IGN : Suicide Squad’s “early access” period will start to go live around the world late Monday night on consoles (and 10am PT Tuesday on Steam), which means that’s when it’s officially out, practically speaking. Unfortunately, we won’t have a review of Rocksteady’s new game-as-a-service looter shooter for you right away, as codes have not been sent ahead of time – in fact, Warner Bros. Games informed IGN that it has declined to send us codes at all.
Some of the biggest success stories in the history of gaming have happened during this generation of gaming. At the same time, some of the biggest flops in the history of gaming have also happened during this generation of gaming. To this end, a few games particularly stick out as, unfortunately, disastrous flops for those who made the games, sold the games, and ultimately, for many that played the games.
What a strange, short list. There have been many more games that arrived DOA, were never released, didn’t make their budget back, etc. Why cherry pick these games? Is this list based on the size of internet hate boners?
Skull and Bones gets my vote, at this point just completely remake AC Black Flag. If the Concord developers had made the game free to play, and toned down the in your face messaging via the mods and design choices, this game could have been serviceable eventually. I never understand why pandering to 5% of your audience and giving the finger to the other 95% seems like a good idea to these people. They never seem to learn. Disney has lost 1/3rd of its value and they keep doubling down on political messaging. I don’t get it.
Rocksteady Studios has reportedly laid off several staff members as a result of the disastrous release of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.
Blame the ppl wo greenlit the gaas idea for a genre not the workers. So like the ceo or the managers.
I bet the people who made the decisions 'up high' are not affected by lay offs at all.
Shame to see.
Instead of firing the devs who were forced to turn their games into GaaS garbage, how about firing the arrogant, greedy suits who dismissed all the warnings from gamers who shouted at them that we’re not interested in GaaS … !?
Anyway, those devs will find new projects to work on, big or small, while those suits will remain seated in their thrones and will continue to make dumb decisions which will run their company i to the ground.
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League killed Warner Bros. Discovery's game revenue, but the company continues to "strongly believe" in games.
lol, another company will follow right behind these guys. the game never did look in the first place
Sounds like people want great single player games like Hogwarts Legacy and not GaaS garbage like Suicide Squad.
Take notes Warner Bros. I know that's really hard for you.
"In fact, Warner Bros. Games informed IGN that it has declined to send us codes at all"
Just another piece in this horrible puzzle that is still taking shape, but that everybody already knows how it will look
There's a strong feeling of indifference at this point, as there's been so many games that have come out in such a poor state. There's definitely so much bad in the industry right now, that I couldn't care less. I stay away from 99% of games released, cause it's the only other option. IGN isn't the most trusted, but withholding review copies is a huge red flag.
It's a failure at release alot of us knew this, I remember being excited when it was revealed cause it couoda turned out dope but nah rocksteady was forced to make a pile of only online trash and misuse of good characters lmao hopefully down the line we get a dedicated batman sequel but not from these bozos that forced rocksteady like this
with holding review copies from smaller outlets that you know have certain biases is one thing.
with holding a review copy from ign though, the biggest gaming outlet out there, i cant say i can remember the last time this happened.
they were better off giving ign a copy to fool fans into thinking they had even a shred of confidence in the game, with holding it from IGN is massive confirmation the game is a turd and they know it.
"In fact, Warner Bros. Games informed IGN that it has declined to send us codes at all"
You tell em WB🤣