According to Video Games Chronicle, the lack of fresh characters in MultiVersus is to blame for the game’s sharp decline in daily players. Looney Tunes’ Marvin the Martian joined the MultiVersus roster as its most recent addition in November.
The number of people playing MultiVersus at once has decreased, according to SteamDB, from its peak of 153,433 concurrent players seven months ago to an average daily peak of just 1,297 players over the last 30 days. That represents a 99 percent decrease in daily players, for those of you looking for your abacus at home.
The March 31 release date for MultiVersus Season 3 has been postponed by the game’s creator, PlayerFirst Games. The decision to delay the game’s third season was made to assist players in “reaching the end of the current Battle Pass,” according to a tweet from PlayerFirst Games in response to the news. According to the comments and retweets following PlayerFirst Games’ announcement, the news wasn’t well received.
MultiVersus was the most popular game on the Steam Deck for a while back in the halcyon days of, uh, the summer of last year. Although MultiVersus is a free-to-play online fighting game, depending on which version you purchased, the Founders Pack option, which is comparable to Smash Bros.’DLC character expansion packs, starts at $40. We’ll have to wait and see if the rumored Pickle Rick move set data miners discovered and the ensuing announcement of the anthropomorphic pickle as a separate fighter to MultiVersus will result in a rise in errant Rick and Morty players. Considering the fandom, it might.