Suicide Squad's Struggle Hopefully Marks the End of the Destiny-Style Live Service Fad

Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League got delayed out of next month into next year, confirming a rumour now a few weeks old, one that came in the wake of a gameplay showing that generated an awful amount of backlash and negativity from players

[gangsta_red]

Doubt it

[blackblades]

100% doubt it, imo if the game is fun and doesnt force me to buy something i see no problem. Especially when you get free content like levels, expansions etc. Overwatch its fun and never bought anything get free characters and levels. Cod you pay for the game, you pay for the dlc and you do it all over again with the next game.

[gangsta_red]

1000% agreed with everything you said

[-Foxtrot]

Yeah until Destiny 3...unless they just continue with Destiny 2 support and make a new franchise which is more single player driven with a standard Halo like online.

[Lightning77]

It absolutely won't. They didn't delay the game because of the backlash apparently. It was because it wasn't ready. Trust me they're not changing the live service elements at all.

Rock steady wasn't listening to any of the backlash. No I take that back WB and the investors didn't care about the backlash. The base game and live service mechanics stuff is done. Nothing's changing.

[Vengeance1138]

You don't delay a game by 8 months right after being shown to the masses unless it's to address backlash.
Rocksteady obviously would never admit that but it is the case. No game in development ever takes almost a year for polish. Next time we see it, it'll be quite different.

[ravens52]

We can ALL agree on something lol

[Ninver]

They'll never learn.

[isarai]

If Anthem wasn't, this sure as heck won't be either

[CrimsonWing69]

You’d have thought Avengers said that, but no. The industry is greedy and I mean f*cking greedy. Even if they do stop with GaaS they’ll try something else to bring in mobile game money to consoles. As long as consumers vote with their wallets they’ll eventually learn… I hope.

I mean we got Square Enix going from GaaS to NFTs, so…

[badz149]

I wouldn't call Destiny a fad though. it's been thriving all these years and Bungie seems to be fine, even Sony bought them. it's just that with that segment of the market already being occupied by Destiny and some others, newcomers are hardly welcomed anymore thus the failure of recent attempts especially those not going the F2P route like Avengers, Anthem, and so on. just like the competitive FPS market, which is being dominated mainly by CoD, CSGo and maybe Apex, these games require the players to invest so much time (and now money too) into them, mixing it up with new games just isn't worth it thus a new attempt into these segments of the market is a suicide mission - you got a chance to make it big but the risk of losing is so much bigger.

[EmperorDalek]

It isn't a fad, it's just way harder to pull off than these publishers/developers seem to realise.

[46player]

They are going to have to fix this like Gotham Knights which is going to result in a very mediocre game at best.