{"id":766133,"date":"2025-11-28T12:20:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T12:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/multiversus-social-media-comes-back-to-life-suggesting-relaunch-announcement-soon?utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=feed"},"modified":"2025-11-28T12:20:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T12:20:55","slug":"multiversus-social-media-comes-back-to-life-suggesting-relaunch-news-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/multiversus-social-media-comes-back-to-life-suggesting-relaunch-news-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"MultiVersus social media comes back to life suggesting relaunch news soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/multiversus-social-media-comes-back-to-life-suggesting-relaunch-news-soon.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>\nEight months after Warner Bros.&#8217; platform-brawler MultiVersus went dark, following an announcement its open beta would be shutting down until a return sometime in 2024, its social media account has sprung back to live, teasing an update announcement soon.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMultiVersus launched into Switch, PlayStation, Xbox, and PC open beta back in July 2022, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/mulitversus-has-already-welcomed-10m-players-to-the-brawl\">got off to a flying start<\/a> &#8211; ratcheting up over 10m players in the space of a month. However, its player numbers rapidly dwindled and by the time developer Play First Games <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/multiversus-to-shut-down-until-2024-with-no-refunds-for-paying-players\">pulled the game offline last June<\/a>, its Steam concurrent player count had fallen from a high of 153,000 to just 448.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs to when MultiVersus would be likely to return, that remained vague, with Play First Games only saying it expected servers to come back online sometime in &#8220;early 2024&#8221;. And it&#8217;s proven to be a particularly controversial period of downtime, not only for its length but because Warner Bros. refused to refund players for any packs, passes, premium currency bundles, or cosmetics they&#8217;d purchased across MutliVersus&#8217; nearly year-long, multi-season open beta, insisting all purchased items would be usable again once the game returned.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/multiversus-social-media-comes-back-to-life-suggesting-relaunch-announcement-soon?utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=feed\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/multiversus-social-media-comes-back-to-life-suggesting-relaunch-announcement-soon?utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=feed\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight months after Warner Bros.&#8217; platform-brawler MultiVersus went dark, following an announcement its open beta would be shutting down until a return sometime in 2024, its social media account has sprung back to live, teasing an update announcement soon. MultiVersus launched into Switch, PlayStation, Xbox, and PC open beta back in July 2022, and got off to a flying start &#8211; ratcheting up over 10m players in the space of a month. However, its player numbers rapidly dwindled and by the time developer Play First Games pulled the game offline last June, its Steam concurrent player count had fallen from a high of 153,000 to just 448. As to when MultiVersus would be likely to return, that remained vague, with Play First Games only saying&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/multiversus-social-media-comes-back-to-life-suggesting-relaunch-news-soon\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":766134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[222,6881,8711,8673,6094,59,7546,44,45,8773,54,4404,60,4616],"class_list":["post-766133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer","tag-fighting","tag-hackslash","tag-multiplayer-competitive","tag-multiplayer-cooperative","tag-multiversus","tag-pc","tag-player-first-games","tag-ps4","tag-ps5","tag-side-view","tag-single-player","tag-warner-bros-games","tag-xbox-one","tag-xbox-series-x-s"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This 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