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Boss Key Productions , the studio behind the Battle Royale early access titleRadical Heights , is close up shop . The developer hold a immense amount of potential difference ab initio , issue forth fromGear of Warveteran Cliff Bleszinski and promising something of a shake - up when it total to the shooter genre . alas , initial releaseLawBreakersdidn’t have the nifty of launches and failed to observe an hearing .
Thewinding down ofLawBreakersdidn’t make out as much of a surprise , but the newsworthiness that the studio was already jump into another game did lift a few brow . Nothing prepared fans for thesurprise ( exceedingly ) early entree launchof follow - upRadical Heights , however , with the game looking to capitalize on the craze for Battle Royale games seen by the the likes of ofFortniteandPlayerUnknown ’s Battlegrounds .
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However , Radical Heightshas not done enough to keep Boss Key Productions break , as the studio ’s closure has now been confirmed . take toTwitter , Bleszinski stated that the developer is " effectively no more , " before run on to in brief talk over the struggles that the studio apartment found with its dismission . Meanwhile , the servers forRadical Heightswill also remain running for " the penny-pinching futurity , " although clearly the game ’s time is very short as well .
Bleszinski himself is conk to take some meter away from development , but does desire to " make something Modern again someday . " However , the gamble taken on Boss Key Productions unfortunately has not paid off , and the studio apartment has instead left behind two interesting but flawed games that failed to find audiences in the face of bigger releases .
Although partly Boss Key ’s struggle were down to bad luck or a lack of pickup from word - of - sassing looseness , there were also some flaw within the games themselves that made it unmanageable to gain tending from more established titles . In particular , Radical Heightscertainly held some potential difference , but plunge in too ropey a state of matter to really grab role player , and its steady dropping player base seemed inevitable . Then again , rifle up against amoney - making machine likeFortnitewas always going to be a braggart ask .
Hopefully , the creative thinker of Boss Key Productions will find their fashion back into biz ontogenesis soon . There were emphatically some interesting ideas on show , and it would be a shame to see that disappear from the manufacture altogether . unluckily , it ’s not going to be happening under Boss Key Productions .
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