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Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Developer Rocksteady Hit With Layoffs | MMORPG.com

SystemSystem Member UncommonPosts: 12,599
edited September 4 in News & Features Discussion

imageSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Developer Rocksteady Hit With Layoffs | MMORPG.com

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League developer Rocksteady has been hit with layoffs following the game's poor sales performance.

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  • NosferatupacNosferatupac Member UncommonPosts: 33
    That's too bad, but not unexpected. When it launched I thought it was pretty fun. the counter shots, and traversal options were pretty fun, but the Joker and Ms. Freeze seasons just didn't add enough to the game to keep me interested.

    Seemed like it was stuck in development hell for awhile and this was the best they could offer by the end of its development cycle. the Suicide Squad just isn't a big enough name on its own to get people interested, couple that with its live service monetization model and it was a recipe for disaster.

    Hopefully enough of these live service games have failed so companies will stop investing into chasing this elusive "golden goose" which produces turds more than golden eggs.
    ZenJelly
  • NanfoodleNanfoodle Member LegendaryPosts: 10,901
    Just think how things would have went if they had just made the next Arkham game and it was not a live service? I think that fans would have rallied behind such a bold move in this market of wallet intrusions.
    KyleranWhiteLanternZenJellyuriel_mafess
  • AeanderAeander Member LegendaryPosts: 8,061
    Make another Arkham game, with no Batmobile, and I'll come back.
    Nanfoodle
  • DhampirDhampir Member UncommonPosts: 188
    well...this was not a surprise...
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  • GinazGinaz Member RarePosts: 2,572
    I got this game for free from having Amazon Prime awhile ago and I just played it recently. Even though I got it for free, I could only play past the tutorial missions to the point where we got our first skill point before I couldn't stand it any longer and uninstalled it. Redfall was better than this.
    NanfoodleLTBK

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  • GrimDogGamingGrimDogGaming Member UncommonPosts: 178

    Ginaz said:

    I got this game for free from having Amazon Prime awhile ago and I just played it recently. Even though I got it for free, I could only play past the tutorial missions to the point where we got our first skill point before I couldn't stand it any longer and uninstalled it. Redfall was better than this.



    Even if all the other issues with this trash pile didn't exist, they did Batman fucking dirty, so I'm glad it flopped.
    ZenJelly
  • wowhuntardwowhuntard Member UncommonPosts: 16
    I see that the thread about Concord is, sadly, locked.
    This is the same story - arrogant developers making games for "modern audience" that doesn't exist or is just a very, very vocal minority.
    Game journos have sold their profession for a spot in a culture war, self importance, and lost almost every connection with an average player.

    I am from Europe. I don't care for your culture wars, wokeness, or progressiveness. I am not a programmable millennial or Gen Z consumer. I want to play well made, good looking game without US political messages. I don't want to be educated by undereducated US game developers about history, human rights, or anything else. I want to kill time and have fun.

    Both JL and Concord deserve their trash can.
    GrimDogGaming
  • AngrakhanAngrakhan Member EpicPosts: 1,841
    I'm from the US and want to play well-made, good looking games without US political messages. It's obnoxious so many game developers feel the need to use their platform to lecture their customers on their perception of social justice initiatives. Just make an entertaining game. Oh well Space Marine 2 launches today and from everything I've seen it sticks to the game's lore and IP without injecting any of that crap in the game.
    GrimDogGaming
  • XiaokiXiaoki Member EpicPosts: 4,045
    Angrakhan said:
    I'm from the US and want to play well-made, good looking games without US political messages. It's obnoxious so many game developers feel the need to use their platform to lecture their customers on their perception of social justice initiatives. Just make an entertaining game. Oh well Space Marine 2 launches today and from everything I've seen it sticks to the game's lore and IP without injecting any of that crap in the game.
    LOL 

    Space Marine 2 has a ton of controversy.

  • uriel_mafessuriel_mafess Member UncommonPosts: 258
    "The report also suggests that internally the team is recognizing that these layoffs will impact the quality of the studio’s products going forward."

    Impact the quality ... for the better? Cause worse than post covid launches it's quite difficult to achieve.
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