Poor old Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League hasnât had a good year. Launched to be Warnerâs big live-service hope for 2024, it instead belly-flopped to very low player counts and deeply middling reviews. This all followed a very difficult development, and things havenât improved much since launch. So, wanna buy it? Itâs 95 percent off!
Clearly, 2024 has been a brutal year for live-service gaming, and Suicide Squad somehow manages not to be the yearâs most enormous disaster in the genre. That was, of course, Concord, possibly the biggest entertainment flop ever, which doesnât exactly redeem Rocksteadyâs failure. Sure, Concord barely lasted two weeks before Sony tried to erase it from the timeline, but the much-delayed Suicide Squad had a massive server outage moments after launch, peaked at a pretty desultory 13,500 concurrent players on Steam, launched a woeful first battle pass, pissed off players with terrible skins, and was already being given away as a freebie six months after launchâright as its second season was delayedâŠ
The real tragedy is thatâmuch like Concordâthe core game underneath Suicide Squad was fine. Not good, not hatefully bad, just fine. It then wasted this foundation with monstrously repetitive missions, misusing its excellent combat for a dreary grind, with a gruesome end-game that meant it wildly failed to deliver on its live-service promises.
So, after this extensive sales pitch, you wanna play it right now, right? No, of course not, but when I tell you itâs possible to find out what everyoneâs so annoyed about for the cost of a bottle of Pepsi, youâre a teeny bit tempted, right?
The extraordinary price on Steam until December 4 is just $3.50, a 95 percent discount from its standard $70. Or if you fancy splashing out, you can get the âDigital Deluxe Editionâ down from its usual $100 to $5âthat gets you some extra weapons and a token for a battle pass. Admittedly, itâs literally infinitely more expensive than the offer made to Prime members back in July, but itâs so low that it suddenly enters the territory of morbid curiosity.
