Suicide Squad Developer Rocksteady Hit With More Layoffs - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 07 January 2025 / 2,380 Views
Rocksteady Studios, the developer of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League and the Batman: Arkham series, was hit with more layoffs at the end of last year.
Several employees that remained anonymous told Eurogamers about the redundancies at the developer. Programmers, artists, and QA staff have been impacted by the layoffs.
Rocksteady was hit with layoffs last September due to the poor performance of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. At the time over half of the QA team was laid off and others outside the QA team were also let go.
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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GaaS do be like that.... either they become mega hits, or they end up costing a ton and wasting money.
Sadly SSKTJL was just a poorly made one, with seizure inducing visuals, big numbers everywhere, bad hud, poor gameplay.... and then there was the way they portrayed the comic book characters.
They did not respect the source material to say the least. Gameplay loop was poor.... so people tired of it , the few that played it, dropped it quickly.
What's sad is they spent 2-3 years working on a single player superman game set in the Arkham universe, but the tech (SSDs / Fast CPUs) just weren't there yet on console.
It they had just stuck with it for another 2-3 years rather than switch to SS, we would have gotten a better game and they probably would have gotten more sales.
Personally, I would love to see a sequel trilogy to the Arkham games but with Batman Beyond.
The only people that deserve to be fired are those that supported the pivot to Live Service.
