I'm guessing they're all too aware that license game usually make a couple of millions sales no matter the quality and they don't really care beyond that. Brand don't get damaged because a couple of game with them really suck, if superman 64 didn't kill superman, nothing will.
And to think he actually thought lawbreakers was gonna do better than spiderman ps4….Cliff started off as a decent guy, but let the fame go to his head when Gear of War 2 became a bigger hit than the first game. Then insert Lawbreakers....
Cliff has book now, but I don't know anything about it reception wise. Not paying for the damn thing regardless, and I will never read the book. Because fuck him.
Control Freak
The designer of Unreal and Gears of War offers an eye-opening personal account of the video game industry as it grew from niche hobby to hundred-bi...www.simonandschuster.com
Haven't read the article, but I can guess why. It got pretty much no marketing push or media coverage. Much like Uncharted, which afaik also had significantly lower numbers than the other Sony ports, tho not quite that bad. Like, while anecdotal, I'm mainly a pc gamer and didn't even know it was coming to pc until your post. Also, releasing a port in a period with a bunch of high profile releases, one of which is a fucking CoD, is generally considered a bad move.
It looks like Sackboy is off to a slow start on PC | VGC
Data suggests it’s Sony’s least popular PC release to date, with 600 peak concurrent Steam players…www.videogameschronicle.com
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It was utter hubris to think it was going to do anything other than crash and burn. "I'm Cliff Bleszinski and people will pour money down my throat for any shit I put out!"
Really though, the Crowbcat vid made it seem like everyone who played it was bonkers over it. Guess it was just the “hurrdest of the hurdcurrrre” crowd.
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Most of those people were nothing, but glorified hype men and women. A few thousand people, don't make up for the entire gaming sphere. It still doesn't change the fact Cliff made false promises and lied about what his game would be. He was really amping up the whole "it's only $29.99!", after saying it would no longer be free to play.Really though, the Crowbcat vid made it seem like everyone who played it was bonkers over it. Guess it was just the “hurrdest of the hurdcurrrre” crowd.
LawBreakers
NOTE: The game itself was not crappy. This article focuses primarily on what caused it to flop so fast and so horribly. LawBreakers was an online-multiplayer only...
I like point 6. in the crappy games article -
Cliff is just another John Ramero who made a good game once, and thought they were hotshit for it, but in the end they were a one-hit wonder with only stupid ideas left in the tank.
These guys keep forgetting it's a team effort too. Romero was only one part of the equation for the classic Doom games. Midway proved they could do a Doom game without Carmack (still a cool dude) or Romero (at least learned more humility compared to Cliff). The only reason Carmack left after the Doom games and Quake series, was because he was disgusted with what was happening at iD Software at the time. Another example of egotistical douche game designer that thinks they're the hottest crap on the block after one or two games is David Jaffe.
To be fair, he was also a lead designer on the early Unreal games, Bulletstorm and Fortnite. I wasn’t aware he left Epic over Tencent’s involvement. He was also apparently insanely good at SMB which led to an appearance in Nintendo Power as a kid.
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It still doesn't excuse (I know you're not excusing him) Cliff, nor acting like a ungrateful jackass to the people who got him where he was or help him get where he was. Dumbass bit it real hard, when he started insulting the Microsoft and Xbox fan base. The people who bought all those Gears of War games.
twinfinite.net
No big deal because they aren't selling anyMicrosoft Loses Between $100 and $200 on Every Xbox Sold - IGN
Xbox boss Phil Spencer has said Microsoft loses between $100 and $200 on every Xbox Series X and S sold.www.ign.com
