Boss Key Productions decided to use its very first game, Lawbreakers, as a vehicle for Social Justice. Coming into the crowded first-person shooter market by dabbling in Leftist politics was a bad way to set a first impression with an already jaded gaming audience. To no one’s surprise Lawbreakers got woke and Boss Key Productions went broke. After various scuffles with the denizens of social media, the head honcho of Boss Key, Clifford Bleszinski, decided to finally call it quits in the gaming industry.
He’s serious about the departure, too. According to Niche Gamer he’s now working with the producers of HadesTown on the Broadway production as an investor.
The play is based on an adapted story from the ancient Greek playwrights, specifically centering in on the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, where the former travels into Hades to rescue the latter. A classic damsel in distress story.
According to Cliffy B., this was borne from his niece, who is a “Broadway nerd”. He confirmed the move to Broadway in a series of short tweets on December 26th, 2018.
Gaming news gonna be like WTF
— Cliff Bleszinski (@therealcliffyb) December 26, 2018
What locked it in? When my Broadway nerd niece heard I might and lost her mind. ♥
— Cliff Bleszinski (@therealcliffyb) December 26, 2018
It’s a shame that this is how Cliffy B., rounded out his career in gaming. Radical Heights was actually on the upsurge of becoming something special, but LawBreakers failed so miserably that Boss Key just couldn’t keep its doors open long enough to turn their Battle Royale game into a profitable venture.
A lot of gamers tried warning the original creator of Gears of War that trying to get woke would eventually make the studio go broke, but he just wouldn’t listen. An over-saturated market combined with Leftist politics was a recipe for disaster everyone but Cliffy saw coming.
Even still, there are gamers that probably still hope against all hope that Cliffy B., might one day return to his roots and make a proper, masculine successor to Gears of War. Perhaps this will come to fruition once Cliffy’s jingle bells refill with testosterone and he gets done raising his wife’s son
(Thanks for the news tip zac za)
