![]() ![]() It almost certainly represents a truly enormous write-off for Warner Bros., and the collapse in confidence in the game which caused this is absolute. (I've wracked my brains for an equivalent case if any readers know of one I've missed, please do let us know.) That's something really quite extraordinary. I cannot, however, recall an instance of a publisher spending years working on a major online game release, let alone one with the backing of such impressive IP as the DC Comics characters, bringing it the whole way to launch, putting it on the market - and then unceremoniously dumping it after the first couple of months. "Somewhere in a slide deck at Warner Bros' headquarters, there's a graph that caused this a graph that looks like a lose-your-lunch rollercoaster into a mineshaft" There are even some pretty famous cases of games being cancelled after their development was entirely completed, but before being launched on the market - the logic being that it's often more expensive to manufacture, distribute, support and market a game than it actually was to make it in the first place, so if a publisher loses confidence completely, they can avoid sending good money after bad with even a last minute cancellation. It's not that games don't get cancelled all the time, often pretty deep into development. Don't get me wrong, that's laudable and morally right, but it's also pretty damned astonishing. People who bought large "packs" of content and currency for the otherwise F2P game will be refunded the publisher is so determined to cut its losses on the project that it's even willing to hand back the money it's already received from consumers. Warner Bros will shut it down for good before the summer is out. Only a couple of months after it was officially launched at the end of March, it's already on borrowed time. It's developed by Turbine, a company with an excellent track record in online games it looks great, plays smoothly and offers a huge amount of variety to its players. Doesn't look cheap, right? I mean, even leaving aside the fact that this is a game featuring almost the entire roster of top-end DC Comics characters - one of the richest and most valuable libraries of IP in the world, for all that it's presently being disastrously and incompetently mismanaged - this is also a slick, well-produced game. ![]() ![]() If you haven't played Warner Bros' now-doomed MOBA game, Infinite Crisis, I encourage you to go off and watch a video of the game in action (there are plenty of them on YouTube). ![]()
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