WB Discovery CEO just said on an earnings call this morning that contributing to losses in the company’s financials was the “disappointing release of Suicide Squad,”
Good old fashioned nepotism. People generally get into executive roles because of who they know, not anything they've done. Don't get me wrong, you need some minimum level of demonstrated competency, but these aren't rocket scientists we're talking about. They are people who managed to finish an MBA without shitting themselves and then did time at some excel jockey jobs before shaking hands with the right person.
The reality is that actual good ideas are often threatening to the people currently in charge because it makes them look bad. Thinking outside the box is thumbing your nose at "what we know works." It's "rocking the boat" but what that really means is "wait your turn pleb."
The thing with live services is, they take so much of the user's time that there can only be a handful of successful live service games at a time. So any company that thinks that they can just push out a live service game and make tons of money is mistaken. Of course, any CEO who doesn't want to make live service games will need to explain to their shareholders why not. Easy explanation when you're a small company, as they can just say that they don't have the manpower needed. But a big company doesn't have that excuse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y50b8yo9SHU
There you can compare takes an quality. Dude Suicide squad is not even compromising with "wokeness" in any fucking way IMO, WB never wanted to go woke they are compromising with stock and make it go up. WB said clearly they wanted a live service game to reap more money and that they'll gonna keep doing live service games.
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Harley shoots Batman in the fukken face with a death cold stare. How the shitting fuck that's woke?
Honestly as a marvel fan I'm down to kill the justice league but not to put 10% my salary every month to do so.
But it is one of the reasons these games fail. The live service battle pass shit too, of course, but not all of them have it. And I think he's absolutely right in his video.