This is from earlier this month. But it didn’t really hit until seeing more Suicide Squad details.

“Our focus,” he continued, “is on transforming our biggest franchises from largely console and PC based with three-four year release schedules to include more always on gameplay through live services, multiplatform and free-to-play extensions, with the goal to have more players spending more time on more platforms.”

https://www.eurogamer.net/warner-bros-says-it-plans-to-transform-its-biggest-franchises-into-live-service-games

Gotham Knights is a example. Get ready to see Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, Batman, and Mortal Kombat all get that “live services” treatment.

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There must be more profit than last year.

We’re witnessing gaming devour itself from the inside in pursuit of this impossible goal.

Buy indie

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Just capitalism, which has sucked for centuries.

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Just greed, which has sucked for millennia.

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What indie fighters even exist? Party game platform fighters and pony-cruft?

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Corpos gonna corp. Here’s to the death of their kind

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I see.

After ruining their streaming and movies, they are focusing on their gaming division.

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Another publisher to mark as ignored on steam

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I didn’t know you could do this to entire publishers. TIL.

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They’ll change their tune when Suicide Squad is a colossal flop. These execs don’t understand that it’s really hard to do a good live service game.

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Yeah, WB is just late to the party. Sony was going to make a dozen different live service games, but they’re reading the room now and cutting that forecast to less than half. With any luck, this is the tail end of the live service era.

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