Warner Bros. Games
The failure of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, among the reasons for canceling the Wonder Woman game
Warner Bros. Games rebooted the game before canceling it for good. Now Monolith Productions has closed its doors for good.
Warner Bros. Games popped the champagne cork with Hogwarts Legacy, but the joy was short-lived, the magic dissipated, and the drink lost its gas before they could celebrate. Avalanche’s game was the best-selling title of 2023, a resounding success that was tarnished by the company’s subsequent releases. The truth is that the commercial flop of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League was accompanied by the fall of MultiVersus and the low impact of Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions. All this totum revolutum ended up mortally wounding Wonder Woman, the game from the creators of Middle-earth: Shadows of War and Shadows of Mordor.
Jason Schreier, a journalist for Bloomberg, revealed on the Kinda Funny Games podcast that Wonder Woman will use a new version of the Nemesis system, which in the Lord of the Rings games allowed you to play with the hierarchy of orcs. By defeating one, another would take its place in Sauron’s army. This time, it would be the other way around: the superheroine would work her way up a hierarchy by making friends instead of killing. Anyway, that whole system was thrown out the window when Warner Bros. Games decided to reboot the project to make the action more linear, God of War-style. These decisions eventually led to the resignation of the project’s directors.
Suicide Squad, Quidditch Champions and MultiVersus, Warner’s three failures.
“By then, it was kind of too late, especially because last year was so bad for the Warner Bros. organization,” Schreier said. “Last year Suicide Squad was a humungous flop - they wrote off $200 million because of that. MultiVersus and Quidditch Champions, also both flops, [they] wrote off another $100 million because of that.” The company then decided to replace David Haddad with JB Perrette, who tried to turn the division around and focus on the company’s big IPs - Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, Mortal Kombat and Batman. He also planned cutbacks that led to Monolith’s demise.
Monolith Productions, also the developer of F.E.A.R., has closed its doors. Warner Bros. Games has also decided to close Warner Bros. Games San Diego and Player First Games.
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