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MultiVersus to Shut Down When Season 5 Concludes in May
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<blockquote data-quote="Admin" data-source="post: 66201" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><img src="https://assets-prd.ignimgs.com/2022/07/27/multiversus-blogroll-1658943870314.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></p><p>Player First Games has announced that <a href="https://www.ign.com/games/multiversus" target="_blank">MultiVersus</a> Season 5 will be its last, bringing the Warner Bros. platform fighting game to a close May 30, 2025, at 9 a.m. PST.</p><p></p><p>The studio revealed plans to discontinue support for the crossover brawler with <a href="https://multiversus.com/en/news/multiversus-update" target="_blank"><u>a blog post</u></a> on its website. MultiVersus, which launched May 28 last year, will launch into Season 5 starting next week, February 4, and will continue through its May 2025 end date. It’s at this point that support for online play will come to an end, with Player First promising that players will still be able to access all earned and purchased content while offline via the local gameplay mode and training mode.</p><p></p><p>“Most importantly, we want to thank every player and person who has ever played or supported MultiVersus,” a message from the MultiVersus team says. “All of us on the Player First Games and Warner Bros. Games teams have poured our heart and soul into this game. We will be forever grateful for the incredible support of the MultiVersus community throughout this journey.”</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Player First adds that real-money transactions for MultiVersus are no longer available as of today, though fans will still have the option to use Gleamium and character tokens to access in-game content until support ends come May 30. MultiVersus will also be delisted from the PlayStation Store, Microsoft Store, Steam, and Epic Games Store at this time.</p><p></p><p>MultiVersus’ demise follows news that the project was seen as a major failure for Warner Bros. Discovery. In a financial call from November, the company explained that MultiVersus performed far worse than expected, resulting <a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/warner-bros-admits-multiversus-underperformed-contributing-to-another-100-million-hit-to-revenue-in-its-games-business" target="_blank"><u>in around a $100 million writedown</u></a> for its games sector. That brought the total to $300 million after <a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/suicide-squad-kill-the-justice-league-flop-leads-to-200-million-impairment-charge-warner-bros-confirms" target="_blank"><u>the launch of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League</u></a> in January. Just last week, Variety reported that <a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/warner-bros-games-boss-david-haddad-is-leaving-the-company-a-year-after-suicide-squad-kill-the-justice-leagues-disastrous-launch" target="_blank"><u>Warner Bros. Games head David Haddad would be leaving the company</u></a> following a tumultuous 2024.</p><p></p><p>"We took another $100 million plus impairment due to the underperforming releases, primarily MultiVersus this quarter, bringing total writedown year-to-date to over $300 million in our games business, a key factor in this year’s studio profit decline,” chief financial officer Gunnar Wiedenfels said during the November call.</p><p></p><p>Although today’s news means the free-to-play Warner Bros. fighting game will shut down just days after celebrating its one-year launch anniversary, Season 5 will at least send it out with a bang. In addition to the usual new content seasonal updates bring, new characters Lola Bunny and Aquaman will also be joining the fight as playable characters. Both will be available starting next week, with the Looney Toons icon able to be unlocked as a daily calendar reward and the DC superhero available through the battle pass.</p><p></p><p></p><p><em>Michael Cripe is a freelance contributor with IGN. He's best known for his work at sites like The Pitch, The Escapist, and OnlySP. Be sure to give him a follow on Bluesky (@mikecripe.bsky.social) and Twitter (@MikeCripe).</em></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/multiversus-to-shut-down-when-season-5-concludes-in-may" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Admin, post: 66201, member: 1"] [IMG]https://assets-prd.ignimgs.com/2022/07/27/multiversus-blogroll-1658943870314.jpg[/IMG] Player First Games has announced that [URL='https://www.ign.com/games/multiversus']MultiVersus[/URL] Season 5 will be its last, bringing the Warner Bros. platform fighting game to a close May 30, 2025, at 9 a.m. PST. The studio revealed plans to discontinue support for the crossover brawler with [URL='https://multiversus.com/en/news/multiversus-update'][U]a blog post[/U][/URL] on its website. MultiVersus, which launched May 28 last year, will launch into Season 5 starting next week, February 4, and will continue through its May 2025 end date. It’s at this point that support for online play will come to an end, with Player First promising that players will still be able to access all earned and purchased content while offline via the local gameplay mode and training mode. “Most importantly, we want to thank every player and person who has ever played or supported MultiVersus,” a message from the MultiVersus team says. “All of us on the Player First Games and Warner Bros. Games teams have poured our heart and soul into this game. We will be forever grateful for the incredible support of the MultiVersus community throughout this journey.” Player First adds that real-money transactions for MultiVersus are no longer available as of today, though fans will still have the option to use Gleamium and character tokens to access in-game content until support ends come May 30. MultiVersus will also be delisted from the PlayStation Store, Microsoft Store, Steam, and Epic Games Store at this time. MultiVersus’ demise follows news that the project was seen as a major failure for Warner Bros. Discovery. In a financial call from November, the company explained that MultiVersus performed far worse than expected, resulting [URL='https://www.ign.com/articles/warner-bros-admits-multiversus-underperformed-contributing-to-another-100-million-hit-to-revenue-in-its-games-business'][U]in around a $100 million writedown[/U][/URL] for its games sector. That brought the total to $300 million after [URL='https://www.ign.com/articles/suicide-squad-kill-the-justice-league-flop-leads-to-200-million-impairment-charge-warner-bros-confirms'][U]the launch of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League[/U][/URL] in January. Just last week, Variety reported that [URL='https://www.ign.com/articles/warner-bros-games-boss-david-haddad-is-leaving-the-company-a-year-after-suicide-squad-kill-the-justice-leagues-disastrous-launch'][U]Warner Bros. Games head David Haddad would be leaving the company[/U][/URL] following a tumultuous 2024. "We took another $100 million plus impairment due to the underperforming releases, primarily MultiVersus this quarter, bringing total writedown year-to-date to over $300 million in our games business, a key factor in this year’s studio profit decline,” chief financial officer Gunnar Wiedenfels said during the November call. Although today’s news means the free-to-play Warner Bros. fighting game will shut down just days after celebrating its one-year launch anniversary, Season 5 will at least send it out with a bang. In addition to the usual new content seasonal updates bring, new characters Lola Bunny and Aquaman will also be joining the fight as playable characters. Both will be available starting next week, with the Looney Toons icon able to be unlocked as a daily calendar reward and the DC superhero available through the battle pass. [I]Michael Cripe is a freelance contributor with IGN. He's best known for his work at sites like The Pitch, The Escapist, and OnlySP. Be sure to give him a follow on Bluesky (@mikecripe.bsky.social) and Twitter (@MikeCripe).[/I] [url="https://www.ign.com/articles/multiversus-to-shut-down-when-season-5-concludes-in-may"]Continue reading...[/url] [/QUOTE]
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