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After a year-long delay to “get it right,” Rocksteady finally unleashed Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League to a collective and very audible groan. As a live-service game, it was clearly designed with the lofty expectation that billions of players would log in daily, each season bringing new characters, missions, and paid DLC. But here’s the catch: nobody stopped to ask if the game was even good enough for people to care about all that extra content.
Since launch, Suicide Squad has seen shockingly low player numbers. In fact, players dropped off faster than they did for Anthem, realizing that the game had little to offer beyond being a perfect punching bag for YouTube videos about Rocksteady’s fall from grace. We checked the Steam numbers, and guess what? TurboTax 2003 has more active users than Suicide Squad at this point. Ouch.
It’s almost too perfect how failed live-service games manage to make headlines every time they release new content—usually to a wave of mockery. And it’s even funnier when that content ends up being more underwhelming than the game nobody was playing in the first place. That’s exactly what happened with their first couple of DLC characters, Miss Freeze and Lawless (who? Even we don’t know, and we don’t care to check). Both characters did nothing more than give the internet another opportunity to roast the game for a few more days before everyone moved on, pretending the game never existed—just like before.
But wait, there’s more! Rocksteady isn’t done making bad decisions yet. Enter Rake-O! The new Suicide Squad character that’s… well… a rake. Yes, you read that correctly. Rake-O is literally a rake. No, he’s not from the DC universe. No, he doesn’t have a backstory. He’s just a rake. The 17 developers at Rocksteady who are still contractually obligated to finish releasing DLC for this trainwreck of a game tweeted out the first image of Rake-O alongside the rest of the squad, with the caption: “Fire me or kill me, either option is better than creating more content for this clusterf**k of disappointment.”
According to Rocksteady, this entire debacle was part of some “out-of-season April Fool’s joke.” They made sure to note that their developers were actually “quite happy”. They compared their happiness to an average resident living in Korea, but refused to confirm if they meant North or South.
Source: Trust me, bro.
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