I’ve been writing about video games, television and movies for Forbes for over 10 years, and you may have seen my reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic. I cover all manner of console and PC games, but if it’s about looting or shooting, I’m definitely there. If I’m watching something, it’s usually science fiction, horror or superheroic.
This Thursday, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League will test its live service ambitions with its first, hefty free content update which will give playersas a new squad member, along with a new host of weapons, some new missions and a new boss fight.
This is, in effect, probably the do-or-die moment for Suicide Squad. Yes, they have a year’s worth of content mapped out, but this is the closest live release to launch, which should theoretically be its biggest by default. Plus it is giving players a recognizable character, the Joker, as opposed to a gender-flipped version of Mr. Freeze the following season and Deadshot’s daughter the season after that.
I am going to be watching the game’s performance where available. We only have access to the top 10 games at any given time on PlayStation, where Suicide Squadnumber one at launch for a brief time. But it never got above the top 20 on Xbox, and quickly dropped out of the top 50, which is all we can see online. Steam has been an utter disaster for Suicide Squad with a launch half as big as Marvel’s Avengers, and concurrent playercounts have been peaking at under 1,000 for about a month now.
There’s also the monetization question. Suicide Squad is doing what the Avengers did by giving away heroes for free, while selling only a battle pass of cosmetics at launch. Player-friendly, to be sure, but one that does not seem poised to make a significant amount of revenue. A low playerbase will see a small portion return from its peak to play new live content like this. And an even smaller fraction will actually pay for something like a cosmetic battle pass if they can use Joker for free.
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