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Just got finished Joe's angry ranting review of Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League review.
I'd say he's pretty much spot on with pretty much everything he said about it - keeping in mind I never bought/played it personally. Watched reviews, watched some let's plays, etc. That's as far as I'm willing to take any live service crap pretty much. But you don't need to play it to understand the flaws and see the effect being churned out as a live service game had on the game design process.
However there is one comment near the end I have to take exception with. Starting at about 1:15:09, he talks about how "A once great company gets gutted even further. (if it doesn't meet it's revenue stream expectations in a live service shitshow)."
In particular it's "Only thankfully the smart ones have already left. The founders have peaced out of Rocksteady when they saw the writing on the wall and formed their own new company HundredStar. I wish them well. That was the right move. Rocksteady had sold it's soul and we're all worse off for it."
Who SOLD the company Joe? Why, the FOUNDERS did. With a treasure trove of documented evidence at this point of what ALWAYS happens to a game dev that sells itself - it's soul - regardless of any promises given during the sale. The founders sold the company for a profit, then fucked off to build a new company where they'll likely just end up doing it all over again.
So yeah, I'm not going to be singing any praises for HundredStar. They're just, at best, another disaster waiting to happen.
I'd say he's pretty much spot on with pretty much everything he said about it - keeping in mind I never bought/played it personally. Watched reviews, watched some let's plays, etc. That's as far as I'm willing to take any live service crap pretty much. But you don't need to play it to understand the flaws and see the effect being churned out as a live service game had on the game design process.
However there is one comment near the end I have to take exception with. Starting at about 1:15:09, he talks about how "A once great company gets gutted even further. (if it doesn't meet it's revenue stream expectations in a live service shitshow)."
In particular it's "Only thankfully the smart ones have already left. The founders have peaced out of Rocksteady when they saw the writing on the wall and formed their own new company HundredStar. I wish them well. That was the right move. Rocksteady had sold it's soul and we're all worse off for it."
Who SOLD the company Joe? Why, the FOUNDERS did. With a treasure trove of documented evidence at this point of what ALWAYS happens to a game dev that sells itself - it's soul - regardless of any promises given during the sale. The founders sold the company for a profit, then fucked off to build a new company where they'll likely just end up doing it all over again.
So yeah, I'm not going to be singing any praises for HundredStar. They're just, at best, another disaster waiting to happen.
