MultiVersus General Discussion - Shut Down planned for May 30.

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Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier.bsky.social)

BREAKING: Warner Bros. Games is shutting down Monolith Productions, Player First Games, and WB San Diego, sources tell Bloomberg News. Warner Bros. is also canceling the Wonder Woman game.

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PFG are getting shut down along with other studios at WB Games

Refresh my memory. Why did Warner Bros buy Player First Games again?

No seriously, I thought that was not a great move.

 

[Faso115]

Easiest prediction of my life. PFG basically had no future after MVS was done.

 

[Capybara Gaming]

On the one hand I feel for these people losing their jobs, but on the other... I really don't think they were that great at game development to begin with, so maybe investing in a more stable income source will be good for them.

 

[LimeTH]

On the one hand I feel for these people losing their jobs, but on the other... I really don't think they were that great at game development to begin with, so maybe investing in a more stable income source will be good for them.

The devs were talented. It was evidently a leadership problem.

 

[Capybara Gaming]

The devs were talented. It was evidently a leadership problem.

Agree to disagree. I'm aware of the leadership problems but there are way too many bugs and glitches that have been in since launch (some since beta) that are well documented to just be a management issue.

 

[Kirbeh]

Agree to disagree. I'm aware of the leadership problems but there are way too many bugs and glitches that have been in since launch (some since beta) that are well documented to just be a management issue.

You'd be surprised. If management wants the team to solely focus on x or y, even with the devs telling them that the whole thing is on fire, sometimes that fire just keeps burning because everyone is kept busy on other things they're forced to prioritize.

Granted I do agree that inexperience is a likely cause for some of it but again, if management is stubbornly prioritizing other things, it's hard to gain any meaningful experience.

 

[CapitaineCrash]

Sucks for Players first game, but not really surprising. But I'm really shocked they shutdown Monolith like that, they made so many good games in their long history like FEAR, Condmned and more recently the two Middle earth games who had very good reception, and I was pretty excited to see what they could do with Wonder Woman. Huge shame.

 

[Will]

Who does this leave as the remaining studios? Just NRS and Rocksteady?

 

[CapitaineCrash]

Who does this leave as the remaining studios? Just NRS and Rocksteady?

No they also have WB Montreal (dev of Gotham knights), Avalanche software (Hogwarts legacy) and TT games (Lego).

 

[Master Hero Sock-on-Rye]

Who does this leave as the remaining studios? Just NRS and Rocksteady?

Netherrealm, Rocksteady, Avalanche Software, Portkey Games, TT Games (Traveler's Tales)...

...and right as I was typing this, I got Ninja'd.

 

[ivanlerma]

Sucks for Players first game, but not really surprising. But I'm really shocked they shutdown Monolith like that, they made so many good games in their long history like FEAR, Condmned and more recently the two Middle earth games who had very good reception, and I was pretty excited to see what they could do with Wonder Woman. Huge shame.

so FEAR is gone then

 

[Faso115]

Wait...who's mantaining MVS till it's delisted if PFG is no more?

 

[Wonder Smash]

Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier.bsky.social)

BREAKING: Warner Bros. Games is shutting down Monolith Productions, Player First Games, and WB San Diego, sources tell Bloomberg News. Warner Bros. is also canceling the Wonder Woman game.

bsky.app

PFG are getting shut down along with other studios at WB Games

Just to remind you, that was already mentioned in the link you posted.

 

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A level designer on Artstation posted what could have been stages including Barbie, Harry Potter, Mad Max, and Willy Wonka.

 

[Schnee117]

A level designer on Artstation posted what could have been stages including Barbie, Harry Potter, Mad Max, and Willy Wonka.

This confirms a lot of the leaks we had but it's also good insight into the sort of stuff going on with designing the stages. Shame none of these will get to see the proper light of day.

 

[Opossum]

A level designer on Artstation posted what could have been stages including Barbie, Harry Potter, Mad Max, and Willy Wonka.

On one hand I'm glad because I 100% called that one stage as being a Willy Wonka stage.

On the other hand I'm now really disappointed it never got to happen.

 

[LimeTH]

Whatever happened to that leaked Courage the Cowardly Dog stage? Was that real?

 

[Opossum]

Whatever happened to that leaked Courage the Cowardly Dog stage? Was that real?

Weirdly I think it, Coyote Canyon, and the ACME Labs stage were the only leaked stages that aren't on that page. That likely just means they were designed by a different level designer. Definitely not fake, imo, especially since the first two had completely finished thumbnails.

 

[Kirbeh]

Wait...who's mantaining MVS till it's delisted if PFG is no more?

It's slated to shut down, I don't think we have an actual date yet. It'll likely properly shut down as soon as the last major update rolls out. It's most likely already being maintained by a skeleton crew though.

 

[Capybara Gaming]

Absolutely wild to see this. Tbh leak everything about the game at this point, why not?

 

[LimeTH]

Absolutely wild to see this. Tbh leak everything about the game at this point, why not?

Honestly, yeah, **** it. What are they gonna do? Shut down the studio again?

 

[Opossum]

It's pretty normal for things to come out organically like this after a cancellation. Similar things happened when Disney Infinity got discontinued; in the following months, we got tons of information posted in the form of artstation and resume posts from developers.