Rocksteady Developers Reflect on Suicide Squad’s Tumultuous Rise and Fall

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Two Rocksteady developers discuss the troubled development of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, revealing how live-service ambitions, crunch, and budget pressures derailed the project and nearly drove them from the industry; the game flopped commercially and critically, with Warner Bros reportedly absorbing about $200 million in losses, and the studio has since shifted toward other Batman titles and new live-service efforts.
Topics:technology#burnout#game-development#gaming#live-service#rocksteady-studios#suicide-squad-kill-the-justice-league
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