Per week after Warner Bros. admitted that Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League failed to fulfill expectations, the sport’s participant rely appears to have dropped to regarding ranges. On Steam, Suicide Squad’s concurrent gamers are peaking at a couple of hundred solely, and plainly issues aren’t any higher on consoles.
Suicide Squad participant rely doesn’t bode effectively for its future
As famous by Forbes’ Paul Tassi, lower than a month after its launch, Suicide Squad noticed simply 593 concurrent gamers on Steam a day in the past, with the quantity dropping as little as 287. That is alarming for a dwell service recreation that wants a strong participant rely to justify the price of retaining servers on-line.
PlayStation and Xbox would not have a system for revealing concurrent participant counts, however Tassi famous that he hasn’t seen Suicide Squad anyplace in Xbox’s high 50 for the previous week at the very least — not a superb signal for a recreation that solely simply launched.
Suicide Squad launched to largely adverse critiques, with its PS5 model settling for 60/100 on Metacritic. Warner Bros. revealed in a latest monetary earnings name that the $70 recreation has “fallen in need of our expectations,” leading to its video games enterprise seeing a “powerful year-over-year comp in Q1.”
