Unless I get better news, it is canceled in my book
Would You Prefer It If Suicide Squad Was Cancelled At This Point?
- Thread starter bogey_j
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This might body Rocksteady.
Poor leadership and the suits strike again
Y’all can blame the “suits” or the competence of the studios if you want to, but in reality they keep telling you the business model on a game like Arkham is just not sustainable.
As popular and successful as the arkham games are. To make one today would cost exponentially more money and at best they’d hope to make the same amount of revenue they made with past games.
Rocksteady will die either way if they don’t come up with a revolving revenue stream, or get purchased by a platform holder who doesn’t need to make great profit off each individual game.
This is their attempt at surviving in todays gaming landscape.
Gizmo_Duck
blathering blatherskite!
It’s even worse to invest 9 years into a failed gaas
A new single player rocksteady game would be guaranteed 10 million in sales. They’re the one studio who’s reputation affords them the opportunity to do it
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They will make their money back.
Breaking even ain’t it tho.
This game gives them a chance to exist in the new industry.
Arkham 4 even if successful wouldn’t ensure they get a chance to still exist in the future.
Gizmo_Duck
blathering blatherskite!
They’re WB they don’t have the same struggles EA and Ubisoft do.
They could have put out two single player games since 2014 that could have generated more Profit than what they’re gonna make on this. I understand GAAS is vital for a lot of companies but you need developers that are good at it not ones known specifically for single player, that’s the problem crystal dynamics and bioware had.
The risk is bigger for a limited return. It would be just kicking the can down the road till they found a sustainable game plan. This gives them a chance to have a “platform” if they can get it right.
It doesn’t even have to hit big day one. Look at stuff like Fallout 76. No man’s Sky, Sea of theives. They were able to build a platform to eat for years.
Rocksteady might not hit with this one but Arkham 4-5 would have for sure “doomed” them.
Gizmo_Duck
blathering blatherskite!
Naw, i disagree. They’ve spent 9 years running in circles to put out what is going to be a flop. They can sell single player games, sure, its not this infinite stream of money but it keeps them above water and makes their publishing arm look good. WB have over a dozen studios they don’t have to throw their prestige studio at a GAAS project.
Rocksteadys name is going to be in the dirt after this game, it does them far more harm then good. No Man’s Sky is an outlier, Fallout 76, and SoT are backed by a large platform holder.
I would be very surprised if they don’t shut the servers down on this game within a year
Game ain’t even out yet, it could end up ok.
Arkham was declining, no guarantee it would have done well.
Gizmo_Duck
blathering blatherskite!
They didn’t have to put out another Arkham they could have literally done any other 100 DC comic hero games. shyt, im sure people would have preferred they be the ones to do Wonder Woman instead of Monolith.
The concept they were working on before this, a cyberpunk, Neo-Gotham game starring Damien or Terry would have lit the charts up.
The problem with super hero games these days is they need to be in sync with their film counterparts to really hit.
I'm interested to see how this turns out, but it's almost certainly a pass.
I'm interested to see how this turns out, but it's almost certainly a pass.