Suicide Squad: Killing the Justice League, despite having some bright spots, is nevertheless a complete disaster for Warner Bros. Entertainment. The disappointment of the live service has for some reason led to a company that focuses on live services and games that can be played for free. More prominent are existing properties and games like Hogwarts Legacy, but the majority of Suicide Squad teams are reportedly shunted.

The staggering loss was put into perspective during a earnings call in May according to a Bloomberg report, where Warner Bros. "It was revealed that the suicide squad had taken a loss of2200 million".

For context, the original 2016 suicide Squad movie — Bad One — cost 1 175 million dollars to make— that is, before you consider various advertising expenses. Despite being a serious failure by most indicators, the film was still able to take off at the box office with over 725 million songs worldwide. I sympathized with Rocksteady, but the comparison must be stung.

Bloomberg's Jason Schreier also spoke to "nearly two dozen" developers who chose to remain anonymous, but still, the confusing zigzags and U-turns that paint a troubling picture of the game's development

Initially, Rocksteady created a prototype of an "original multiplayer puzzle-solving game" called Stones. In 2016, the project backed Suicide Squad, although they were part of the landscape for years, around 2016-2017, live-service games were popping up. Destiny2 and Fortnite: Battle Royale swept the world in a storm within a year from Rocksteady's sharp left, while MOBAs such as League Of Legends and Dota2 were already pulling the numbers.

This climate seemed auspicious and ripe for rocksteady's looter shooter: "Rocksteady executives soon decided that, in keeping with the new enthusiasm of their parent company, Suicide Squad would become an online multiplayer game with live service content."

The report calls Rocksteady's leadership, namely Jamie Walker and Sefton Hill, as being the cause of many of the most prominent disruptions—and while it's possible they've been experiencing some pressure from the big boys on, it's still a challenge for the studio." Read as a massive chaotic time. Two notable swerves have been pointed out.

First, Suicide Squad was intended to focus on melee combat, but over time it decided to focus more on guns. "With this change, some staff were wondering why heroines like Captain Boomerang, known for fighting with his namesake weapon, would suddenly turn to gun violence," he said."Yeah, me too.

Hill also reportedly wanted to make the vehicle a thing after the game's current movement system was developed: "I wondered why [the developers], players using Deadshot or King Shark would care about motorcycles when they could soar through the air." After the ping, the vehicle system was scrapped.

In fact, the report went down particularly hard on Hill, who was said to have been late for work reviews and unfamiliar with the game the suicide team was trying to imitate, and he, the co-founder of the studio perfectionists and director of the game, to review their work...He discarded a large chunk of the script and his evolution

At this point, it should be noted that both Hill and Walker left the studio just before the release of Suicide Squad. When looking for potential recruits from Rock Steady, according to a Bloomberg report, "they will have the opportunity to free the game from orders and pressure from companies like Warner Bros."

There are already some conflicting stories emerging here — in the way some discourse is progressing online, as Rocksteady tells the story of big bad Warner Bros.It would be permissible to think that he was forced to make a slop of live service at figurative gunpoint by a man with a gun in his hand.

On the contrary, the Bloomberg report portrays Walker and Hill as highly involved in the transition, but they are confused about actually offering it. Two things, I think, can be true at once. Warner Bros. Rocksteady may have been the overbearing parent hoping to rustle Destiny pronto, Walker and Hill nervously made the best game in a space where the studio had zero previous experience

and the twilight years of development were increasingly littered with gravestones of similar games despite being made in the industry. I turned around and the studio handled the storm coming in with similar fun as the one I held during college. In other words, if you continue with no, it will probably be okay. "Promises from management" said that "Suicide Squad will eventually coalesce at the last minute, just as Arkham Games had." Some employees adopted the term "toxic positivity" to describe the company's culture that discouraged criticism."

I don't think crossing your fingers will cut it for the development of a multi-million dollar game that was really firmly poured into it, continue to review over 200 star game demonstrations, send praise feedback, praise the graphics, and let Suicide Squad play for 10 years." He said he expected the franchise to become a billion-dollar franchise."Needless to say, it was not.