This past year Warner Bros Games had one of its biggest hits in video game history. In the 11 month period , WB Games has seen Hogwarts Legacy sell 15 million copies on release. Hogwarts Legacy , a single player RPG has generated over $1+ billion in profits for WB Games.
In 2023 no game attracted attention and sold more than Hogwarts Legacy. A smart CEO would say , I need more games like Hogwarts Legacy and how it was done for my IPS.
David Zaslav is not a smart man.
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Its the idea to jump into Live Service games as all evidence seems to point at the industry for it dying. With just a few exceptions games like Marvel Avengers , Anthem and more have shut down essentially and not worked. The outcry the last few years from the gaming fanbase is pretty clear...
WE ...DO...NOT....WANT...LIVE...SERVICE...GAMES.
Fans were generally excited at the thought of Suicide Squad Kills the Justice League in 2023. But one announcement KILLED that faster than I can type this. It was the announcement the game would be Live Service.
It takes a real clueless f-ck to sit and not read the room and not realize how badly live service games have failed. Then deciding to buckle down on something that's dying and neglect what the audience really wants. Clueless.
Fans want more Batman Arkham , instead what they will get is a live service model Batman game that will suck so David Zaslav can sit aroused as he sees dollar signs fly by the 1st few weeks/months. Then sit and go...why isn't anyone playing this game ? What went wrong ? Why is it bombing now ?
I picture Zaslav screaming like the Duke's from Trading Places....
But its not gonna get too far I'm sure.
See if anyone missed it Comcast finished selling its part of HULU to Disney. This was supposed to happen once Disney bought 21st Century Fox in 2019. They agreed to buy that piece of Hulu then in 2024.
Well Comcast asked if Disney can purchase Hulu sooner and do the buyout now. Disney agreed to do this and got the deal done quickly as Comcast wanted.
The big belief is ....Comcast is gonna go after Warner Bros Discovery. Comcast/Universal has the money and the rumors are WBD will be selling in 2 years.
And its not like Zaslav can hold off a sale with brilliant business strategy. Thus far his dumping movies and TV may have saved some money. But it reduced the value of Warner Bros Discovery. And could open a big company to come in with a buyout.
In all we can only hope someone buys WBD and removes a huy who doesn't know what he's doing.