MultiVersus

We caught MultiVersus at a very specific moment in 2022—July open beta, 150,000 concurrent Steam players, the entire fighting game community losing its mind over a Warner Bros. platform fighter with legitimate depth. We streamed Batman vs. Shaggy matches. We argued about netcode. We believed. 564 peak viewers. 69 hours streamed. Then we watched the player count crater by 99% over months. The June 2023 shutdown hit different. But wait—May 2024 relaunch. The house came back. We peaked again. Then the real ending: January 2025, Warner Bros. announced MultiVersus would shut down permanently in May 2025 after costing them $200 million. We documented a game that died, got resurrected, and died again. That's the lifecycle.

69.3 hours and 564 peak viewers in 2022 means we caught lightning in a bottle. 21,000 hours watched on that initial momentum—NetCode debates, character balance arguments, pure hope. 326 average viewers stayed engaged. The numbers show community investment that evaporated. MultiVersus captured something real about games in the 2020s: massive launch hype, brutal player drop-off, the economics of live service death.