Cliff Bleszinski says he “will NEVER” make one other videogame. The vow got here in response to a tweet that accuses him of refusing to refund gamers who had bought Lawbreakers, one in all Bleszinski’s final initiatives.
Tagging Bleszinski and the Lawbreakers account, the tweet reads: “you all won’t refund players who stuck with you all and spent money for you all to keep up the content. Cliff I looked up to you during the Gears of War days and sad to see you where you are at. Wish you’d come back. Now all that money is waisted [sic].” It’s the one tweet despatched by its account, which joined in November this yr – hallmarks of a troll.
Nevertheless the sentiment appears to have upset Bleszinski, who factors out that he didn’t take a wage for 2 years whereas taking care to pay these of his workers, in addition to their 401ks (pension plans) and medical health insurance – even “months” after his studio, Boss Key Productions, folded. As Bleszinski will undoubtedly know, that is in laudable distinction with how Telltale Games executives handled that studio’s recent collapse.
Given this, it’s maybe comprehensible that Bleszinski ought to really feel somewhat aggrieved. He clearly didn’t intend for Boss Key to break down so there’s no query of fraud, and no authorized obligation for him to supply refunds.
I paid my workers, their 401ks, and their well being care – even months after the studio folded. So they might care for his or her households.
I did not take a wage myself for 2 years.
I get you are unhappy, however god, this kinda shit is one more reason I’m NEVER making one other game. https://t.co/RtS7l5WcAl
— Cliff Bleszinski (@therealcliffyb) November 15, 2018
His vow to “NEVER” make one other game is information to us, although. After the collapse of Boss Key, he stated he would “take some time off and reflect” and that “videogames will forever be part of who I am and I hope to make something new again someday”. His tweet in the present day suggests he could have determined in opposition to that.
Personally, I hope he stated it in a heated second and that he reconsiders. For all that he likes to speak, Cliffy B has introduced us some sensible games over time – together with LawBreakers – and Boss Key was considering some very cool initiatives at its dying. If the fashionable games trade can’t deliver us an action-adventure about “ninja/samural in airships riding dragons fighting zombies with friends in a PvE ‘feudalpunk’ setting on floating islands”, then I would like no a part of it.
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