Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has launched Episode 2 of its first season which, as you might expect, has not exactly burned the barn down in terms of playercount. Steam puts the player peak for the episode release at just 559 players, and it’s down to peaking under 500 even on the weekend here. Its Joker release got up to 3,000 players, albeit that was still just about 20% of its launch numbers. Now, the game has announced it will be stopping its weekly developer updates.
If you’re a Destiny player, this would be the equivalent of that game’s “This Week at Bungie” articles which detail current and upcoming events in the game, often in great detail. While Suicide Squad has had these running essentially since launch, they’re winding them down:
“Now that both Episodes for Season 1 are in your hands, our developer updates will change from being weekly to releasing them when we have big news to share about future content. We hope this will make the release of each new update an exciting event, while keeping you all up to date on all the happening with the game!”
These updates have always been a bit bizarre as they essentially never acknowledge the largest issues players have with the game, just cheerily pressing on. There have been updates that have addressed player concerns eventually, but these updates have often been very content lite. This week’s, for instance, is spotlighting some creators and clearing up some confusion about the different game modes and the (still bugged so Lex Luthor gives a long speech every time you go to it) Nexus Screen. I am pretty sure this article I’m writing is longer than the last Weekly Update.
Outside of the playercount issues, you can see things already slipping in terms of the live timeline. Episode 1 came out a little late and Episode 2, supposedly out eight weeks after that, was delayed as well. Now, we’re supposed to be getting season 2 three months after The Joker launched, but that’s not confirmed and we don’t have a date for it. Now, we won’t have weekly updates about any aspect of the game until…when, exactly? No idea. But it’s clear there’s just not much to talk about with the current state of the game, and this has sent a message to players that they might be walking away altogether soon.
What exactly is going on at Rocksteady internally here is unclear, whether the full bulk of the studio is still devoted to live Suicide Squad content or has moved on to something else. Leaks suggest the story of Suicide Squad will start to pick up in future seasons, but again, we just don’t know what the longer term plan is, and there’s little confidence that the game may even make it all the way through its current year-long roadmap if this few people are playing. We’ll see, but for now, I have it uninstalled.
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