Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League will be supported for multiple seasons after the PS5 game comes out at the end of this week, but rather than designing it like a Destiny 2, developer Rocksteady has assured this is not a game that will dominate all your free time. Instead, part of the title's philosophy is to make sure it doesn't feel like a "life commitment".
Speaking in a Discord AMA transcribed by GamesRadar, game designer Axel Rydby explained: "We don't want the game to feel like a life commitment or be a game where you have to sacrifice a lot to see all the content on offer, or feel like you're not making good progress in the game if you can't play hundreds of hours." He then adds: "We want this game to be generous, both with your time and with all the features we have to offer."
This marks another game pulling back from the route some Games as a Service take where they're so encompassing that you'd struggle to fit many other games into your free time — examples include Destiny 2 and Genshin Impact.
In fact, Rocksteady has confirmed that all its post-launch content will still be there — all for free — ready and waiting for players who arrive late to the experience. Four seasons have been revealed so far, all of which will add new playable characters, locations, and gear. The first season, which starts in March, adds the Joker to the playable roster. These content drops are called Elseworlds, which are a lot like a multiverse setup where the Joker you'll play as in Suicide Squad isn't the same one from the Batman: Arkham games.
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League launches for PS5 on 2nd February 2024, but you can get three days of early access starting this Tuesday with the more expensive Deluxe Edition. Are you eager to jump in? Let us know in the comments below.
[source gamesradar.com]
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That's a good thing that people can get the stuff if they jump in late.
Impossible, I have no life.
There isn't a phrase that puts me off a game more than Seasons. The slow drip feed of content on a game starved for it at release just isn't for me.
They have done such a bad job of marketing this game that there are constant articles telling us what this game isn't.
@Smash41 How about "dailies"! i.e. we want to keep you on the slow drip of FOMO forever.
In other words the Endgame is trash and there's little reason to play post story except farming for rubbish loot.
Constant PR damage control going on with this game. 😅
But I do like to hear this. Live Service games which require huge time commitment is a big turn-off for me. I’m glad Rocksteady seems to have read the room on this game.
Still… I haven’t really been thrilled with what I’ve seen so far with the gameplay, so I’m not planning to buy this right away
I doubt this game is gonna be as bad as some are making out but I think the sheer amount of disappointment in the ill-fitting use of the license is enough to turn that entirely average, cookie-cutter gameplay into something almost offensive.
It's not for me anyway but I do have my fingers crossed for fans the IP. Y'never know what I'll end up like down the line.
I'm ready for the multitude of article talking about how poorly this game sells. Every new bit of info "revealed" feels like more and more damage control.
They are constantly attempting to fan the flames out before they even appear, that is a red flag.
I have issues with the gameplay loop but the gameplay (movement, traversal, combat) looks fun, story is fun, live service elements aren't THAT intrusive. This game is likely to be a hit.
I just would've loved for this to be a SP game with a co-op online add on, like GTA. Because that gameplay loop of shoot purple thing and run across empty map just to do it again, with boss fights sprinkled in-between has no business being in a Rocksteady game or with those really good looking cinematics and story
They should have made a new game about one of the other superheroes like.... "Superman" and made it a single player open world story with side quests involving a villain like a previous game that sold well.... "Batman Arkham".
I know big companies want to build a gold mine to fill their pockets, but publishers are wrecking their brands reputation by switching to make live service games.
I knew this already. It's clearly been designed to be avoided all together 👍
So much so they are completing the campaign for you 😂
This game is getting so much hate from game sites for being live service game but I bet nothing is said when path of exile 2 comes out
I mean...thats a nice gesture and certainly helps this to not be a never play, but the style of game it is just isn't for me. Maybe I'll try it out one day when I can get it for a deep discount. Plus it depends on how grindy the platinum is of course, lol.
So in 5 years when the servers shut down can I still play the game? I doubt it. Or maybe in 14 years when I put my PS7 away to play some classic PS5 can I play it?
***** if a game takes over ur life its time to put the remote down
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