Cliff Bleszinski has just announced that Boss Key Productions has shut down. Bleszinski was honest about the reasons behind the closure of his new studio, claiming that LawBreakers was a financial failure (something most of us already knew) and that Radical Heights was too late to the party.
https://twitter.com/therealcliffyb/status/996092708971274245
As Bleszinski stated:
“LawBreakers was a great game that unfortunately failed to gain traction and, in the last ditch attempt we scrambled to do our take on the huge battle royale genre with Radical Heights which was well received, however, it was too little too late.”
This could also explain the increased amount of placeholders that were in Radical Heights, something that put off a number of gamers.
Bleszinski concluded that the servers for Radical Heights will remain live, however, we don’t know whether the game will receive any new patches or content updates, and how long the servers will remain live.
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CliffyB: “I’m going to take some time off and reflect”
On gender-neutral bathrooms?
didnt he start a restaurant like uwe boll?
Wikipedia: “Bleszinski has opened two bars in Raleigh, North Carolina, one in 2014, called The Station, and another one in 2015, The Raleigh Beer Garden.”
more like the cuck station
Soy flavoured beers for all!
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At last, retribution is at hand. Karma has paid it’s dues to Cliffy and now he cannot adapt to the times.
Cliff still lives in 2008
Nah, people used to like (and play) his games in 2008.
Don’t worry we don’t need any more confirmation of you being twisted.
…and Microsoft’s console business was thriving, their Games For Windows Live ‘service’ had recently launched and Windows Vista was thrust upon us. How times change!
Yeah that’s for thinking of us as pirates and not bringing gears of war 2 and 3 to PC
You actually wanted to play that trash?
Gears was good, let’s not trash all his work just because he sucked lately. At least Gears was way better than his later copy paste trash tier games…
You realize this is entirely Subjective right? The games were trash to me. You may have liked them, but after the first one I was done.
To be fair, the game was really unbalanced on hard difficulty, freaking rage inducing..
I’m with you. I liked Gears 1, and 4, ironically (considering he wasn’t involved at all). 2 and 3 just seemed like more action oriented shooting galleries than the slow, methodical genius that the first was.
It was just all boom boom and no thought.
Gears 4 was quite good, but made by a completely different studio.
I don’t care. The game is trash. Everything about it is awful, to the graphics down to the god awful game play. It running smooth means nothing to me, because it’s essentially a running smooth dog s*** eating competition game.
Cry me river, I played it at my friends house. Game is still trash. It has f*** all to do with not liking Third Person Shooters, Max Payne is one of my favorite series of all time.
It wasn’t his choice, obviously. He was blinded by money…
CliffyB, 2008…
“I think people would rather make a game that sells 4.5 million copies than a million and Gears is at 4.5 million right now on the 360. I think the PC is just in disarray… what’s driving the PC right now is ‘Sims’-type games and ‘WoW‘ and a lot of stuff that’s in a web-based interface. You just click on it and play it. That’s the direction PC is evolving into.
So for me, the PC is kind of the secondary part of what we’re doing. It’s important for us, but right now making AAA games on consoles is where we’re at.”
He shoulda have sticked with consoles. PC can be a huge seller, but only to a select few.
Since his popularity with the console crowd faltered and the stratospheric growth in popularity of PC gaming in the intervening years since Steam gained market traction he’s of course changed his tune.
For example, there’s this quotation following the debacle of Microsoft’s initial Xbone reveal (whereby they soon after hastily abandoned plans for 24-hour DRM online check-ins in order to play their console),
“Heres the thing about Steam. It doesnt FORCE you to be online. The ecosystem of Steam is so brilliant, from the community, to the summer sales, to the indie games, that you WANT to get online. My money is on the PC, mobile and tablets for the near future.” (sic)
He’s not wrong on that front. Xbox this generation is really lacking in exclusives, maybe he should have gone to Sony lmao
Haha! He’s said some inadvertently amusing things about Sony over the years such as this from PC Gamer magazine in November 2000,
“I find it very disturbing going from the PC to the console and to have to be Sony’s b*tch; to have to have Sony approve the things that we do. It’s upsetting for me to submit it for their approval process.”
This right here why he was so frowned upon by the pc community. Abandoned the fans that made him rich and threw us under the bus.
He could have just shut his mouth if he was in Microsoft pocket. No need to trash his fanbase with bs.
Cliff huevazos bleszinski. Hala, a tomar por culo otro salvapatrias y “””””””””””””””””guru”””””””””””” de los videojuegos.
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Oh no. Not the most righteous “all PC gamers are pirates anyways” Cliff Bleszinski.
Get bent Cliff. Hopefully those unfortunate enough to be under your stupidity at BK are able to move on to something much better in the very near future.
If he’d said about half then he’d have probably been about right. I was amazed when I saw some of the figures of players vs sales on some games.
Meanwhile games like Natural Selection 2 got some patches in recent months. I’m not sure “Great Game” and not financially successful really go hand in hand.
So CliffyB is a guy tainted by association with Xbox, Hillary Clinton and virtue-signalling SJW politics. Nothing of value has been lost.
Jeez, my comment got into moderation because of the word S E X WTF
He could have just shut his mouth if he was in Microsoft pocket. No need to trash his fanbase with bs.
Good riddance.
Cliffy is worse than I thought.
What is it with dudebro dbags who became beta soy boys c u c k s?
Just how much buzzfeed they must have read to feel sorry for being successful and famous and male and normal? Do they put chemicals in the water than turn the freaking frogs gay?
Probably a cynical play to get on the good graces of investors but i’m being generous
dude posted a pic f the inside of his fridge before and its was 75% soy products. this was well before the soyboy meme. just goes to show that soy does in fact lower testosterone and increases estrogen as studies show.
Priceless.
maybe if they didnt spend as much time making gender neutral bathrooms in there game and then spending time promoting it on twitter and then spending time responding to people who didnt care or like it they could have spent there time making a fun game.
Lawbreakers had potential but unfortunately, it was made by a shítty person who bashed PC gamers and tossed aside his once-loyal audience (Hate Xbox, eh? XBOX MADE YOU, CLIFFY), was released in an oversaturated market and was also overpriced (TWENTY NINE NINETY NINE NONE OF THAT SIXTY DOLLAR MULTIPLAYER ONLY BULLSHÍT)
Bots are faster than moderators. Just block them like I do.
If you block enough people, these forums can actually be half decent.
No it didn’t have any potential, and radical heights is another late-to-the-party POS of his.
I could ask you the same, don’t you think?
I tried it when the beta was not far from closing and it never showed any potential in anything more than stupid sjw and twisted gender neutrality stuff
” I’m going to take some time off and reflect ”
You do that Cliffy and when you feel like you’re ready to return to the gaming industry……don’t!
Just don’t!
I didn’t even pirate his sh*t! HAHA!
I’m the soy master! -CliffyB
The gaming industry is better off without the likes of Bleszinski and he’s got plenty of money to never have to work again anyway. I do feel a little bad for the employees of Boss Key working for a paycheck to take care of their families. I don’t work in the industry or know anyone that does but I have seen articles that say that there are more people wanting jobs than there are jobs.
There are always more people wanting jobs than there are jobs, in most industries.
Sorry but Cliffy B has no idea about games anymore. Talk about looking into the future.
He thought PC is dying, that people who buys a high-end GPU are pirates, that PC is becoming Sims/WoW only and more of that crap.
When in fact none of it was true. For some reason he was butthurt because PC gamers did not buy Gears 1. Should i remind you, the game initally required a Gold account to play online on PC. LUL!!
And it was basically the same game as on Xbox360, but with a new chapter. How can you expect the SAME game to sell millions on PC? he was pretty stupid back then. I think he is the guy that started all that PC dying crap back in the day.
Cliffy is all money talking. He became rich and famous with Gears series and bam! That was the moment he said : hey let’s make fun of dirty PC pirates. Talk about being grateful towards PC platform.
Personally i loved Gears 1 PC version. Im pretty sure Microsoft would definately make money if they do a PC port of Gears 2 and 3. They still look sweet in 4k on XBX.
Considering MS always says : XB is basically a PC. So why not port them?
Not to defend Bleszinski but 10 years ago quite a few gamers thought PC gaming was dying and some Developers as well and consoles were king. If not for Steam I don’t know what the PC gaming landscape would look like today.
I agree entirely. 10 years ago was a rough time to play on PC. Ports were few and far between, and what was ported was quite often very, very poorly done and rushed. PC gaming, despite expensive pricing on RAM and GPUs is in a much better place right now, where we get ports of most games and the games that do come out are at least usually playable. We even get the occasional great port like GOW4 and Doom.
I remember GOW1 having lots of issue on PC. I couldn’t get the sound to work, many people struggled with DX9 and 10 implementation, activation issues were abundant, and more. This was kind of normal back then.
Steam really pulled us back from a downward spiral.
I guess the Gears has.. *puts on glasses* stopped moving.
What did you expect them to do when it wasn’t selling well on the PC.
I really don’t understand all the hate towards this guy.
LawBreakers was actually a really good game that nobody played. The Gears series was a groundbreaking one for it’s time and a huge system seller for Microsoft. Moan all you want but it’s Horde and Cover mechanics have been copied by so many games.
I get he said a few silly things in the past but, haven’t we all.
Holy sh*t it’s like he goes out of his way to take the absolute worst stance on everything ever.
The internet never forgets.