No, please. No.
Warner Bros has seemingly ignored criticism of Rocksteady’s Suicide Squad game and is focusing on making live service games from its range of IP.
The new focus was described by CEO, David Zaslav, as part of a recent earnings call (via Eurogamer).
“Our focus is on transforming our biggest franchises from largely console and PC based with three-four year release schedules to include more always on gameplay through live services, multiplatform and free-to-play extensions, with the goal to have more players spending more time on more platforms,” Zaslav said in the call.
“Ultimately we want to drive engagement and monetisation of longer cycles and at higher levels,” he continued. “We are currently under scale and see significant opportunity to generate greater post purchase revenue.”
Rocksteady’s Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League has seemingly tapped into that mindset, though an extended gameplay reveal was met with quite a bit of negative feedback from players. The disdain against the title — which included backlash over an always-on connection — was so great that Suicide Squad was first delayed later into 2023, and then through into 2024.
Warner Bros is also under fire at the moment for monetisation practices within Mortal Kombat 1; a single Halloween-themed fatality was priced at a whopping $10 USD.
Expect Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League from 2 February 2024 on Windows PC, Xbox Series S, Xbox Series X and PS5.
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