Why did Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League fail?

Last February a game was released that abruptly lowered the reputation of Rocksteady, Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice Leaguewhich has not been liked at all due to the very aggressive turn that took place in terms of the genre, since the batman arkham They were single-user experiences and this new title focused on multiplayer. Added to that was the fact that they charged for it as a complete experience, which will still have additional purchases in online stores over time.

As mentioned in a new report by Bloomberg, a culture of perfectionism, a poor genre twist, and an ever-changing vision are detailed as key reasons for the failure of the live service game. In fact, on past occasions Warner Bros. revealed that it had suffered a loss of 200 million dollars while at the beginning of the year the company’s financial director said that expectations were met and with clear reason.

The company convinced the studio to change Suicide Squad to an online multiplayer game with live service content to join the trends, having examples such as Destiny, Fortnite and League of Legends. For this reason, the team grew from 160 employees to more than 250 in seven years, although many left the company when they realized that it was working on a multiplayer game, and it is the possible reason why the company’s founders decided to leave the company. ship and open another studio.

For their part, several sources described the company’s culture as “toxic positivity,” and management promised that the game would eventually come to fruition despite staff raising concerns. Despite similar failures in the industry, management was convinced that Suicide Squad would continue to be a success because of the characters they had in their hands. However, when it went on the market it did not generate much money, in fact from the first revelation it did not convince anyone in the industry.

Remember that Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League Is available in PS5, Xbox Series X/S and PC.

Via: Eurogamer

Author’s note: With this failure I hope they learn and the next Batman game is of good quality, but they may not have done it, at least we saw that with their announcement of the new VR experience that surely no one is going to try other than those who ask for the review code.