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Cliff Bleszinski Reveals himself as an Asshole; Lawbreakers was "Too Woke"

ILikeFeet

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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." 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.
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cliff, you absolute fucking idiot. not only you miss the point of why your game failed. if this game really was "too woke", idiots would have been shouting about it from the rooftops. which, coincidentally, would have been more coverage the game gotten, barring the press about declining numbers

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LawBreakers failed because it was too "woke", says Cliff Bleszinski - VG247

Be honest with yourself – when you think of LawBreakers, the debut game from Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski’s now defunct studio, what do you remember about it? For me, I remember a very generic-looking shooter that had a man in it who could shoot backwards. I also remember the reason it...
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Mauricio_Magus

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Cliff, it's not that people didn't like it or that it was too woke.

No one ever cared, it was indifference.
 
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Strings

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Jessie

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I think it's nuts how certain people fume at the mouth over atrocities such as washrooms that anyone can use
 
HotHamBoy

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I mean, I didn't even know that those elements were part of the game, assuming they actually were.

the game just looked generic and uninteresting and the reviews weren't great. Simple as that.
 
wesker83

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The fact his is still clueless as to why this game failed shows why this game failed. He has no idea what makes games popular these days. Being too woke wasn't it.
 
janusff

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game came out too late. hero shooters were a year before thing and when this dropped, PUBG and Fortnite were becoming a phenomenon.

also lulz at this game becoming too woke. sit down cliffy
 

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it seems not as though his politics have changed, just that he's using them as an unreasonable scapegoat for his game failing to get off the ground
 
JahIthBer

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I think if it was F2P & had a smoother launch, plus more importantly, Overwatch didn't steal it's thunder, it could have done way better, but it was hard to throw down money for it when Overwatch was the biggest shit ever at the time & many people already owned it.
I got no idea why hes blaming the cast, trying to earn cred with the right? that's um interesting.
 
8byte

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Reveals? He's BEEN an asshole.

Like most white men who encounter failure, they want to pass the buck on something completely unrelated and skirt any amount of personal accountability.

Though it is rather delicious to see him burn himself to the ground, and hopefully he continues to do so in a magnificent manner. What a dead beat.
 
DNAbro

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You would have to be incredibly dumb to think that the reason Lawbreakers failed was that the game was too woke. Like nothing about it was woke. It was boring. The characters were boring in a hero shooter. Nothing about the game was exciting.

I was sold in Overwatch before any gameplay came out. That's part of what killed Lawbreakers.
 
Kamaros

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when people suspect you are something it's better keep shut and not give them the certainty, Cliffy.
 
R.T Straker

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The way the OP is written is far more embarrassing then what Cliff said.

People on this forum just can't act more mature.
 
Zealuu

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Even if we pretend for a moment that Lawbreakers did in fact flop because it was too woke and not because it was an insipid and badly-timed Overwatch clone with not much going for it, how does he explain the success of, er, Overwatch? Or more recently, Apex Legends?

I even played the free beta weekends of Lawbreakers, and it didn't strike me as particularly "woke" either. Robot characters are not diversity.
 
Temascos

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Sure Cliff, that's a commercially valid reason for your game failing. Imagine how that would play out in a meeting:

"So it's time to discuss what happened with Lawbreakers, why didn't it sell? Cliff, since you're the director what do you think?"
"Bathrooms."
"That's it? Not the fact it didn't stand out from Overwatch?"
"Nah, it's defintely the bathrooms."
"Who cared about the bathrooms?"
"GAMERS."

That might cut it as internet bait but as a reason for your product not selling it doesn't work.
 
Rover

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When being the first mainstream videogame in years with something to say goes wrong
 
Tagyhag

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I bet if you asked him why Overwatch and Apex are still around even though they are more woke than Lawbreakers, he would just block you.
 
astro

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Thank God this was said or I'd never have known what an arsehole he is.
 
The Albatross

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Yeah that's the phrase I'd use to describe Lawbreakers. Too woke.



Like this trailer, too woke, what with it's remix of Norman Greenbaum's 1969 WOKE classic Spirit in the Sky, and a dude using the F-U-C-K word while killing people and eating apples. I really wanted to play this game but I'm just not into WOKE culture, y'know, so I skipped it.
 
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KDC720

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I'll maintain that Lawbreakers was actually a solid game. It failed because no one wanted an arena shooter when battle royale games and Overwatch were blowing up. It's not like Quake Champions fared much better than Lawbreakers.
 
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HotHamBoy said:
I mean, I didn't even know that those elements were part of the game, assuming they actually were.

the game just looked generic and uninteresting and the reviews weren't great. Simple as that.
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Exactly why would somebody play Lawbreakers over Overwatch?

Chasing trends is sometimes not the best business policy. Being "woke" had nothing to do with it
 
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