I am saddened, but not shocked to tell you that Warner Bros. platform fighter Multiversus is going away, this time for good. Both its initial launch and subsequent relaunch in May 2024 brought lots of excitement, but it couldn't sustain the player numbers. When Warner Bros. announced it had lost more than $100 million on the fighter, it was difficult to see this cartoon ending any other way.
Warner Bros. confirmed the game's fifth season will be its last, introducing its final two characters, Aquaman and Lola Bunny. The game will be available to play offline if you download it before May 30. You'll also need to download the game's final update.
“[We] want to thank every player and person who has ever played or supported MultiVersus,” WB Games said in a statement. “All of us on the Player First Games and Warner Bros. Games teams have poured our heart and soul into this game. We will be forever grateful for the incredible support of the MultiVersus community throughout this journey.”
For my money, the fighter had game but the microtransactions drained so much of its fun. And the next game I see delist itself, come back a year later, and then succeed will be the first. It's a shame, because no other game allowed me to play as LeBron James and bounce a basketball off the Iron Giant's head.
Even after the announcement that Season 5 will be the last, both Aquaman and Lola have to be unlocked. The King of the Seas will come from the game's Battle Pass and Lola will come through the game's daily login rewards. It's one last WTF move from a game that largely died through its microtransactions.
For example, Multiversus featured four different types of currencies. Just.. why? We play video games to play video games, not to learn the inner workings of multiple economies. Unless, of course, you're playing some sort of trading simulator. There was a great deal of fighting fun under Multiversus' hood, but it was buried under the absolute worst excesses of allegedly free-to-play gaming.