Suicide Squad Woes Continue As Hackers Make Free with Unreleased Character, Skins

Deserved tbh. If you sell a game for $70 that has microtransactions and has had an awful first season and isn’t even technically a game people own due to being always online, I think it’s within their right to try to get all their money’s worth by any means necessary.

I remember when this was announced and I thought of the game in my head. "Oh rad, so maybe we will free our squad members one by one and then use each of their unique abilities for traversal, infiltration, and battle! Like maybe King Shark could swim better so only he can access certain places, etc? Man, that would work.
...but I bet what Rocksteady has for us after this long is going to blow that out of the frickin' water!"
Sigh. It was really that easy.
But I mean who could make a third-person SP game based off a licensed IP and sell tens upon tens of millions!?! Surely WB has no precedent for such a-oh, right.

Sucks to suck Rocksteady and Warner Brothers.

I paid $100 to play 3 days early, on the 3rd day I found out I had a bug that basically killed the endgame for me. It was fixed for exactly one day, 2 days before the new season was released. The very next day the bug was back, even with it I put in 80 hours into it. I really wish they could get their 'you know what together', but it's a lost cause. The only thing that could save it and that's a big if, they go free to play without having to buy the game.

@Fishface45 I'd laugh hard at WB if they decided to flip the game to F2P so soon.

Bungie did that with Destiny 2 years after release, and the players (myself included) that paid for the game felt like we'd been swindled. If WB flipped to F2P right now they may gain a few players (with the stream of negative publicity this game has, I doubt they'd gain many), but they'd convince a lot of the players that paid to play the game that WB doesn't give a toot about them, causing players to leave.

That being said, WB do seem like they like to do the exact opposite of what should work for them, so... maybe it'll go F2P before the end of the year?

@Fishface45 it is going to be ”free to play” to psplus members soon, it’s going to be one of the three free monthly games i promise you that.

I have a great idea! Let's do this same game but with Hogwarts!

I can haz exec now plz?

Yet the idiots of WB still think this is the way to go…the fools.

@NEStalgia Slytherin Squad: Kill the Gryffindor?

I don't know why any fan of the Arkham Batman, the Justice League or gaming in general would buy this. Absolute dumpster fire and I am finding it very hard to be sympathetic to anyone involved in it tbh.

Leave future content in code is stupid and some kind of betrayal on players.

I'd love to see a flip of the script. Justice League: Kills The Insufferable *****
C'mon hackers we believe in you!

@Fishface45 serious question, whynwould you preorder it and pay extra if it was clear that the game was bad? I mean… even sellouts as IGN said it was bad in the preview

Tbf the ign article was somewhat clickbait it was supposedly just deathstrokes tag the hacker wasn’t actually using him

This game will be F2P very soon. At least for PS Plus Extra.

So how does everyone really feel about this game 😂

This will inevitably land on Plus/Gamepass sooner rather than later.

Didn't Rocksteady co founders both leave? This isn't Rocksteady that made the original Arkham games, this is a WB puppet company now.

@djlard the article and many others don’t mention that the content is mostly unfinished. The person “playing” as Deathstroke doesn’t even have a character model and is just invisible. Many live service games add new content to the games that are still under development so that the devs can see if anything being added causes unforeseen glitches before they get too far working on it. This isn’t a Tekken X Street Fighter situation where all the dlc characters were finished and on the disc at launch but simply locked to the players.

Talk about desperation. As if anyone would go into so much effort over skins nobody wants. Then again, I bet this is simply WB marketing to get some players into this abandoned game.

Seems like a very easy way to get yourself banned from game if you hack the game and then play with the character that's unreleased on your own system, it's 100% Gona backfire to you since it's so easy to track you down.

@Mortal I paid for D2 and spent countless hours on the game. Not once did I feel swindled when it went free to play. I got my money's worth easily and if it meant other people got to try it out then good.

I noticed less people crying about live service games lately. I guess the most popular game and one of the most fun games right now, Helldivers 2, being live service with microtransactions has killed their already weak arguement.

Live service isn't inherently bad. Games being bad is bad. Like Suicide Squad. That's bad.

Oh kill it already. Nobody cares. Nobody cared ever since it was revealed. This was just a dumb exec decision that leads to money loss.

I'm pretty sure it's a plot story from WB just to make some noise.

What a tragedy.

Wait, the next season isn't for almost another year?!?! Do they really think that is enough to keep a live service, alive? Even if this was the best live service game ever and the game was universally praised, not releasing season 2 until 2025 would still kill it.

@pirlega because I usually like to make up my own mind on a game. People praise Demon Souls and Eden Ring, but for me, I'm not a fan. I was having fun with it even if it's the same thing over and over again. I'm more upset that I have a bug and it's still not fixed.

@Fishface45 aye gotta hand it to you, i tried all soul games and found the combat absolute dog ***** despite all praises

Well it says it all when they release the first dlc for it.
Everyone thinking that this could save the game and it turns out to be a strange version of the Joker, completely destroying the Arkhamverse.

Which ends up having 0 story content pr reasoning why joker is even back from the dead.

Its now obvious that WB made Rocksteady make this poor effort of a game and its now to a cash grab.

When the 2 co creators have already left and most of the core staff have left, you know the game was already.

This game is actually worse than avengers

Played beta and I can tell you I'm not gonna be interested even if this is gonna be F2P…

Miss Arkham times

281 concurrent players on Steam right now, baybee.

It seems like the game has sold fairly well and has charted in the game’s early weeks, yet no one is playing it. Unfortunately, for a GaaS the game sales is only a small piece of the equation and player count is the more important metric.

Ironic how the peak player numbers for Gotham Knights were higher than Suicide Squad. 😂 Given SS is a live service game that relies on online player engagement, that baffles the mind. I think to date Marvel’s Avengers was also out performing SS, and that was considered a colossal flop.

There’s still time for Rocksteady and WB to turn this thing around, but the window appears to be closing.

@JaBrony123 it helps if you actually read the article and see that the rumor is that Deathstroke is intended for season 4 in 2025.