Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League Will Be Slightly Delayed For Epic Games Store
Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League is releasing on February 2, 2024, on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Windows via Steam. But the situation with Epic Games Store has changed, just a little bit.
As reported by Video Games Chronicle, Rocksteady shared this message to their followers in their Discord:
“The release for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice league on the Epic Games Store is now March 5, 2024.
If you pre-ordered the game on this storefront, Epic will be cancelling your pre-order and refunding customers directly.
A confirmation email of this cancellation will be sent directly from the Epic Games Store Support Team.”
While it’s been virtually forgotten in light of the bigger Insomniac ransomware leak, Rocksteady Studios also recently suffered a compromising leak for Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League. Both leaks can do material harm to both studios, and the game developers under them.
In this particular instance, however, we don’t really know for sure why there is an additional delay just for Epic Games Store. Is this about an exclusivity deal with one of the other platforms? It isn’t likely, though not completely impossible, that some deal was struck for Steam to get the game first. It’s also possible that Sony or Microsoft made some sort of deal with Rocksteady or their parent company, WB Games.
Valve is unlikely to have signed such a deal, but this could have come about the other way around. Someone could have made a deal, not to benefit Steam, but with the intention of harming Epic Games. Or this could be a situation where WB Games and Epic Games couldn’t come to an agreement on something, so WB ended up delaying the title for their platform.
It is even less likely to be an issue with the development
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