Disappointing sales performance, mixed reviews, and player counts in the hundreds paint a grim future for the looter shooter.
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.
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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?
Replies(2)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.
Some of these companies are paid huge amounts of money to do this stuff. They get truck loads of money to give “the message”
By blackrock and vanguards and multiple other venture capitalists even though it’s been proven over and over they fail.
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.
Or Warner.. they fund projects.
Next time make Batman game with multiplayer like Origins if you really want to implement online. Nothing will replace a solid story driven game
That's all true but whoever did the story, character designs and gameplay also didn't do a good job either. Even if they were forced to make suicide squad and it had to be games as a service they could've done better characters at least.
The gameplay itself wasn't smart. It's a shooter when half of them don't even use ranged weapons and only one uses guns.
WB/RS definitely tried to pigeonhole DC characters into a GAAS shooter and it didn’t work. Couple that with horrendous Joker and MR. Freeze designs, and you have a recipe for failure.
They also completely removed all of the combat Rocksteady was good at. If this was a mulitplayer version of Arkham it could've been great. But I guess it still would've been suicide squad.
I bet the people who made the decisions 'up high' are not affected by lay offs at all.
Shame to see.
Worse than that, those few probably had nice yearly bonuses as this portfolio item likely promised great ROI.
Whoever the project leads are on this also did a bad job with what they were given.
Higher ups really need to be held accountable for these screwups, it's amazing that everyone below them pays for their mistakes, while they get rewarded for their crappy choices.
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.
Imagine they made a new Batman non gaas..
10-15 millions sold by now and a strong community..
They instead decided to hurt their brand and break the very strong bond they had with their fans..
@Cacabunga
15mil? There has been no Batman game that has reached that figure. I think only Arkham City exceeded 10mil
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The hunger for solid SP games is unprecedented these days due to lack in quality and quantity..
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.
https://www.ign.com/article...
Lol they learned the opposite lesson. They think they aren't focused enough on live service. From their point of view, Hogwarts Legacy would have sold just as well as a live service game, and then Suicide Squad's flop wouldn't have killed their revenue so much this year because they still would have had ongoing revenue from the live service Hogwarts game.
That's one of the limitations of voting with your wallet-execs who are clueless as to how gamers actually think, or who at best understand them on about a ten-year delay, will always learn the wrong lesson from those votes.
In that particular instance they are probably right, but the one and only reason being it's harry potter. You definitely can't apply that logic to every single game
WB is a publisher, not a developer. Are you confused between a publisher and a developer? Publishers print what the developer creates. A developer doesn’t publish the game, with the exception of occasional indy games where the developer self publishes due to not finding a publisher. One develops, the other prints and distributes
you obviously dont know the difference because if you did then you would know that they publish Mortal Kombat which is making gobs of money
I hope you are reading all the "hur dur hur WB is a publisher not a dev, yer so stoopid" responses as if they are in the SpongeBob chicken meme.
Lol 😂 yeah
Im not sure why everyone who comes across it wants to make sure to let me know that they know the difference and I don't apparently. 😆
"Probably"?
The game was DOA before it even released.