So, MultiVersus is Officially Ending...
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- Talking about the Death of MultiVersus and reflecting on the game's life
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I think it would be legitimately hilarious if Lola or Aquaman released in a genuinely broken state and the devs didn't care enough to fix it because the game was ending so they become terrors for anyone who plays offline forever
Personally I think the truly hilarious thing would be if all of a sudden they get their huge OG playercounts back since the 2 new characters are free this time lol
apparently Ajax says the patch notes for season 5 are 50 PAGES long 😭😭 if they release two characters in broken states while otherwise apparently putting in huge amounts of work for season 5 I'd cry
They wont get old players back cuz its not the same game. Its all floaty and slow now
@@70smebbinit's the first thing you notice as a returning player
Just like smash
The only game that died twice.
Overwatch 2 might become another contender
HoTS died twice.
Realm Royale died three times.
Look up Gigantic it failed on launch two times with the same Error both releases destroying the hype for each of them.
World war 3 game
The Morbius of Fighting Games. 😂
Imagine having a masive budget and a nearly endless pool of ips to draw from and dropping the bag this hard because you put the microtransactions ahead of the gameplay.
I'm not entirely sure they had an massive budget. WB is always looking for ways to trim the fat and they certainly didn't give PFG what they needed. The game 'cost' WB $100m because they expected the game to make that much, not because they gave them that much to work with
@machinetribe4925 warner brothers has a massive budget, them not using enough of it on the game is the fumble because they are greedy pigs. This is the same company that said they cant figure out how to get into the kids movie space despite having the looney toons, hanna barnera and dc licenses. Theyre just incompetent. The actual game devs im sure did what they could with what wb gave them.
The game died, for me, when they changed the speed of the game. Tom and Jerry main btw.
@@jech1216what a entirely terrible take lol. Nubia ruined multiversus? The game with insanely expensive cosmetics that are nigh impossible to earn? The game that had to shutter and then rereleased to tank it again? The game that pushed an original character as a mascot that was reindog shit? You’re right adding a black woman was the fucking wooooooooorrst.
@@jech1216 just say you're racist, lol. you people make me sick. grow up...
Introducing fighter road, a system that makes unlocking brand new characters for free basically impossible for most people, in the same season they add their 2 most anticipated characters was one of the most egregious throws I’ve ever seen. I don’t even want to think about how many people installed for Raven and bailed instantly after seeing a paywall or 300 hour grind.
Can confirmed, played the beta, gave up on the launch, came back just for Raven, uninstalled in the speed of light after seeing that shit.
@@matheusarantes2989lmfao same brother
the way i look at it is instead of paying 60 for the game we just pay for the characters we want to buy. so if youre comming back for raven. buy raven.
@johnmarkson1990 Foolish take seeing as most people are f2p and aren't willing to pay ten bucks for a single character. Besides, they haven't done anything to earn our money anyway.
@ id rather buy the game for 5 dollars (purchasing raven) then buy it for 60 dollars paying for characters i dont care about.
I enjoyed your mvs content the most I will admit that that was my favorite platform and I know you liked it a lot too
Liked the game, but even I never expected it to last long
@@alejandroulffe8403 it is a good game just ran by not good people unfortunately:/
If he liked it that much he would’ve been keeping it real from the jump and tell them they needed to improve yet he kept saying it’s not that bad
put almost 300 hours into Multiversus after relaunch. Game had a massive amount of issues that continued to go unfixed, introduced mechanics that didn't work/were unfinished, and had a ton of monetization issues, but damn was t he concept and core gameplay fun. I enjoyed going through Rifts (no matter how annoying some of the higher difficulties got), playing through events for cool skins, and playing online for fun in FFA or 2s. So many things could've been done to help the game do better, it's almost useless to point them out.
Genuinely sad it's over, but as you said the writing was on the wall. Season 4, which felt like a big blowout in the beginning trying to TRULY get the game traction, fizzled out mere weeks into the extended season. I'm almost glad it's over so I can't be disappointed in the game every update anymore, but it still sucks to see something with this potential get washed by mismanagement. Truly a "generational fumble" as they're calling it.
Dang 300 hours completely wasted
I'm surprised you kept playing, I played maybe 30 matches after relaunch and uninstalled it afterwards.
@@Bart_The_Frognot really if he enjoyed it and not miserable
@@Ccubed92 no, all that time for nothing because it's getting shut down, literally all that time wasted
I have almost 1000 hours and spent about 300 dollars on this game
This by the way, is a flaw with 'severside rollback netcode'. Unlike peer to peer rollback games once the servers are off, the game dies. In an ideal world we would always demand developers have a contingency built into their games, so they remain playable even if servers are shut off.
Honestly pretty heart breaking. I have 350 hours in the game and it was really fun. I definitely fell off, but I thought the game did a lot right, but unfortunately for all it did right it did very wrong too. Sucks to see it go down so fast. I didn't think the game was that completely dead though? Just unfortunate they couldn't get their footing and find a path to staying alive.
The fact that people would come at your THROAT for saying "This game is gonna die if they don't fix this this and that"
I haven't made so many "I told you so" messages in my life lol, but I had a bunch of bookmarked tweets of people telling me I was just bad at the game, because of me saying it was gonna shut down
Not gonna lie, 95% of the suggestions I have seen would not have saved the game tbh.
It was the other way around actually. People kept telling void this game sucks and is going to die and he ended up making a “we need to talk” video which gaslit us into thinking we are just hating and the game js good
@@JDpreem this.
The actual issues of the game were never touched on and we all were yelled at anytime we would try to talk about or criticize them.
I legit enjoyed the game, but it was way too obvious that we were all getting scammed and played.
Happy void and nakat got a job from it, but damn bro....be real about it.
That shit was fucked up.
Tbf no one wants to admit that something they love is going to die
@@christophewells3918 yeah legit, i know they werent the sole reason this game died but damn i hate how much of a suck up they were. I know im being harsh but this is literally what happens
Once again, something beautiful was shattered by corporate greed and poor management. Seems like this is becoming an increasingly common thing these days.
"Money not buy happiness, stupid Batman!"
- Taz
We are in the second gilded age, all we can do is watch
You have to wonder why corporations are so greedy to lose hundreds of millions of dollars, but whatever makes them happy I guess.
@@thuroria7631 The problem is that they see their customer as their source of revenue instead of their product, that's why you were forced to unlock each character individually and why there was a tremendously disappointing use of cosmetics.
All the people who heard about this game when it was first announced were looking to download it, and play as their favourite characters against their friends, but they didn't care, they smelled an opportunity to nickle and dime the player and without any remorse or hesitation quadrupled down on the corporate sleaze tactics. They had a perfect thing, all they had to do was make every character available and simply charge for cosmetics, but they couldn't fuckin do it. In their minds it's better to milk a few whales and fuck over countless brand names than it is to retain integrity and plan for the games longevity, instead here we are, bitter and pissed off, and I hate to say it but, we've arrived at a point in time where the fans are merely cattle to be milked for financial gain.
Only game I've put over 2k hours into and played competitively / actually been apart of the community.
Sad.
* Reads the title *
Yeah, because of Tony and WB basically.
Why am I not surprised that the game failed not because they were made by a small amateur indie dev team but because of mismanagement.
I feel genuinely bad for the people at PFG.
For a lack of a bitterer word, frick Tony. And imagine how the game would be if WB gave them more than just 1 year to remake the game
Im sad that the game is dead but its deserved. The game seemed to lose its soul on rerelease from the gameplay rework (whether if it was for the good or not it was viewed as being bad), the milking of the grind of the pve was outrages, the battlepass grind was actually dumbfounding and they had the same issues in beta but went two steps back on rerelease, the ranked mode was a joke and was such a bad system (starting from zero is dumb and it qued you against ur soft mmr and not actual ranked). Not having the characters free made it so people who would be interested coming back for the new character would just uninstall since they had to pay to even see if they want to main it. The game deserved to die. Its the combination of bad dev management/dev work and corpo greed overrulling good decisions
Can we all agree the beta version is better than the returning release version of multiversus.
I was so excited for the future of multiversus and hyped when you and Nakat won EVO! So disappointing that this was the end result.
How multiversus died= patches every day, not listening to fans to bring back beta speed, horrible Ui, predatory micro transactions, takes forever to grind a shitty battle pass. And skins cost 40$ no tournaments or events to give back to content creators and players. fuck this game it deserved to die
Bruh the Ui yeah the beta did it better and simple, the new one just basically fortnite i was confused half the time where is where
Project (M)ultiversus gonna go hard tho
Literally all I'm looking forward to. Not even going to bother to boot the game up until it's out in 2ish years.
Just play Rivals of Aether 2 at that point
@@curse5697 they ain't got LeBron tho
One can only hope
@@jimbobcheezeburger2020 if IPs is the only thing you care about in a game then don't be surprised that Multiversus failed so hard they way they did, higher your standards or you'll only get trash games that are doomed to fail
It's time for a Dreamworks fighting game
DreamWorks Super Slam
Unironically they have so many characters that would be sick to play in a fighting game
Kung Fu Panda is the obvious standout franchise but you got some great names like Megamind, Shrek, Puss in Boots, Jack Frost, Penguins of Madagascar, Grug, Mr. Wolf and maybe even some of the dragon riders from HTTYD
Forget Dreamworks, I need a PBS kids fighting game. WordGirl, Curious George, Clifford, Arthur, Berenstain Bears, Odd Squad, Cat in the hat, Wild Kratts. Lot of crazy characters in that game!
I played the first beta release when the hype was crazy, I played Velma and I loved her camera ground bounce combos, which were admittedly too strong. I was interested to see how they would nerf her, and they did so by just, removing it. Didn't even try to increase the scaling, limit the number of loops to 3 or something, etc. It immediately made her less fun to play and I fell off right then. It felt like they just didn't want people to do cool stuff in their game, which showed to me that they lacked vision and balancing experience.
The balancing in this game was the reason I stopped playing the beta even. I was a Batman main and they kept fundamentally changing how to character operated every update.
Damn, good take
Ima have to download this game onto a hard drive just for preservation
A shame. But everytime I played it all I can think is that I’d rather be playing smash. Controls were clunky and unresponsive. Just made me appreciate how snappy smash felt
I have a friend who plays this game exclusively because he likes Jason’s play-style. I feel so bad for him because the thing he genuinely loves about this game and spent a lotta time getting good with will be much more inaccessible to more people.
Tbh I liked multiverses so much in beta. I think they made the perfect fix with the dodge meter but they changed so many things that not only didn’t need fixing but I enjoyed. And man who was choosing the characters to release. I still think it’s crazy to have gremlins and agent k before characters like mordecai and rigby and samurai jack
"Something went wrong during playtesting"
Apparently playtesting didn't happen, if "insiders" are to be believed.
People are doing a lot of blaming WB and defending PFG, but I think in the coming month or two we'll see a lot of information that leads on that PFG - mostly Tony - was the problem. We'll have to just wait and see.
Apparently PFG literally didn't have a balance team, like for real. No joke. They had people from other teams come up with balance + QA was supposed to catch all the broken stuff, which they never did.
As someone who played the Harry Potter mobile game that WB shut down to push MVS and a different HP game, and the HP game I played having had pretty much all the same issues with monetization etc, I think it's fair to the blame WB is getting rn.
The game was done at launch when they changed everything. Beta was *chef kiss* perfect! Game launched and I stopped playing like two weeks in
The game was better fast paced for sure; a couple bug fixes and netcode fixes with the original game's feel would've definitely kept it active for much longer. But the creators weren't truly connected to how the players wanted it to be
I never got the chance to use marceline and raven. I loved this game so much, but they did the worst decisions possible. This is the saddest death of a game I have ever seen.
You can still play them now! Just gotta grind!
@@user-dy9nr9yg4o Enjoy your bare minimum 300 hour grind to unlock Raven and Marceline. The fighter road was somehow a worse fix to an already terrible grind to unlock characters.
Idk what you guys expect. Why do you expect a free game to not be a grind? Either Pay for what you want or grind for it
@@krtvmndz5848 I get that it is a f2p game, but no one is going to stick with it if you can only play like 6 fighters. Watch how marvel rivals gave all characters for free and that made it success. It is still a f2p game, but that doesn't mean you have to lock characters behind a paywall. They are making tons of money with cosmetics.
@@krtvmndz5848 Marvel Rivals? Where you get all character for free, included newly added ones? All you can kind of grind for there are skins or ranked points
The peaks this game reached were amazing
So many people were playing just on steam and with crossplay itf elt like you always easily find a match.
There was a lot of mistakes but there was a lot of good things MV did. I really hope it's a learning thing for people and not a thing that never happens again.
Marvel Rivals is really highlighting how scummy companies have become. It's crazy that even in their announcement of shutting down they still can't bring it upon themselves to make the characters free.
Im glad Rivals exists since the execs will look at what the most successful online game is atm and see Rivals which is f2p but still pro consumer. Shows them what their issue really was but knowing WB they will just keep doubling down on their model.
Good riddance, they had one too many chances if you ask me. Falsely advertising a free to play game ended it’s lifeline before it even started
Damn fair
Then you have ridiculous character choices like adding a basketball player in a FIGHTING game. And not because the fans wanted it but for advertisement purposes.. just horrible decisions everywhere.
@Hiro39367 people liked the meme aspect of it but then they jus kept adding randoms and randoms with terrible servers,year break,finally just a bootleg remake
Yeah a basketball player in a fighting game, never seen that one before.
That's definitely the standout bad pick. Not like, the banana.
@Hiro39367of all characters to complain about, you chose Lebron James?
A patch has been released with changes to Multiversus. I'm determined to get a high elo of Tom and Jerry before Multiversus ends. I'd love to know if you could evaluate and tell me their current state in the game 💙
The characters should've been free, and the monetization should've been strictly skins/cosmetics.
You cooked while it was alive and thats engraved
W
The game could have been HUGE but WB treated it like an indie game rather than AAA title.
No ranked mode( that shit was quickplay) + greedy microtransactions + trash balance = deserved L
They even will close the game instead of just not updating it lmao. All the people that wasted their money for nothing, WB are some greedy mfs
Indeed my good sir
yeah i thought the game was alright, i only uninstalled cause no ranked
How would a f2p game make money without micros, though?
@@AIG1992 not without micros but like many others, with cosmetics.
The fact they didn't even try to change the monetisation tells you all you need to know about their goals with this game.
That genuinely how I felt like 2v2 felt like an after thought I’m the re release
Thank you Void for everything you made on and around this game, your objectivity, your honest speech. i wish the game would have followed your feedback all along. lets go Void.
when they introduced player road i knew the writing was on the wall at that point. so sad.
this is just my short journey and feelings about the game.
MultiVersus died when they slowed down the gameplay on realese.. it felt bad.
When they removed the dash cancel and some combo routes from the game, it was the last nail on the coffin.
when that happend I knew the game was heading againts the feels good gameplay, and I decided not invest any more time on the game.
I would have rather it been a payed game like smash or NASB so it don’t have all this monetisation shit
BROOO im glad you said something about the monetization. SOOOOO confusing and predatory
Damn, it’s actually so sad this is the way it turned out. Played so much of this game with my close friend. Will definitely miss it…
Watched you and Nakat for Evo with 30 other people at my college and that built so much hype around the game at least for us, but after that, felt it slowly drifted off which was very unfortunate
GG you got me into this game along with another player by the name of Zen. It will be missed I wish they put more effort towards their audience instead of transactions tho
for me regarding gameplay sake, shields are what stopped me from playing so much. I enjoyed the ability to grind for a cool skin but the gameplay wasn't quite the same
I grind the beta so much I never had to pay real money to get any new character
Beautiful idea for a platform fighter just executed terribly
I hope they bring it back under better management. The game had so much potential!
That salute was HORRENDOUS, best part of mvs was all the exposure streamers got, gotta respect void and mirror man’s streams they were great
Breaks my heart cuz the ppl like me who havent stopped playing since beta, got all the characters, played the rifts, etc and we can still feel the imminent death of the game. At least i have all my saved clips from beta and full release to remember the good times. I just hope season 5 is a good enough update to leave us with something decent for our perpetual offline mode.
It’s over but not in the comics. Love it, the series is still strong. Can not wait for the new comic
thank god
god i wish they let you have more access to characters, having 2 + 4 (on rotation) was not it and you'd get bored quite fast especially if those characters did not appeal to you
I'm hoping once the game shuts down, modders will take over, and we'll get like... Project MVS or something.
(At least all the microtransactions unlocked.)
Fun game that was mismanaged to hell. Games budget was too high, dev choices were too aimless. It felt like they were really getting it together at the end, but they screwed up the same way nasb2 did. They underestimated how bitter they made us.
I met a competitor for an antique game,
Who said-“Two vast and bottomless bags of gleamium
Stand in the lobby. . . . Near them, on the leaderboard,
Half sunk a shattered EVO trophy lies, whose dull metal
And rusted plaque, and faded inscription,
Tell that its winner well those skills wielded
Which yet survive, wasted on this meaningless game,
The dev that mocked them, and the consumer that paid;
And on the plaque, these words appear:
My name is VoiD, King of Multiversus EVO;
Look on my skill, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the announcement
Of that dreaded end of service, imminent and inevitable
The Fighting Game of the Year 2022 online disappears and goes away.”
Good riddance, the monetisation was horrible.
They should have pulled a street fighter 2 & added a “turbo mode” that replicates the gameplay speed of the beta.
The playerbase was instantly divided by that launch, especially being an iron Giant player, lol.
2 years is more than enought time to make a game right. Stop meat riding and understand that this game FAILED its players
I’m probably one of the few people actually sad about this game dying but it’s simply bc my main (Reindog) will never have any sort of representation again. I was really hoping PFG would release more new characters bc i really liked the way he fit into the universe style wise and thought they could definitely make some solid originals to mix in. I can tell the devs loved this game and they were trying to keep this alive. Warner Bros just decided they were next to be sacrificed.
Worst part about these games is the individuals and communities that were there every single day.
the issue with duo mode in multiversus is that any good friend wouldn't waste their time on it
It's funny that BAM practically begged the devs to add shields to the game, yet they didn't help at all.
Your Tom and Jerry plays introduced me to your content. Loved the game in beta loved it on release, but they fumbled that bag. R.I.P MVS
I wish they just listened to everyone, they have so many cool characters they could of added
The only reason I'm mad is because they had such a good roster play Steven universe, bugs Bunny, Batman, garnet. It could have been great
This game feels like it had so much potential. I actually really wanted to play it but I live in asia and it had no servers there. Didn't help that rollback wasn't that good either. I have a lot of friends who live in the west and netcode quality is really important. In comparison, I'm able to play rivals 2 with them pretty seamlessly despite the distance.
Asides from this, the death of multiversus is such a shame because I can only think of 2 established platform fighters atm and that's smash and rivals. Having multiversus, a game that could have had a huge budget behind it AND a very powerful IP could have been so cool. It's a shame that it didn't manage to flourish in the end. I would love to have more platform fighters that could compete but also have its own identity along with smash.
Nasb 2 deserved the support mvs got
Couldn't even make it one year after relaunch before completely shutting down. Sad.
Multiversus, I'm gonna miss you.
Dc saw MR do good and knew what they needed to do. Is this the beginning of a upcoming DC project 👀
Dan fornace should really be proud of himself he beat out nickelodean and cartoon network
honestly forgot it existed, wont miss it lol
rip i'll miss 2s...
sad to see but not unexpected ):
I loaded MVs and there was only 2 characters available that i didn't want to play. I ended up deleting it first day. I didn't want another game to grind.
Man, i just don’t know why they changed the game so after the beta
It was so good, they had things that made it unique like atk decay, but over time it just became another smash clone (and a bad one at that)
And slowed down the game and added so much hit pause to the point that game felt so bad play AND watch.
They gutted monetization and the way of earning characters to a point where u didnt even want to interact with the game
Man, this was my go to game when it was in beta, it just so sad to see
I didnt play for more than 2 or 3 hours when it relaunched because there was no option to change the forward and neutral attacks around, even though it existed in the beta.
I checked back for the next 2 patches, and thats when i realized playerfirst games didnt want my time or money.
I knew it was going to happen , it's all good though. I had my fun and I got the most out of it without having to pay a dime. ❤ After knockout City died I don't think I can ever feel for another live service game. lol 😢
I blame WB for this. I think Devs did all they could, but Corporate wanted them to prioritize microtransactions over everything else the game needed to be successful.
Well if it's WB they've already made their plans on Mk1 clear, even tho it was a straight up flop am sure it did better than Multiverses, so no surprise there
They need to release a "retail" edition where they charge retail price and everything is in it. They game looks great, but I don't do live services.
They should done a fighters pack like brawlhalla where you pay for all characters as one deal. Skins also shouldnt have been so expensive.
Multiversus: Games Die Twice
Surprise surprise
“We have poured out heart and soul” lmao bull shit they did
I hate that they neglected the perks they could of added some cool stuff
For me the idea of having 2 characters i personally was waiting for get announced for season 4 and then having to sit through fighters road for both killed the hype. I didnt unlock both Marceline and Raven up until the last stretch of season 4 and ended up losing all interest to play either bc atp it just felt late and the day 1 hype of playing the new characters I’ve wanted for so long was just gone. Fighter currency was a lil tedious feeling sometimes but fighters road was significantly WORSE
I do not feel sorry for the game going down, the dev did not know how to make balance fighting game
They try to make a team base fighting game to a 1v1 fighting game, basically them destroying their game and trying mush the broken pieces together in a few months to make something to make the fans happy
Feel like the people that was into it just saw a game that they could play Batman in and can get easy clout by abusing the crappy mechanics
Just all well, by mv
Actual pain.
3:22, I’ve been saying this for soooo long!! Like 2v2 was the way I had the most fun, the game felt best when synergizing with ur partner. But even then 2’s had its problems
Them pulling the game and relaunching it killed all of their momentum.
Honestly not having offline, arcade mode, the ability to bulk buy the base roster, and alternate colors. Was a really odd choice.
Then the game itself is kinda "mean". Characters playstyles are legit designed to overwhelm, bully, and annoy. The boundaries are cramped leading to easy cheap KO's. Emotes leaning into toxic behavior, even a perk that for it.
Daffy not being base roster is insane. Like they made Bugs the mascot in a Duo's focused game, and no Daffy?
really wish this game was better. i always wished for a big platform fighter to be popular on PC, and still do. sad to see.
Rivals of Aether 2 is probably the best platform fightet on pc atm
@robinsr4745 may be the case, but I want one to kinda explode and be popular. like smash but for PC. there's a bunch of little relatively unpopular games but I want one big one to surprise everyone. I feel like this will happen with 2XKO for fighting games in general, that game seems absolutely amazing, but I wanna see it with platform fighters too
Genuine question, do you not play smash anymore? You had the most entertaining gameplay/style
I was wondering same thing
I enjoyed the game during the beta but after a while I just fell off the platform fighter genre since I just got bored of it, sad that it’s going away but it was still memorable
if what stores your content offline is a save file, im sure therell be a full unlock save file.
The idea to kill the entire game, entire community and entire dev team instead of just giving us back the beta movement in something that will forever melt my brain. They could make characters free and skins for money. I would buy skins if the game is good. heck I probably already spent more in Rivals 2 in cosmetics alone than i wouldve in MVS with these insane prices. making things cheaper doesnt make them earn less money, it makes them sell more digital pixels infinitely at no cost.
Well I would blame the microtransactions in WB but bad game development & player feedback is definitely Player First Game's fault.
10 bucks a character is crazy
Shocker......
I quit because during beta I hoarded all the currency to unlock the characters in the future. Game released and all of it was gone and now every character was a huge grind to unlock. Yeah I’m out.