An unofficial fan-made launcher for Nexon and Boss Key Productions' first-person shooter, Lawbreakers, has once again made the game playable after 6 years.
After six years since servers were killed off, LawBreakers is being revived in an unofficial capacity with playtests happening this weekend.
Hey, if Gigantic can garner enough attention it can happen for LawBreakers too. Funny thing is that both would share a similar story if going multiplatform:
-Gigantic remained Xbox One/PC until closure
-LawBreakers remained PS4/PC until closure
Cliff Bleszinksi, aka Cliffy B, opened Boss Key Productions in April 2014 and released the first-person shooter LawBreakers in 2017 for the PlayStation 4 and PC. The studio would close in May 2018 and the servers for the game would shut down in September 2018.
Bleszinksi shown interest in resurrecting LawBreakers. Publisher Nexon also owns the rights to the IP and Bleszinksi is open to talking with Nexon CEO Owen Mahoney.
Lawbreakers was never successful, and therefore not worth reviving. It was hero-shooter [incorrectly labeled as an arena] that failed cash in off the popularity of Overwatch.
LMAO I guess he really thought it was going to be competition.
This wasn't the only game that failed and claiming to be something entirely different.
Battleborn anyone?.
Battleborn flopped but had more going for it than Lawbreakers. Oh how i had wanted to like BB. It had solid art and characters and a campaign but the gameplay nor story were there.
I'm still amazed this guy opened a new studio, and then shut it down after their first game flopped. Your excuses didn't matter cause all that people got was their money taken, and a product they could no longer play.
LawBreakers, the Overwatch-style FPS game that closed in 2018, may be getting some news, says director and Gears of War creator Cliff ‘CliffyB’ Bleszinski.
re-release it as f2p ...
then it'll be the closest modern thing to the glory days of arena shooter perhaps?
the other being the new game: The Finals
Game pass isn't the answer to everything. Ark Survival Evolved is a game that has sold 35 million copies and is free on GP but on Xbox, both official and unofficial servers are dead yet on PC and PS, it's thriving (I love the game and it done have cross play so play it on any system)
Kyro
Maybe on pc but it might as well be dead on playstation with a handful of people per server if that.
Most servers have 0 on them.
JackB, You must be talking PvE because PvP, especially unofficial is thriving. This isn't a dig at your beloved Xbox but facts are facts. There's not many people playing ARK on Xbox which surprised me when I bought an Xbox that there were so few people playing it there. I know Xbox player base is tiny in comparison to PC and PS but the servers were dead dead
@kyro
I still play official pvp on Xbox, definitely isn't dead. There's still a decent amount of players for a game that's shutting down in 4 months.
I am cautiously hopiumistic. This game was actually dope and deserved better. I also wish people would stop comparing this game to Overwatch, they're nothing alike.
The biggest mistake he made was to make it a PS exclusive.
His whole fanbase was on Xbox.
I'm glad he admitted that himself later on though.
'The biggest mistake he made was to make it a PS exclusive. ' It was on pc as well so not a ps exclusive also i doubt the game would of done better on Xbox as it wasn't a good game.
Cliff actually explained that the console exclusivity was a mistake. It's not an issue with PS as a platform or anything. He just didn't have a fanbase on PS. His fanbase was primarily on Xbox due to Gears of War's success, and those players felt alienated.
Again his fanbase was on Xbox.
Not PC or Playstation.
And the metacritic is at 76.
So it was a pretty good game to most.
It would have done better.
Biggest mistake was that the game sucked and screamed "me too me too"
Second mistake was exclusivity
Oh look, someone who clearly never played the game. The game came out just a year after Overwatch and had been in development since Boss Key opened in 2014. They first teased the game as BlueStreak in 2015. But yeah, sure, it was just a "me too" game.
Wouldn’t buy this again.
Really enjoyed the gameplay but they were far too quick to pull the plug and I felt utterly ripped off paying for it.
Only way is F2P.
