Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League delayed to February 2, 2024

The official channel tweets: "We have made the tough but necessary decision to take the time needed to work on getting the game to be the best quality experience for players. Thank you to our amazing community for the continued support, patience and understanding. There is much more to share in the months ahead and we look forward to seeing you in the Metropolis next year."

[Elda]

That's an 8 month delay. Sony wasted 15 mins of SOP showing off SS & now it's not being released until next year. Smh.

[blackblades]

Sounds like the guy from gematsu who said the same dam thing

[Elda]

Some minds think alike..lol.

[mkis007]

There is no such thing as "wasting" a state of play...they can literally do them whenever they want. It's not like it was cancelled.

[Elda]

Clearly your opinion. They advertised the game as being released this year so in my opinion it was a waste of Sony's time advertising a game that's not going to be released at all in 2023.

[CML2]

I wouldnt call it a waste. Thanks to that presentation, we saw how rough it was looking and spoke up about it. Now they are taking action based on feedback.

[darkrider]

It's better to delay a game then to launch with crucial features, just to launch it, like others are doing

[Vengeance1138]

The mass backlash wasn't until after Sony showed the game in that SoP, it clearly got delayed as a direct result of the backlash from that very SoP, without it, it doesn't get delayed. Def not wasted time if it makes them take a good hard look at their game.

[just_looken]

Well with this huge delay lets hope they gut all that live service crap and leave it in a better state than gothem knights.

They could also say the squad got there powers by taking supermans pills those that give power of a kryptoian over a set time limit like you see in the comics. That is how he always gets lois knocked up joke about that in smallville.

I was amazed they did not do this first set it up that batman survived the poison long enough to tell his bat family to get the pills and assemble a team to fight back the league he has plans for that if they ever get compromised Use dc smartest people to make a cure.

But nope more creators making stuff they have 0 knowledge about.

[repsahj]

This is a good thing, they listen to the fans.

[Sonic1881]

What I find hilarious and comical is that a few people are blaming Sony for this when this is a third party multiplatform game :)

[mcnast]

It it wasn't for that State of Play, Rocksteady would have released a very crappy game. Thank you internet!

[shinoff2183]

The devs probably delayed due to the massive backlash and rightfully so. It looked whack. Probably still won't change the online multi-player part but I heard numerous complaints. My opinion the online multi-player is just a waste of the ip, they could've done some real interesting shit with it. They could've just been single player and you would switch characters when you wanted or something akin to the old nes ninja turtles game

[-Foxtrot]

Oh well

[RaidenBlack]

They should split the dev workforce,
team B to polish what's left
and team A to start work on an UE5 powered linear action heavy DC game a la Arkham Asylum style

[Sonic1881]

The two key people at Rocksteady is gone now. One of them was the developer designer of the Batman Series at Rocksteady. So the Arkham Asylum style won't be happening anytime soon or never.

[Kaii]

8 Months cannot undo the groundwork.
Ugly looking generic shooter with 2013 mechanics & you've got hero abilities (something that matches the hero's theme) tied to endgame gear instead of being thrown onto their kit.

Embarrassing

[darkrider]

You are right, we saw that on another game. Maybe a full year of delay is needed again

[repsahj]

Or another 6 years. XD

[chobit_A5HL3Y]

hopefully they took the criticisms and are making changes for the better. 8 months is a long time so there's hope it's not gonna be whack af when it finally releases.

[crazyCoconuts]

Hopefully the decision makers are realizing you can't easily recover from bad press at launch. Too many good games out there for us to waste time on mediocre stuff.

[crazyCoconuts]

Cal force pushed this game out of his release window

[Tacoboto]

And Nintendo featured it prominently in the TotK trailer today - as Zelda falling into the black abyss

[Limitedtimestruggle]

Well it looked absolutely garbage, so I guess fans (if any) should be gratefull!

[Hofstaderman]

It’s going to take a way longer delay to give me the game I want not that drivel they demonstrated.

[CrimsonWing69]

is that delay long enough to make it more like a narratively driven game with a dense world? I'm not saying the game has to be exactly Arkham-like, but man, I really want it to have a thick atmosphere with a really detailed world full of winks and nods to comic fans. What they showed just looked like a Fortnite type game with everyone bouncing around and shooting mindlessly.

Like how much can get done in 8 months?

I really hope publishers learn from this. I don't know how many times we have to tell you to knock it off before you just start making games out-the-gate as traditional type games and not follow some weird GaaS influenced design. Geezus, you made 3 of the greatest superhero games, which I'd argue actually paved the way for good superhero games by raising the bar, and then when everyone wanted to see what your next game was you basically diarrhea dumped all over your fan's faces.

We'll see how much of a turn around 8 months will allow.

[MetroidFREAK21]

Get rid of the GaaS aspects and I'll give it a fair shot

[JEECE]

This should be a good lesson to people to ignore those who say "stop complaining about game X online, it's going to come out and still sell well so there is no point in complaining." I agree with the "vote with your wallet" concept, but we also have to be very clear with devs/publishers about what we don't want in these games or they'll always have the wrong takeaway even when we do vote with our wallets. Maybe this game will still be bad (it looks fairly irredeemable at this point), but it was clearly delayed because people spoke up about it.

[Huey_My_D_Long]

I don't think people a have problem with people complaining, its the way people complain that is important, but I am glad they listened to more reasonable criticisms to take more time out to reassess some shit...although idk how much can truly be changed with 8 more months