Lawbreakers in an oversaturated market
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- čas přidán 21. 08. 2017
- Gravity defying marketing with Cliff, unfortunate results for the dev team. In April 2018, Boss Key released a statement that the game failed to find enough of an audience to generate the funds necessary to keep the game sustained. On June 11, the game was made free-to-play on Steam with a notice that the servers would be shut down on September 14, 2018. As of September 14, 2018, LawBreakers was removed from Steam and is no longer available for purchase.
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Looks like someone accidentally opened the game.
That someone was probably Cliff
Most likely someone out there still has the game installed and it's doing the automatic cloud sync thing that sometimes registers as someone playing.
Lol 😂😂
oh that was me i was trying to get the cards
Oops sorry dude misclicked, i was trying to open another game before
He made people hate him by opening his mouth. This is the worst marketing I’ve seen in my life
Bf v has to be worse tough.
brajuhani
Ehh, their marketing was ok personally
A lot of people bought it and saw it at launch, it just became less appealing over time
@@BigslattYSL No Battlefield v was definitely worse at marketing they literally told people not to buy thier shitty game.
@@BigslattYSL did you completely forget what they did, or do you just genuinely not know?
Alex Hodson his whole attitude whenever he promoted lawbreakers was befitting of someone who was merely clout chasing.
"Blizzard can do no wrong"
That statement aged about as well as his game did.
dO yOu GuYs NoT hAvE pHoNeS?
The man lurched all the way from condescending to patronizing.
It's crazy going down the rabbit hole of general gaming videos from 2015 - 2017 and seeing the love and affection for Overwatch and then from 2017 - 2021 the disappointment and negativity. Blizzard have become talented at ruining franchises.
@@truthpurpose and become talented on reaching the news every hour about sexual assault or toxic work spaces.
@@truthpurpose Overwatch was bad from the start. Played the beta and was already bored. The only reason people played it is because of the anime/comic-ish artstyle and everyone wanted to play Tracer. Thats literally the only reason people kept playing it. It had zero redeeming qualities except good short-films.
"You have feelings, that's cool, but this is a fucking business" - Man who openly rejected and mocked half of his target market on a whim
So you guess what happens?
His target market fucked him over...
Now in Contrast we have elden ring that sold over millions of copies at launch and more than 350 thousand pre orders
What's worse is that those "fanboys" were the fanbase he made with GOW. He shat on his own fans and then turned around to shit on PC players to get them back.
@@Terraqueo22he made a game that appealed to no one. He didn't get fucked over by the market. He's a moron
Massive L on his end
@@kira-dk2mx He already made a name and plenty of money off of Gears of War at that point he didn't want to keep making Gears of War which is why he left.
I think the rudeness of this guy helped it fail
Cause he betrayed his core audience. You can't spend years building a core following only to then turn your back on those people who gave you the funds to build more. I think this downfall was completely justified on account of his rudeness as you put it best.
Lawbreakers... He's more marketing than game now...
He manages to be a douchebag whenever he shows up or starts talking
It did
He definitely doesnt come across as someone who is in it for the customers or the game
"those Xbox fanboys are pretty salty"
"Well ya know they supported you for years..."
I love Geoff Keighley
Engorged Enrique may hate Keighley with a passion, but god damn is the man likeable
When I first saw Geoff in one of Crowbcat's videos, I just assumed he'd be part of the phony marketing machinery, but I have realized he's a nice guy and a real gamer at heart.
Cliff was right though and it was PC who made him famous.
About Kojima
The man himself wanted Cliff to join Silent hills team but Cliff refused
@fresh coom Yeah well thats the exact oppsite of his words but lets say he doesnt treat it like a business well guess what he showed his true colors he was really biased and really full of himself
“When this game hits, we hope we’ll never be done for years.”
Bro, you were done in weeks.
Weeks? Kinda generous there
Between this and radical heights its clearly evident gears of war was such a long time ago..."whats radical heights?!" i hear you ask...EXACTLY XD
Weeks? They were done before it even launched lmfao
@@channelofliquidharmonics8905 LOL you just unlocked a memory I forgot I even had.
@@bletrick3352 LOL XD i wish i could delete mine
The best part is when Cliff throws away a third of potential profits all out of spite for Xbox and then is like "this is a business"
Yes, because Cliff has a big douche ego and he should've continued to work with Gears/Microsoft.
if you are the type of person to have petty bullshit rivalries that will lead you to do something like this you probably shouldn't be leading a company
He wasn't in the business of making money.
@@TheGreenTaco999 If you throw away such a major source of revenue over such a petty reason you should not be leading a company. Cliffy B might have some decent ideas but he has the business acumen of an utter r tard.
@@MrZiggy-sk2wg It feels like you don't know the business world. Plenty of that going around. You just don't apply your pettiness to corporations that can crush yours.
If your whole game’s marketing shtick is “I’m not like the other girls” you probably won’t get too many players.
I literally love your comment so much!
I'm stealing this.
Especially in a market where most guys are already with other girls. You won't get many players by proposing they break up with their current games AND move their friends over.
I know right. Just a bunch of fools.
It’s funny because Valorant got hype BECAUSE it was like other girls
“Yeah those Xbox fanboys are pretty salty.”
“Yeah, well they supported you for a long time, so...”
My brain almost stopped functioning when I heard that the first time.
This guy is so out of touch lmao “haha xbox bad funny funny”
@@user-bc8ff8oi8k I mean,to some people they still are. We call those people stupid
Well, to be fair the creator of God of War has said even worse things about Sony fanboys
@@ElFenixNocturno to be fair they separated their personal feelings from their business
All of these hero based shooters constantly popping up and yet nobody is bothering to make a Villain based shooter
People do it irl in the USA. Their favorite maps are elementary schools.
Spec ops the line
@@mgsxmikeAs a viewer of them, I must say they’re competitive matches are crazy. One guy went for a 26 kill streak before the games’ survival round happened. The SWAT squads were damn bullet sponges.
Even saw another game where the cops had glitched out with 90 or so of them just standing outside. Guy could’ve went for a higher score but choked hard at the end.
Thats call of duty when they blammed US warcrimes on russia
@@mgsxmikeso the feds
It never fails to amaze me how much of a stone cold pro Geoff Keighley is. When the dev said "Xbox fanboys are pretty salty" you can tell Geoff is like "wtf is wrong w this dude" but instead he claps back with the "well they supported you for a long time." lol made dude look like a fool.
He is also the one who hit back at the Xbox exec, when they made the new Xbox online only, with "Thats your message: Stick with 360?" The Dorito pope certainly has his moments.
@@tropictiger2387 you did not just call him the dorito pope 💀
dorito bishop whatevs
@@tropictiger2387 yeah hahaha
That's because that Geoff guy is a robot who is dead inside anyways. I don't think anything would ever faze him.
"This game is aimed to a mature audience", a kid won their tournament
That the reason why this game call LawBreakers
@@TiMERZ That's what you call a pretty good pun right there.
The editing in this video is just so good. Lmao
Sounds wholesome tho.
@@FlowAaron You're the only one crying on behalf of a dead company my dude.
Imagine getting a lawbreakers tattoo
Actually looks kinda cool tho and resembles the Facepunch logo so idk he could just say he's a real big fan of GMod or Rust.
Not quite as bad as the Uganda Knuckles tattoo.
@@fulldisclosureiamamonster2786 im sure it means a lot to the person who got it thats all that counts all jokes aside
@@fulldisclosureiamamonster2786 At least you know that a person with this tattoo knows the way.
It can pass tho, the lawbreaker does sound cool
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Cliff thought he was an asset to the game but he was, in fact, a liability.
LMAO
God, that line about “wanting to make another billion dollar IP”. You’d think Cliffy B couldn’t be any more arrogant and narcissistic but than he delivers that doozy.
@That Leo Yeah… he’s pretty obnoxious. Having said that, I really like Unreal Tournament and Gears. But I’m not surprised he’s out of the industry.
I was just thinking that. He really thought that he could make lightning strike twice.
@@leeartlee915he's apparently making another game soon. This is, of course, after his own studio flopped
@@exmachina1405 Well he’s not really qualified to do anything else. Not surprised.
@@leeartlee915 yeah, I think the success of his first franchises went straight to his head
how to promote your game:
"i want a billion dollar ip"
"insult the games with the biggest audience"
"insult the current market"
"insult xbox"
"insult anime fans"
We know how much the "insulting anime fans" tagline works, thanks to Mighty No. 9.
He is so damn easy not to like.
and say its the dark souls of said genre.
@@keeyon012 Man do I love a good game of Gex
@@danieladams3084 Did someone say Gex?!
“I think we’ve made the DarkSo-“
How to instantly get across how out of touch you are with 5.5 words
Foreign Wun don’t compare anything to Dark souls LOL ITS TO LEGENDARY
@@BeastModeSteez but dark souls is just like demon souls
@@aaronforsythe8556 indeed
By the year 2087 this entire planet will be Dark Souls. You'll see....
All the soulsborne games are masterpieces of a video game, but the entire "____ is the dark souls of ____" is so overused that it gives dark souls a negative connotation.
The whole marketing was basically "modern games suck, buy our game :-)"
Not even that, it was more of “you all suck, now watch as I insult and block entire target demographics from ever wanting to play our game”
@@courier6960 "now buy are game you filthy fucking casual."
"Everything are bad, buy our game"
Marketin was most corny shit ive ever seen
@@courier6960 Today's game Devs do the same thing these days too but they try to look like they have the virtuous moral high ground while doing so, and straight up fight their fans on social media.
5:18 is just baffling. People asked Cliffy if his hyper-masculine bro-shooter might be an Esport, and he reacted with utter contempt. It’s like he was begging people to ignore Lawbreakers.
He's a genuine moron lol
Esports are cringe, just like regular sports
@@beastabuelos6421 at least regular sports has bloopers, E sports don’t even have that.
@@beastabuelos6421 Found the kid that never got invited to play lmao
@@beastabuelos6421 tell me you’re a loser without telling me you’re loser 😭
This game looks like a game that you’d see someone play in a movie/tv show with their controls turned off.
Like the game Michael's son in GTA V was playing in his room
it could had a chance when Overwatch 2 was announce
You mean in porn
this
nailed it
>”Can’t compare it to other games”
>”It’s like Overwatch but better”
Ok
"It's the dark souls of shooters"
@@davidvasey5065 why are you saying this in every reply lol. you're the one who needs a life
@@chimichangas1432 lol
I could see it as titanfall mixed with overwatch
It's honestly really sad because the game was fucking great and Cliff and his personality was just too shitty
7:44 is just the normal reaction of a group of people seeing Cliff.
I love this comment.
Cliffy is the definition of a snake. He talks trash about everything, and then when he needs something, he'll start to tell them to "let it go". The PC community is fine without him.
*Any community
So is the Xbox community- we built him up and he spat in our face; gears of war was a big part of my childhood. my friendship with my best friend could be described as a dom and marcus type of brotherhood.
@@CarmeloA. I feel blessed to have grown up playing splitscreen gears of war with my friends. What a time
@@CarmeloA. Yeah, I bet those "Xbox fanboys" are really sad they didn't get to play Lawbreakers or something. They sure missed out.
We need more people like him in the gaming community, someone who goes against the majority of opinions and doesn't give a fck, says his honest opinions and does his own thing. A lot of the things he said about the gaming industry i absolutely agree with. Sure he may come off as a jerk, but sometimes jerks are what you need to take things further. Too bad the gaming community nowdays is so sensitive and they're all bunch of snowflakes. They care more about some old Twitter posts than the actual product.
Here is a great advice:
Don't give a middle finger to a part of your fanbase for no reason just to sound cool.
If you cater to a market for a game, stick to that market. Don’t just throw them away to score “cool points”
@@lord_blackhand3291 NEIL DRUCKMANN AT IT’S FINEST
@@skininja1747 he kinda did, especially with the way he handles criticism from said fans.
@@skininja1747 also how is killing Joel the way he did not a big F-ck you to the audience? Especially in the narrative context of the game, it was basically needlessly done in every sense of the story to gain some sort of shock value. He probably was hoping It’d be like Bioshock in the way he presents such philosophical ideas, and Poppa pump even domes Joel with a Nine iron, like Ryan in Bioshock.
@@skininja1747 it’s not that he killed Joel off that’s the problem. The problem is that it was done in the most re-tarded way possible.
The way it was executed it might as well be for shock value because it was handled really poorly not just from a narrative perspective but from a character one as well.
For me the last of us 2 isnt necessarily a terrible game but it’s very mediocre from a story-perspective and the ending is deeply unsatisfying
Dude managed to create a toxic atmosphere around the game before the players even had a chance to do it haha
what a genius
/s
What players? lol
Lmaoooooooooo
Yep all 290 of them in the last hour...
@@Banishedpheasant hey man don't disrespect Lawbreakers fans, there's like 4 of them
"Blizzard can do no wrong"
Boy did that age badly.
Boy did that really age badly
@@eklipze7520 like milk hahah am i doing it right
More like sour milk now
Props to the editor of this video- seeing the dev compare his game to dark souls, only for it to immediately cut to a 9 year old winning the tournament made my day
"We made the Dark Souls of competitive first person shooters"
*8 year old wins tournament*
An 8 year old can easily beat dark souls. 90% of dark souls' difficulty comes from not knowing what is going to kill you, what is going to surprise 1 shot you, not stuff you can actually predict and react to. An 8 year old beating it wouldn't take much longer than me or you.
When they said that line I immediately knew they never played quake or serious Sam multiplayer
@@zain6008 Dark Souls difficulty comes from being prepared and careful, what are you on about? It's just patience my man.
@@pwnerj thats what he said..
@@michaelquinn8064 He said it comes from surprise 1 shots that you can't predict or react to, and if you can't see the difference between what I said and that, you should probably retake an english course.
If you ever feel embarrassed about a stupid choice you've made in your life, just remember there are people out there with Lawbreakers tattoos.
LITERALLY Suicide rates drops to 0%
Paid shills there’s no one who gave a shit about lawbreakers
To be fair the logo isnt that bad, you can always say "ya i thought this random smiley looks cool"
Gee, l really do feel better now about switching my grandpa's life support outlet to charge my phone now
@@MONSTERKILL2013 He's a hypocrite, he told you that you were relying too much on technology. Look who's talking.
Lawbreakers but everytime Cliff opens his mouth the game's lifespan is cut shorter and shorter
Hahaha thats exactly what happened..this dumbass ruined his game by talking so much BS
Lawbreakers looked like a lot of fun. By the time I had heard it was shutting down I didn’t even realize it had released.
It was insanely fun. Super unique combat with the Zero G zone, and had INSANE ceiling for movement tech etc. I actually have a couple clips of the kind of movement you could do in it saved. I really miss it.
Too bad Cliff is a braindead idiot and the production company (nexon) just didn't know AT ALL wtf the market was doing at that time. Collapsed so fast.
It was shutting down as soon as it released
it was shut down before release
I wanted to try it too but Cliffy B shot himself in the foot
They probably could of let it be and it would have a population maybe like quake champions, dead but not completely dead, you can usually always find a match “rather” quickly
“Spider-Man is Spider-Man, try something new for once.”
*Makes a shooter game*
I swear you furries
@@claphamomnibus512 I’m not a furry though?
@@kyles.8332 Oh.. My bad i seem to running into themin comment sections these days
@@claphamomnibus512 It’s alright man, I can see how you came to that conclusion
Dingodile might be my favorite Crash character
I didn't even know Lawbreakers was out...
TheFrostedfirefly yeah cuz their marketing was ass
RoyalTuxedo I actually saw tons of ads for the game, just ignored them because it looked like ass lmfao
TheFrostedfirefly and it's already a dead game lol
TheFrostedfirefly same. It didn't seem to get promoted at all.
I haven't been following games in general but based on the name I was expecting cowboys
This one really shattered the credibility of even well regarded independent critics. Funnily enough it was a perfectly competent arena shooter which was fun, Cliffy B just couldn't resist marketing it to every edgelord 'high skill gamer' and found that market, despite its immensely loud voice, consisted of about a hundred people. RIP.
Edit: I've just remembered 'hashtag you're dead bro' and have dissolved into my constituent atoms
Yeah it just goes to show that gaming really is dominated by vocal minorities.
What do you mean by that first bit? Saying the game is good "shatters" their credibility? It was a good game 🤷♂
@@Scroolewse why are you in the year of our Lord 2022, replying to every single comment here saying the game is trash, touch some grass and wear masks
@@mphylo2296 Huh.... kind of like now, ruled by a certain little minority of the world I would instantly get my comment deleted if I mentioned, a minority that devs always have to cater to OR ELSE you are label, label, label and more labels. Gaming is all about them now and "has always been" about them now apparently, at least according to the game awards.
@@makutas-v261 fuck outta here, freak. I don’t wanna hear your conspiracy theory bullshit.
This video aged so well, I come back to re-watch it at least a couple of times a year. Like watching an awesome movie you love now and then.
Exactly!!!
Exactly!!!
This guy has negative charisma. I feel for the poor devs in his team who were probably depressed everytime Cliff opened his mouth and alienated another bunch of potential fans
Cliff bleszinski was a PR nightmare cringe everywhere
@@mercenum5186 He's always been that way. Fucker was an advocate for the initial Xbox One DRM plan.
cr0mag I disagree. Blezinski has always been greatly charismatic.
@@theespatier4456 You got a strange idea of charisma...
@@theespatier4456 Stop going online to defend yourself Cliff! We all know it's you.
Lawbreakers did poorly because it couldn't compete with PvZ Garden Warfare 2
Tf2 basically died by that
*roflmao react*
Next overwatch will die to the emoji movie game
Mom I liked the first pvz garden warfare so I'm not surprised
That game is the KING of the fps genre
Cliff’s charisma score is in negative numbers
"We made the Dark Souls of competitive shooters"
How can someone not know what he's talking about that hard and be so proud of it
What does that even mean? I can’t think of two games less alike.
What do they have even remotely in common?
@@The.Orange.Wizardthe only thing i could think of is like. theyre both meant to be hard???
@@iwakeupandboomimarat But the thing is, LB is purely multiplayer, the difficulty is purely dependent on the skill level of your opponents.
@@The.Orange.Wizard yeah thats true, i think someone in the vid talked about a high skill ceiling so maybe its smth to do with that
@@The.Orange.Wizard given how Dark Souls is notorious to many as a very challenging game, far more difficult than many AA and AAA games of its time and to some extent even today, Cliffy likely threw that line around to be very clearly smug about how Lawbreakers is a game that only the most super skilled pro FPS players can play.
It would have made more sense and perhaps less cringy if he compared it to Quake and Unreal Tournaments, multiplayer games known for having a skill floor high enough that only those with the skills and tenacity can keep up
Crowbcat is the Dark Souls of youtube channels.
Alex Gregory because he is always so hard
Glider McGlide crowbcat is dark souls bootcamp because it makes YOU hard.
;^)
This is the dark souls of comments
This is the Sixty Dollars Multiplayer Only Bullshit of replies.
Why because he doesn't lead up to the expectations everyone makes him out to be?
"those xbox fanboys can be a bit salty"-Cliff " well... They did support you for years" - Geoff
Geoff always keeps it real
Thought that was super cool of Geoff to say. He was so quick and on it to say that. XD
god bless mr keighleys soul
It was a game which was done better with forge in xbox 360 halo games using gravity lifts and gravity wells
I think one of the reasons that lawbreakers failed was because 1) it was a exclusive so not everyone could play it and people thought it was scummy. And 2) the fps genre is so oversaturated that there was like 2 other fps games that did what lawbreaker tried to do but better
The worst part about its failure is it was legitimately fun
As I’m revisiting this video, yeah this honestly looks better significantly better than Overwatch and I wish it hadn’t died before I got a chance to play it.
@@IfYouInsist I think a lot of people felt that way. This game probably could have been pretty big
@@JakeEatNowIt definitely could've if Cliff just kept his mouth shut. He shot himself in the foot almost every time he spoke about the game.
@@IfYouInsist They released too early when what they needed to do was wait for Overwatch 2 to kill it and depress everyone
@@beartrap3400 I can't believe how insufferable he was. Calling Xbox players salty, using a mocking tone to address almost every question he got. Just completely abrasive for no good reason at all.
Even till this day i still don't know what "The Dark Souls of competitive First Person Shooters" was even supposed to mean
“Blizzard can do no wrong” didnt age well
Nothing bad ever happens to the Kennedys
I mean hey, Overwatch at least stayed alive longer than Lawbreakers
@@Coconut-wv9xs Yeah because it's fun to play when you don't have any other game to play. That's the only multiplayer games that I keep playing until now. I'm more to Single-Player, but Overwatch is great
good time to come across this one
I love when comments don't age well.
"i was shaking after the match" said by 4 different totally unpaid people
It could had such potential you know
Shaking cause they were held at gunpoint to say that
MY HANDS ARE SHAKING, BUT IAM STILL SHOOTIN; BOOM HEADSHOOOT
@@TheGoMetal most like my L1 doesn't work anymore because of how hard I press teleport every time someone tries to flank me.
To be fair, it was a pretty intense game. Just like after playing a game of Quake Champions or Titanfall 2, it left a pretty intense feeling in your body.
it's honestly nice to see games like Cyberpunk 2077 and No Man's Sky outgrow the content we see in Crowbcat's compilations, but the schadenfreude in this video will continue to age like a fine wine
Cyberpunk is still ass
Cyberpunk is just a bit more content and making it stable enough to not brick your console/PC. It is still fundamentally mediocre. No Man's Sky still has the most impressive glow up among games in decades.
"We've made the Dark Souls of competitive shooters"
This game went hollow faster than Lordran
Dunno man I'd still buy that over Elden Ring
Cliffy was real proud of that “$29.99, none of that $60, multiplayer-only bullshit” line
Well it is a fun line to say.
Truly a pickle rick moment right there
@@ratman202 doesn’t mean it’s a good one, but I feel like it was just cliffy’s general mood that ruined it
Cliffy is so easy not to like
He woke up in a cold sweat at night, his body shooting up right. "Thats it.....its perfect."
Imagine being one of the guys who got a tattoo of this game, rip
When I saw that I said he’s going to regret that but the design looks cool just not the game
OffBeatBerry 27 what’s the true meaning
@@prokilleridk5924 It's a tattoo about a game that died in months, so if anyone asks him about the inspiration for the tattoo they're not gonna know what the game is
Franco Gonzalez aerogel is awesome
That man become lawbreakers grave
it's like an educational video on what not to do when developing a triple A game.
It feels weird looking back on this, since there's a lot of decent points that Cliffy B touched on that are legitimate complaints, but he just went about expressing them in a terrible way, or learned the exact wrong lesson from them.
1. AAA games were incredibly oversaturated in 2015 with old I.P's.
2. Leading with PC first *does* allow them to port onto consoles more easily if they do a lot of the legwork and establish a solid PC build first.
3. eSports was overhyped (and we're now currently living through its bubble bursting), and felt like it was crammed into every game.
All of these are valid, and somehow he just communicated them in such a caustic way that nobody wanted to touch it.
He may have made some good points, but the game just wasn't good. That's all it comes down to.
@@benjaminkey5810the game was killed by the insane business strategy and the lead’s insufferable personality. Terrible marketing didn’t help. Never even heard about this game in 17
"The gnome with the turret"
Is this a common first person shooter archetype???
pretty sure he was tearing overwatch to shreds with those 'archetypes'.
spooksy I'm guessing they reffed torb or just the short man + sentrygun archtype
spooksy Chie!
I mean TF2 engie, Panzera Orc etc.
Definitely an archetype, short guy with a turret goes all the way back to Warcraft 3.
I feel like they doomed themselves by saying "Are you skilled AF?" Devs need to stop trying to be "hip with the kids" it never works and is extremely unoriginal
What are you talking about? John Romero TOTALLY made us his bitch with Daikatana!
They think it will give their game personality, promote the whole attitude of competition and improvement. Too bad it insults players and makes the game seem unaproachable. Kids dont play games they cant win.
I think even kids prefer a more mature/normal way of marketing.
Problem is Cliffy B actually is still living in the 90s and thinks he's still 18. I'm surprised he didn't whip out "gnarly", "bodacious", or "tubular".
I think the shirt actually said "FUCK" but the stem of the 'F' was cut off, making it look like a little angular 'c". But the bigger crime here was the doughy thug life facial expression with the corgi on the Days Inn bed in the background. All he needed to complete the look was to aim sideways toward the camera an airsoft Glock and have an aromatherapy kit in the background.
All the 90s game design heroes have become parodies of themselves: Cliffy B, Chris Roberts, Peter Molyneux, Tim Schafer, etc. Oh well, Unreal was a landmark and it's very impressive how long its engine has been relevant.
5:45 "Everyone is excited for Beyond Good and Evil 2, as they should"
7:16 "Blizzard can do no wrong"
This video aged like fine wine.
Edit: 10:29 "Let Overwatch be the goliath that it is" roflmao
Watching this and other videos on this channel, I honestly feel like it might be better if we just stopped doing multiplayer games outright...
The dark souls of business strategy
I dont get why it didnt do well its 29.99 and it was none of that 60 multiplayer bullshit
@Ladarius Capers Did you just say the n word
@Ladarius Capers Understandable have a nice existence.
And it was the dark souls of competitive shooters like wtf
@@trashbag1108 His name's Ladarius if he aint black the earth aint round
No 60 dollar multiplayer bullshit actually just meant no multiplayer at all 😂
Imagine Hideo Kojima mocking Playstation-fans and making a battle royale game
For xbox only
wasnt it with like.. paraphrasing that he just said "america dumb, dont like my deliveryman game."
@@zOMGGaiaOnline I think this was the time where a guy sold deathstranding because it was boring and bought TLOU2 because its fun, then kojima just roasted the fuck out of him (or maybe another topic I dunno)
Hideo is always being blamed when Konami is the one that fucked up the Metal Gear series
@@Mo-ir3qz it was a fan account not hideo kojima himself. If i am not wrong.
Cliff: "Everyone's exited for Beyond Good & Evil as they should"
2022: "Haha... Yeah..."
It’s a shame the game died the way it did. When it went free to play, it actually started finding its niche audience. But by then it was already too late. Cliff was too stubborn sticking with the “$29.99 none of the” schtick. If he made the free to play decision sooner, it would’ve lived much longer. I guess he thought going free to play would be like admitting defeat, and he was too proud for that.
The guy with that lawbreakers tattoo must be regretting life rn
He probably will try to laser it xD
The tattoo was still cool. Since lawbreakers collectively left society’s conscience, he can probably just pass it off as something else
LB was and the best heroshooter what you could play, I regret pople that didnt play it + deadzo is very cool emoticon
hes probably out there passing it off as an original idea
Probably a henna tatoo
"LawBreakers, the game that did even worse than BattleBorn"
"What the hell is BattleBorn?"
"Exactly!"
... Battleborn 😭😭😭
More like blunderborn
I've heard of Battleborn (All I remember is that it had a Mushroom character? That might be a different game though.) but this video is the first time I've ever heard of Lawbreakers.
Battleborn actually had a lot of potential but it was ruined by bad art direction and Twitter-tier political nonsense.
@@pearz420 Not bad art direction and twitter politics. It failed because it was an average game in an oversaturated market. A hero shooter after overwatch, with MOBA elements after League, combining the worst of them both, that being the issue of League games being too long and too serious to be a fun game to jump on for a little bit, and the issue of overwatch being that so many characters means many aren't balanced.
Add in that it advertised a campaign, but it was super short levels and always-online, and it's death by a thousand cuts. If I wanted to play a fun hero shooter, I'd play overwatch. If I wanted to play a MOBA, I'd play League. They're clashing genres, so they're not going to work well together. We learnt this with SMNC, I don't know why they ignored the signs and made a game like that anyway.
Crowbcat can release the same video again, replace "Lawbreakers" with "Hyenas" and nothing would change
At least lawbreakers released?
Tf is Hyenas?
Wasn't the video originally titled "Lawbreakers delusion in an oversaturated market"? I wonder what prompted the omission of "delusion"
The game is apparently getting rebooted under a new name
It is 2021.
I have never, ever heard of this game lmao
Same.
For good reason
sadly, it was a fairly fun movement based shooter, with good potential, and great music (fucking mick gordon wrote 2 songs for the OST)
its literally because this was released in the prime of overwatch being around as THE hero shooter everyone was caring about, and that high movement, no baby hand-holding dumbing down of game mechanics, fast paced games are hard to sell.
Yeah....you didn’t miss much.
I actually remember seeing the reveal event years ago, and had completely forgotten about it until I saw this video just now. I didn't even realize it got released lmao
Person: Overwatch
Cliff: REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Vashkey WRYYYYY
You thought it was Overwatch, but it was I, a shoddy Tribes:Ascend rip!!
wilsonram39 no skiing no Tribes, it's a shitty UT with low gravity and classes instead of pickups.
emperor augustus "autism fuck of a meme"
I've heard it all
Vashkey GENDER NEUTRAL BATHROOMS
TRUMP IS PRESIDENT!!!!!!!!
“It feels like these companies are making the same game over and over again”
You are making a co-op team objective game
7:30 "overwatch is for the younger crowd" - grown ass man in a rick and morty T-shirt
The sad part is that the gameplay looked actually a bit fun , but that marketing murdered the fan base before launch.
It was fun
One of the best shooters I ever played. I was a Beta tester and preordered the game based off what I had played, however it not being free to play was a real kick in the nuts to most people who were interested in it. Then there was also a problem with how the release version of the game made some shitty nerfs to characters, made the game run worse on older hardware than the beta, and released the stupidest most broken character ever that nobody wanted to play anything else.
It was a great game. Cliffy really fucked everything up, especially when he decided to charge $29.99 for the game instead of keeping it F2P. It was one of the best shooters that I've played to date because it reminded me of the good ol' days on Quake and UT.
I played it it wasn't bad... maybe a bit too fast and some abilities were maybe a bit too strong etc.. but that's to be expected at the start of a games life cycle.
Never really liked quake etc but this was'nt bad...
But never go from f2p to paid like what the heck?
Lol i never knew anything about this game, until today when youtube recommend this video
"The dark souls of first person shooters" Wtf does that even mean?!
kevin he means its hard no homo
No clue what so ever but that comment just reminded me of the "Its like Skyrim with guns" guy.
He means that the game is going to overrated with a toxic community that brags about the game being hard but in reality the game is just a broken pile of trash.
Just play Gundam Extreme Vs and then you will realize the Dark Soul of Third Person Arena Shooter/fighter. LOL
XXX XXX. Dang thats some built up hatred for a game you probably didn't even play
The saddest thing about this video isn't Lawbreakers, or Cliff, but that Beyond Good and Evil 2 still isn't out.
It's never gonna come out.
Cliffy B is so out of touch and ignorant, it is honestly hilarious to see him suffer the consequences of his actions.
My favorite comment of his was a comment he made that the game flopped because he added a gender neutral toilet in the game so the woke pc didn’t like it.
Which was so
Mmmm
“We’ve made the dark souls of first person shooter’s.” - a man who has never played dark souls
among us is way better than Dark Souls AND League of Legends combined.
@@Sir_Isaac_Newton_ nobody cares about Among Us anymore.
@@Sir_Isaac_Newton_ when the imposter is sus😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳
@@Sir_Isaac_Newton_ based
@@Sir_Isaac_Newton_ Have you ever played both of those game ye wanker?
As of May 14, 2018, Boss Key Productions, the studio that brought you the "Dark Souls of competitive first-person shooters" has shutdown. According to the Cliff himself, the studio is "effectively no more." He was later found in his garage trying to sell the entire studio and its assets for "29.99, none of that 60-dollar multiplayer-only bullshit."
lmao
Fucking lol
Extremely underrated comment, mate
Boi that ending 5*
Sorry guys, but this is a business
The fact that he thinks “the healer with a noodle that heals people” is a classic over done troupe is so funny to me lmao
Tne Doctor (TF2), Mercy (OW), and... that's it lol
"The healer with a noodle that heals people" HMMMMMM...Now I wonder what noodles are for? (yes I know there's blood extractions and other uses, but u got the idea so pls)
The thing that's most painful to me about all of this is that Lawbreakers was actually fun as hell and had a massively high skill ceiling which is exactly what I enjoy from shooters like this. Sucks so much that it got swallowed up in the market due to so many terrible decisions made outside of the game itself.
Agree only got to play it once and I liked it
@@cyberking8963 "I only played it once, but Id wuz ssssooooooo guuuuuud!!!!111"
It failed because it's shit
@@thehonorablereverendaddiso1943 Your comment makes me laugh, But I still disagree with you.
@@Blue-Apple-fc9eo Then you are wrong
@@thehonorablereverendaddiso1943 Wrong right, Who cares?
Cliff feels like a frat boy, game designer. I feel like he sells the ideas of his games like, “play this and you’ll get laid. My games are totally cool, bro”
Keep in mind that his claim to fame is Gears of War. I'm a Gears fan, myself, but I'd be lying if I said it wasn't 90% testosterone and musclebound dudes.
@@paragonrobbie9270 gears 1 and 2 are masterpieces compared to the trash of today.
He's that PC Principal from south park IRL 😂
He's just a mediocre bro at heart. Plenty of people that worked on his teams were candid in interviews about him basically being absent from the actual work in favor of playing hotshot in fancy sports cars around town.
The ironic thing that it totally the marketing of the xbox. That is the platform you want this kind of game on.
Literally Who: The Game
Benki
*Who ?*
o.o
"You can get shot from all sides!"
Oh, so like, every 3D FPS game ever?
Shut up nigga
This video was the best thing to come out of the Lawbreakers IP.
Anyone that claims their own game is the Dark Souls of anything is a good warning the game is unoriginal.
I was thinking the same thing when I heard that.
Washboard Man Overwatch is like the dark souls of lootboxes
Or is it Battlefront? 🤔
Well that, and it being an "online multiplayer-only" game with a triple digit player base at most. Good like finding a match.
Washboard Man l
The guy explaining why his game is special and unique while wearing a Rick and Morty T-shirt is a perfect picture.
Infinite universe's?
@@mr.mysteriousyt6118 talking about unique while wearing the most ununique T-shirt
lmfao
"You need to have a high IQ to truly appreciate this game"
Show is ass but the VA for Morty was in LawBreakers
I will never tire of seeing cliffyb humiliated
I wonder what that moron is up to now…
"I wanna make another Billion Dollar IP."
"Neat. Go find one."
Rumor has it that if you say "29.99, none of that $60 multiplayer-only bullshit" in to a mirror 3 times with the lights off, Cliff appears and makes you feel like shit
Rumor says the Cliff developers dont keep mirrors because they see LawBreaks staring at them in the mirror.
As soon as I looked at this comment the video started saying what is in quotation marks.
This is one of the best comments I've seen in a while
Winner Winner Chicken Dinner they dropped the free to play model. That's why they failed.
Funny comment. Now go back to pubg you pleb.
"This game is geared towards adults and is the dark souls of fps"
*9 yr old wins promotional tournament*
yikes
They were the dark souls of children though.
Tbf any 9 year old attending a gaming convention is probably a whole lot better at video games than the average 9 year old. Still pretty ironic though
@@maximusthedude8305 well a 9 yo had more time to spend on the game then an adult. It’s not that surprising tbh
@@Daithiwolf that's great
That kid is officially the best law breakers player in history.
Worst part is, the game was really fun and did feel different than regular shooters...
“Blizzard can do no wrong”. This quote aged very well
“Xbox fanboys can be really salty” bruh PlayStation players don’t even play your game.
I don’t ever remember seeing anything on PS Store about this game being out.
It’s was on there for like a month
I am a ps4 player and never heard about this game lol
As a playstation player i can assure this is true
M8 you got my discord pfp, I had to do a double take
"You can't compare it to anything"
Literally the next person.
"Like Overwatch..."
And Unreal Tournament, and Titanfall!
No you can't compare those games to lawbreakers because they are actually good XD lawbreakers is more like cappy ass Battleborn
Damn i was gonna put that as my comment
@@brianestrada1993 honestly the game was competent being fun, but the marketing and Cliff B saying shit over shit about how his game was nothing like the others ruined it, also the fact everyone that said the game was fun was paid to say that didn't help the game to get popular
Honestly, I'm not even "triggered" because they compare it to Overwatch, I couldn't give less of a fuck. What actually grinds me is that 20-something lowlife comparing it to Unreal Tournament. That's fucking heresy.
6:04 so uncharted 4 and grand theft auto are unoriginal because they are a series, but lawbreakers is original because it is a new ip, even though it does nothing unique
the uncharted 4 and spiderman parts aged very poorly
@@Jojo-nq3bp why
@@bait5257 because those games are Spider-Man and Grand Theft Auto and Uncharted and this game is lawbreakers
@@OkayFillet wut?
I am asking why he said "the uncharted 4 and spiderman part aged poorly"
The irony is that Splitgate came out some years later using Cliffyboy's ideas, and SUCCEEDED.
Dude wtf i looked up the player count and it said 12 currently playing. I thought i wasn't reading it right. Garfield go kart racing has more active players
Hahahahahahahahahahaha now it's being compared and beaten by Garfield Go Kart
Yo what there's a Garfield go kart game I had no idea I gotta play that shit right now
Lawbreakers who? Never heard of him
TheReck true
TheReck because Garfield go kart is the best game in the entire world
dude Garfield go kart is the shit
why aren’t people talking about the fact that someone actually got a tattoo for a game that died hard
Tattoo is most likely fake to hype game
They were likely paid to hype up the game but that’s stilll such a stupid idea.
Lets be fair. Lawbreakers icon was so fucking bland and uninspired. The smiley face with x eyes and shit could be passed off as anything and no one would be the wiser.
Deadzo, because is so dead.
I’m sure it was a fake tattoo but even if it wasn’t it’s likely someone who gets a tattoo like that has no issue getting others and probably just covered it up with a new one
I wish I wasn't so incredulous when faced with the blunt truths your editing presents. There is an appreciation for non verbal communication that you have an eye for and I hope more of us can come to see it as blatantly as it is presented here.
"Blizzard can do no wrong" - Cliff
That quote aged like milk in the sun
“I don’t care about your feelings, this is a business.”
Literally the same guy:
“I’m not putting it on XBOX cause I hate XBOX.”
Can you even imagine anything more childish? Refusing to put your game on a perfectly good console just because you personally don’t like it? And then say “haha those fanboys kinda salty though” in a professional interview as if you are cool or something for doing that?
Literally, but it’s not like Xbox players would even want it anyway lol
Despite all of that. He's a horrible businessman. That's potential money you're throwing for trying to sound like a a fan boy for consoles. That's our job. This man is not about his money
Yeah that stuff and the part where he was gloating about how salty the XBox fans were. Grow up you fucking loser. So glad this game died and he's no longer relevant.
I have no interest in consoles and am very glad that war seems to finally be dead, but you want to release to a wider audience so everyone can play. Excluding one platform because you're a little bitch won't get you any praise.
I need that profile pic in my life
"Not comparable to anything"
half a second later
"Like Overwatch"
He gets mad when they compare his game to another game but then he proudly compares his game to overwatch and dark souls. He acts like joe Rogan fans when other people call Rogan and a moron and idiot, they get mad at those people, but when it’s time to for these fans to defend Joe Rogan on his hot takes, they proudly use ‘’hey guys c’mon; he’s not an expert. He’s a moron and he even calls himself a moron’’
Fuck these people and fuck cliffy Bitch lmao
@@steverogers7601 fuck Joe Rogan
I swear I live to see Cliff lose at everything he tries to do. I despise him so much.
Gears of war was a golden goose for him, and it will be his last.