Hollowpoint5557
A Fucking Idiot
That's only 40 people more than that shitty Avengers game that launched 4 years ago. 
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Suicide Squad has only about 200 players playing the game on Steam
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Trogdor1123
Member
I still don’t see how this was even given a go. I know it was approved at the height of cape stuff but it’s just not an appealing property. There are loads of other ones they could have used.
Saber
Member
Hope it was worth the 9 years of live service bullshit, saying its a sucessor of Arkhan series and associating with Sweet Baby.
Rockystead should watch their own video of Boomerang showing his middle finger, since they think it was a good idea for the marketing. Suit your situation like a glove.
Rockystead should watch their own video of Boomerang showing his middle finger, since they think it was a good idea for the marketing. Suit your situation like a glove.
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Sentenza
Member
It's not even an appealing execution of the concept, to begin with.
I'm not particularly in love with the Suicide Squad in general, to put it mildly, but I would have played the shit out of their own "Batman-styled" action adventure from Rocksteady.
What they are offering here is completely unappealing to me even if tied to the best license in the world.
Then again, on a personal note I don't like even the big success stories in the genre like Destiny (in fact I absolutely LOATHE the "looter shooter" genre), so I may simply not be the target here.
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SidViscous
Member
Why? The way they disrespect the characters (other than the wonder women) was a real talking point prerelease and sweet baby founder was the lead writer on the project.
Not saying game would have been profitable with a better story, but I don’t think we can wave off that SBI had a big negative impact on the games potential success
Topher
Identifies as young
One would think WB would learn some lessons here and not try this shit with Hogwarts, but as things are, Batman and Harry Potter IPs are pretty much dead due to corporate exec stupidity.
Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
Really off topic.
But might as well since no one is actually gonna talk about the game.
No one is arguing that looking at current and/or peak gives you the unique users for a given day.
Literally no one is even implying that, the thread title plus the one sentence OP explains the point of view.
Ribi is having the unique users argument with themselves.
If at any time during the day you log into the game it shows you about 200 people playing......its not even a stretch to say "there are about 200 people playing this game".
The inference is just that......there are 200 people playing the game, is it the exact same 200 people all day every day? Probably not, time zones and all that jazz.
It is however a very fair statement.
Dr. Claus
Banned
Sadly Hogwarts already has a ton of issues with its overemphasis on DEI nonsense. I can only imagine it getting worse with the sequel.
Dazraell
Member
Nope, Black_Stride was right, I was referring to 171 players who were playing the game on Steam on that particular moment when I posted that screen cap so I feel title was accurate
Btw. That other poster who got upset called either me or a database I was referring to (SteamDB) as "journalist", so I really wouldn't take their words as anything else than "old man yells at cloud". They probably were frustrated about some past shit that wasn't even relevant to this thread
Honestly, that Quidditch game they announced a while back could theoretically work with game as a service model. If done right it could attract a larger playerbase. But that thing is questionable with WB's current approachThat’s ok, just wait for next Hogwarts, all GaaS all the time.
AtomicStarving
Member
Devs are testing something. Let them cook.
StereoVsn
Gold Member
What’s amusing even with all the progressive and inclusive themes and characters in the game, press and bunch of morons went absolutely bonkers.
YOU PC BRO?!
Gold Member
Given the IP they had access to; how they managed to come up with such a poor concept is beyond me. Its not like the Batman Arkham games weren't literal money printing machines. Can you imagine? Lets not do Batman Court of Owls or Hush. Lets not do Batman Beyond. No Superman game or Flash. No Justice League... no, lets go with Suicide squad killing the justice league. What an absolute joke. WB and Rocksteady truly deserve this failure of a game.
ResurrectedContrarian
Suffers with mild autism
Particularly sad when Rocksteady was so uncompromising in their original trilogy.
Every single character and story beat felt like it was made by fans of the origin comics / franchise whose only interest was to get it right. Zero intrusion of any kind of outside agendas, "modernizing" or "updating" anything, etc. Just great games made by dudes who genuinely loved the franchise, and minimal corporate influence.
Of all the studios to fall into mediocre trash, this is one of the saddest.
Every single character and story beat felt like it was made by fans of the origin comics / franchise whose only interest was to get it right. Zero intrusion of any kind of outside agendas, "modernizing" or "updating" anything, etc. Just great games made by dudes who genuinely loved the franchise, and minimal corporate influence.
Of all the studios to fall into mediocre trash, this is one of the saddest.
Hollowpoint5557
A Fucking Idiot
2 hours after I posted this Windows Central posted this.That's only 40 people more than that shitty Avengers game that launched 4 years ago.
Rocksteady's 'Suicide Squad' game sinks to an all-time low player base, which doesn't bode well for the game's future
The poor reception and sub-118 concurrent players bode an ill future for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League
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ResurrectedContrarian
Suffers with mild autism
what's weird is that it's not really on a GaaS model either, right? As I recall it has a hefty price tag. So it's like a retail non-service game with a GaaS style and content? Or at least, a huge up-front game cost with service after, rather than the usual pricing schemes for these genres.
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Heimdall_Xtreme
Hermen Hulst Fanclub's #1 Member
Now is 171
Putonahappyface
Gold Member
Not long now.
semiconscious
Member
just as i'm getting ready for another replay of arkham asylum. such a brilliant, visionary, imaginative piece of work. just as well we had no idea what was to eventually come...
ResurrectedContrarian
Suffers with mild autism
It doesn't help that the Joker in this adaptation is on Jared Leto levels of awful
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
They disrespect her as well. Just look at how ugly she is.
simpatico
Member
I'm about a third the way through my first Arkham Knight replay since launch and holy shit it makes this debacle so much worse. If anyone hasn't played it on modern hardware, it's time to go back to it. Runs stapled at 90fps (max) with all the little Nvidia PhysX setting ON (which was damn near impossible at launch). That game is an accomplishment. Doing that with UE3 and the tech of that era is legendary. The flew too close to the sun I guess. RIP
lefty1117
Gold Member
and also remove their previous games from steam for this outrage