Wonder Woman Game Could Be A Live Service Game
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Monolith Productions’ Wonder Woman game has been known about for quite some time, but details have been sparse, to say the least. We know it’s still quite a way off, and we know that it will have a Shadow of Mordor-style Nemesis system, but that’s about it. A job listing, though, has potentially revealed some new details, and they’re not pretty.
As reported by Wccftech, a job listing on WB Games’ website has revealed a few key details about the upcoming game. The listing is for a lead software engineer for gameplay – which somewhat suggests development is still in its early days – and is explicitly listed as being part of the Wonder Woman team.
The listing asks that the applicant has experience developing for different console platforms – with Xbox and PlayStation listed, as you’d expect – but it also asks for “experience helping maintain a live software product or game.” Uh oh. While a job listing on its own doesn’t confirm anything, it certainly does suggest this upcoming Wonder Woman game will have some kind of live service element.
That’s not particularly surprising, though, given recent comments from Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav. He said in an earnings call recently that WB Games should focus more on live service games, pointing specifically to franchises like DC Comics that it could be turning into live service experiences.
It’s something we’ve also seen elsewhere in the DC universe, now that WB Games is showing off Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League again. That game, too, is a live service game, with all sorts of microtransactions, battle passes, and silly numbers-go-up loot systems.
We can’t say for sure that Wonder Woman will follow in those footsteps, but there’s a lot of smoke here so far, and you know how the story goes: where there’s smoke, there’s usually monetization schemes. And given Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League still looks pretty bad, we’re beginning to worry about Wonder Woman.
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That said, Wonder Woman is said to be a single-player, open-world action game, and single-player games don’t typically find themselves on the tail end of live service experiences. Still, it’s going to be at least a couple years before we see Wonder Woman in the wild, so there’s plenty of time for things to change between now and its release.
