@games The Suicide Squad may already be dead, with Kill the Justice League game previews not looking so good
live service
already dead to me
It’s kind of amazing they chose to go with that design, when they hadthe benefit of hindsight with recent superhero-backed games:
- the live service Avengers game flopped pretty hard
- the singleplayer Spider-man games did gangbusters
“Well duh, let’s try and make one of these live service games”.
also, immediately following Avengers flop
- single player Guardians of the Galaxy got great reception
They were already way in development by that point. Companies do know live service isn’t the bubble they thought it would be but it’s either lose all investments or get some return in the hope they hit the mass. Where they really fucked up is with the delay. Looks like nothing has changed as has put them in the fire with the end of fiscal year 2023. It’s also coming out same day as Persona 3 Reload which will likely be a heavily praised single player game. At least last April we hadn’t hit the maelstrom of “GOTY each week”.
@NeryK
The whole industry is so damn obsessed with games as a service. They’re all chomping at the bit to exploit consumers.Yup, seems like the larger the company the more they gravitate to placing fewer and larger bets. After all, why be satisfied with some money when you could attempt to get ALL of the money ?
Except a lot of these bets are lost, and they do not come cheap. We’ll see about this one but it looks bound to have the same trajectory as Avengers (which had in fact a pretty decent campaign, followed by a mediocre grindy live service “endgame”).
