[FREE] (Steam) LawBreakers

It was too late.

Sad.

thats almost a year to late sadly :/

Wow, first three comments are the same like my first thought.
And it seems that nobody cares about that breaking news...

Well played Cliffy, well played.

I tried it when it was paid and on some free week or so... nty bye

A day late and a dollar short.

Maybe a little more advertisement would have done them good. Also doing it earlier and not during freaking E3. Unless they managed to say it on stage they were making it f2p, which would be a huge thing for the game.

Uhg, Nexon!

Billion Dollar IP :)

!addlicense asf 350280

holy crap what happened august 2017 ?

edit
nvm, i see its game release... way to kill off mp game hehe

I thought the game was dead along with Bosskey Productions, and I didn't expect Nexon to keep a zombie game online.

Did I miss something here ?

It's a shame barely any multiplayer game can survive with a traditional pricing nowadays. People just don't accept games that cost money anymore (except for a few big ones like Battlefield or Overwatch). They resort to F2P games instead, many of which are designed to get you to spend money with microtransactions. They choose the game with tendentially worse game design over the game that costs money, even if it's only half the standard (AAA) price. That is the real sad story here. Not that a single game didn't survive. The fact that we have yet another example of a multiplayer game that is unable to exist unless it goes F2P, that's what worries me. The community is always fast to condemn microtransactions on the forums, yet they support this trend by ignoring every game that tries to go the traditional route. Is that how it will be in the future? No multiplayer games anymore that don't beg for money with microtransactions and end up being a tedious grind, because we are not willing to pay for our entertainment anymore? I am really not willing to accept that. Everyone was fine with full price for multiplayer games a few years back. No one complained about the price of Battlefield 2, for instance. And now - decent games can't even survive if they ask for half the price.

https://youtu.be/s8LIRtPnuA8?t=36s

"Putt putt saves the zoo has more players than this. " Someguy's steam review.

Too late.

The development company who made this game has been shut down.

They should have just started as F2P. Instead, big-headed Cliffy B decided to charge money for it. Not only that but the game came into a situation where a lot of Overwatch clones (Overwatch included) were released, which oversaturated the market, which left the game into obscurity.

You could argue that Overwatch had a similar price point and could have failed, but it didn't. Why? It's made by Blizzard, the game had an interesting art style, characters and they advertised it like crazy. It was also innovative in terms of features such as "The Play of the Game". Plus, the game is easy to pick up and play.

This? Well... at least the gameplay is good, but art style and characters? Not memorable.

Shame, it had potential but it flopped. And making it F2P now is an insult to all people who bought it in the first place.

I've been a fan of arena fps since the Quake 3 days, and it saddens me to see the genre lose so much of it's momentum over the years. While I wouldn't say the genre is totally dead, the new trends in multiplayer have definitely moved to team, ability and class based shooters, zombie survival games, and now battle royale. Unreal Tournament 4 development has stalled, and much of it's development team has been moved to Fortnite. Reflex Arena, TOXIKK and Xonotic playerbases are so small that it's difficult to find a game unless you log on at the right times. Quake Champions' gameplay has grown on me, and I am not giving up on it yet, but I really dislike the way they've turned it into another F2P, matchmaking only, lootbox and ability shooter. At least Quake Live is still active and hopefully will remain so for the foreseeable future.

Lawbreakers was clearly marketed wrong, and Cliff Bleszinski's interviews certainly didn't help the games impression. Still, the game itself was received positively and does have a passionate, if tiny playerbase. I really do hope that these other comments are wrong; that it's not too late and that going F2P can save the game. Only time will tell...

Doesn't even give cards, meh. As expected anyways. Not even for free, I don't want this game.

Shutdown the 14th September

Thank you for the heads up!

Don't want it, even if they pay me...

I dont even want to play that game and someone invited me to a group of 80k people that "plays" that. :(

From the Devs:

In light of the unfortunate news regarding Boss Key Productions shutting down, we regret to announce that we will be sunsetting our support of LawBreakers on September 14, 2018 as we are not able to operate the game.

Our servers will remain open until then and the game will be made free-to-play on Steam for all players effective immediately. Please note that any and all new in-game purchases will also be disabled and we will not be able to accept any refund requests.

Complete text: https://steamcommunity.com/games/350280/announcements/detail/1667902016147679716

So nothing is saved with f2p ....
You have 12 weeks and than is that game history.

Sad for me because i waited 1,5 years on a good sale and a better health....

Was this the game that you couldn't play most of the time except for certain weekends when the servers were online because the game was in alpha? Because I always missed those weekends.

sad game