It shouldn’t be a surprise to publishers or developers that these types of games fail so soon after launch. Games that are padded with repetitive content for the sake of it or saddled with a spendy in-game store and battle passes. We’ve been crying out against these types of games for years, they keep making them… and they keep failing. WE DON’T WANT LIVE SERVICE GAMES!!! There’s a reason the most popular games of the last couple years have been games like Baldur’s Gate 3, Battlebit, Lethal Company, and Helldivers 2. Games that are built from the ground up to be fun, not money sinks.
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Helldivers 2 is literally live service with microtransactions lol.
Plenty of popular live service games out there. People clearly want live service. Cherry picking bad ones doesn’t mean people don’t want it. Just like if I cherry picked Gollum to say no one wants single player games. People want good games period, makes no difference if it’s live service or not.
Why are we still seeing posts about this game?
You do know that Helldivers is a live service game right? Or did you just mention it cause you saw all the good reviews about it even though you know nothing about the game?
*Fewer
Suicide squad: kill the player count
There are plenty of beloved live service with microtransaction games. The problem is that some are predatory in nature. People need to stop supporting the predatory ones. For example, PoE is a FREE live service game with microtransactions and it has given SO many people hundreds or thousands of hours of fun. The problem is corporations using the model to shake you down, not the model itself.
Edit: Also Helldivers 2 is a live service w/ microtransactions game and is one of the hottest and MOST WELL ENJOYED games on the market right now lol
Damn… this game is going to last less than the Avengers fiasco. That’s some milestone right there.
We just don’t want bad games. Live service games can be good
Single player stories being turned into multiplayer live service games can die out of the industry anytime. I’m not alone in being completely uninterested in the idea
Including bots
Wake up, babe! There’s a new suicide squad player count post!
Currently replaying Arkham Knight instead.
They want to compete with Marvel to see which game is worse this or the Avengers
Assuming this is just less than 1k on steam? I’m sure there are more players on console but still not a great sign lmao
But companies do make a lot of money from games like that, that’s why they keep making more of them.
I’ll be excited to see this in a Humble Bundle choice shortly down the line.
What’s crazy is an Arkham style live service game would’ve interested me but a Suicide Squad game where I have to kill some of my favorite heroes while seemingly doing very repetitive combat with 4 characters who all use guns even if they normally don’t? That’s a hard pass from me, bro.
Now if only it worked on sports games. I’d love to play them again someday but there are micro transaction hells, and single player modes go years without updates. It drives me crazy people don’t vote with their wallet more.
I think you need to double-check your sources for what ‘the most popular games’ of the last few years are…because games like Battlebit (which peaked at 90k players) isn’t one of them. In fact, most of the popular games ARE live service. Counter Strike, Dota, League of Legends, CoD, Apex, Valorant, PUBG, Genshin Impact, Honkai Star Railetc.
Is it on sale yet?
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When will these idiots realize nobody wants to pay 70$ for their half assed game. I guarantee you they’d make more money releasing this shit for $20 than they have with this price
WE DON’T WANT LIVE SERVICE GAMES!
lists Helldivers 2
lol
The majority of people that like live service games are already into/addicted to their game of choice. They have spent way too much money to just switch games, and why would they if their favorite keeps coming out with new content.
I just checked: on SteamDB, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League (https://steamdb.info/app/315210) has ~1834 players currently.
Meanwhile looking at Baldur’s Gate 3 (https://steamdb.info/app/1086940): 138 739 players… It’s laughable (for KtJL)
I just can’t get over the fact that they saw the freaking *Avengers* be unable to pull this off and thought “yeah, Boomerang will definitely work out where Iron Man didn’t”.
Developers just throw live service games at the wall now in hopes it will stick and be the next Fortnite cash cow
“WE DON’T WANT LIVE SERVICE GAMES”
*looks at Helldiver’s 2 player count and recepti*
*looks at the most played games on all platforms*
Dude, people are eating live service games up, just because you don’t want them doesn’t mean the majority doesn’t. It’s really just that people want GOOD live service games.
Make me a good batman game, and I’ll play it.
Imagine if they spent the better part of a decade working on another high quality single player game instead. What a waste of time and talent.
In the mean time helldivers 2 got so many players the servers can’t handle it.
Rock and stone!