It’s safe to say that the hype leading up to the release of Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League was quite lacklustre. From the bland and uninspired HUD to the iconic tweet featuring Poison Ivy’s ice elemental fire axe, and many other factors about the game drove most outside of the diehard fanbase away before the launch. But not even the fans that stuck around were ready for the early access launch surprise – leading Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League refunds to skyrocket over the past 48 hours.
When players who paid extra for early access to Suicide Squad booted up the game right after the early access launch began, they were met with a fully completed save file. While this might not sound like a big issue at first, it gets worse when you consider the game only has online saves, so players couldn’t just delete their save to restart. They were also spoiled on major plot points in the story and world-changing events since the save was set to 100% completion.
The servers for Suicide Squad were taken down just a few hours after launch, but the damage was already done. This was the final straw for most as they took to various forums to vent about the issue and track down how to get a refund for Suicide Squad. No one wanted to risk playing for more than 2 hours and losing the ability to refund it on Steam.
According to some statistical research of Google Trends during the launch by McLuck, the search terms for Suicide Squad Bug went up by 936% right after the early access launch. Once players started to figure out that there was no simple fix for the 100% save bug the search results for Suicide Squad Refund went up to 791%.
It was during all this chaos that many news outlets decided to come out and say that they were not provided review codes, thus painting Warner Bros. in an even worse light. Making it seem like the publisher was aware of the poor state the game was going to launch with and wanted to try to hold off reviews until the day one patch could be released and fix most of the major issues.
While many gamers come to expect performance issues and incompatible driver bugs on the launch of the game, the early launch for Suicide Squad seemed to be just a step too far for many. While there are no public reviews so far for Suicide Squad, it will not be shocking to see Mostly Negative reviews on the Steam Store page when the game goes live on February 2nd.