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Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League developer Rocksteady has quietly suffered another round of layoffs, this time just before the end of 2024.
Half a dozen staff impacted by the redundancies have spoken to Eurogamer to confirm the job losses, under condition of anonymity to protect their careers.
Shaz from GL: "HBO's The Penguin proves that you don't need Batman to tell a Batman story, which makes me wonder if the same could be done for a video game."
The only reason why anyone is watching this show is because it is in the 'Batman Universe'
Yes I know it was called Gotham knights lol I said Arkham because if may as well been called that because it was basically a sequel.
Gotham Knights had zero connection to the Arkham series. Totally separate universe.
Yeah no thanks. Not a fan at all of playing as other characters like Nightwing, Robin, Harley etc. Don't even like their detective mechanics much so Gordon is out too.
Nah Batman is needed. I only want to play as Batman in the “Batman Universe “
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.
Loved that game.