For the second time since its early access launch yesterday, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has been taken offline for ongoing maintenance. This latest outage comes after an initial period of downtime yesterday to address a critical bug that could mark players’ story progress as 100% upon logging in, effectively locking them out of main missions. This time, the reason has not been named.
As seen in a tweet from the official Suicide Squad X account (formerly Twitter), The latest maintenance began at 3:30 AM PT (6:30 AM ET) today. Any player who was already logged in would be disconnected from the game. No specific details on the purpose of the maintenance were given, stating only that the game would remain unavailable “until maintenance has been completed.” The downtime lasted approximately 90 minutes.
This is frustrating if you paid the extra money for the Deluxe Edition. The Deluxe Edition grants 72 hours of early access, but that time gets shorter and shorter. According to GamesRadar, yesterday’s outage reduced that window to 63 hours. While today’s maintenance was shorter, it adds to the cumulative time players cannot access the game they paid extra to play early.
If there was an offline mode, this wouldn’t be a problem. Players could just continue to play the game they bought without interruption. It makes almost no sense that the game, which could have easily been a single-player experience, always has to be online. It really does cast a bad shadow over Rocksteady.
We don’t really know if this will happen again before or after the full release. All we know is that having a live service game has worsened it. Resolving these issues would have been possible without making players wait to play the game they paid extra for.
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