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Today, during Warning Bros' conference call, chief executive officer David Zaslav talked about Mortal Kombat 1 and the company's gaming business.

Most interesting part of the article:

"Our focus is on transforming our biggest franchises from largely console and PC-based with 3-4 year release schedules to include more always-on gameplay through live services, multiplatform, and free-to-play extensions, with the goal of having more players spending more time on more platforms. U

Ultimately, we want to drive engagement and monetization over longer cycles and at higher levels where per specific capabilities we’re currently under scale, and see significant opportunity to generate greater post-purchase revenue"

What a major turn-off ngl.

  • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    1 year ago

    live service

    🤮

    But yeah it’s a good fighting game as it is. Just wish they’d leave it alone instead of trying to squeeze money from it until well past when it’s a dry piece of rock.