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The saga of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League serves as a stark warning for developers and publishers. Prioritizing social messaging at the expense of gameplay, ignoring core fan desires, and overextending with risky live service models can have disastrous consequences. Game companies must listen to their audiences, create authentic and engaging content, and avoid rushing projects into release based on political or social agendas.
Ignoring these lessons risks not only the failure of individual projects but also the potential collapse of beloved studios. For Rocksteady, this may be the end of an era, with the possibility that their next chapter could include layoffs, studio closure, or total shutdown.