WB had a literal gold mine in their laps. How did they fuck it up so badly?

WB had a literal gold mine in their laps. How did they fuck it up so badly?

Because it looks gae. Only adults who still act like children play it. Kids just stick to fartnite or retardblox.

Pride, and echo chambers
Sometimes these companies think they're the absolute bees knees, while in reality they're barely relevant.
They really should have listened to the criticism and fan requests rather than dragging their heels like this were a gacha game.

Garnet sexo

Garnet

Not Pearl

They unironically went to streamers to help them make the game
Fatal mistake, Deadlock is doing the same thing

The models, animations and movesets were great. Nothing else was and in some ways it felt like the game was getting worse over time. The game disappeared for a year and a half and came back in a worse state, ruining any chance it had for an esports scene. I also think the most talented individuals probably left midway through development because the Powerpuff Girls and Raven felt half-assed. Fighting games aren't very popular and this is a novelty game due to the roster, so the roster needs to be amazing and most people thought it was just okay. Casual players booted up the game, saw the one or two characters they were interested in was locked, played for a couple hours and still couldn't unlock them, so they quit. The characters should've just been all free, all unlocked at the start - anyone who says otherwise is responsible for the game failing. You also can't sell a game on just being multiplayer. Most gamers aren't that competitive and you're not enticing them to play your game with a leaderboard. It needed good single-player and casual game modes, but Rifts were fucking horrendous, I actually screamed at the monitor while trying to beat them; other players were shocked to hear I played them at all. I think the beta had more casual game modes somehow. It's extremely watered down compared to Smash. I remember playing Break the Targets in Melee and it was a lot of fun, but that game's also fun to move around in and each character has their own unique Break the Target stage. This game...no.

Fighting games are for older men
The pictured cartoon characters mostly appeal to younger people and women.

The game is casual.
Fighting games are too competitive to play casually.

Those are the two main contradictions.

By hiring leftists

fartnite

that's the best you could do? hell, there's a fucking toy named after that insult.

Is it down yet?

Fighting game

By focusing on style of gameplay, the difference in count between these two games may not seem like much at first, but when you remember that Multiversus was mass marketed from a tripple A studio, was shilled, has several iconic super heroes and cartoon characters, and is Free to Play, where as Rivals 2 is just a bunch of weird furries, players stay for gameplay. It turns out smash has to actually be good, and not just be rostershit

WB had a literal gold mine in their laps

It's not 90s anymore youfucking retarded faggy libshit go kys

honestly the gameplay was fine prior to them taking it down the first time. I liked it. When they brought it back they created this GOD AWFUL fucking singleplayer experience and tied everything to challenges

We are talking about Warner Bros. I am not acting hyperbolic when I say that most anons here could make better business decisions than the current leadership.

Because the guy who proposed it to WB asked for total and complete control over it and WB agreed for some baffling reason. And he had total control, nobody else had a say in how the game was made or ran or anything about things like balance. He was an absolute control freak and part of his contract stated WB couldn't fire him for any reason.

Deserved death for so many shit tier decisions on the roster. Why is reindog in there and who the fuck is banana guard? Wonder Nigger? Atleast put in other main characters from those verses.

By making it free to play live service slop

What happened to Steven Universe? I remember loving that show 10 years ago.

The models, animations and movesets were great.

The animations were below par (even indie games like Slap City and RoA have cleaner animation), and the poor conveyance thanks to the janky animations was part of why the devs were pressured to slow the game down.
Movesets were slop too, either gimmicky shit or ladder shit, basically just Sm4sh again.

Redditbob won.

they took the game away from people for no reason, then came back on a new engine with no settings menu, giant retarded team color overlays on every character, THIRTY FRAMES of input buffer, and the only new character was fucking banana guard.

I still have no idea why they wasted most of the year offline remaking the game on a different engine, seriously what the fuck.

Better to have your brief time in the spotlight then to be dead on arrival.

Everyone wants a piece of the Smash Bros pie but no one is willing to put even a fraction of the effort Sakurai and his team put into it.

The animations were below par

No, that's just wrong. People were calling Tom & Jerry one of the best fighting game characters ever to watch. Lebron felt fucking amazing to watch/play. You're just trolling if you think the animations were bad.

the poor conveyance thanks to the janky animations was part of why the devs were pressured to slow the game down

No.

Movesets were slop too, either gimmicky shit or ladder shit

That's how characters in a video game should be. I'm not playing your faggot martial arts simulators where every character does the exact same shit.

punch

kick

fireball

Wow, what a cool character concept, never seen it before.

Warner is breaking with Discovey so the game can be a legal nightmare of properties.

They had the shittiest model possible for characters and unlocks.

The nickelodeon one wasn't all that bad, but it still failed because smash holds a monopoly on platform fighters. Same reason why no monster collectors will ever be as popular as pokemon.

Slap City will always be the best smash-like

make a sequel after the first game was unredeemable buggy dogshit that legitimately didnt work

the sequel is actually kind of good and fixes a lot of the problems with the first game

but you have less than 0 goodwill from the horrid first game

and you dont adertise it

and you charge $50 for it so people wont even want to try it

What in the fuck were they thinking. Why in gods name cant any of these smash clones just not shoot themselves in the foot.

1: Warner went nuclear on everything sucking atleast a bit of their funds without returning a quick proffit so it was inevitable
2:They took an entire year on hiatus to ''fix'' a game that just required some updates then returned with an even shittier product
It was over before it even started, they had multiple chances and blew it over dumb shit.
Funny how that shittier game nick all star outlived them just because they released it and let it to die faster.

Smash is bad, these games are totally incompetent though. If Capcom really put their mind to it they could out-do it. Maybe MAYBE square if they brought back the dissidia that people actually liked.

WB deserves a lot of the hate for sticking with the payment model and probably the content output model as well. However the devs were plainly incompetent. They had a ton of grace given to them with that delay and the game came back worse

Tony? Tony Huynh, is that you?
Tony, I can't and won't make this any simpler for you.
You failed at life. You failed. When one thinks of what a game developer is capable of, pushing himself to the limits physically, mentally and emotionally to achieve heights of success never before mentioned, your name will not be whispered in the same, reverent fashion that other game developers have.
Nobody will remember Tony Huynh. You aren't even a header or a footer in the career of someone else. You are nobody. Nothing. Nada. Zilch.
In short, you are an enormous failure.
Tony, being that you're probably over 30 years old and your brain has probably hard-wired itself to accept such failures by now and write off such criticism by being "flippant", really suggests that you've passed beyond the proverbial breaking-point. There's no turning back. This is your career, this is what defines you and this is what you'll defend to the end.
The abhorrent failures that are Multiversus, the roster, the netcode, the balance, the rifts, the microtransactions, they are your legacy.
Maybe I'm over-reaching, however. Who knows? People CAN change. Maybe you'll read this, Tony, and think long and hard about what a wasteful life you've led. Maybe you'll think, "wow. It's incredible just how abysmal and pathetic I really AM!" Maybe you'll lift some weights in the morning. Maybe you'll take a self-help class.
Maybe in a couple of years, Tony, you'll have learned from this failure. I doubt it, though.
I genuinely doubt it.
Now excuse me, I have to finish work on the next Kirby Air Ride. My accountant estimates over five hundred million dollars in sales.

steam numbers for this? why bother

Jason and Joker were there too BG was just busted as fuck for most of the game’s lifespan.

developers make a decent game

whoops its a free to play live service title

publisher fucks it up with monetization

game dies in spite of any of its good qualities

This happens way too often

those 14 people might be the same faggots who kept shilling that garbage for months around here

lol