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MultiVersus Delayed
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Warner Bros. have indefinitely delayed the commencement of season one for their 2D platform fighter MultiVersus which is currently in open beta.

It had been scheduled for August 9.

This sort of game isn't something we'd play but when commenting on their trailer, we noted that very basic titles like this have the potential for immense financial success.

Even without the benefit of all the intellectual properties in the Warner Bros. collection.

It's currently the 8th most played game on Steam, is garnering good player ratings on that platform - 89% positive - and reviewers are describing the game as simple but satisfying.

Except for monetization, which is moderately savage.

So our guess is that Warner Bros. might be taking a moment to re-assess their monetization strategy.

Free-to-play games like this can rake in huge piles of money but there is a bigger picture.

Marvel unquestionably have the upper hand in cinemas and there's the emerging metaverse.

A thriving and happy MultiVersus player base has the potential to improve cinema attendance for associated films and also be a strong foundation for Warner Bros in their corner of the potentially very lucrative metaverse.

This could be one of those cases where it makes good business sense to take a loss or lowered profit in the short term for much bigger profits further down the road.

Multiversus is available now in open beta on PC, Xbox and Playstation.

[ Main Image: MultiVersus. Credit: Warner Bros. via Steam. ]

References

MultiVersus [@multiversus] (August 4, 2022). A big thank you to everyone playing MultiVersus. Twitter.

Steam. MultiVersus. Warner Bros. Games. (viewed August 7, 2022)

SteamDB. Database of everything on Steam. (viewed August 7, 2022)