The depressing thing is a live-service Harry Potter game would probably make WB a ridiculous amount of money. Lock the best brooms and wands behind a paywall, pay real money to buy House points to win the House cup, all sorts of ways to squeeze money out of players.
If they don’t want to make money, they should do it and make whatever business goon suggesting it very happy (until that person looks at the balance sheet).
It bothers me a lot that WB had Hogwarts Legacy (which sold great, out sold Call of Duty, and generally did fantastic) and Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League (which unsold, got bad reviews, and has probably killed it’s development studio) and came to the conclusion that they need to go all in on more games like Suicide Squad.
Y’know what, go for it. If people want more after putting down a Jewish uprising then let them pay for it. If they don’t pay for it, then WB gets kicked in the teeth by their own greed! Win-win!
Besides, how’re they gonna top the premise of the first game? Presumably the intro/tutorial will be bombing a pride parade just for a taste of the tone.
Enough people are naive enough to buy into a live service game with a Harry Potter coat of paint. Just look at the first game, a paint by numbers “baby’s first RPG” that made serious bank off of millions of oblivious gamers and transphobes.
Honestly that would be kinda cool, and I’m surprised no one’s made a Harry Potter MMO/small-scale multiplayer co-op. It’s a pretty good starting point to have each of the players be students at Hogwarts, attending classes and such together.
Probably because MMO is not the trending buzz word for execs and shareholders. Plus you got an example of a successful live service game (Helldivers 2). Doubtful that these are the type of people to be in touch with what people actually wants
Seriously. There isn’t a single live service thing I enjoy. Windows 11 has a bunch of live service integrations, one of which effectively bricked my gaming laptop because Microsoft can’t be assed to git revert a change to their website. I’m rocking Linux now and not looking back.
Live service if done right can work. Problem is these companies do the absolute minimum and that just doesnt work. Like most thing they have to put some effort in it, but hey that costs money and thats a no no
So im not necessary against live service but knowing these companies just do fuck all, then well just No
I put tons of hours into it before they shut it down permanently.
Which is one of the major problems with Live Service. Sure, not everyone plays older games, but I know I have a number of titles I return to regularly. Hell, one of my favorite games of all times was released in 1989 and I still go back an re-play it from time to time. Any game which releases as “Live Service” and requires an always on-line connection to some server which I don’t host can go eat a bag of dicks.
That’s just always online. Live Service is milking customers for more money on top of the already full priced game, because just releasing a product that’s good and is the best selling game of that year wasn’t profitable enough for the vampires at the top of the company.
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Yup, that tracks with WB’s executive level thinking after suicide squad fucked up bigly.
I don’t give a heck, I ain’t playin’ that terf ass shit.
The depressing thing is a live-service Harry Potter game would probably make WB a ridiculous amount of money. Lock the best brooms and wands behind a paywall, pay real money to buy House points to win the House cup, all sorts of ways to squeeze money out of players.
I think Harry Potter has been thoroughly milked. See the last attempt at a movie franchise.
I played Hogwarts Legacy, it was meh imho. I clearly won’t be playing Hogwarts Legacy II, as it will be a live service game for no good reason.
And I think every live service is a “no buy”.
If they don’t want to make money, they should do it and make whatever business goon suggesting it very happy (until that person looks at the balance sheet).
It bothers me a lot that WB had Hogwarts Legacy (which sold great, out sold Call of Duty, and generally did fantastic) and Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League (which unsold, got bad reviews, and has probably killed it’s development studio) and came to the conclusion that they need to go all in on more games like Suicide Squad.
Live services have proven revenue though. Look at how they all 100% succeed in being 100% profitable!
Look at anthem!
Y’know what, go for it. If people want more after putting down a Jewish uprising then let them pay for it. If they don’t pay for it, then WB gets kicked in the teeth by their own greed! Win-win!
Besides, how’re they gonna top the premise of the first game? Presumably the intro/tutorial will be bombing a pride parade just for a taste of the tone.
Don’t forget directly funding hate groups through the profits going to JKR!
Of course not, I’m among the people she targets constantly with her BS.
I’m also getting modded for even saying anything negative (about her?), I guess 🤣 Gross. Good luck keeping your post up 🤷
“Live Service? Oh it never works. I mean, these people delude themselves into thinking it might but…
it might work for us…” -WB, after watching WB’s Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League tank
Enough people are naive enough to buy into a live service game with a Harry Potter coat of paint. Just look at the first game, a paint by numbers “baby’s first RPG” that made serious bank off of millions of oblivious gamers and transphobes.
Today in “executives are the worst people on the planet”…
Why not make it a full MMO, while you’re at it? Hogwarts Legacy 2 could be the WoW-killer we’ve been waiting 20 years for!
Honestly that would be kinda cool, and I’m surprised no one’s made a Harry Potter MMO/small-scale multiplayer co-op. It’s a pretty good starting point to have each of the players be students at Hogwarts, attending classes and such together.
Probably because MMO is not the trending buzz word for execs and shareholders. Plus you got an example of a successful live service game (Helldivers 2). Doubtful that these are the type of people to be in touch with what people actually wants
They won’t be thinking it should be a live service when people play the game for maybe 30 minutes then ask for a refund because of low quality.
Well that makes it easy for me, I just won’t buy the game.
Seriously. There isn’t a single live service thing I enjoy. Windows 11 has a bunch of live service integrations, one of which effectively bricked my gaming laptop because Microsoft can’t be assed to git revert a change to their website. I’m rocking Linux now and not looking back.
Live service if done right can work. Problem is these companies do the absolute minimum and that just doesnt work. Like most thing they have to put some effort in it, but hey that costs money and thats a no no So im not necessary against live service but knowing these companies just do fuck all, then well just No
Right. Wasn’t Overwatch considered live service? I put tons of hours into it before they shut it down permanently.
Which is one of the major problems with Live Service. Sure, not everyone plays older games, but I know I have a number of titles I return to regularly. Hell, one of my favorite games of all times was released in 1989 and I still go back an re-play it from time to time. Any game which releases as “Live Service” and requires an always on-line connection to some server which I don’t host can go eat a bag of dicks.
Hell, if they can at least be decent enough to ALLOW self-hosting servers, that’d be great
Let’s call Live Service what it really is, company hosted anti-piracy because they don’t want to pay/implement Denuvo
That’s just always online. Live Service is milking customers for more money on top of the already full priced game, because just releasing a product that’s good and is the best selling game of that year wasn’t profitable enough for the vampires at the top of the company.
Man, Warner Bros hates making money do they.