Season three of Kill The Justice League offers Lawless as a playable character and a return to Gotham City, but nobody’s playing.
After the critically acclaimed Batman: Arkham trilogy, Rocksteady moved on to make live service title Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League, which completely tanked thanks to dull gameplay and a very unappealing adaptation of the source material.
The flop has reportedly cost publisher Warner Bros. $200 million (£157 million), and ever since it came out in February they’ve been trying to entice more fans to play with new seasonal content.
Season three went live on Monday, October 1 but a peak player count of just 248 on Steam make it clear that it’s still pretty much a dead game.
As with each new season, the third content update comes with a new playable character, this time Zoe Lawton, also known as Lawless, daughter of Deadshot.
There’s also new gear, missions, outfits, and the changing of cities from Metropolis to Gotham. But just like season one and two, nobody seems to care.
In comparison to the 248 player peak for season three, season two, which was delayed and came out on July 25, saw a peak of 572 players on Steam, according to SteamDB.
Season one came out March 28 and saw a big spike in players on PC, boosting numbers from 533 to 3,042 on launch day, but it didn’t take long before it fell below 500 again.
Kill The Justice League released on Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5 as well, but it’s impossible to get an accurate figures for them, unless Warner makes them public – which it’s clearly not going to.
Rival live service game Helldivers 2, which also came out this year, peaked at 450,000 players at one point, compared to Kill The Justice League’s 13,500.
As if all that’s not bad enough, the Suicide Squad season three trailer is being downvoted five to one by fans on YouTube, and it has less than 7,000 views 24 hours after it came out.
Rocksteady and Warner Bros. haven’t confirmed when season four is happening, but leaker Miller Ross claimed earlier this year that season five will be the last content update.
The first warning sign that Kill The Justice League was in trouble was when it was delayed by a full year, to ensure the ‘best quality experience’, after a disastrous State of Play showcase.
After mediocre reviews and low player numbers, Warner Bros. confirmed that the looter shooter was a flop, saying it ‘has fallen short of our expectations’.
Live service games are risky, and Kill The Justice League isn’t the only cautionary tale this year. Sony’s Concord failed so badly that it was taken offline just two weeks after it launched.
As of this writing, only 188 fans are playing Kill The Justice League on Steam.
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