In a monetary name, Warner Bros. Discovery mentioned that Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League “has fallen wanting our expectations” because it launched initially of February. Warner Bros. Discovery Chief Monetary Officer Gunnar Wiedenfels did not point out any gross sales figures for the sport, however he did add (by way of IGN) that the corporate’s recreation division goes to be in for a “robust 12 months” when it is in comparison with 2023 and the blockbuster success of Hogwarts Legacy.
In comparison with the Potterverse recreation, which was the best-selling recreation of 2023 within the US, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has had a troublesome time conserving gamers engaged. On Steam, it reached a peak concurrent playercount of 13,459 and people numbers have been steadily declining since then on that platform. Rocksteady has long-term plans for post-launch help, kicking off with the primary season of content material in March, the arrival of the Joker as a playable character, and probably a resurrection of a key Justice League member in December.
There are a number of causes for the poor efficiency of Suicide Squad, as even earlier than it was launched, previews for the sport weren’t fully constructive. Upon launch, Suicide Squad earned blended or common opinions, and on GameSpot’s sister website Metacritic, the sport has a Metascore of 60 from 87 opinions. Suicide Squad additionally launched throughout a really busy month for high-profile releases, as a number of live-service video games had been all competing for a really restricted slice of the viewers retention pie.
Sq. Enix’s Foamstars and Ubisoft’s Cranium and Bones additionally launched this month, whereas Helldivers 2 has been a headline-dominating recreation as lots of of hundreds of gamers have flocked to that recreation. “Rocksteady’s first recreation in almost a decade cannot shake the superhero-as-a-service style’s ubiquitous feeling that it exists to maintain gamers mindlessly engaged,” Mark Delaney wrote in GameSpot’s Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League evaluate.