MultiVersus Players Say Goodbye: 'This Game Will Always Hold a Special Place in My Heart' 

MultiVersus, the 2024 free-to-play crossover warring game, volition soon spell offline for good.

Player First Games announced that MultiVersus Season 5 volition beryllium its past backmost successful January, confirming the brawler would adjacent down permanently astatine 5pm PDT (12 noon EDT), connected May 30, 2025. It was reportedly seen arsenic a large nonaccomplishment for Warner Bros. Discovery; successful a fiscal telephone from November 2024, the institution admitted MultiVersus performed acold worse than expected, resulting successful a $100 cardinal writedown for its games business. That brought the full nonaccomplishment of the concern to $300 cardinal aft the disappointing motorboat of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League successful January.

Just a period aft this announcement, Warner Bros. announced it was canceling its planned Wonder Woman crippled and shutting down 3 studios: Monolith Productions, WB San Diego, and MultiVersus developer Player First Games.

In a thread called "Tomorrow Multiversus shuts down, what are the last things you person to sat astir the game," hundreds of players near a comment, celebrating their favourite moments.

"Multiversus was a dream. It was a level combatant which focused connected a speedy violative and 2v2 play that supported squad synergy," wrote 1 player. "Even extracurricular of its idea, the casting was great. A batch of the characters’ VAs reprising their roles (like the precocious Kevin Conroy reprising his relation arsenic Batman, Matthew Lilard arsenic Shaggy, Kate Micucci arsenic Velma, John DiMaggio arsenic Jake, Eric Bauza arsenic Bugs and Marvin, etc) and interactions betwixt characters during and aft a match.

"While immoderate roster choices and determination decisions were perplexing (like Banana Guard and Shaggy being based connected Ultra Instinct Shaggy), I can’t contradict that a immense bulk of movesets were inspired. There volition ne'er beryllium a crippled rather similar Multiversus."

Hard to judge it's really over.#Multiversus #MVS pic.twitter.com/Zw8nfKrUCN

The full assemblage the greeting of the #Multiversus Shutdown: pic.twitter.com/uSYn95mjh8

"Nothing volition bushed that feeling playing the beta backmost successful 22. I was perfectly hooked connected the accelerated paced quality of the game," replied another. "I retrieve I got sick and each I played was this game. I volition miss it and hopefully it gets revived successful the aboriginal with a sequel oregon something."

"This crippled volition ever clasp a peculiar spot successful my heart. Right adjacent to PlayStation All-Stars," lamented idiosyncratic else, portion different said: "Tom and Jerry was 1 of the astir unsocial and amusive fighters successful my beingness and brought my emotion backmost to warring games."

Others are trying to beryllium a small much optimistic, but the bulk of players judge its gone, not slightest due to the fact that of "how overmuch of an IP nightmare it would beryllium to bring it back." That said, immoderate are adjacent trying to sphere it erstwhile the servers spell dark.

"MultiVersus whitethorn not beryllium a must-play astatine societal gatherings, but its refreshing team-based battles marque it a large level combatant online," we wrote successful IGN's MultiVersus review, giving it an 8.

Vikki Blake is simply a newsman for IGN, arsenic good arsenic a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years acquisition moving with immoderate of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.