The final season of Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League marks its last post-launch update as the game will begin winding down soon and ending all support. However, a new report claims that developer Rocksteady faced another round of layoffs before Christmas last year, adding yet more layoffs to the studio following September 2024’s round.
Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League launched early last year to mixed reviews and a very steep decline in returning players. While the game did feature a story-driven campaign to complete, the true meat of its experience was in the post-launch seasonal content and live service structure. Publisher Warner Bros. probably expected to retain a lot more players after launch but the reverse happened as players dropped the game in droves.
According to a new report from Eurogamer, Rocksteady faced more layoffs last month that saw a number of employees let go across various departments, affecting developers in QA, programming and art. However, the exact number of employees that were terminated is currently unknown.
It’s not all doom and gloom at Rocksteady, though. A report from Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier back in June 2024 claimed that the developer was already in the process of pitching a new single-player game. This was accompanied in an article stating that Suicide Squad was only getting “barebones support” at the studio mere months after its launch.
Rocksteady is best known for developing the single-player Batman Arkham trilogy so to many fans, it made no sense for the developer to pivot towards a live service-focused project like Suicide Squad. Even before the game’s release, it received quite a bit of negative backlash online for its gameplay, games-as-a-service elements and writing that all seemed to pale in comparison to Rocksteady’s past works.
Hopefully the studio can bounce back from the fiasco and steer back onto the single-player path for its next project.
Source: Eurogamer
