Monday, December 9th 2024
'Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League' Out to Pasture After Season 4 Update With New Character, Offline Mode
It looks like the much maligned Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League will officially join the likes of Foamstars in not-quite-abandonware purgatory after the upcoming Season 4 content update. The new update, titled "Season 4, Episode 7: Control" will be the game's penultimate episode, releasing on December 10. Episode 7 will add a long-promised offline mode to the game, as well as a new character, Deathstroke. In the same blog post announcing the arrival of the infamous DC villain, Rocksteady Studios and Warner Bros also announced that Season 4 will officially be the game's final season, with Episode 8: Balance, scheduled for 14 January 2025 being the final episode in the game's live service lifetime. As of the release of Episode 8, Rocksteady will no longer provide any more content updates to the game, although the silver lining is that online co-op will still be available. Co-op will notably not be available in the offline mode, suggesting that when the game's servers are inevitably shut down, there will be no co-op gameplay available.
Rocksteady and Warner Bros. will continue to sell Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, seemingly at full retail price, and all past seasons' content will become available, even in offline mode after the end of Season 4. This is a similar approach taken by Square Enix with Foamstars, when the developer announced last week that it would also stop supporting the PS5 game, despite leaving the online play servers and in-game items shop available after halting further development and support of the game.Suicide Squad launched early in 2024 to an almost universal sigh of disappointment, having reached a middling 60% on Metacritic, so it's unlikely that too many gamers will be saddened to hear the news that Rocksteady is effectively abandoning the game. Regardless of the lackluster launch, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League still amassed a sizeable player base, peaking at over 13,000 concurrent players on Steam, according to SteamDB.
Read the full update notes about the changes coming to Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League here.
Sources:
Rocksteady / Warner Bros, SteamDB
Rocksteady and Warner Bros. will continue to sell Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, seemingly at full retail price, and all past seasons' content will become available, even in offline mode after the end of Season 4. This is a similar approach taken by Square Enix with Foamstars, when the developer announced last week that it would also stop supporting the PS5 game, despite leaving the online play servers and in-game items shop available after halting further development and support of the game.Suicide Squad launched early in 2024 to an almost universal sigh of disappointment, having reached a middling 60% on Metacritic, so it's unlikely that too many gamers will be saddened to hear the news that Rocksteady is effectively abandoning the game. Regardless of the lackluster launch, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League still amassed a sizeable player base, peaking at over 13,000 concurrent players on Steam, according to SteamDB.
Read the full update notes about the changes coming to Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League here.
13 Comments on 'Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League' Out to Pasture After Season 4 Update With New Character, Offline Mode
It would be funny though if Marvel Rivals bought in the Thunderbolts and have them be far more popular there not long after SSquad:KtJL was fully shut down.
But my point being at least they didnt pull a Ubi, EA or Sony and completely delete the game from sale and peoples accounts because they were shutting down the game..
Its not entirely like WB is known for its fantastic customer service and non-predatory achievements in gaming... Agreed. A game needs mechanics and you never see those in the cartoons.
I watched the Super Mario movie the other day. It illustrates that nicely. The only thing that's really good about it, is all the links it has to the games, and how they are implemented in the movie. That's genuinely fun to see. But if you'd turn it around and Super Mario was always a series and now turned game... that'd be a weird as hell series to watch.
class action lawsuits against developers who dont keep their promises is pretty rare.
We might be seeing a lot more of them in the future, if you look at the trajectory lots of publishers are on now with monetization and overselling.