Cliff Bleszinski’s Boss Key Studios Acknowledges Failure of “LawBreakers”

Boss Key Studios has admitted that LawBreakers is a flop: in a new statement, the developer explains that the arena FPS failed to garner an audience and isn’t making enough money for the team to improve the game as they had originally planned. While support will continue to some extent, the studio is moving on to another project.

...our studio is determined to give this game the second life it deserves. However, between now and then, we cannot sit idle. We will continue to support the game in its current state, but we also need to focus on other projects with fresh creative leaders. We have been working on something new and we can’t wait to share more about it! It’s a passion project that we’re in complete control of.

Never heard of it. Doesn't sound like anyone else has either.

I'd been tracking it in its various beta stages. They simply didn't get to market soon enough. It ended up being a "not-as-good Overwatch" instead of its own game. One of the betas was out well ahead of Overwatch, but then they decided to develop it for another year. They probably needed to push it out a lot sooner.

It was quite good. Lack of marketing plus a market dominated by Overwatch doomed it. Wrong genre. Wrong time.

^ i disagree. they had a lot of marketing compared to other games, and overwatch didn't doom it.

blensinzki is an asshole and acted like an entitled asshole throughout on his messaging ("our game is perfect, fuck you")
while it was terrible. It had insane micro-stutters on PS4 from what I recall seeing a long while ago, how is that acceptable? They then screwed with balancing and made everybody mad I think.

assholes+bad game = deserved this.

Jumpy-B-L said:

It was quite good. Lack of marketing plus a market dominated by Overwatch doomed it. Wrong genre. Wrong time.

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I have to agree. I never heard of the game until now and I work in the gaming industry! That is some pretty bad marketing.

This is the second time I have ever heard of this game. Ever.

And I still knew nothing about it other than Cliff having his name on it.

If it hadn't been a multiplayer online only game, I would have bought it but with today's rampant cheating and foul language online, I'm just not interested. I like playing the games but just not always online.

Tried to get into it, but it lost me pretty quickly. To this day I still play UT1, UT2K4 and UT3 quite often, but I just couldn't get into LawBreakers. They lost me on that on. CliffyB maybe needs to go back to Epic, and Epic needs to make more of the kind of stuff they used to make before they took the "Mega" out of "MegaGames." Maybe Epic can hire out Boss Key to make Unreal 3 or some shiznit. We got a 4th UT game on the way (which hasn't grabbed me yet either, though I still fuck around with it from time to time), but we still only got 2 Unreal games. Doom 4 and MachineGames' Wolfenstein games have some great single-player experiences, might be time for another Unreal. Epic said they're not doing any more focused single player games, but I think they should take one more stab at it. Oh well. I've never been a TF2 or Overwatch guy, I'm a UT Quake 3 guy. Quake Champions lost me pretty quickly too. Something about the feel of that game is just off. I think it would helped a lot if they had gone with the excellent idTech 6 instead of whatever kooky nonsense Saber Interactive came up with. Anyways, I wish Boss Key better fortunes with whatever new project they end up doing. Maybe time for Jazz Jackrabbit to make a comeback...

I bought it on PC and thought it was fun. The problem is the lack of players leads to extremely long wait times for games and really disrupts the play flow. I want to jump into another game when my game ends, not wait ~20 minutes for the next game.

iissmart said:

I bought it on PC and thought it was fun. The problem is the lack of players leads to extremely long wait times for games and really disrupts the play flow. I want to jump into another game when my game ends, not wait ~20 minutes for the next game.

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This is why we need dedicated servers. Call of Duty 4 (the original) still has a consistent amount of players playing it on PC because of them.