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• Suicide Squad has been in early access for nearly two days.
• The game has peaked at just 7,152 players on Steam.
• This peak is much lower than Gotham Knights and Batman Arkham Knight’s highest player counts at launch.

Suicide Squad has already been out for around two days. Players who purchased the $100 deluxe edition have access to the game, with many even completing it in around 9 hours. On Steam, the game’s early launch has been quite disappointing. Suicide Squad has peaked at just 7K concurrent players on the platform.

Currently, the game is locked behind a nearly $100 deluxe edition, which may have limited its potential player base. Everyone else can jump into Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League from 2 February.

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[DirtyBast8rd]

Shocking.

 

[Vick]

Deserved.

 

[LordCBH]

 

[zeroluck]

I am not buying any Stutter Engine games.

 

[Antwix]

I imagine there's a lot of refunds in there as well.

No doubt it'll be a flop but curious to see the numbers when the game actually comes out though.

 

[Stuart360]

It doesnt sound great but this is early access for people that bought the Deluxe Edition, which i would guess is only a tiny percentage. Its also releasing at a bad time with Palworld and Enshrouded eating up millions of people.
Which is also why its a bit silly to compare to Gotham Knights and Arkham Knight, 2 games that didnt have early access.

Still it looks like this is going to only do decent at best and flop at worst.

 

[Magic Carpet]

This game is getting more threads than Palworld
It must be a better game, More threads=better game.

 

[MiguelItUp]

Considering all the shit it got online, I think it's fair to assume that people that are interested or even on the fence are not going to buy the deluxe $80-$100 version.

 

[ReBurn]

Shouldn't we wait until it's generally available to be making posts like this?

 

[Bkdk]

rocksteady suicide squad lol, they are on a countdown till studio shut down.

 

[Freeman76]

Good, people are sick of these type of GaaS cash ins and finally start voting with their wallets. Hopefully this might send a bat signal to other companies hoping to cash in on the latest fad 5 years too late.

 

[Stuart360]

rocksteady suicide squad lol, they are on a countdown till studio shut down.

Which sucks for such a great studio.
This is all on WB trying to push Suicide Squad on us when the masses dont really give a crap.

No one will ever convince me that the makers of the Arkham trilogy actually wanted to make a freaking Suicide Squad gaas game lol.

 

[Flabagast]

I hope it tanks hard.

Feeling sorry for the devs but this represents everything that is wrong with modern gaming

 

[Fake]

 

[Roufianos]

I'm surprised 7k people were stupid enough to pay $100 for this trash

 

[Mercador]

Mandatory

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www.penny-arcade.com

 

[//DEVIL//]

Can't wait to get it for free on epic store

 

[Kikorin]

7000 people really spending 100$ on this is already shocking. This game will be 50% off in like 2 months.

 

[marjo]

This game is getting more threads than Palworld
It must be a better game, More threads=better game.

I guess Starfield is the greatest game of all time.

 

[Silver Wattle]

RIP RockSteady.

 

[Phase]

This game is getting more threads than Palworld
It must be a better game, More threads=better game.

More engagement! And that's the metric that matters.

 

[Papa_Wisdom]

How many of them are review outlets that didn’t get any codes and therefore have to buy the game early access to get the reviews out for clicks...

 

[EDMIX]

Which sucks for such a great studio.
This is all on WB trying to push Suicide Squad on us when the masses dont really give a crap.

No one will ever convince me that the makers of the Arkham trilogy actually wanted to make a freaking Suicide Squad gaas game lol.

Well, I think the real issue is with GaaS, in fact I don't even know that anyone would have even avoided this so much if it was just a single player only game.

 

[Codes 208]

Came here to post this exact gif.

This game reeked of being DoA

 

[R6Rider]

Gotham Knights at least has Batgirl.

 

[simpatico]

If every player spends $15,000 per year for 4 years, there's a chance it breaks even.

 

[FunkMiller]

Good.

This needs to absolutely fucking die on its arse for the industry to stop with the GaaS shit. I hope they lose millions.

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

It’s so sad to see Rocksteady of all studios fall into this horrible trap of shoe-horning their games into trend-chasing GaaS bullshit. We waited 8 years for this? Gross.

 

[YuLY]

Which sucks for such a great studio.

Are we sure this is the same studio that brought up Arkham Asylum and City back in 2009 and 2011 though ? or are they Rocksteady just in name. It has been 9 years since Arkham Knight, their last game. This is the problem with most of these studios, they are only as good as some of the key staff members that are talented and make the great decisions, if they are no longer there, it is that studio just in name only. Anyone can hire some woke writers and mercenary programmers. Main issue with current Obsidian, Blizzard etc etc.

 

[Kenpachii]

And then a ton of people got sponsored streams with the game on twitch, getting those numbers is brutal.

 

[Fake]

The year not even started and we got a bunch of layoffs and close companies.

2024 is litelary telling us 'no more mistakes'.

What a big brain move launching a game like that in the year like that.

 

[MALpractice311]

Shouldn't we wait until it's generally available to be making posts like this?

Why? Are any of the statements in the original post factually incorrect? Where does it say we as consumers or games journalists have to defend any product? Let the developer and publisher play defense.

 

[newtypepilot]

part of WB's plan to destroy the DC franchise

 

[AREYOUOKAY?]

part of WB's plan to destroy the DC franchise

Hands over the comic industry to Japan with manga constantly outselling everything.
Hands over the movie industry to their rival Marvel and they still don't have anything to combat it.
Ruin their own video games?

Just what is the next step of their master plan?

 

[DanielG165]

The game is staggeringly awful. Batman Arkham Videos’ play through of it couldn’t even make me the least bit interested, and he’s THE Arkham channel. I genuinely hope that Rocksteady goes through a ton of meaningful improvements internally after Suicide Squad, because this is an absolute stinker of a product.

 

[lh032]

Name fits

 

[StreetsofBeige]

The game is staggeringly awful. Batman Arkham Videos’ play through of it couldn’t even make me the least bit interested, and he’s THE Arkham channel. I genuinely hope that Rocksteady goes through a ton of meaningful improvements internally after Suicide Squad, because this is an absolute stinker of a product.

Definitely not my kind of game, so I'd never play it. But going by the leaked videos the cut scenes look really good. Any cinematic fan will surely enjoy the tons of quality cut scenes. I liked them and I typically hate cut scenes and mash the X button to skip them. But even I watched some of them to see what crazy shit happens. It's like me playing old God of War games on PS2. Not a lot of games I'll watch a cut scene, but I'll stick around to see what Krazy Kratos does.

 

[Heart_Attack]

What a waste. At least We'll always have the Arkham Trilogy. RIP Rocksteady

 

[Madflavor]

The OTs on forums and the Subreddit are just sad to watch. It's that same old tale of a bunch of people who were excited for the game since it's announcement, preordered it, and are now coping and convincing themselves the game isn't doo doo butter. It happened a few months ago with Starfield.

 

[Ywap]

The OTs on forums and the Subreddit are just sad to watch. It's that same old tale of a bunch of people who were excited for the game since it's announcement, preordered it, and are now coping and convincing themselves the game isn't doo doo butter. It happened a few months ago with Starfield.

One might suspect some employees + their friends and relatives are doing some damage control as well. After all, some posters here have confirmed "second coming" level of awesomeness

 

[Hero_Select]

i wanted to play this but i think i'll pass entirely. those boss fights just look really boring and the lack of enemy variety doesnt help

 

[amigastar]

I would laugh if the game gets released and gets a 85+ Score.

 

[EDMIX]

What a waste. At least We'll always have the Arkham Trilogy. RIP Rocksteady

True, but I don't think the teams dead.

Sure, 2 flops imho isn't enough to kill a team. Some times a game flops, its ok. The tech in it is impressive and the quality is top notch, but with it being a GaaS title and all the issues surrounding the game, I blame WB more then I'd ever blame the team.

Let em move on back to Batman, give us a Batman Hush game or Batman Beyond or some shit and move on. I'm sure most will be completely open to what they make next as I don't know if this game alone is enough to really define them.

 

[Krappadizzle]

Let em move on back to Batman, give us a Batman Hush game or Batman Beyond or some shit and move on. I'm sure most will be completely open to what they make next as I don't know if this game alone is enough to really define them.

 

[MonkeyClaw36]

How many of them are review outlets that didn’t get any codes and therefore have to buy the game early access to get the reviews out for clicks...

Guess 5 or something.

 

[Braag]

Shouldn't we wait until it's generally available to be making posts like this?

WB's big game from last year (Hogwart's Legacy) had almost 500k concurrent players in Steam during early access.
It can give a general look at a game's popularity.

 

[Lord Malachite]

7000 people really spending 100$ on this is already shocking. This game will be 50% off in like 2 months.

Gotham Knights took only three weeks to have 50% off sales. I'll be shocked if this takes longer than that. As a GaaS title, those player engagement numbers are everything. If they aren't getting the player numbers they'll lower the price to try and boost them

 

[simpatico]

Any word on a comic sans apology tweet? You guys think they're still drafting it?

 

[Ulysses 31]