Kill the Justice League fell short of Warner Bros.’ expectations

The hits maintain coming they usually don’t cease coming for Rocksteady as its mother or father firm, Warner Bros. Video games, is disillusioned within the efficiency of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. Like a poorly made macaroni image, it appears to be like like this one isn’t going up on the fridge.

Warner Bros. Discovery CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels spoke on the 4th Quarter 2023 Earnings Webcast concerning Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.

“This 12 months, Suicide Squad, one among our key videogame releases in 2024, has fallen wanting our expectations since its launch earlier within the quarter, setting our video games enterprise up for a troublesome year-over-year comp in Q1.”

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has been on a decline since launch with many gamers, myself included, being unable to play the supervillain looter shooter as a result of fixed crashing and a bug-riddled multiplayer. A patch was released on February 21, 2024, with the intention of assuaging a few of these issues, however as an alternative, it has introduced more issues.

Possibly Warner Bros. ought to have put Peacemaker on this sport as an alternative of Mortal Kombat

According to Steam Charts, the participant depend on Steam has been in a gentle decline since its launch with a peak of 13,459 on February 3, 2024, and a present participant depend of 770 on the time of this writing. Whereas we’ve got no correct technique to measure the participant base on consoles, the information we do have paints a grim image.

The February 23, 2024, Developer Update addresses a number of of the problems concerning multiplayer and some different miscellaneous gadgets. Talking as somebody who was unexpectedly sucked into this sport and went from being on the fence to actually wanting it to succeed, it’s irritating to see the present state of the sport.

Since I’m successfully locked out of multiplayer, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has been amassing mud in my assortment. Right here’s hoping that Rocksteady can course-correct earlier than Warner Bros. decides to yank the plug.

Christian Dawson

Christian has been enjoying video games since he might maintain a controller within the late 80s. He is been writing about them for practically 15 years for each private {and professional} retailers. Now he calls Destructoid dwelling the place he covers all method of nonsense.

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