Summary
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leaguewill be receiving one major final update in January, which will also spell the end for support forRocksteady’slive-service looter shooter.As part of an announcement detailing Season 4, Rocksteady revealed that the game will officially see its support end with Episode 8, though all online features will continue to be available.
The announcement follows recent news of Deathstroke being the game’s Season 4 DLC addition, as well as confirmationthat the long-awaited offline modewill also be coming to the game. With the updates, it brings to an end one of the biggest stories in gaming in 2024.
Originally released on February 2, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League did not launch to critical acclaim.Our own Stacey Henley gave it a 2.5/5, writing in part, “This might be the most rinse and repeat a game of this stature has ever rinsed and repeated.”
In the months following, Suicide Squad continued to round out its post-launch supportwith the addition of The Joker,Mrs. Freeze, Lawless and now Deathstroke.Neither DLC addition was particularly well-received, with many criticizing their individual origins, as well asthe plot twists that were folded into the game.
At the same time, Warner Bros. reported that the live-service venture resulted in a $200 million loss. All the while,the game’s player base continued to dwindle, with fewer than 250 players during Season 3’s initial launch. Recently,the game did experience a slight uptick in player count, though that likely had to do with the game’s massive discounts.
Prior to Monday’s announcement, Warner Bros. remained mum on future support of the title beyond its outlined Year 1 roadmap.In a statement to IGN, a Warner Bros. spokesperson said, “We are not yet discussing anything that is not announced.“Evidently, there was nothing left to announce, as the game will see its support end a month before its one-year anniversary.
