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WindowsCentral: Rocksteady's 'Suicide Squad Kill The Justice League' sinks to an all-time low player base on Steam (118 concurrent players)
- Thread starter IDontBeatGames
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People already got GAAS games they are playing. They need to be convinced why on Earth they would just abandon games they have already sunk a lot of time and money on for a new commitment to a new forever game. Especially Suicide Squad is a latecomer to the live service field, and it just does not cut it. Even if it was a better received game, it's slow content drip and barren content to begin with might be a death sentence for it.
Also it does feel like that Warner Bros gravely overestimated the pull that Suicide Squad IP would have. Bluntly speaking the general audiences seem to have lost their interest for the IP right after the first movie and it's financial success was nothing but a fluke, but Warner Bros just stubbornly keeps dreaming of recapturing the lightning in the bottle.
the game was boring awful mess story wise and gameplay , so ...
To be blunt... the game already pretty effectively shelves the Arkhamverse on its own.
That's just 1 more than single-player flop, Guardians of the Galaxy as of the time of this post.
I saw Tweet that someone posted that there was already big exodus of talent because of WB meddling and because two cofounders that left studio are poaching talent. Current SS situation doesn't help and overall number of layoffs in the industry.
Nope, and I hope this finally gets DC to stop pushing them. They are not that interesting.
Always find it kind of tasteless and morbid when people tag onto a game which was a commercial failure and then almost gleefully chart its downfall like this. Same thing happened with Lawbreakers in the old place.
A shame.
But also once I played and finished it, I put it down forever. No interest in their post launch support, it was a one and done game for me.
But also once I played and finished it, I put it down forever. No interest in their post launch support, it was a one and done game for me.
I wanted this game :(
I just beat this game last night. I enjoyed the story. Im done playing it now. I could care less about multiplayer and unlocking stupid crap for looks and weapons. The battle pass has to be the crappy battle pass i have ever seen. Oh anf you have to pay to unlock joker. So lame and cheap. I only played for just under 20 hours
The first movie was extremely successful financially
Gunn's bombed financially
So no
I think the comics and animated movies were successful
I feel like I was one of the few people actually excited for this game before it came out, and even I didn't buy it.
I played a ton of Avengers (I was kinda starved for Marvel content at the time and didn't really have anything else to play), so a lot of my excitement for this was largely dependant on Suicide Squad avoiding a lot of the issues that plagued Avengers, specifically having way too much repeated missions/content.
It does sound like SS has a bit better Endgame and loot, but everything else seems so similar. Add in the fact that it doesn't run well on Deck (and probably wouldn't on my desktop PC either) and it was an easy pass until it's like $20 or less.
I played a ton of Avengers (I was kinda starved for Marvel content at the time and didn't really have anything else to play), so a lot of my excitement for this was largely dependant on Suicide Squad avoiding a lot of the issues that plagued Avengers, specifically having way too much repeated missions/content.
It does sound like SS has a bit better Endgame and loot, but everything else seems so similar. Add in the fact that it doesn't run well on Deck (and probably wouldn't on my desktop PC either) and it was an easy pass until it's like $20 or less.
It's because they are mean. They're self-fulfilling articles that prey on the currently acceptable punching bag and assist in them falling further while making people more comfortable being assholes about it.
"Just reporting the facts" is a statement that's technically true to smokescreen the real reason we keep getting these articles.
This shouldn't surprise anyone because the PC port is broken, and actually got considerably worse with the last major update. 4090s pulling <40 fps. It's a disaster. I was hoping Digital Foundry would cover this, but there's frankly not a ton of interest. Which says a lot in and of itself. This would be a deeply humiliating situation for WB Games if anybody actually cared enough to even notice.
Nah…that's actually the two areas where it excelled. High production cutscenes that were entertaining to watch and work towards. The gameplay loop is also fantastic.
Bummer that no one wanted the game or couldn't handle fictional characters getting killed.
Honestly I hate to say this, but I seriously doubt it. Helldivers 2 killed it on PS and PC. And, it's not trending on Xbox either.
It's on life support fam.
This. There's not much to add to the discussion at this point. Just people pointing and laughing which isn't helpful or productive.
This really does have to go down as one of the biggest bombs of the past decade. When you consider budget, dev time, developer pedigree, and IP, this is just a spectacular failure.
I mean they're completely different games.
I still play Avengers every now and then with a squad of mine but none of us were interested in SS because of the gameplay.
I still remember those posts talking about the "era bubble" and that this would be a success
Good times
Good times
Tbh I have to agree. It's just below sales arguments in how toxic they get. Also YouTube view threads should stop too outside of extreme circumstances I guess (like GTA6 breaking records).
And Era will quietly celebrate it based on the dunking people did pre release.
Yeah I'm sure Rocksteady were chomping at the bit to make a MK spinoff.
To be fair the Gunn film released in cinema during Covid. People always tend to miss that part.
The whole "Suicide Squad is a recognised IP" was also rather funny. Like, ignoring the fact that recognised doesnt equal popular, the fact that an Avengers game with a big budget technically bombed should have been enough of a red flag that similar can absolutely happen here.
how much talent drain did rocksteady suffer from though? i dont think they can make a game as good as arkham city again even if WB let them.
It was. Well, is.
But this game makes its performance seem good somehow.
I really like this game and still play it here and there but Season 1 just being a huge grind just completely deflated me with this game. I think the characters are great and the game
play is solid but the grind with so little content is a bit much.
I also love the Avengers game, glad to see some people still enjoying it.
play is solid but the grind with so little content is a bit much.
I also love the Avengers game, glad to see some people still enjoying it.