They FIRED the devs of Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League...

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Rocksteady is the latest studio to be hit with layoffs, according to a new report.

Sources have told Eurogamer that numerous employees have been made redundant over the past month, with its QA department more than halved (from 33 staff to 15) as well as non-QA job losses too.

According to the source, the job losses are directly linked to the release of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, with its poor sales specifically mentioned as a reason for what it describes as “restructuring”.

The report also cites one employee who mentioned on social media that they had been informed they were being made redundant despite being in the middle of paternity leave.

While a number of the layoffs are said to be junior staff, they’re also said to include some developers who have been at Rocksteady for more than five years.

Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League was the company’s biggest recent video game release, but it was met with mixed reviews and failed to achieve a consistent player base. The game has been blamed by Warner Bros Discovery as one of the key reasons for a drop in gaming revenue.

[deuxjohn]

Bad board with poor decision making,
Bad game
Bad income
Same board firing devs and keeps doing the next mistake.

[salvadormendoza]

Executives that green lit Suicide Squad should relinquish their salaries and that money should be given to the fired devs...

[AnxMa]

When creative and passionate devs are replaced by cynical accountants and execs. When real gamers're replaced by quick-insta-fame-fake-gurus. By people who, back in the day, considered anyone of us who was computer savvy or a gamer, or had a Myspace profile to be 'a loser'. Now they use our tech to make sick money, share their vanity and destroy self-esteem of others. I recently made a deep dive video about X360 as the last great generation, I don't want to be right...

[kelevrakrew]

Executives make bad decisions, Devs take the blame...

[krdfy]

They need to fire everyone that worked on Concord.

[chumorgan]

They fired them for making EXACTLY the product they asked for.

[roberthazelton]

I bought it dirt cheap and I still felt like I paid too much.

[TheRebelkid]

On the bright side. They'll eventually have no devs left and nobody left to blame but themselves. That... is going to take a very, very long time.

[blizmo]

Stop making Live Service garbage
Stop chasing the next Fortnite
Get back to making quality games

[Avalanche]

I would be sad if these people didn't hate gamers. I mean they've publicly admitted to it so they deserve what they get

[AllThingsInfamous]

First they force you to make a game you don’t wanna make then the game bombs and then they fire you. Welcome to gaming in 2024.

[RyanThompson-lj]

I've already turned my back on all of these studios that turned their backs on us. Let them crater.

[milestrombley]

The ones who decided to make the game horrible should be held accountable.

[mandrews]

Surprised you’re not covering the shutdown of the Visions of Mana studio on the day their game releases. That’s such a rough hit.

[Tebodaman]

This is so sad. So many developers getting shut down or fired these last few years. And this is no one’s fault but Warner Bros. The original creators of rocksteady left because of this game. Any studio forced to make this game would’ve failed. Sad to see how rocksteady had so much potential all to watch it implode. I don’t blame the devs I blame WB.

[toxicdome]

I would love to be a fly on the wall at a AAA board meeting. It’s probably infinitely for entertaining than whatever they produce.

[benfrancois]

The Suicide Squad really did Kill the gaming industry LOL but they didn't kill the Justice League

[terminatorxp]

successful live services are the exception to the rule, not the rule but executives think the opposite for some reason.

[BeastmanGames]

This is good and bad depending on who was actually fired. The devs bad, but the people marketing how inclusive the characters are, the costume designs, the writers, and the executives saying how the game should be how it was and the plan for it. Those other devs should've left alongside with the founders. Which I'm sure most of them have. If you don't agree with the executives then just leave if you're financially stable to work somewhere else.

[joshuaschmidinger]

Suicide squad had my interest until I heard it was online only, had microtransactions and repetitive online objectives. I wanted another arkham game, another single player story driven masterpiece. I am just not interested in online games for the most part(I play some)just don't have time and money to sink into new stuff with my single player stuff(which is my main gsm8ng love and focus)as well.