Poor old Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League hasn’t had a good year. Launched to be Warner’s big live-service hope for 2024, it instead belly-flopped to very low player counts and deeply middling reviews. This all followed a very difficult development, and things haven’t improved much since launch. So, wanna buy it? It’s 95 percent off!
Clearly, 2024 has been a brutal year for live-service gaming, and Suicide Squad somehow manages not to be the year’s most enormous disaster in the genre. That was, of course, Concord, possibly the biggest entertainment flop ever, which doesn’t exactly redeem Rocksteady’s failure. Sure, Concord barely lasted two weeks before Sony tried to erase it from the timeline, but the much-delayed Suicide Squad had a massive server outage moments after launch, peaked at a pretty desultory 13,500 concurrent players on Steam, launched a woeful first battle pass, pissed off players with terrible skins, and was already being given away as a freebie six months after launch—right as its second season was delayed…
The real tragedy is that—much like Concord—the core game underneath Suicide Squad was fine. Not good, not hatefully bad, just fine. It then wasted this foundation with monstrously repetitive missions, misusing its excellent combat for a dreary grind, with a gruesome end-game that meant it wildly failed to deliver on its live-service promises.
So, after this extensive sales pitch, you wanna play it right now, right? No, of course not, but when I tell you it’s possible to find out what everyone’s so annoyed about for the cost of a bottle of Pepsi, you’re a teeny bit tempted, right?
The extraordinary price on Steam until December 4 is just $3.50, a 95 percent discount from its standard $70. Or if you fancy splashing out, you can get the “Digital Deluxe Edition” down from its usual $100 to $5—that gets you some extra weapons and a token for a battle pass. Admittedly, it’s literally infinitely more expensive than the offer made to Prime members back in July, but it’s so low that it suddenly enters the territory of morbid curiosity.
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