Official Warner Bros. Video-Game Division Faces Thin Slate, Leadership Uncertainty and Wonder Woman Issues

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Warner Bros. Games had just suffered through a dismal year, marked by a $200 million writedown in May on a painful flop, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, followed a few months later by a $100 million writedown due to the failures of Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions and the fighting game MultiVersus.
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One of the company’s biggest bets in development, a video game based on Wonder Woman, has struggled to coalesce, according to people familiar with the project. Early last year, it was rebooted and switched directors. The game has already cost more than $100 million, said the people who asked not to be identified discussing nonpublic information, and is still years away from release, if it ever makes it to market.
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According to interviews with two dozen current and former Warner Bros. employees, a lack of a strong, cohesive vision during Haddad’s reign — a tumultuous period in which Warner Bros. struggled through multiple reorganizations — led to years of ineffectual trend-chasing and wasted development time.

 
Damn I gotta get myself into one of these corporate jobs. Don’t need to be competent, indecision doesn’t matter, can be entirely noncommittal and still make bank for YEARS. And (jury’s still out on that one) fall upwards to another company where you can do the same shit again.
 
WB has been an absolutely mess of trend chasing nonsense - it’s not really a surprise the WW game has been in dev hell for years. The idea of using the nemesis system for Wonder Woman is cool, I’d assume the main problem has been trying to keep in line with the films and they’ve been a complete mess
 
I sincerely hope they can get it together by the next generation of consoles, WB games has just been disappointment after disappointment.
 
Long story short; all of the their upcoming projects have had development issues and are years away from release... I fully expect more cancellations and layoffs to follow... what a mess...
 
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