LawBreakers failed because it was too political, says creator Cliff Bleszinski
LawBreakers is certainly a game that we remember, but only as a game that in all honesty, suffered due to the overwhelming saturation of battle royales that was trying their damndest to compete with Epic’s, Fortnite. It probably didn’t help that it didn’t have anything that could make it stand out as unique.
Well, one thing actually. LawBreakers was created by Cliff Bleszinski, known for his role in the development of the Gears of War series. He has always been a controversial figure, outspoken and willing to say what’s on his mind. Of course, that hasn’t always been a good thing.
Bleszinski has once again spoken his mind, this time it’s about LawBreakers and the reason why he feels the game failed. You may think, like we do, that it was a mixture of poor advertising and an overwhelming amount of battle royale games, but no.
As VG247 pointed out, Bleszinski described on an Instagram post the failures of LawBreakers has everything to do with the game being too political and ‘woke’.
“Instead of the story being ‘this game looks neat’ it became “this is the game with the ‘woke bro’ trying to push his hackey politics on us with gender neutral bathrooms.’ Instead of ‘these characters seem fun’ it was ‘this is the studio with the CEO who refuses to make his female characters sexier.” Bleszinski wrote. “Instead of ‘who am I going to choose’ it became “white dude shoehorns diversity in his game and then smells his own smug farts in interviews’ instead of just letting the product … speak for itself.”
We felt that this was a rather odd way of blaming empathy and not relying solely on sex appeal. Especially in a game where you’re too busy shooting at one another to really care about what another player is wearing.
Bleszinski ended his post with a shout-out to his memoir. “It’s okay to be political when your company or studio is established for great product FIRST. But we were unproven and I regret doing it. (This will be quite the doozy of a chapter in the upcoming memoir.)”
Okay Mr. Blezsinski, okay.
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