Rocksteady Studios emphasised that Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League will probably be a story-driven motion journey in its newest deep-dive reveal, however its post-launch plans appear to nonetheless fall very squarely into the live-service mildew. The studio offered extra element on the sport’s seasonal updates and battle passes at the moment, together with that gamers received’t have to spend cash to accumulate new characters.
Regardless of present within the Batman: Arkham Knight universe, Suicide Squad comes with the entire trendy multiplayer options, boondogles, and annoyances. A press launch accompanying at the moment’s announcement is virtually a guidelines of each method main publishers are making an attempt to recoup the prices of huge finances blockbusters with out frequently elevating the worth of their video games.
For instance, whereas Suicide Squad technically comes out on February 2, gamers who purchase the $100 Deluxe Version will get to entry to it three days early. That costlier model will even include one token for a “premium battle move” in addition to some extra gadgets and outfits. Rocksteady additionally makes clear, nevertheless, that gamers who purchase the common model of the sport will nonetheless get entry to post-launch content material “at no extra value.”
“Publish-launch seasonal updates and earnable characters to develop the story with new missions, gadgets, and extra, obtainable at no extra value,” the studio writes. That features, “entry to all free seasonal battle move tiers (as every turns into obtainable).” It sounds just like the always-online recreation received’t be locking gamers out of recent story content material and missions, simply doubtlessly charging for sure particular seasonal rewards. After all, the proof will all the time be within the remaining recreation. Further characters is perhaps “free” however nonetheless require an unreasonable quantity of in-game grinding to unlock.
Hopefully, Suicide Squad can get the stability proper the place different video games like Marvel’s Avengers haven’t. The final time Rocksteady revealed new gameplay footage again in February, followers have been largely repulsed by gear scores and different signifiers of live-service padding and monetization. The sport subsequently went darkish and received delayed for nearly a 12 months to work on including extra polish. It might be a pleasant shock if all of that stuff ended up feeling largely separate and simple to disregard within the completed recreation. We’ll discover out quickly sufficient.