{"id":9423,"date":"2018-01-03T23:49:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T23:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/312496"},"modified":"2018-01-03T23:49:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T23:49:00","slug":"lawbreakers-publisher-blames-battlegrounds-for-poor-reception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/01\/03\/lawbreakers-publisher-blames-battlegrounds-for-poor-reception\/","title":{"rendered":"LawBreakers publisher blames Battlegrounds for poor reception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>LawBreakers<\/em>\u00a0publisher Nexon\u00a0blames <em>PlayerUnknown&#8217;s Battlegrounds<\/em> for\u00a0the poor reception of their multi-player shooter from Boss Key Productions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ir.nexon.co.jp\/en\/library\/pdf\/20171110_4.pdf\">Nexon&#8217;s financials<\/a> were recently published, and during\u00a0a conversation with investors Nexon exec\u00a0Shiro\u00a0Uemera\u00a0pointed\u00a0to\u00a0<em>Battlegrounds<\/em> as the reason for\u00a0the $36.6 million shortfall\u00a0which <em>LawBreakers<\/em>\u00a0was meant to fill.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2018-01-03-publisher-blames-pubg-for-lawbreakers-flopping\">As Eurogamer notes,<\/a>\u00a0Uemura\u00a0discusses how <em>LawBreakers<\/em> sold below their expectations, even with\u00a0a lot of optimism surrounding the game before\u00a0launch. With <em>Battlegrounds<\/em> releasing around the same time, Uemura\u00a0took that as the reason behind their failure.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8220;The timing of its launch turned out to be unfortunate, specifically the blockbuster PC online game <em>PlayerUnknown&#8217;s Battlegrounds<\/em> came out right about the same time, making the market environment very tough for first-person shooters in general and for <em>LawBreakers,<\/em>&#8221; Uemura\u00a0told Eurogamer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LawBreakers\u00a0publisher Nexon\u00a0blames PlayerUnknown&#8217;s Battlegrounds for\u00a0the poor reception of their multi-player shooter from Boss Key Productions. Nexon&#8217;s financials were recently published, and during\u00a0a conversation with investors Nexon exec\u00a0Shiro\u00a0Uemera\u00a0pointed\u00a0to\u00a0Battlegrounds as the reason for\u00a0the $36.6 million shortfall\u00a0which LawBreakers\u00a0was meant to fill. As Eurogamer notes,\u00a0Uemura\u00a0discusses how LawBreakers sold below their expectations, even with\u00a0a lot of optimism surrounding the game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}