The outlook on Suicide Squad and Skull and Bones is tepid – is this the end of the live service craze?

Suicide Squad was always going to have an uphill battle selling people on its pitch (think of Marvel’s Avengers and its live service failure, for example).

In February, we’re getting two games that explicitly position themselves as ongoing, live service games.

By comparison, Skull and Bones is a fairly benign attempt at making a live service game out of a popular mechanic from one of the publisher’s past games.