MultiVersus Dev Calls Out ‘Threats to Harm’ Following Shutdown Announcement: ‘I Am in Deep Mourning for the Game’

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The game director of MultiVersus has called out “threats to harm” developers on the game have received following the announcement of its impending shutdown.

Last week, Player First Games announced that Season 5 of the Warner Bros. brawler would be its last, with the MultiVersus servers going dark this May, just one year after it relaunched. Players will still be able to access all earned and purchased content while offline via the local gameplay mode and training mode.

While real-money transactions for MultiVersus are no longer available, fans can still use Gleamium and character tokens to access in-game content until support ends on May 30. MultiVersus will also be delisted from the PlayStation Store, Microsoft Store, Steam, and Epic Games Store at this time.

Following the announcement, and without word of a refund policy, MultiVersus players who bought the $100 premium Founder's Pack hit out at Warner Bros. and Player First Games, with some saying they felt “scammed.” Based on online reports, there are a number of disgruntled customers who have character tokens that are now rendered useless, given they had already unlocked all playable characters in the game. Predictably, MultiVersus is also getting review-bombed on Steam.

Tony Huynh, co-founder of Player First Games and game director of MultiVersus, tweeted to address player concerns and call out threats of violence directed at the team.

Here’s Huynh’s statement in full:

Player First Games community manager and game developer Angelo Rodriguez Jr. took to X/Twitter to defend Huynh, stressing: “Receiving threats of physical harm against him is not and will never be the way.”

“I've legitimately been losing sleep over the past few days watching as all of these has been happening to Tony,” he said.

“The man who would stay up past midnight with us watching streams and listened for fun ideas from the players. The man who took the time to read so many messages and respond to so many people when he didn't have to. The man who