Warner Bros. Interactive har det ikke for godt lige nu. De har lukket tre studier for nylig, fyret et hav af ansatte hos Rocksteady, og er ikke godt positioneret for fremtiden. Samtidig har flere chefer tidligere sagt, at de ønsker at gøre hele deres samlede output til live services, men det kommer altså ikke til at gælde for de spil der er under udvikling lige nu, inklusiv Hogwarts Legacy 2.
For nylig udtalte Jason Schreier sig om projektet i Kinda Funny Gamescast, og sagde at ifølge de mange ansatte han har snakket med, så har hverken Hogwarts Legacy 2 eller det kommende Batman-spil fra Rocksteady noget som helst med live service-struktur at gøre:
"A lot of people have talked about how in recent years people like Zaslav and JB Perrette are talking all about games as a service, but the games as a service mandate started long before that. This is more executives just saying what shareholders want to hear, because if you look at their current slate of games, they're not games as a service. Hogwarts Legacy 2 is not going to be a game as a service, the new Batman from Rocksteady is not going to be a game as a service, and even Wonder Woman wasn't going to be a game as a service. This is not a company that is going all in on games as a service. They're going all in on those big franchises. I think they still believe that there's room for success. I've talked to executives there who envision a world where you would be playing in Hogwarts with your friends and you go hang out with your buddies, you're all wizards together and taking classes together. They have these kind of fantasies in their heads about games as a service that might work. It's just that these particular projects that are currently in development - I'm sure they have a game of service at some point somewhere, but those are not them."
Det er naturligvis lovende, men alt peger i retning af at de på sigt vil skifte de her mere traditionelle singleplayer-spil ud med mere live service-orienterede rammer. Men det sker altså ikke lige med det samme.