has PLENTY of good storylines from the comics that would be interesting to play, live service would be a total waste of an IP.

[@johnnyzero8853]

Wonder Woman deserves much better

[@OOL-UV2]

Customers traditionally forgive one F up at a time. If they’d gone for the monetization while keeping the games non political, they could get away with it. But hitting the customers with both at the same time, they telling them to STFU about it, wow, what huge stones they have.

[@Hella_Siren]

Guys, just Google, who is senior write on Wonder Woman right now. A person with literally no experience.

[@garjian0]

The problem with this sinking ship analogy is that it's the pressure from above causing them to sink, not the implied void below. These directors forming new studios and bringing select talent with them are simply getting away from their incompetent publishers, even if it costs their entire funding source and massively reduces their scope. That's the net "benefit" these publishers are providing these days.

[@redbearington3345]

You can tell something similar with content creators with the recent news a GoW live service game was canceled. GoW fans are universally "thank god no one wanted that sh!t" but there are content creators reporting the cancelation as "bad news for gow fans" Raises an eyebrow and questions of these "gamers" actually are

[@ML-ze1ji]

Nothing is more satisfying than watching live-service games fail one after another.

[@FigitTheDigit]

Quidditch was purely a narrative device, it litterally only exists to show us how good HP is

[@JayStCloud]

Tbh, I’m not surprised, seeing how WB is handling their games now.

[@machete777-l9g]

I cannot believe WB spent a 100 million dollars on the stupid Quidditch game. How? The game looks like a mobile game.

[@greed-1914]

I think they have no idea how to scope a game budget because they assumed strong IP equals money machine. The IP just gets attention, but the game has to maintain it.

[@blackdoc6320]

The biggest issue is that gaming companies are severely bloated. Apart from maybe rockstar, there is no reason any of the games of the last 10 years should require more than 100 devs. Hell, half of the games would probably be the same (maybe even better) with less than 50. So much money is just getting funnelled into paying hundreds of devs working on one game for 7 years that when it comes out they need waaaaay more money than they should need to recover. The gaming industry should be comprised of more dev teams with less devs, making ever so slightly smaller, and more focused games.

[@frankkent5567]

What's even more frustrating is that, even without the chump who turned WB Games into a laughingstock, there's no guarantee that things will improve for the division because they'll likely hire some other schmuck to take his place.

[@markkipanga1933]

Peeps r talking about the new arkham . I dont think the new arkham game is going to be good. I think its going to be 6/10. Remember that wb game studios has lost a lot of talent.

[@A..M..A]

I don't know how WB fumbled/continue to fumble DC games/movies etc. for the last decade except for 2 or 3 movies and 1 or 2 TV Shows. They're unbelievably mishandling the IP.

[@brau3690]

You hit the nail on the head with current CEO issues. It goes deeper though. The construction example you gave is a thing that ACTUALLY happens. I work in manufacturing and often have to deal with MBAs with no clue or practical knowledge of the product or the systems used to produce. They often hire people below them to manage those things but they again pull from the the same MBA pool. Even engineers are coming out completely clueless as they design physical things on a pc with no practical knowledge of how that thing will function in real life. College has literally messed up every industry.

[@VioletElite4]

I'm just not into these superhero games much anymore. Remember when Monolith made horror action games like FEAR and Condemned? I think we need one of those again..

[@matthewmspace]

It sucks that all these studios that made such great games during the PS2 and 360 eras are shells of themselves these days. It’s a double edged sword. The games in the 2000’s were successful and built by passionate devs and focused on making sure the games were good. But now, in the late PS4/PS5 era, the money people saw the previous generation successes and only care about the money.

[@TheSlimmestJim]

They haven’t even been working on it since 2017. When they released the trailer, that was literally all they had. Not even a story concept

[@___David__]

Quidditch Champions WAS a good idea. It was the implementation that was a disaster. Quidditch DOES make sense if you know the bare minimum about Harry Potter. The snitch is NOT something easy to find. That's the point. That's why it gives 150 points and ends the game. The reason Champions failed was because it was LAZY and poorly executed. All the charm of the National Stadiums of the old Quidditch World Cup game were cut, the gameplay was extremely repetitive and the multiplayer was a disaster. Plus they charged for a mostly multiplayer game instead of making it F2P. On top of that, the art direction was awful and, OF COURSE, the developers were more concerned about introducing androgynous characters and pronoun pickers.

[@Mecks089]

Bro, Monolith worked on Blood, F.E.A.R. and Condemned. They were leaders of action and horror back in the day like 20 to 30 years ago. The head of that developer was a fan of Duke Nukem too. This modern industry is so full of shit now.

[@feckert7301]

Making a wonder woman game should not be this complicated.

[@JONATHANP1619]

Montréal

[@BMcAdory1984]

It goes to show how complicit Warner Brothers Games has been and WB games is in a sad state of affairs while being so far off across the board by showing into developing traditional superhero games.

[@Maximussview]

To be fair, Wonder Woman is supposed to be a warrior for peace so the befriending of enemies isn’t insane. But that version is gone. We can only hope that there’s a good foundation to make it at least worth while apart from live service elements

[@Me_Caveman]

WB lost me when they copyrighted the Nemesis system.

[@saddestcat]

3:00 android Wilson

[@chaos9059]

Android Wilson or AI Wilson? I swear this guy talks like chat gpt .

[@zip3704]

Disney and ea didnt merge as the rumor was the ea ceo wanted to be ceo of the merged company, and disney thought he was valueing himself and ea too highly. now they are eyeing him for ceo? Good lord... when you think disney is at an all time low, they wanna break that record

[@smellthensing2221]

Quiddich is a poorly-conceived "game" that could never be implemented well anyway.

[@Byrvurra]

It's only poorly-conceived as an actual game. It serves the purpose it was actually designed for quite well.

[@KenLinx]

Wonder Woman's going to flop. Not because of anything related to development or gameplay, but because the character isn't that popular--especially not after Wonder Woman 1984, which all but destroyed the IP. Even a Superman game would be hard to sell. I don't know why they decided to throw money at Wonder Woman of all DC characters. Oh wait, I do know.

[@ElitePWNSFace]

These companies got to realize no one has more time. These live service games have to bring something big and unique if they want any chance. Even that is not guaranteed.

[@MrJamess1982]

I still don’t understand why they are wasting time and resources on making a director’s cut of Hogwarts instead of just focusing on the sequel. WB games is a mess.

[@allandm]

I didn't think making a wonder woman have would be this insane for an experienced gaming studio? Weird

[@aniruddhbhatkal1834]

Funnily enough, I recently joke-pitched a Shadow of Mordor 3. It would involve the Lord of the Rings series from the Nazguls' perspective, with Talion occasionally remembering his humanity. In the form of Ioreth and Dirhael screaming in his soul. Nemesis system would now be the free peoples of middle earth. I guess now I know why there wasn't a part 3

[@theheardtheorem]

I’ve never understood why anyone would want to play Quidditch. Literally the only thing that matters is the Golden Snitch since it’s worth 100 points. Dumbest rules to a game I’ve ever seen in my life

[@andrewcoehoorn6505]

It's actually really frustrating and sad the way this live service push has gone. Given how comic book stories are told slowly over many issues the live service model seems like it'd be a perfect fit. The first studio to figure out how to do it right will rake in tons of cash. I'd play a Green Lantern live service where I can make my own GL, season one could be the Sinestro crops war, add some more ring colors over time. I'm down for that.

[@concrete-d5v]

I love how Sony/WB wants to go mainly live service but then PlayStation Network goes down for 24 hours Gotta love sometimes live service games

[@Ryuzakku]

The Nemesis system did have a friendship mechanic in the The Desolation of Mordor, since Baranor didn't have a ring to turn Uruks into allies.

[@zanenorton2732]

when he said star cards the repressed memories of that time came back like a hammer to the Head

[@Rohme.]

Just give me Mad Max 2 with the nemesis system, please

[@DunkaccinoJoe]

The Flash tv show started doing this crap… beat the enemies with “love” and care bear stares every time

[@TwoHandedChargedBonk]

I didn't even know Monolith was still in business. Imagine going from creating one of the best FPS of all time (Blood) to making yet another live service cape slop. So sad.

[@jadedragon216]

There are games where you turn enemies into allies like MGS and SMT. Granted in those games, it's more kidnapping and making deals. It's not necessarily a bad idea, all depends on the game system supporting it. If Wonder Woman made that system about base building or building up an army for larger battles, it could work.

[@HunterOmbrégal]

EA going bankrupt sounds like a fairy tale