Warner Bros Interactive mår inte så bra just nu. De har stängt tre studios nyligen, sagt upp massor av anställda hos Rocksteady och är inte väl positionerade för framtiden. Samtidigt har flera chefer tidigare sagt att de vill göra om hela sin produktion till live service, men detta gäller inte de spel som för närvarande är under utveckling, inklusive Hogwarts Legacy 2.
Jason Schreier talade nyligen om projektet hos Kinda Funny Gamescast och sade att de många anställda han talat med berättat att varken Hogwarts Legacy 2 eller det kommande Batman-spelet från Rocksteady har något att göra med live service-üpplägget:
"A lot of people have talked about how in recent years people like Zaslav and JB Perrette are talking all about games as a service, but the games as a service mandate started long before that. This is more executives just saying what shareholders want to hear, because if you look at their current slate of games, they're not games as a service. Hogwarts Legacy 2 is not going to be a game as a service, the new Batman from Rocksteady is not going to be a game as a service, and even Wonder Woman wasn't going to be a game as a service. This is not a company that is going all in on games as a service. They're going all in on those big franchises. I think they still believe that there's room for success.
I've talked to executives there who envision a world where you would be playing in Hogwarts with your friends and you go hang out with your buddies, you're all wizards together and taking classes together. They have these kind of fantasies in their heads about games as a service that might work. It's just that these particular projects that are currently in development - I'm sure they have a game of service at some point somewhere, but those are not them."
Det känns förstås lovande, men mycket pekar idag mot att de så småningom kommer ersätta de här mer traditionella singleplayer-spelen med ett mer live service-orienterat ramverk.
Det verkar vara ett traditionellt singleplayer-spel som väntar även nästa gång - till fansens glädje.
