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[viveks86]

Posted already?

WB statement on the matter

That last line is the most number of ands I have seen in an official statement!

A DC IP didn't fit their strategic priority? Interesting...

 

[ConkerTheSquirrel.]

FEAR franchise, nooooooooo!

 

[Ristifer]

Posted already?

WB statement on the matter

After cleaning house with developers, they can immediately fire whoever wrote this beauty. Good lord.

 

[Fbh]

RIP Monolith.
While I wasn't the biggest fan of their Mordor games, I was still looking forward to what they'd do next.
Either way WB sucks. I'm pretty sure they'll find a way to fuck up Hogwarts Legacy with the next game

 

[NeverYouMind]

I hope the gods will punish WB Games for this.

I need Injustice 3 before NetherRealm pays for WB's bad juju.

 

[Gojiira]

These guys made Shadow of War…Tf WB? They better give up that patent on the Nemesis System too then

 

[Denton]

I wonder how many Monolithians who created classics like AvP2 or NOLF are still at the studio, if any.

 

[Loomy]

Not without paying WB.

It's copyrighted.

WB patented(not copyrighted) the method by which they accomplished what we know as the nemesis system. Anyone is free to create their own to get a similar feature. What they'll get in trouble for is if they somehow use the exact same method as WB.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Huh? Which games are Gta style

GTA style in terms of massive titles that can sell 20 plus million. If you're a AAA studio that can't reliably sell 10 plus million, you're cooked.

And as Kacho said, that mostly applies to American studios with high payrolls.

 

[drotahorror]

Fuckin hate Warner Brothers. Forced Monolith to make a garbage Wonder Woman game that no one asked for. Forced Rocksteady to make a garbage Suicide Squad game that no one asked for.

Fire the person in charge of these decisions.

 

[Miyazaki’s Slave]

"MAGI-CLAW...MAGI-CLAW"

RIP Monolith....you were the bees knees in my book!!

 

[Zathalus]

Another studio closed. Really bad mismanagement in some studios these days. Some can blame developers all they want, but when a studio hasn’t released a game in 8 years, with the new game being years out, then that seems like poor direction and leadership.

 

[MiguelItUp]

I got several push back saying the game was doomed from the start in another thread, welp

That's really weird. Because yeah, who wanted a Wonder Woman game? Lmao. It had a dark cloud over it from the start. I'm sure Wonder Woman has some fans, but she's such a meh and niche character. They could've done so many more interesting female super heroes. Or, they could've just done another Batman game and made everyone happy, lol.

Fuckin hate Warner Brothers. Forced Monolith to make a garbage Wonder Woman game that no one asked. Forced Roxksteady to make a garbage Suicide Squad game that no one asked for.

Fire the person in charge of these decisions.

Yeah, that's the big thing. I have no idea why Suicide Squad and Wonder Woman were the choices they decided to go with, then to make them the kind of games they were/going to be. It's pretty damn baffling. It just feels like they want to waste money and time.

 

[EviLore]

American game dev lost everything. Hope we can rise again from the ashes down the road.

 

[PatientGamer]

This industry is finished. Beyond doomed. The fact so many 'gamers' are glad about this, is dreadful.

Your hobby is literally dying here guys.

Well at least Asia will help revitalise it in the meantime, the games they're producing are gold so far.

 

[Hari Seldon]

The "y'all" is always a dead giveaway.

What is wrong with "y'all"? Isn't that just a southern way of saying "you all"?

 

[Toons]

Disappointing. I fear they arent going to give anything but batman a chance for the foreseeable future.

 

[Toons]

I need Injustice 3 before NetherRealm pays for WB's bad juju.

Seems like WB is already scared of doing I3. I've heard MK1 was originally supposed to be I3 but the schedule was shuffled

 

[MMaRsu]

What is wrong with "y'all"? Isn't that just a southern way of saying "you all"?

According to some of these mentally distinguished gentlemen you cant say yall or your woke

 

[Hari Seldon]

If the James Gunn Superman movie flops, WB will be selling and cancelling everything just to stay afloat.

 

[Chuck Berry]

What is wrong with "y'all"? Isn't that just a southern way of saying "you all"?

Because when garden variety, non southern white people say it to a group (in order to purposely avoid saying "you guys" as if they're going to potentially offend someone in the room) it comes across as awkward, unnatural and forced.

To me anyway. I purposely go out of my way to never say it. Just cringey as fuck overall.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

American game dev lost everything. Hope we can rise again from the ashes down the road.

Seems like DEI mania + switching to full remote work during COVID + COVID hiring/spending bubble + chasing “winner take all” live service trends + generally ballooning game budgets/timelines all played a part.

Just crazy to see them all make the exact same mistakes and suffer the same fate.

 

[Astray]

WB patented(not copyrighted) the method by which they accomplished what we know as the nemesis system. Anyone is free to create their own to get a similar feature. What they'll get in trouble for is if they somehow use the exact same method as WB.

nowhat actually went into detail on this. It's super complicated for anyone to replicate the feature, which makes it not worth the hassle and thus it will go unused.

 

[SnapShot]

Damn, shit got vaporized

 

[Hari Seldon]

Because when garden variety, non southern white people say it to a group (in order to purposely avoid saying "you guys" as if they're going to potentially offend someone in the room) it comes across as awkward, unnatural and forced.

To me anyway. I purposely go out of my way to never say it. Just cringey as fuck overall.

I have never heard of this being some culture warrior thing. I live close enough to the south and have been hearing people say it all my life that it is a normal enough word to me. A bit weird to me that west coast people would latch on to a southern word, being that they hate southern people.

 

[Killer8]

They sold their soul to make licenced slop a while ago.

Sad for the past, indifferent about the news today.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

I have never heard of this being some culture warrior thing. I live close enough to the south and have been hearing people say it all my life that it is a normal enough word to me. A bit weird to me that west coast people would latch on to a southern word, being that they hate southern people.

^ Wired magazine’s 1/10 Hogwarts Legacy review written by their transgender sex toy reviewer.

 

[Chuck Berry]

A bit weird to me that west coast people would latch on to a southern word, being that they hate southern people.

Probably some guilt attached to that lol

 

[kruis]

I wonder if this is the same person

Helping the Game Industry Face Itself | KQED

A new study finds what we've known for a while now: the video game industry is sexist.

www.kqed.org

Yep, that's her. Before she entered the games industry as a writer she did a study on sexism in the game industry.

The Reality of Sexism in the Game Industry

I did a year long study on the prevalence of sexist practices in the game industry, and whether that affected game content. Here are those results.

www.gamedeveloper.com

 

[BigBeauford]

I have never heard of this being some culture warrior thing. I live close enough to the south and have been hearing people say it all my life that it is a normal enough word to me. A bit weird to me that west coast people would latch on to a southern word, being that they hate southern people.

I remember in college back in 2016 a college professor chastised me for saying "you guys". This happened in Kansas where you guys probably originated from!

 

[Chuck Berry]

I remember in college back in 2016 a college professor chastised me for saying "you guys". This happened in Kansas where you guys probably originated from!

Well that was 2016. Not being allowed to say "You guys" had already kicked in for a few years. The first Trump term just really accelerated it.

 

[ProtoByte]

I wonder if this is the same person

Helping the Game Industry Face Itself | KQED

A new study finds what we've known for a while now: the video game industry is sexist.

www.kqed.org

More job culling of this kind of employee, please.

I don't really care about the sob stories these devs have. None of them will be going hungry.

 

[kruis]

Fuckin hate Warner Brothers. Forced Monolith to make a garbage Wonder Woman game that no one asked. Forced Roxksteady to make a garbage Suicide Squad game that no one asked for.

Fire the person in charge of these decisions.

Monolith is mostly to blame. Their last game came out in October 2017. According to Jason Schreier Monolith's Wonder Woman game was a mess and years away from being finished. A games development studio that needs 9-10 years to get a next gen game out the door only has itself to blame when everyone gets fired.

 

[GHound]

I still wonder who wanted a Wonder Woman game.

I have never heard of this being some culture warrior thing. I live close enough to the south and have been hearing people say it all my life that it is a normal enough word to me. A bit weird to me that west coast people would latch on to a southern word, being that they hate southern people.

Fuck those yankees. The only thing they're good for is driving up the property taxes.

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

Not saying it’s entirely their fault, but when you haven’t released a title in 8 years, you’re definitely on the chopping block barring some really, really good reason.

 

[semiconscious]

Because when garden variety, non southern white people say it to a group (in order to purposely avoid saying "you guys" as if they're going to potentially offend someone in the room) it comes across as awkward, unnatural and forced.

To me anyway. I purposely go out of my way to never say it. Just cringey as fuck overall.

kinda similar to 'folks'. real down-home warm & friendly. will never forget this one:

 

[Chuck Berry]

kinda similar to 'folks'. real down-home warm & friendly. will never forget this one:

I believe you mean "folx." Fortunately I'm not offended.

I'll accept your apology via PM

 

[Loomy]

nowhat actually went into detail on this. It's super complicated for anyone to replicate the feature, which makes it not worth the hassle and thus it will go unused.

Yeah. Cost/benefit is really bad. It really was a fucked up thing to even try patenting this.

 

[FoxMcChief]

FEAR franchise, nooooooooo!

I loved the games, but come on dude. That series died 84 years ago.

 

[Perrott]

Ouch, that could have been an interesting game. Even a bigger shame as wb has patented the nemesis system and wonder woman seemed to be the only game on the horizon that was going to use it. Some patents just shouldn't exist

WB only patented "1+1=2" not "10-8=2" or "4:2=2", or any of the other infinite pathways towards the same goal.

Ken Levine's Judas is taking up the torch from Monolith in this regard.

 

[FoxMcChief]

American game dev lost everything. Hope we can rise again from the ashes down the road.

Sadly, I’m not hopeful. Not with how current management is being ran by most. But I think we are due a lot more closures before things could start turning around.

 

[DKehoe]

That sucks. I was just thinking about No One Lives Forever a couple days ago. Hope the people who were working there land on their feet.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

I still wonder who wanted a Wonder Woman game.

Probably seemed like a good idea back in 2017 when the first Wonder Woman movie came out and this game started development.

Not so much in 2025 when we have super hero fatigue, “strong female protagonist” fatigue, and the last Wonder Woman movie sucked.

 

[Clear]

Let's be honest, what were the odds of a Wonder Woman game developed over the past few years NOT BEING a DEI influenced cringe-fest?
Zero to none I'd wager.

 

[Calverz]

Wonder Woman? Who the fuck was going to buy that other than marvel retards and sjw? No wonder it got cancelled. Get that trash out of here

 

[simpatico]

Aye, I'd rather see them go out like this than throwing up all over themselves and shitting all over the place like Rocksteady, Tripwire, Arkane, Bethesda, Ubi Montreal, Bioware, DICE, Naughty Dog and Obsidian did. It's nobler death. Frankly, Monolith deserves to go out with some dignity. I pray the gameplay vids from WonderWoman never ever leak. If anyone at the studio still had their wits about them, hopefully they deleted every trace of it and overwrote the cloud backups with TBs of gibberish.

RIP Monolith. You were one of the best. Say hi to the boys at Tripwire when you get to classic dev heaven. You guys are entering at nearly the exact same time so there's a good chance you'll be roommates. Take solace that Condemned Criminal Origins is currently living a new life via Butcher's Creek.

 

[Braag]

Damn shame about Monolith, but being in development hell for so long while the gaming division of WB is losing money from every hole, I guess it was to be expected.
I'm actually surprised Rocksteady is still around, I guess they already had layoffs and most of the old guard left the studio before SS was released.

 

[TerribleAtThisGame]

They missed the Zeitgeist of that movie's hype by what...? Seven years? Can't go for the cashgrabs anymore when games take a fucking decade to make. I liked Monolith but this was almost a no-brainer after recent reports.

 

[simpatico]

Damn shame about Monolith, but being in development hell for so long while the gaming division of WB is losing money from every hole, I guess it was to be expected.
I'm actually surprised Rocksteady is still around, I guess they already had layoffs and most of the old guard left the studio before SS was released.

I bet WB just wants to preserve the Rocksteady name for when they get back into the Batman business. Basically all the classic studios still existing do so only in name. The pub can slap those t-shirts on any devs they want. I think it's important gaming fans start learning the names in the credits so we can follow the artists we like. Studio name means nothing anymore.

 

[StereoVsn]

Because when garden variety, non southern white people say it to a group (in order to purposely avoid saying "you guys" as if they're going to potentially offend someone in the room) it comes across as awkward, unnatural and forced.

To me anyway. I purposely go out of my way to never say it. Just cringey as fuck overall.

Eh, I think it’s totally acceptable in corporate environment to an extent because if you say “you guys” that would be sexist.

So you got folks, people, team and y’all.