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Multiversus ends updates, will close servers on May 30 (but will remain playable in Singleplayer) (multiversus.com)
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I played it in the "open beta" two years ago. Sad that it's come to this, the game had a lot going for it but.. having all characters locked on start then weirdly shutting the game down for an extended time then coming back with everything somehow worse... everyone saw this coming.

At least it will stil be playable.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The game wasn't great, but was entertaining at the start of the open beta. I think they did a decent job with the characters, the style, and the moves like Shaggy throwing his sandwich. I had hopes that they would improve the netcode and hitboxes, but still got like 40 hours of fun out of it playing in a group with a friend.

The microtransactions were bad to start and only got worse. Charging for seasons in a beta? Stupidly high priced skins? Ugh. Then the went away for a while and the official release made the game playworse, microtransactions bascially assaulted you constantly, and any shred of fun was gone. They did the opposite of the feedback from the beta to chase microtransactions and that is why the game is dead already. They actively killed it.

Now I'm sad again.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Fighting game characters take too long to make. The tried and true Riot method doesn't work when you can't get new content out at a regular clip, so people would have easily unlocked everything for sale without paying for it. The only option was a huge grind to attempt to make it sustainable. We'll see this problem again when 2XKO comes out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That assumes that going all in on mtx an in game currency is the way to go and not other options like offering the game at a decent price and then selling skins and other mtx at reasonable prices.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's the way Multiversus went, and it's the way 2XKO will likely go. You need to put your thumbs on certain scales to make the math work out for free to play.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

free to play

other options like offering the game at a decent price...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

2XKO is already announced as free to play.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm talking about possible ways of monetizing these types of games, not 2XKO specifically.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

They had already chosen free to play, and I was speaking of the options available to them given that choice.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you’re still hankering for something similar to super smash bros that you can play online on pc, slap city is decent. However, melee+slippi is still a masterpiece.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Has that improved at all? Last I tried items were disabled and it was match after match of Falco doing the same move over and over.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Gotta find a person that you like to match up against or you’ll find sweaty melee elitists. Try an online melee group if you don’t know anyone, or maybe you could try making a Lemmy community. Most play without items so items are completely disabled by default. Not a long process to change that, though. Just don’t use this information for evil, only against friends.