Publisher blames PUBG for Lawbreakers flopping

eurogamer.net/articles/2018-01-03-publisher-blames-pubg-for-lawbreakers-flopping

>"LawBreakers is a unique FPS developed for core users. We had very high expectations for its launch," Uemura continued, "however, the timing of its launch turned out to be unfortunate, specifically the blockbuster PC online game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds came out right about the same time, making the market environment very tough for first-person shooters in general and for LawBreakers."

>It's an unlikely argument. LawBreakers never sparked widespread interest - not before or after its launch, and not before or after the arrival of PUBG.

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I HURT MYSELF TODAY

you cant blame any one game for the huge failure of lawbreakers

what do you think cliffy is doing right now?

>our game flopped because a better product became available at the same time
well...duh?

Pondering suicide

HA

They aren't even the same fucking genre. Cliff is just a wash up still living in the glory of epic games contributions to gaming (gears of war and bulletstorm)

This may be a stretch, but cliff is literally in a more cuck status than Randy Pitchford.

I can blame the game of life lmao

I suppose that if you retract literally all the video games in the entire world ever produced, and leave Lawbreakers as the only remaining title available, that it might spark a little interest in some people.

But otherwise this game was on literally nobody's radar. I suppose that might sting the Cliffster a little.

>PUBG
>not Overwatch
JUST

> i thinke we maed the danksouls of competititive shioters

>those fingernails

I can't be arsed to type out an essay on why Lawbreakers failed, but Crowbcat's video sums up everything perfectly. youtube.com/watch?v=wJ4v2LgVlEA&t=325s

Cliff tried to sell lawbreakers to almost every publisher and they all said no, then came Nexon.

weren't they blaming Overwatch before that?

Take some fucking responsibility.

I do kinda agree that 2017 must have been one of the worst games to release an MP shooter. But that in itself doesn't explain away the complete and utter failure of Lawbreakers. It has always been a problem for new games to explain why you need this one when there's 9001 other offerings, and I think Lawbreakers did this exceptionally poorly. Game isn't even that bad.

Lawbreaker's anti-gravity mechanic is not fun and the concept of using a dedicated "fire behind you" button to propel forward just so foreign for even the most dedicated of players to wrap their minds around.

That's not the point. The point is even without PUBG, LB would've flopped anyway. This is just damage control

How can this be?! I put trans-dimensional poly-gender future bathrooms in the game and made the characters look like the United Nations!

>using foreign in a derogatory manner
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Quake Champions is great and its dead too. Arena shooters just aren't alive at the moment, or alive in mutilated, degenerated forms like Overwatch

what a fuck face, supports the bitch who always says video games were bad and evil. meanwhile he makes one of the most violent and visceral games at the time

JUST BUY THE FUCKIN GEYM

SHOW BOSS KEY WE ENJOY THE GEYM

he used it in a non deragotry from, it essentially means unknown

Cliffy has Trump levels of delusion. He needs to admit his game was poorly marketed and drew little attention because the game didn't offer anything interesting.

Cliffy got rich on oculus rift shit, plus his parents are loaded. He'll be fine. Although Notch has it better plus he shitposts on twitter all day long about how its ok to be white while Burch, Randy and Cliff are reeeeeeeeeeeing cuz drumpf.

Pottery.

So what’s the next step. Cutting his loses and jumping ship seems like the smartest thing to do for Clint.

Anytime Nexon publishes anything it's a MAJOR red flag.

>What is Unreal Tournament

god i hate br*ts so much

Where are all those SJW gamers now? Do they even tweet or acknowledge the fact that this game have ugly black characters and gender neutral bathrooms?

>the game didn't offer anything interesting

>B-BUT OVERWATCH!
>B-BUT PUBG!
>B-B-B-BUT MY GENDER NEUTRAL BATHROOMS!

>fairy tail
>doctor who
lmao, he is one of those "im a nerd" type of person

He invested in Oculus when it was a startup and become a millionaire when Facebook bought them out. He started his the studio to make Lawbreakers with his own money.

Wasn't it because of Overwatch?

Other than the stupid characters was there anything wrong with the gameplay?

Class imbalances?
Bad gunplay?
Movement issues?
Lag?
Poor map design?

>Publisher blames OVERWATCH for Lawbreakers flopping

This would have been the title if PUGB wouldn't exist OP.

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All nigs are full of AIDS, have you seen those yellow eyes?

Overwatch brought cartoony graphics with highly unique gameplay variance in each character. It has wasn't buggy and didn't look like a clusterfuck of metal parts and muscle.

PUBG is literally the first major battle royale game which was create by the same dude who made the popular ARMA mod before most people knew that style of game existed.

Are you seriously trying to defend Lawbreakers somehow?

What a surprise.
Losers blame winners if they don't understand why they lost.

So who is H1Z1 supposed to blame?

>our first person arena shooter flopped because a third person battle royale game released

wat

I remember Cliffy being handsome as fuck.

Motherfucker has aged like milk.

h1z1 could blame pubg/fortnite. lawbreakers should be blaming overwatch. it's like a horror movie coming out and the director complaining that a comedy book was released. It makes zero sense.

he lives in a mansion and i believe he owns a chain of restaurants or something like that

Laughbreakers lost the race because it showed up a week after the race ended. Honestly it didn't even show up to the right location

>I remember Cliffy being handsome as fuck.

What? When?

Who knows?

Nobody actually played the game LUL

They don't play video games

They put all this energy into these stupid as fuck projects when they have an IP that could make money in if they actually gave it some TLC and they wonder why they are doing poorly.

For real if they just put money into unreal 4 instead of trying to get the "community" to develop the game for free they would be fine. This is all deserved as far as I'm concerned.

WE

He's rich, but he's probably gonna flip back to consoles and blame PC again, just like he did exactly a decade ago.

WUZ

BREAKERS

>PUBG
>Rolled into Early Access in March of 2017
>Lawbreakers
>Released in August of 2017
>came out around the same time
Not even close

How can someone who was directly responsible for a publisher and its investors losing 32 million dollars continue to maintain a presence online as if nothing happened?

He's probably ruined more than a few people's lives due to this blatant stupidity. This guy is a fucking terrible human being.

AND SHEEEIT
>hashtags
>diversity
>nofilter
>nocharisma
>poorappeal

What would he reply if someone tweeted this shit to him?

>released literally the same day as PUBG went early access
>still manages to get 1k concurrent players despite being a niche game

They can blame PUBG, but Overwatch having "hero shooters" by the balls was their biggest issue in terms of comparisons. PUBG becoming the hot new thing surely didn't help, but from day 1 Overwatch was their public enemy #1

I actually feel quite bad for him.

If they asked for the licence of some anime girls, and changed all the artstyle and kept the gameplay.
Would it sell 50 million copies?

Game isn't terrible. The biggest problem was you couldn't really play it because there's long wait times to find a match since nobody else played it.

He would problably use the same microphone as Kurt Cobain to do an announcement.

I thought Cliffy payed from his own pocket. Did Nexon actually fund the game? I figured they only paid for having it released on PS4 with boxed copies

If you're one of the guys you can't do no wrong you can bankrupt companies left and right and theres always a nice job waiting for you.

Probably one of the best BLACKEDhand shops I've seen.

>london scum
>british

Pick one and only one.

Yes you can, the game to blame is Lawbreakers.

How does one go from left to right in the space of 19 years?

I'M SO FUCKING GLAD ROGER EBERT IS DEAD, NOW VIDEOGAMES CAN BE ART

don't forget the skimpy outfits
>fit animu girls
>big butts and boobs
>2 dark elves for the diversity quota

So where's he now? Last I heard, after the xbone nonsense he went to Zynga right as it was sinking.

>"Hillary is a unique president developed for core users. We had very high expectations for its campaign," Uemura continued, "however, the timing of its campaign turned out to be unfortunate, specifically the blockbuster president Donald Trump came out right about the same time, making the election environment very tough for presidents in general and for Hillary."

>It's an unlikely argument. Hillary never sparked widespread interest - not before or after its launch, and not before or after the arrival of Trump.

waste of good gameplay surrounded by bad everything else. Damn shame honestly.

Fortunately we have a product for people who aren't able to get some form of connectivity and it's called Xbox 360

By going hard left.

Ah shit I lost it

>Cliff is just a wash up still living in the glory of epic games contributions to gaming (gears of war and bulletstorm)
>No UT
>No Jazz Jackrabbit

C'mon son

Evolve makes me sad. Despite having fun shitposting about their stupid amount of paid skins, the game never failed to make me laugh as a monster and torture the hunters.

Put over 200 hours into it.

Probably around 2006 when Gears of War came out.

Say what you want, but games like PUBG really fucked up with Lawbreakers, otherwise how do you explain a game with awesome AF! character designs as Toska-9 flopping?
You cant explain that

>nexon

Should have stick with asian waifu simulators.

reminder that this woman tried to have the government censor videogames
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Are you being ironic?

jesus christ how does america keep spawning people like this clown?
>therealcliffyb
isnt "thereal" some prefix celebrities use when someone steals their name for twitter? who the fuck would want to steal this faggots name? jesus christ everyone is a delusional snowflake over there

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>gaining and losing 470 players in a month

>if I had a jaw for every videogame that is art

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It looked like overwatch that didn't add anything worthwhile to abandon overwatch.

I remember my thought process when i saw it for the first time
>another overwatch clone? Why?
>why does it look like shit?
>Why am i supposed to play this?

I'm not saying that it's actually overwatch but you've got to address the established narrative when you are introducing something new, the "IT'S FOKEN HARDCORE FOR TRUE PWNERS" shtick missed entirely, I guess it was supposed to intrigue the call of duty audience but they didn't even hear it.

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what the fuck why can you see his shirt through his motuh

I think around 2006 he met someone who seriously fucked with his mind and caused him to develop into the person he is now. Before 2006 he seemed like a sane person.

Lawbreakers was cliffy's attempt to make an older shooter like Unreal despite 19 years of progress.

Devs trying to appeal to the old shooter crowd (Quake Champions, Doom multiplayer, Lawbreakers) don't realize how niche it is.