Why Multiversus Failed 

I remember hearing about this and seeing it absolutely everywhere, until I didn’t. Was wondering what happened to it, so seeing this in my subscription box was a nice surprise.

I think the biggest factor was just that the free to play model doesn't translate well to a fighting game. I don't want to have to grind to unlock characters in a genre that's all about having huge rosters and trying out everyone t find your main.

honestly i was shocked how quickly this game fell out of the spotlight, i was gonna play it and then it passed its peak and i jus kinda forgot about it.

Nope. The real reason is people don't like Live Service Games. It's THAT simple.

Nintendo & Sakurai: look what they must do to mimic 1% of our power.

It's honestly a shame the game fell off, i loved the designs of a majority of the fighters. I just hope the re-release in 2024 can at least revive it to a healthy state.

The thing that bothered me about the rick and Morty is that they don't have unique voice lines, just reused audio

I remember I played the game during the open beta. Characters were broken, servers were running on a hamster wheel, a huge lack of mods, barely any inventive to play. I was still pumped up for the future of this game and after the debacle of Nick All Star Battle I was excited for basically being a Smash Bros without much of the weirdos of that community and finally a succesful alike on PC with Rollback of all things. Perfect; played a month or two the exitement was still on but my incentives as I got very good in the game were drastically lowering: Same characters, strategies, levels, music it was all the sames and the updates came very slow. Netcode was dogwater on release too.

They really needed to add popular characters to keep people's attention and they added two gremlins. I don't mind gremlins but they had infinitely better choices that would've kept the game alive.

The inclusion of Black Adam was weird there was so much other DC characters that deserved to be added and with how much of a failure the movie was it was even weirder

I didn’t even know they added Marvin the Martian to the game. It’s so sad that this game died

I think they should add a unique story mode where there are exclusive characters you can gain by completing it

Really great analysis, I agree with everything outlined in the video. Remember when I saw the name for this game coming to consoles and I was so hyped I posted about it and couldn’t wait to get home from work to try it out. I definitely thought it had a great start with the characters, mechanics, stages, etc, but could use some obvious polishing and improvement. Since the game was so new and promising, I decided to invest in it and buy the $100 founder’s pack thinking it was going to be as big as super smash bros but for everyone that didn’t have a Nintendo Switch. Like everyone else that thought the same thing, what a big regret that is now of a disappointing game. The value of it actually wasn’t that great either for the amount of content you can get with it. Which seemed to be a trend with just about every cosmetic in the game. A lot of the skins and characters were actually overpriced considering how much a player would have to do to get them. Other than that, I think there’s really three main reasons why the game declined so quickly. 1) Didn’t receive proper treatment from the dev team with consistent updates and improvements. I was fine with the game being a bit barebones at the start, but way more new stages, characters and game modes could have been added with the amount of time they had. An 8 players smash mode would have been a really fun way to play online with other people or even locally with CPUs or friends. Items should have been allowed for offline play to make games more whacky & interesting. I was really hoping they would add in some kind of ultimate attack like super smash bros has. It could have been disabled for ranked modes but would make casual games more fun. I usually started getting bored after about 5-10 matches because the game had very little features to make each match feel different from the last. Items would have been a really good way to make that happen. They definitely should’ve had a story mode or more offline game modes for players that don’t play online PvP also. Some online matches were intense so it would have been nice to relax with more casual game modes. Aside from playing online, there wasn’t much else to do in the game besides turning it off. 2) Season pass/battle pass was too grindy for the rewards it had. I remember literally running out of season challenges to do within a week or two of playing the game so I could barely make progress on the pass without having to play a ton of games or wait for the few daily challenges to reset. They did put more challenges into the game but it took forever and was kinda already too late by the time I started losing interest in the game. 3) This one could just be me being biased from growing up playing super smash bros, but I really think they should have made the gameplay more like smash bros. It didn’t have to be an exact copy but smash bros is already an established & very successful franchise with a winning formula. At worst the game could have just been called unoriginal for having very similar gameplay as smash. That’s kind of what I was expecting/hoping it would be like when I heard the news anyway. Warner Brothers literally had the blueprint to make a successful platform fighting game for every non Nintendo console especially with Nickelodean All Stars being a disappointment, but they somehow still failed to make it not much further than that game did. Overall I wasn’t too disappointed when I played for the first time and realized how different the gameplay was from super smash bros. I thought it was interesting actually that they didn’t have a blocking mechanic, instead having to dodge attacks. It definitely required a bit more skill to get good at it but overall, the mechanics were familiar enough that I picked up on them pretty well after a few matches, especially since you can change the controls to be the same as they would be for smash bros. I do see how this could be daunting for players that have never played a platform fighter tho. I also thought the stages were interesting & accurate to the shows they came from. Never had too many issues with quality of match connection luckily because I was always playing with an ethernet cable on my Xbox. Maybe the game didn’t have enough resources & attention to make it succeed like super smash bros. You could tell the devs were trying for the most part but even when things were added to the game, it was just too little for the wait that players had to endure. Very disappointing that this game turned out the way it did but hopefully they will really learn from this and relaunch it with a bunch more improvements & content. Maybe with some more features similar to super smash bros

Being honest, being free had nothing to do with any of it, it was them making plans and promises and consistently falling back on them, saying season 3 would come out, then delaying it, extending season 2 and Tont saying wed get more characters for the season, also a lie, we never did, saying season 3 would start early april, also a lie, game announcement says there closing it until 2024, plus the lack of communication in general Sure it wasnt the most balanced, but it's a live service, it can't be perfectly balanced right at the start, and yea they charge a lot of money, but the game is free, they gotta make money somehow or Warner is probably gonna shut them down, events were lackluster but you got free skins and overall they were enough, the biggest problem for this game was the inconsistency, lack of communication, and false promises until its inevitable demise Despite this, I really wanna see the game succeed, cuz I still enjoy Multiversus, I think it's a fun game, I wanna see it blow up again in 2024, back to its glory days, I'm really hoping this full release in 2024 is massive, please devs do not lie to us again this time, in all honesty, this'll probably be your last shot for a lot of people, make it count

Killing the modding scene really shot this game in the face

Free to play games like this owned by a big company are the ultimate red herring’s. Warner spent a lot on ads to bring people in and with it being free to play everyone’s willing to give it a try, which will easily buy you good will and good reviews off the bat even with a bad game. BUT the well WILL dry up and those people will leave because at the end of the day the game is fun but it’s got nothing to offer, no carrot for the players to really strive for and quite honestly the gameplay alone isn’t good enough to keep people engaged alone, it’s no smash brothers it doesn’t have years to iron out it’s flaws and lacks the same polish of that fighting game and many others.

The issue with this game was that it was just not that great as if the community needs new stuff every month to stay interested the game must not be great and smash bros proves this because smash won’t get a character for like 4 months and people never stop playing.

Well gee, we heard and saw the same song and dance that has been plaguing the video game industry for some time. Releasing an unfinished game, that is broken and content starved, on a promise of fixing it later, is still a bad idea

Imo I think the fact the tried to make the competitive mode be 2v2 instead of 1v1 in a fighter was a big mistake. Even smash tournaments are 1v1

For me what killed the fun was the random dodgy and chaotic gameplay. Once you got to high elo shit was disgusting. No thinking or punishing, just dodge jump dodge attack dodge.... working towards that carpal tunnel.

I would gladly pay 60 bucks for a full game and rosters. Free to play is just a bad idea, it works for mobile games because of how they are structured but a fighting game really shouldn't mix with that tactic. Heck i gladly pay for DLC, basically let the game cook and then release it when its ready

As a smash player ive always veen skeptical of the "smash killer" competitors. Despite what happened to nickelodeon, I gave multiversus a shot. It was terrible, i could not control the game. The controls felt slippery and awkward, the characters were floaty and di weird stall stuff in the air. It felt like an out if body experience, if your body was on the moon and underwater at the same time

Yeah, they were like "We'll be back" and I was like "suuuuuure".

i really like this video but i feel like not mentioning the GOD AWFUL servers is a lil bit of a blunder, i fully believe that no matter what content they brought out it could have been the golden goose egg of content and the game still would have died just due to how laggy the game was. 9/10 of the games u would play ud end up teleporting to ur death or getting hit by the air but it still working alongside the billion years of input delay on everything online made it nearly impossible to combo half the time. otherwise really great video but i do fully believe this is what killed the game

There are few games that fell off this hard

In perfect WB fashion, when they saw how popular the game was, instead of giving them budget and staff to keep the momentum going, they mandated microtransactions that diverted ressources away from making actual content and the game just died from a terminal case of nickel and diming. Even when it relaunches, I doubt it will make a strong come back. The momentum it had was irreversibly squandered.

0:36 correction, Warner Bros does not own Terminator or Friday the 13th

I quite liked MultiVersus, even though my friends and I would get some disgusting matches, sometimes winning sometimes outright failing, but it was cool. I'd like to see it return with more characters and maps, and also some way to unlock skins without stupid gamepasses or microtransactions

i didn't play this one, but a lot of my coworkers did (i work in a video game store) and they seemed to enjoy it for the three or so weeks they all played. tbh i'm always skeptical of online-only and ftp games, so i didn't try it out. if they did a full release with a short campaign (maybe 15-25 hours?) i'd definitely give it a go.

Once they put Ben Tennyson in the game I'll definitely come back, no matter if I felt it was too floaty with wonky hitboxs and some annoying specials

Dsp thought this game would save his channel……

I think you forget how huge Counter Strike is.

the biggest failure factor is PFG and warner bros just ignore the whole asia region if you make fighthing game your first priority is the aim for the biggest fighthing game playerbase and that is asia it's so stupid they think just american and europe and africa is enough but yeah their loss i ask them multiple time when asia server but no clear answer until the game died

I really enjoyed this game and wanted it to succeed. There were a few issues that I had with the game that started to make me lose interest. Laggy matches Bad hitboxes move prioritization was off lackluster battlepass Overpriced skins The Halloween event is what really killed the game for me. The event grind was too much that I had to stop for a bit and the costumes were too much., I started playing the game less and less. I came back for black adam and it was fun but it was already at a downward spiral.

Love when you post. Keep up the great work!

I love your RU-vid Profile Picture :).

Damn dude I only realised how small you were when I finished the vid (that's meant to be a good thing 😅) Incredible work, didn't lose interest, shame about the game as (from what you've shown) they put in some real work

I rlly want a shonen smash game I will buy all dlc and support it till i die

Seems like the problem is it appealed to a fan base that needed new characters added all the time at a break neck pace. Maybe because of the simplicity of the game.

honestly the only reason that I left the game was top 500 Harley and Finn spam 100 combos I just needed a break and when I came back the game was down I NEED TO PLAY THIS GAME I CANT WAIT 3 MONTHS MANNNNN 😢😢😢😢😢😢

Darn shame. Wish I could play it. It's not on switch.

It’s actually cool you’ve changed the way you make content. Keep going and you’ll get more attention

There's not that many games that managed a redemption story. There's FF14, No Man's Sky.... But those games had full publisher support behind them. And WB is in a cutting phase. Not a investment phase. And look...even if the game re releases super polished, it kinda missed its chance and people moved on. Trying to game back that momentum is just gonna be impossible unless the gameplay is stellar and the roster is vastly expanded with reallyyyyyyy hyped character. Oterwise it will come out again, flop again and we will forget it ever existed.

short answer: it was floaty as fuck, you can say whatever you want but it was not a good gameplay

This could have easily been a rival to smash but WB being the greedy asses they are ruined any chance of the game being great.

The game is coming soon we will see now the real future for this game

I dont think the post launch support was the issue with this game. Actually, in comparison to other fighting games the content drops were pretty frequent.

2025 : multiversus full version to shut down in 2026. Thank you for your service but we lost to smash

The maps were too much like final destination, and the game was sloooow (probably to maintain the netcode). The game had the same problem with most free to play, catering the economy towards whales rather than players, Devs should go get a gamer with 3 kids see how much they play and design the progression around that guy or gal, this way they'll learn to respect people's time. The game should've been sold 40-60$ with a solo campaign, and a hybrid monetization model.

can they please just make punch time explosion 2 now that the patent on smash bros gameplay has expired

why it failed : cause its a live service game with a limited scope to what can be added to a game like this, it was NEVER gonna go well 15: 22 why respect them doing the bare minimum of making a character good to play, that's what SHOULD be done all the time again its just weird apologetic appeasement to brands for making a PRODUCT, no matter how much brand attachment there is, u must separate oneself from it

u so underrated

I can't even play it on asia

This was more of a 'History of Multiversus' than 'Why Multiversus Failed', I'm now at 19:17 of this video just now getting ready to hear 'Why Multiversus Failed' when I check the run-time and you've got a little over a minute to explain it. Unless you explain the fuck out of it, idk.

Seems like the content was actually pretty good just seems that everyone just got bored

Never played this game, but there's something kind of soulless about this roster, isn't there? It's not so much "here's a bunch of characters we love and so do you", it's more "look at all this IP our lawyers have got their hands on".

Two words Warner Bros

The gameplay was too floaty. And the characters we jerky during play. Stopping a starting a lot, rather than the smooth gameplay of Smash Bros. Also the roster felt lame to me, wasn’t a fan. Should have been more focused like only DC superheroes or something.

and remember cosmetics are ALWAYS BAD to be behind PAYWALLS, they are PAID SKINS and are just as bad as p2w systems cause they're manipulating you to keep going for that skin and not getting it does negatively affect you creating FOMO and time sunk fallacy mentality, its just as predatory

The game just wasnt fun, its not like if the battlepass was better people would like it more. Battlepasses are bad no matter how much "content" is in them. If a platform fighter, games based on positioning, is floaty? Then its a dead in the water. Lets not forget that the game recommended 2v2, while having no team attack so every game is just both teams spamming their best move while hiding inside their team mate who is also spamming their best move. Remeber how terrible it is to play quick queue smash 2v2? Yeah they just did that with less characters and worse controls.

Needs a story mode

You could have just stopped at “they disabled the ability to play as dummy thicc Harley and B-Baller Eustace Bagg”

Smash bros: ima go check on multiversus Multiversus: *burning* Smash bros: woah, what happened to you?

Listen I am no fan of Justin Roland but it turned out he was falsely accused, his Domestic Violence case was dismissed.

I feel some of these characters would've been better served in a combo, like Tom & Jerry, rather than separately. Rick and Morty didn't need to be two separate characters. Same with Gizmo and Stripe. Have them both in the same character slot and have them tag team based on certain abilities activated. What a waste of character slots.

Fun game!

Becase is not smash and the moviments and Gameplay is boring

Like most games made nowadays, they are insane pointless and forgettable

Cause it sucked