Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League's Steam numbers have dwindled into the low hundreds, placing it side-by-side with Gotham Knights

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I confess, I have not set my eyes on Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s Steam numbers for a while. I’ve been predominantly busy withShadow of the Erdtreeand, today,Final Fantasy 14.

Rocksteady’s ill-fated live service shooter had mostly slipped my mind and, withfellow PC Gamer writerMorgan Park’s assertion that it was, against all odds, a harmless bit of middle-of-the-road fun, I’d at least assumed it would’ve garnered a modest but tidy audience. Too humble to make up for a$200 millionloss, sure, but enough to keep its gears running.

Jeez, though. Things are a lot worse than I imagined.

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Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is a multi-platform game. It’s out on PS5, Xbox Series X and S. It’s also available on the Epic Games Store. Not every single person playing the game will be playing it on Steam, and it’s likely the overall numbers are notasbad.

That being said, considering that aforementioned $200 million loss, I think we can assume things are going poorly. The game stopped giving its “weekly” developer updates last month, the final post beingfrom May 31.

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Heading over to the Discord, the community’s atmosphere seems more like a wake than a village. “Hate to be that guy, but is it a good idea to get back into the game?” one player asks. “Simple answer is no,” a fellow squadder replies. Another player later remarks, with the air of a violinist on the Titanic: “Enjoy the ride till it’s over.”

Listen, I have all sorts of critical feelings about what this game meant in terms of the industry. I think Rocksteady’s move away from what it’s good at and into doomed, five-years-too-late live service nonsense was just as frustrating as our ownRobin Valentine made it out to be. In a year and change ofterrible, ongoing layoffs, it was another reminder that the desire to strike gold will always crush decent studios full of capable people into fine dust. It isn’t enough to makegood, well-selling games, the line has to go up and up and up.

As a game, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is endemic of the kind of bland, corporate optimism of “we can make a Fortnite, probably!” that callously puts talented individuals out of work. Although, in fairness, the same report that highlighted that $200 million loss also laid blame at the feet of the studio’s co-founders, wholeft before the thing even launched.

But at the same time—man, is that rough. Just because I don’t like a person, doesn’t mean I want to see them suffer, and the same thing is true here.

I also don’t want the game thatdoesexist—all the art assets, the voice performances, and the writing, no matter how controversially received—to simply vanish off the face of the earth because someone decided it needed to be just like Destiny. A game doesn’t have to be good to be worth preserving. Luckily, it should be gettingan offline mode, and you can also currently get it for about30% of the original asking price. A betting man would say it’ll be getting cheaper in the years to come.

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