WB: AAA No But Live-Service Yes
Does anyone feel like the one thing they need is more always-online, hyper-monetized and banality in every aspect live-service games? Well that’s what Warner Bros. is banking on.
That’s right, after the mess made by Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League WB Games said we need more of that.
At a recent talk at an investment event WB explained that the video games market was too volatile at present, so triple-A games were something an unnecessary risk. On the other hand, WB see live-service games as the way to go. Unlike a straightforward, engaging and entertaining single-player game, one with an interesting narrative or exciting gameplay (or maybe even both), what Warner Bros. wants is a game that will have players coming back again and again for years.
Can you imagine going back to Suicide Squad for years?
Playing videogames, writing about videogames, considering videogames—that about sums it up. Videogames are the one hobby that I’ve kept since I was only little, zapping ducks on the NES or knocking out MR. X. And when I’m not enjoying classics from the bit generation of games or checking out those earliest of polygons, I’m probably playing something from today’s age of modern gaming: if I’m not complaining about it. Something I’m doing at the moment? Returning to Triangle Strategy to see some of the other endings.
