Trivia / LawBreakers

• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: During an interview, one of the developers stated that the reason they wouldn't port to Nintendo Switch was because the system had a lack of buttons. Aside from the touchpad and analogue triggers, the Switch and the PS4 have the same amount of buttons on their controllers (16 each). Fortunately, it looks like said developer owned up to his mistake. However, it's entirely possible that he was referring to the number of buttons on a single Joycon as opposed to two.
• Creator Killer: On May 14, 2018, citing the disastrous commercial performance of this game and Radical Heights, CliffyB announced that Boss Key Productions was shutting down. While Heights was technically their last game, Bleszinski attributed LawBreakers' failure for killing the studio, as Radical Heights was created as a last-ditch effort to recoup their losses. Cliff later declared that he was done making video games altogether, ending a decades-long career in the industry.
• Follow the Leader: While CliffyB attempted to avert this trope by telling everyone that they started development before they had even heard of Overwatch, there is no denying that popular sentiment very quickly formed the viewpoint that the game was an Overwatch clone, as they were both Hero Shooters with a cast of unique characters that had special abilities and a Limit Break that steadily charged over the course of the match. The failure of LawBreakers then saw his studio rush out a battle royale game called Radical Heights which also flopped massively.
• Stillborn Franchise: Cliff (in)famously said LawBreakers would be the next "billion-dollar franchise". The aggressive marketing was elitist and over the top, leading to low sales at launch. The player count only haemorrhaged from there, at one point sinking to a concurrent level of ten people playing it worldwide. The game died on arrival and flopped so hard that it killed the developer studio who made it. Suffice to say, nothing will ever come from the LawBreakers franchise again.

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