It's genuinely baffling watching WB just make like, every wrong decision. Their business is losing money and every time a project that receives praise or interest is announced/released that is nearly guaranteed to make them lots of money.They just don't go through with it. Or they do some work on it then can it.

It's like, even out of touch executives at other large companies have enough feelers to find out generally what people are enjoying. Then with all their money they throw something in that general direction and something eventually sticks.

With WB though it's like, nothing is working. The things that do stick don't make as much as they thought. And the things that they don't think will make money do make money, often more than they thought... And then they just always find a way to either piss off everyone, sour and sabotage the future projects, or just don't do anything with it.

It's just so fucking weird. Like I don't even enjoy or partake in most of the stuff WB puts out. But sitting on the sidelines and just watching it all unfold makes me question what drugs the leaders at the company are on...

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 15 points 5 days ago

I'm glad I'm not the only one genuinely confused by this. Are they shorting their own company? What is going on?

I mean, a Gollum game?

[–] Kangy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago

You could replace every mention of "WB" in there with "Bungie" and it would still be true

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago

It's been especially bad over the last year. WB is in freefall at this point.

It seems it would be pretty easy to blame this on David Zaslav, but the games department specifically has been fucking up like never before: Mortal Kombat, Multiversus, Gollum, Kill the Justice League. Just name a WB game that came out, and it's been an abysmal failure, with similar games from other studios doing much much better.