Suicide Squad Kill The Justice League's insultingly grindy battle pass takes 1500 missions to finish

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[@YongYea]

The audacity to try to make a battle pass this grindy after adding no new missions, objectives, activities, or substantial story. It's 1500 of the same stuff you've done since the game's launch. PATREON: www.patreon.com/yongyea TWITTER: twitter.com/yongyea INSTAGRAM: instagram.com/yong_yea TIKTOK: www.tiktok.com/@yongyea TOP PATRONS [BIG BOSS] - Devon B - gergely oggolder - Jonathan Ball [BOSS] - Charlie Galvin - Gerardo Andrade - Marketing aag - Michael Redmond [LEGENDARY] - azalea - dirt

[@jondeiconic2552]

I knew this would happen.

[@christopherrapczynski204]

the audacity to make 50 suicide squad videos while refusing to acknowledge sweet baby inc.

[@pedrocora3605]

Hey, about that.Shut your mouth up, shut your mouth, wouldn't care about.Oh the xbox better the xbox better critical god

[@ryuuotaku35]

I rather play FF7 rebirth and increase my Materia and levels.

[@XellVerto]

chill batman fan

[@LegendaryPredalien12]

If someone can survive 1500 missions of this game they're probably too far gone to be reasoned with.

[@bigboss4993]

They're basically bots at that point

[@cmdraftbrn]

its to force you to the buy option.

[@jacobyrassilon]

If you bought the game at all, then you have gone too far to be reasoned with.

[@sjneow]

he embodies the lunatics who formed Taskforce X

[@ricardohoang8452]

@@bigboss4993 Make sense since AI can take human more. Thanks James Cameron for that Terminators franchise

[@jacewooten6754]

The way Warner bros is killing this game is so insanely stupid it should be aplauded

[@kevingame3198]

Well they might pull a ubisoft and still support the game like what happend with r6 siege and for honor

[@famoussession7426]

And the head STILL wants to push for live-service

[@ardent835]

Sometimes it's wise to keep your bad fan fiction ideas to yourself or else you get dumpster fires like these.

[@petratyraanderson]

That would require it to have any kind of substance​@@kevingame3198

[@haridx23]

Well the game got "kill" in it's title, so it is ironic

[@darthmalicex4118]

“If you don’t like microtransactions, just don’t buy them!” This is a textbook example of why that’s not a valid argument. Microtransactions objectively make the game worse because the devs have to compel you to buy them somehow. And the only way to do that is to hold important things back from you as much as they can unless you pay up for ‘convenience.’

[@skylerfreeman1173]

But the math is wrong you can literally do it yourself lol. And PLENTY OF SUCCESFUL games have mtx that you can fully ignore. Don't blame mtx for bad games. Stop giving them a shield. A bad game is bad regardless. Whereas a good one, people will do just as you quoted. (Helldivers for instance)

[@Kratos-eg7ez]

​​@@skylerfreeman1173 you're bringing up exceptions. They're EXCEPTIONS for a reason. 99% of games with micro transactions, are micro transactions that you CAN NOT ignore unless you want to look shitty, have less power, be inconvenienced by systems, time gated, etcetera. And, micro transactions always make a game worse. Now, a lot of those games are already shitty, but even the good games would be better without micro transactions. Can micro transactions be okay for some games, yeah maybe for live service games where you expect continuous development. But even then a lot of the micro transactions absolutely make the game worse, it's just somewhat understandable.

[@thientuongnguyen2564]

@@user-xg3il3jc7b Yeah and they are mostly mobile games or have proven to fail spectacularly. Your point? Just because 2 or 3 games with macrotransactions are successful don't mean they are excused with other games. I don't remember Orcarina of Time having those or in Pong. What's the "in ever game" figure you conjured from? Your mom?

[@darthmalicex4118]

I know that Suicide Squad was bad already, lol. And I know there are other games that have mtx that are better than it. Neither of those facts are relevant to my point; Any game would automatically be better without mtx.

[@Bodharas]

@@skylerfreeman1173 nothing more repulsive than defending micro transactions. We shouldn't allow any of it. Yeah, there have been games that have gotten away with it. It's still no okay.

[@neondystopian]

It's like they checked all the boxes: Go out of your way to antagonize fans? Check. Ignore any criticism and blame socio-political issues? Check. Lazy game design? Check. Completely double down on bad practices? Check. Sell game at a premium price point? Check. This is absolutely a AAA game. Heck, it might even be one of those quadruple A games I've been hearing so much about!

[@0LoneTech]

It's from "choke the kids to extort them" WB, is it not?

[@neondystopian]

@@0LoneTech OMG I freaking forgot about that, LOLOLOLOLOLOKBCFTEGUIHV

[@johndoerr8853]

The 4th A stands for frAud.

[@user-wg5hf5et9r]

Quadruple A

[@briankeebler4634]

It wouldn't be so bad if it was just a free to play game.

[@Miragexe]

Isn't this like a $70 single player game? Why the hell is there even a battlepass?

[@kie_stone]

Money

[@dudebruh8534]

CEO needs another yacht. And when he get's enough money to, he'll fire a couple hundred employees and get another.

[@noblewolf8232]

"I love money!" - mr. Krabs

[@KevinAccetta]

I thought it was singleplayer, but apparently it has online co-op. But yes, no $70 should have extra monetization

[@RazielTheUnborn]

This is not a single player game. It's the same as Marvels Avengers

[@KevinAccetta]

Yes, please make it worse. Make it bad enough that other studios think twice before making more live service games when they see players leave this trash.

[@ChrisTomson]

Other studios won’t see it that way though. CAAApitalism is doing the exact same money sink and expecting shit to change

[@widdershins5383]

They won’t, all they see is dollar signs and the publishers and accountants are gonna keep their bleeding methods in until they’re legislated out.

[@SoulAtParadise]

this won’t stop live service games. not even in the slightest. as much as i want it to but that won’t be the case.

[@KevinAccetta]

@@SoulAtParadise well yeah, one single failed attempt won't stop them, but over time if more and more bad ones come out, people will gradually get tired of the bs hopefully. Tho there's always one that suddenly resets that, like helldivers 2 I guess, cuz people love that, so companies will again think live service games are the way to go

[@joeschoppmann2745]

There's been multiple failed live services games before this one, marvels avengers, anthem, overwatch 2, battlefield (the newest one) gotham knights, cod MW3, and many others if I looked back far enough.

[@meteor22]

To hope that they go back to making single player games is a fools wish. The damage has been done and the talent that made RockSteady what we remember are no longer there. It's just a case of having another Blizzard/Bioware on our hands now.

[@2kool4u_mac67]

Not a chance rocksteady stays open…

[@blackmanwithcomputer]

They could still make a name for themselves as this new Rocksteady. However, given the catastrophic failure of this game, they're either going to get shuttered and folded into a different studio or get downsized by a lot.

[@MikeZdoesitz]

True, but people can send a message with this services collapse.

[@lycanwarrior2137]

WB doesn't see single-player games as being worth the risk, for better or worse.

[@ChaosWolfRider]

And it doesn't matter, given the talent that made Rocksteady has gone on to form Hundred Stars, so that's something to look forward to in the future.

[@DerangedCoconut808]

its fun hearing and watching the 13 people defending the game on how "fun" it is.

[@nehemiahpouncey3607]

Cause there smarks.😂

[@mediumvillain]

Most of its defenders were like "i cant defend this anymore" when Joker & season 1 came out

[@ricardohoang8452]

@@mediumvillain They can’t even defend Rocksteady there

[@sabo1789]

I mean, its a good gameplay loop. Sorry its not jerk off the horse simulator

[@Alex-bw3jj]

Yes its a masterpiece

[@viewernewest]

What a blatant middle finger to the players.

[@ricardohoang8452]

About 1500 little quests? Yeah let it kill Rocksteady 😂

[@neondystopian]

They absolutely hate us. I'm not exaggerating or being hyperbolic.

[@MarkDeSade100]

Anyone who's still playing this game after all the news about it deserves it.

[@Mocita]

Meanwhile, Arrowhead has been having a successful live service with Helldivers 2. They actually listen to the players, an example being when someone who is disabled plays by using a special controller for their head got banned because of the program being used that was detected, the devs actually asked him to send a message with the program and his setup so that they can allow this program and him to play without worry. The next warbonds(battle pass) will be released next week, and I'm expecting great things coming.

[@tommyllama4558]

where devs care, and where devs dont

[@eloquentire]

this is genuinely awesome

[@TheSymbiot3Venom]

Seems arrowheads community manager is ruining the good will recently earned

[@Nicholasmcmath-cr1xl]

Same

[@Spectrum0122]

They just need a new community manager hahha

[@georgemathis215]

It weird how a company can see all the negative reviews and all the coverage from KZbinrs and the company still won’t change its tactics.

[@lightbluewaves5526]

Cause such companies don't listen to anyone but themselves. They rather be in denial and pretend this is what the gamers want instead of accepting facts and working on the issues the game has. Like it's not difficult, look at the devs of no man sky. They had a disaster of a launch, but they worked hard to not only fix the problems, but actually add in more content, and now they rightfully deserve the praise

[@MusicoftheDamned]

​@@lightbluewaves5526Pretty much this, though it's fairer to say that the higher-ups generally don't pay attention since the execs and CEOs only tend to care about is money and pleasing equally greedy & incompetent shareholders. Meanwhile, the person(s) being forced to do bullshit PR spin statements like one in this very video likely see(s) all this stuff and just has to deal with if they want to keep their doubtless miserable job.

[@MarkDeSade100]

I've seen this trend too many times now, over multiple industries. When corporations become big enough, they stop caring what their customers think and their attitude becomes, "We will tell you what to like and you'll buy it". Support small companies and indie developers.

[@EarthboundX]

Cause the whales can make up for all of that, look at Diablo Immortal, at one point that game was pulling in over a million dollars a day. The criticism doesn't matter with that type of money, The casual gamer does not care, and they are the ones who are paying. Not us, not the type who hates this stuff. The casual gamer outnumbers us 100 to 1.

[@aahzmandiaz2767]

They hired SBI. They are beyond sane thoughts and reason. This game is the perfect storm of stupidity and delusion.

[@-Clueless-]

Ah yes. *Suicide Squad* *Kill the Franchise*

[@youtuvi7452]

Oh I'm so sorry for the 10 people that play this thing

[@rasmie8858]

So unlocking Joker basically takes more time than to plat Persona 5...that is insane

[@HarbingerYT]

Original P5 or Royal? How long we talking?

[@rasmie8858]

@HarbingerYT I haven't played Royal. From my personal blind playthrough, it was upwards of 190, iirc

[@KingKFool-kp9ts]

No YongYea is either a liar or a hack, it takes 1/10 of the time he claims it does

[@Mitrashi]

​@KingKFool-kp9ts Yong didn't claim anything. He literally got the information from a source. If you watched the video, you would know that 😂

[@KingKFool-kp9ts]

@@Mitrashi i thought people who claim to be journalists/reporters are supposed to fact check their information? I mean hey, as long as we agree he’s a dogshit journalist.

[@OldDogLearnNewTricks]

People just don't want to create anymore. It's all fanfic. From story to game engine. It's just a bunch of basic people standing on the shoulders of giants in the industry. Just look at Blizzard, for example. If the people who are making the game don't even play games, then don't bother. Because when a company states, "... it did not meet expectations." They are talking monetarily. They are not talking about the gameplay, because they don't play videogames.

[@MusicoftheDamned]

I've seen mountains of fanfiction more creative and faithful than this dreck. This is just lazy trend chasing with an IP that people recognize and that the higher ups don't care about running into the ground as long it gets them yet more unearned wealth. Nothing new there unfortunately.

[@TheTingcat]

I get the sentiment, but annual/investor statements are usually only concerned with the financials anyway, since that's the stake the investors have in the company. It'd be like talking to a banker about skateboarding. If they did really care about the gameplay though you're right, they'd be proud to express it - like behind the scenes blogs and videos aimed towards the current and potential playerbase.

[@AegixDrakan]

People DO want to create. We see it in Indie spaces all the damn time. The issue is that there are shareholders squatting on top of AAA studios, demanding "All of the money, immediately, and always MORE all of the money ever 3 months, by any means that can be done, no matter how unethical". If you want creativity, you're only going to get it from AAA very *very* rarely.

[@JohEl777]

Suicide Squad is the most fun game I never bought or played but had lots of fun seeing it fail. Normally I don't enjoy seeing games fail, but the disrespectful treatment towards the Batman Arkham games makes this fun for me to see it fail at everything it does, and didn't even cost me a penny.

[@ILSquirtles23]

Reminds me of fallout 76

[@JohEl777]

@@ILSquirtles23 Wasn't fun seeing Fallout 76 fail, that was just sad. Suicide Squad on the other hand deserves it's failure for being disrespectful, so it's fun seeing Suicide Squad getting it's comeuppance.

[@lightbluewaves5526]

Such companies don't listen to anyone but themselves. They rather be in denial and pretend this is what the gamers want instead of accepting facts and working on the issues the game has, at most they would patch up game breaking glitches that shouldn't have been in the game to begin with. Like it's not difficult, look at the devs of no man sky. They had a disaster of a launch, but they worked hard to not only fix the problems, but actually add in more content, and now they rightfully deserve the praise

[@thientuongnguyen2564]

I mean, they even stated games are not made for gamers anymore and are using "GamerGate 2.0" as excuse to NOT listen to consumers, citing us, the people buying their products, are payers, not customers. They want our money but not feedback.

[@JeancarlosRPerez]

Helldivers 2 and Suicide Squad- Kiill the Franchise both existing in the live service sector truly is a tale of night and day... On that note, as of today April 7th our fellow Helldivers have quelled the Automaton menace. Give them hell lads o7 ! 🎉

[@thedoomslayer108_YT]

Helldivers II has better monetization than any live-service games, while Suicide Squad: Kill the Batman: Arkham Franchise and Rocksteady is greedy, grindy, boring, and lazily developed.

[@mtdfs5147]

​@@ExtraordinaryFatereally fishing for those likes, huh?

[@dragonfire5568]

It really is. I haven’t play helldivers, but all I hear is praise.

[@noblewolf8232]

​@@ExtraordinaryFate really fishing for those likes, huh?

[@pm4009]

LIBERTEA! brother

[@tommyb1two3]

What I find hilarious is that all the seasons they've already finished developing (which I assume is at least the first two or maybe even the first four) are all designed in the same way. Some "elseworld" variation of Metropolis with Braniac boss fight where he takes the form of one of the Justice League members. Considering the reception of this first season, many players will likely have left the game by the time those other seasons release.

[@Wyzai]

players left within a week. I'm not sure they ever had a playerbase. It was only reviewers who actually played the game.

[@sethboyle90]

How much you want to bet they will shut down this game in the next season if it survives lol

[@rjmiggins5296]

Either way it's not going more than 4 seasons

[@Mac_Omegaly]

It should never have released.

[@Assasin2]

They will probably release all the seasons they’ve currently finished developing and like maybe try tossing out a “complete edition”, but it definitely isn’t getting new content beyond that

[@ajrm620]

"Fallen short of our expectations." I really want to know what their expectations were because given everything that was shown before launch, how everyone responded, and how hard Avengers bombed which was a pretty damn similar situation to this game, I personally couldn't see any reality where this game would be remotely successful and everything after launch has only reinforced that feeling.

[@0LoneTech]

You seem to have this idea that expectations should relate to reality. Corporate expectations are usually BS to entice people to buy stock, set by migratory executives, who'll often take a golden parachute and move on to the next company to gut before there are any consequences. And the next one is presumed "better" because the previous one is gone, even though both were selected on the same criteria; how smug they are about how much they got from their previous place.

[@jishan6992]

Suicide squad? More like Suicide from grinding

[@ricardohoang8452]

It killed Rocksteady lol

[@nehemiahpouncey3607]

😂

[@tr1bes]

It's just a copycat of Marvel's Avenger game.

[@IWearTimepants]

...squad

[@tylersmith9942]

Gottem

[@heavenlyvirtue8367]

I can't tell who's is worse when it comes to Battle Passes. Tekken 8 or Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League. Either way, these things shouldn't be in full priced games like this.

[@CallmeSins]

Tekken 8 battle pass isn't bad at all, I hardly play and I'm almost done with it.

[@flashtheshapeshafter]

Especially $70 ones

[@NekoHime77]

​@CallmeSins recycled content from T7 that should've just been in the game for free at launch and the pass costing 600 coins but the minimum you can buy is 500

[@CallmeSins]

@@NekoHime77 buy 10$ of coins...buy the battle pass which gives you 600 coins. You now have 400 to buy a pack or bundle and your battle pass pays for itself.. I won't like my own comment.

[@CallmeSins]

@@NekoHime77 you liked your own comment.. it had 50 secs on it.. smh shame on you.

[@SpectreAdept]

1500 missions!? I don’t even want to do 15.

[@jalendb0292]

What we could've gotten: A teen titans open world game. A DC moba. A DC legends revival A justice league beat 'em up game Ect. Instead we got: Killing beloved DC super heroes. Grinding for days for crappy rewards. Paying 70$ A 10$ battle pass Having our levels reset to 0 Characters with no uniqueness

[@hitmonkey4726]

They could have just made another Arkham game starring the Bat Family and it'll be 1000 times better than this crap.

[@Crippledsteel]

​@@hitmonkey4726 Gotham Knights doesn't look so bad in retrospect

[@Crippledsteel]

​@@hitmonkey4726still not a good game but I am thinking of trying it out again just to see if it was as bad as this shit

[@hitmonkey4726]

@@Crippledsteel the problem with that game is the mmo rpg loot like system and boring combat. If only Rocksteady the ones who develop that game and keep the Arkham style combat. But yeah, I think ink that is still worth to play than Suicide Squad.

[@irvins8160]

The real "Suicide Squad" are all the people who still playing this fucking game :D

[@gregorymirabella1423]

I genuinely don't understand what's been happening to WB over the past 10 years. You have to TRY to fail this badly.

[@Crippledsteel]

Discovery's guy behind it's reality TV is now in charge of everything Warner discovery

[@hazyrays994]

@@Crippledsteel i think that guy actually had some success

[@Crippledsteel]

@@hazyrays994 I'm open to here about one since the merger the only thing that's really blown up the Internet so far under the Warner Discovery umbrella has been a doc on Nickelodeon's child abuse

[@peachylover4598]

YESS it feels like they go out their way to fuck up every single piece of media they release

[@wolfwing1]

Another thing that pisssed quiet a few people off is, since the new damage type is poison, and so many quests require it, it kinda voids all the ranking and gearing up that was done in the base game, since so much is now obsolete. And if that remains the same whose going to go level up and get better gera for seasons if you can't use most of them.

[@jasondavis2995]

Can we get a Netflix documentary featuring what it's like to be a game developer for major Studios only to have your video game flop hard while the executives make millions...?

[@justinjames1339]

Suicide Squad seems to describe the game itself, too much so. Injecting awful battlepass has truly caused the games suicide.

[@TheTraveler980]

Warner Bros. still denies everyone the "Nemesis System" too, yet refuses to utilize it. They're like kids fighting over toys in sand pits while being too busy selling lemonade for $10 a cup.

[@Imnothere6]

Every battle pass takes forever for a regular player

[@kevingame3198]

Unless you find it channels for afk xp like fortnite

[@Imnothere6]

@@kevingame3198 true but even that takes time

[@darthshard8967]

the only good battle pass was doom eternal, they now do repeat events and they bundle like 4 series together and give players weekly challenges and back when it was just 1 series with 15 ranks if you really wanted to you could grind all 15 ranks in like a day and you had like 5 weeks time to do it all and i think the reason its the only one i like cause almost all items were and still are free ( with a few twitch prime collections being the exception), honestly to get 100s of items for free and with little to no grinding is such a rare thing these days

[@Gaias_guardian]

Dead by daylights doesn't take too long, honestly.

[@courier4529]

​@@Gaias_guardianSure, but it pretty much forces survivors to throw games. One of the main reasons I stopped playing, actually. There's like 12 battle passes and you need to buy every DLC to complete them fully, on top of time limited battle passes. Oh and also everyone is better than you unless you make it your main game.

[@lemoncandy2707]

Suicide Squad: Put Me Out Of My Misery. Yeaaah, seems accurate.

[@darkriku20]

They will quickly patch out the exploit to the battle pass and lower the amount of exp you can get from that enemy and nerf its appearance rate

[@gespy796]

grinding is fine and all but giving your players respect for their time is a priority

[@widdershins5383]

We expect a little grind, it’s how you play games lol even from back in the day farming and grinding has been a thing since exp was thought up. But there’s a difference between grind and jerking you off like a paint shaker machine

[@user-bu7vb5tg6b]

My reaction to this season can best be summarised as "My expectations were low, but holy shit!"

[@CiromBreeze]

I set the bar on the ground and they somehow managed to dig below it

[@coreymyers5321]

Warner Bros: “Sure you pay $20 for this extra, or even better grind for 200 hours with no extra charge.” Me: “But if I get a part time job at minimum wage, I could get the $20 for the extra by working for 4 hours. So how is that better? If anything, I’m working (grinding) for below minimum wage for an electric nothing (extra).”

[@zephyrprime8]

They WANT you to get that job. They don't want you to PLAY the game, they want your MONEY.

[@ramonalavigne8953]

4 hours only gets you $20? I really hope this is not true. Please treat your employees better America.

[@canicheenrage]

Don't forget it's a full price game, too, not a free to play.

[@user-wb7yx5wm2k]

Grinding 1500 missions to complete a Battle Pass and paying real money to unlock the Jonkler early in-game is pretty much the DC equivalent of spending 40 hours of grinding to unlock Luke Skywalker or Darth Vader and earning rewards by simply AFK-ing in a pubic match. True pride and accomplishment right there fellas!

[@bluemenace04]

I've never seen a publisher this bent on killing their own product. They must really hate sweet baby inc 😂

[@kosmosfan01]

I jokingly said that Persona 3 Reload was gonna bury this game with the close release date just because I figured it'd be the more anticipated game. I never figured SSKTJL would go as downhill as it had.

[@xMontorix]

This is the only game I've ever owned where I truly felt like I was wasting my time. I don't care to grind the battle pass because this live service is trash and I don't have the time. I don't care to pay for it because this game is obviously going to be shut down in abou a year a so. I'm not throwing my money into the dumpster.

[@widdershins5383]

I’d correct that to say MORE money into the dumpster fire. You already paid for this pile of shite my guy lol

[@_Mutt_]

You paid for this?? Lol

[@predetor911]

Suicide Squad: Kill the Live Service

[@nehemiahpouncey3607]

LoL 😂

[@Rocketcow-dx1jd]

​@@nehemiahpouncey3607All Rocksteady had to do is add Spider man, Deadpool & the X men.

[@Chados.]

"I actually like this game!" Said no one ever.😂😂😂

[@A1stardan]

You'd be surprised to see ppl on reddit still justifying this

[@Mac_Omegaly]

Sadly I have met one insane fanboy who tried to justify their waste of money.

[@IMysticCobaltI]

I honestly love the game, it's fun and I just love grindy games overall

[@baki484]

There are people who actually say that.

[@MarkDeSade100]

@@A1stardan I wouldn't be surprised, because you included the words "on reddit".

[@mas8705]

Here's the thing that gets me on this. They did post another "update post" on April 5th discussing everything discussed here. From "doubling" the xp earned in the battle pass (even though that's still a nightmarish number of run still to do), how to unlock Joker (which still doesn't change the length it takes to get him), and the "cheating" going on. Also lots of random balancing to try and make the game more servicable (including afflictions they previously nuked in a panic). All this said, still a zero vote of confidence. I feel like I will be able to log in next weekend and see how the hackers running rampant will still litter the top leaderboard with skills points that go over 2 million, the grind itself for the battle pass will still be a slap in the face for those actually trying to grind it, and what I will still say is the biggest problem with this game on a mechanic level: ITEM MANAGEMENT IS STILL A NIGHTMARE. 300 item limit (didn't get up'd with Joker's inclusion), can't sort your items so you can have duplicates that can range from the bottom of your item list to the bottom, can't dismantle items at the mission clear screen (but only with Aaron Cash, who is your daily loot box drop), and can't have a simple means to look at everything you got and have to go to every single individual character in order to dismantle items. Things are hysterically bad if you spend more time having to manage your inventory in a game that made it arm breaking to deal with, than actually playing the blasted game.

[@0LoneTech]

Did you not know? The selling point is how much time you're stuck in front of it, not if you find it fun.

[@onebear6504]

Sometimes I wonder how such not good news on the gaming industry happens day after day consistently

[@SherlockZ_001]

As someone who played the Avengers game that keeps getting brought up with comments about the Suicide Squad game, I feel like this needs to be said: The best description I have for the Avengers game is that it was 'a piece of butter spread over too much bread'. The story was great, the characters were well acted and all played differently, and the core of the gameplay was good: That's the butter. The bread is that it was a good 40-50 hour experience that they tried to make into something that would last years. It never should have been a live service title: if it had followed a more traditional model, and wasn't designed to just keep going forever, it would have been better received / remembered. This game? It's like they looked at the mistakes the Avengers game made and said "Hold my Beer". Or, maybe "Hold my drugs" is more appropriate, with all the psychedelic colors thrown out during gameplay...

[@josephpurdy8390]

These companies ever state a goal for a production cost to gross revenue ratio?

[@accelerator8558]

I think is a miracle this thing still has players

[@ktvx.94]

They aren't failing at recapturing their players, they just gave up on it and trying to milk whatever players they have left as much as possible before pulling the plug

[@r01d2]

Yongyea still giving last message hoping Rocksteady turning back to their best in making Arkham series. Rocksteady is already a Theseus's Ship, when they already replacing everybody in that company with new people, is that still the same company who creating Arkham series.

[@thelonewolf8050]

This is very ironic, I just got done watching the suicide squad with the shark character, and your video on the video game the suicide squad is just flat out weird.

[@domomonstero3077]

If WB really gave 2 shits about making a good live service game then they need to make a sequel to or remake DC universe online. Make a good action mmo and people will come and pay.

[@lilbladeknight]

I had fun with their moba

[@Iscream4j0y]

Waiting on Inside Games to apologize for gas lighting us with 2 videos

[@thientuongnguyen2564]

You know they never will.

[@Iscream4j0y]

@@thientuongnguyen2564 Yeah, I already unsubbed some time ago, though it'd be funny if they tripled down at this point

[@joshfoustcommunity8928]

Going through 1,500 missions to get through 1 battle pass is absolute terror, no amount of playtime is worth breaking your soul over it!

[@AlexFurry]

Well all the Arkham people in the studio left, like Bioware, Blizzard, Rockstar is getting there, those seniors are not there anymore to keep the values, quality and the spirit of the games there and the new people has no power against the current leadership so they're kinda just sinking trying to re focus.

[@kinmingwong6866]

So glad I didnt preorder this game or fell for any of the “positive reviews” bullsh*t lmao 🤣

[@Scribz1212]

You can unlock everything on the battle pass with 0 missions actually, it will take 73 days of logging in and in doing like 30 minutes of contract work

[@scottwinfrey8250]

Watching live services trip and faceplant right out of the gate brings me endless joy

[@sandshrew8148]

💀 BRO 1.5k MISSSIONS

[@kyotanaka920]

Don't you play games? 😢

[@alexdasliebe5391]

“ Bro! 15-hundred missions! Awesome! “ what Warner Bros’ CEO wants to hear

[@steve0riginals]

@@alexdasliebe5391 have i ever told you the definition of insanity?

[@skylerfreeman1173]

It's 150. Do the math yourself... this is why the internet is bad lol. The game is trash but that doesn't make this video correct 😂 kinda hilarious

[@randomguy6679]

@@skylerfreeman1173And how did you come to that amount?

[@darienford860]

I'm replaying Arkham Knight which was $5 when I got it on Steam. Still holds up, even the side quests with Riddler and releasing all the firemen were more interesting than this.

[@Tonku12]

Waiting for the day WB delists the game permanently as a tax write off like they do with all their other properties.

[@HellWrex]

Im returning after not watching Yong for a while, and im absolutely appalled that the mario hat isn't on the goomba in the background 😂

[@dastvan8002]

I really do hate to see that I saw it all coming. But I did bloody see it coming.

[@Snapdragon0112]

I am getting tired of the “technically free” era of gaming

[@SniperwolfViolatedMe]

It’s even worse in this case

[@Akeyins]

This isn't free though even technically. People had to buy this game then they added stuff you normally see in f2p games

[@Circuitssmith]

It’s so ironic, because the exact same behavior that created the problem is what’s stopping the developers from fixing it. If Warner Brothers was in the business of putting in extra effort without a complete guarantee of money in the future, the game would have been complete from day one. It’s like a guy in charge of emptying the oily rag bucket being the same one who maintains the fire extinguishers.

[@augustvalek]

Reminds me of that time destiny 2 literally walled content behind a boring grindwall

[@marcosramos5117]

Unfortunately I don’t think this is ever going to change-at some point the gaming industry shifted its focus away from the core gamers like us and decided to shift towards the casual “gamer”. These studios have the money and contracts to take IPs that gamers have had a nostalgic connection with and now only want to cater to the casual. The core gamer usually will be hesitant and wiser with what game they want to play-casuals don’t care they will just pay and keep subscribing often times forgetting they even subbed. The execs rather go where the money is.

[@alphonsejohnson5601]

I am really sick of these edgy comments about casual gamers ruining games when it's also some of the "core" gamers that also pay thousands of dollars for slop, and Stream the slop to a bunch of people, who will buy said slop because their favorite streamer played it. Also I'm a casual gamer and I chose my video games carefully, In fact, Other than sonic mania and frontiers, I play various Indie games that are fun, affordable and are made by gamers for gamers. Overall it's also core/hardcore gamers fault for how bad the AAA gaming industry has gotten, So saying or insinuating that casual gamers ruined gaming is blatantly false

[@kamurotetsu4860]

@@alphonsejohnson5601 Just FYI, there was a report recently about what games people played in 2023, almost all of them were live service slop that came out from 7 years ago like GTAV, Fornite, The Sims 4, League of Legends, Call of Duty etc. There was only 4 games on there from 2023: Zelda, Hogwarts, Super Mario Wonder and Starfield. This is why the industry is chasing live service so much. Those 7+ year old live service games make up 60% of the industry revenue now and that's because of casuals. The OP is right.

[@IEgOImkAwx]

@@alphonsejohnson5601 He's unfortunately just not wrong. The majority of the consumer base is people who just play every so often. They are the most willing to drop money. Just because certain batches of power consumers drop $10K every year isn't the difference to tip that scale. These games have specific design in them when it comes to their microtransactions, and it's fashioned to push the general consumer to drop $10 here, $5 there, $20 over here, etc. It works very, very well.

[@marcosramos5117]

@@alphonsejohnson5601 And it’s not like I’m saying that there can’t be a slice of the pie for both types of consumers - the real issue are the execs pushing garbage like this and I don’t like when consumers are screwed. Regardless of the type of gamer you are we deserve better for our dollars, like the “3 day early access BS” that’s straight robbery and yes people don’t have to pay but the execs know what they’re doing and that itself is really unethical.

[@mellowdarkness3344]

WE NEED TO INVEST IN MORE LIVE SERVICES! -Warner Bros exec The live service:

[@HardboiledHarris]

The pride you will feel for the accomplishment of unlocking Joker will be so satisfying.

[@georgiesifuentes94]

What rocksteady should do is take this game, and tryto bury it just like E.T.

[@thisisfyne]

Funny how nobody's even talking about Skull & Bones anymore lmao

[@dblthnk6655]

Skull and Bones might be able to turn things around at this rate

[@chayimweinstock443]

The best part of the suicide squad game is that I can just play deep rock galactic instead.

[@liamwayne6703]

The fact that people are actually playing this crap game, and complaining about it being crap, tells you everything we need to know about the game's industry.

[@EspyMelly]

At this point they've just resigned themselves to milking the crap out of the few dedicated players they have left until this game finally shuts down for good.

[@tragicsham]

No one stating the math or xp total is incorrect. 7,500/50 is 150 not 1500. I'm assuming Paul meant 75,000xp which indeed would be 1500 missions to complete the battle pass not 7,500xp.

[@InsomniacsAnonymous36]

We’re farming all the Ls today boys!

[@NadeemShekh-uy9zn]

Suicide squad kills rocksteady

[@Zontar82]

7:04 the same grinding numbers were expected by capcom in sf v to unlock akuma for free, which is why they expected people to pay for it

[@tonypond3970]

Every time I hear Joker DLC I think you're talking about P5 Joker lol 😅

[@flashtheshapeshafter]

What happened to the Arkham universe i loved😢 If marvel rivals is the better live service game (which looks fun), mad...

[@kie_stone]

It still exists just forget this one does.

[@dudebruh8534]

It's funny how live service games think adding more macrotransactions and battle-passes count as an "update" or "new season". BTW, Helldivers 2 just added a brand new enemy type that looks like a star wars AT-AT.

[@Danny-mp8dq]

Suicide Squad: Kill the Rocksteady

[@10dev785]

god i love your SSKTJL videos.....this disaster most be spoke about

[@AntonymicallyCorrect]

It's great that you found some technical issues to hate about this game but the only reason I need is Sweet Baby Inc

[@randomguy6679]

I mean, technically this is gameplay based criticism, not technical criticism.

[@IEgOImkAwx]

FACTS.

[@Gamer1990100]

Everyone should check out angry joe's angry rant about season 1 it's so comical on how bad the game "season" really is

[@OmegaSaurus]

TWO HUNDRED HOURS. That's what it takes to 100% A WHOLE GAME, not a single battle pass, even with idle farming and fooling around most of the time I just 100% mgs v after 210hrs

[@J-zf4eh]

I believe if they focused on the campaign more and made Suicide Squad a stand-alone single-player experience similar to Hogwarts and focused their time on that, maybe they could have had a positive reception. But because they are so fixated on turning this game into a live service, always-online money pit, then, of course, they are going to receive criticism for not listening to begin with. The players warned them, and they didn't listen. Cause and effect. Look at Payday 3. The player count was so low and non-existent that they fired the CEO because the game performed way below expectations. The critical thing here is that players are the key. If your audience is dissatisfied, they will move on, and thats it. Players are already tired of the corporate greed. You are making a game for players to enjoy, not to suffer through, and that's what Helldivers 2 delivered. It was a game for the players, first and foremost.

[@mjvigor1788]

Smh this industry is dead ☠️

[@Akira00920]

Ok let me ask. Why is it that one game and a few bad apple companies makes a whole gaming industry dead?

[@Orome96]

Correction : AAA industry is dead. Indie and small/independent studios are thriving now more then ever.

[@flashtheshapeshafter]

Feels like companies learn the wrong lesson from OverWatch fortnite and now tears of the Kingdom being $70, the amount ofAAA games that killed entire studios last year also scares me

[@JONATHANP1619]

​@@Orome96Dude, stop, not because Ubisoft and Warner does bad game that it's dead. You maybe not like some of those game but just Balders Gate 3, Spiderman 2 and Tears of the Kingdom is a proof AAA aint dead.

[@AXIS_ARISE]

@@Akira00920 Not a few, majority of triple a developers chase trends like this and have normalized these disgusting practices. So mjvigor1788 is right, this industry is dead but only in the sense that it has lost its passion and identity.

[@a_passing_cloud]

This game being called “Suicide Squad” and killing it self is funnier than those gotta abandoning that game called Abandoned.

[@SpikeRose]

In some weird, parallel dimension we have a really good Justice League game where every 'season' is a new classic villain with story missions leading up to a cinematic showdown that would rival Asura's Wrath. Skins would be obtained from either fulfilling challenges or finding them in the levels. Between missions you roam around open-world versions of metropolis, gotham, hell even star city maybe.

[@NionAeon]

“Well I’m having fun”

[@dtanobo]

Full priced game with a grindy battle pass and people will still find a way to defend it. Pathetic.

[@Krejii05]

R6 and fortnite IMO have the easiest and fastest battlepasses to complete. R6 especially considering how many boosters they give.

[@A1stardan]

We farmed the latest BP in siege in 4 days playing 8 hrs each, yes with boosters.

[@N3bulAura]

The fact that this video almost certainly has more unique people watching it than SS will even have played it is just kind of nuts

[@ElOsoMarino]

This is without a doubt one of the best examples of how live service games can suck so horribly bad

[@sammorrow8420]

Thank you for sharing the info on which games to avoid due to greedy publishers.

[@SenmiMsS]

I've seen a review on steam with 300h. Talk about insanity.

[@grundged]

Voice actors did a really good job. Unfortunately the game has no new content and none is planned. Just same Brainiac boss and incursion fights.

[@Kontkane]

And now this is -50% in the Playstation store.