Report: Rocksteady Hit with Layoffs Due to Poor Performance of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 September 2024 / 1,740 Views
Rocksteady has been hit with layoffs due to the poor performance of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, according Eurogamer who spoke with Rocksteady staff.
The quality assurance (QA) team at Rocksteady has seen over half of its employees laid off over the last month as it has gone from a team of 33 down to 15.
The layoffs have also hit employees outside the QA team as one staff revealed they were made redundant while in the middle of paternity leave.
Staff at Rocksteady, who remained anonymous, told Eurogamer the remaining QA team will be left with more work to do as some employees with specialized knowledge have been let go. Senior management has also stated product quality will suffer due to these layoffs.
Junior staff and several employees who have worked at Rocksteady for over five years have been laid off.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Suprise surprise...but hey let make another live service game! surely thats what their fans want.
They should probably hit Warner Bros. management with layoffs instead.
Cutting Quality Assurance of all sections is pretty wild though. I feel like tons of people could have seen this coming a mile away just from the trailers.
I hope this was a learning experience for everyone involved and they try to do better next time.
Sad to see this happen, especially to such a mighty studio.
Batman Arkham Knight was just another show of how well they had perfected their development skills.
It looked so beautiful.
It's very safe to say we would have gotten another entry of the Arkham series by now. Or it would have been close to be released.
I can't imagine how huge of a stunner this would have been running on current-gen consoles.
It's really not understandable how they could drop the Arkham franchise in favor of Suicide Squad.
It's not rocksteadys fault it's fcken warner brother dickheads the heads of heads that should be laid off for pulling the dick moves being bigger dickheads...
The higher ups I swear to The heavens should be the ones laid off honestly
