Suicide Squad sees less than half the day one Steam players of Avengers

Marvel’s Avengers was delisted from storefronts last…

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"I know this IP is profitable, we just have to keep trying to reboot it. People love superheros, right?"
- This is the whole DC missed the train argument right? I feel like on top of that Superheroes have died down hard, due to mid effort from Marvel. I dont think they can rely on just shoveling out content, they have to only put out good products and maybe even use heavy hitters.
  
  DC did not miss it, Christian Bale // Christopher Nolan Batman was released at the perfect time and made a killing, the only super hero franchise that came close to recreating that was The Avengers.

https://www.metacritic.com/game/suicide-squad-kill-the-justice-league/
Oof. No pre-orders, kids!
- And yet steam users have rated it 84% favorable. Weird how it's so wildly different than critics and metacritic users (though, to be fair, metacritic gets reviewbombing and all kinds of hate trains choo choo)
  
  Reviews all seem to say fun game but get on a sale. Wonder if there'd be more success if it launched at a lower price like palworld, since movement looks enjoyable like Sunset Overdrive but I think only die hard fans are willing to pay the $70 price tag.

I'm not defending this game but the title is a bit misleading... according to SteamDB the peak concurrent player count was Saturday 5pm 13.5k, then at 5am ET Sunday it was 6.3k, then now in Saturday afternoon it is 12.8k again. It's not like half the people refunded it overnight, necessarily.
We will see if interest wanes quickly by looking at the trend over the next week or two.
It looks like the stuff that Warner Bros. put in to make this IP a cash cow just made it boring and dry.

Its a shit game.period
- It didn't have to be. Good job rocksteady
  
  Blame WB Games. The devs just did what they were told by the publishers, and that was to make a shitty live service superhero game.

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