@games The Suicide Squad may already be dead, with Kill the Justice League game previews not looking so good
live service
already dead to me
Submitted 10 months ago by jezebelley@kzoo.to to games@lemmy.world
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mateomaui@reddthat.com 10 months ago
caseofthematts@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s okay, don’t worry. They “don’t really think of [their] game as fitting with any particular label”.
yamanii@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You can’t play it offline still, but it’s not a live service lol.
mateomaui@reddthat.com 10 months ago
Mmhmm, somehow that’s not too convincing.
Katana314@lemmy.world 10 months ago
My best guess is that when they first started giving the earliest look at the game, they were (somehow) very surprised at the backlash to their trend-chasing formula; and then, from there, may have completely stumbled in trying to totally re-focus the game into something people would like without remaking it from scratch.
What makes it most tragic is that this is the last instance of Kevin Conroy’s Batman VA. It’s not a good close to such a legacy.
yamanii@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Strange, I saw several people being impressed with the gameplay during the alpha.
NeryK@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
It’s kind of amazing that chose to go with that design, when they have the benefit of hindsight with recent superhero-backed games:
“Well duh, let’s try and make one of these live service games”.
criss_cross@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Problem is you can’t milk $10000 out of the single player games like you can GaaS ones. Meaning it’s harder to pitch to investors.
Personally I can’t stand it and end up just avoiding AAA titles altogether because of it.
ElusiveClarity@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’ve been avoiding AAA games after being burned a few too many times and it’s really opened my eyes to some great indie games. The Steam deck has been great for that also. I think it was Skill Up who said something along the lines of the issue with live service games is that they require so much of your time that you literally do not have the spare time to maintain multiple games. That means that the vast majority of them are going to be DOA.
Carighan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And also the contrast between the Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy games. It’s not like you don’t have things to compare to! Although I wonder whether they were too deep into development at that time? Don’t know what the lead time on this game was/is. 🤔
yamanii@lemmy.world 10 months ago
As better as Guardians is, it also bombed.
mateomaui@reddthat.com 10 months ago
also, immediately following Avengers flop
avater@lemmy.world 10 months ago
but sadly nobody bought it…
Ilflish@lemm.ee 10 months ago
They were already way in development by that point. Companies do know live service isn’t the bubble they thought it would be but it’s either lose all investments or get some return in the hope they hit the mass. Where they really fucked up is with the delay. Looks like nothing has changed as has put them in the fire with the end of fiscal year 2023. It’s also coming out same day as Persona 3 Reload which will likely be a heavily praised single player game. At least last April we hadn’t hit the maelstrom of “GOTY each week”.