South Korean publisher Nexon believes the enormous success PlayerUnknown's BattleGrounds became a key factor inside the underperformance of a unique release, LawBreakers.
The arena-based shooter, created by Cliff Bleszinski's Boss Key Productions, has off to your slow start since launching last summer and Nexon states the experience MapleStory 2 Mesos performed "below our expectations" rolling around in its Q3 financial report.
A transcript of any conference call says the publisher had "very high expectations due to its launch" even so the timing of LawBreakers' debut "turned out to get unfortunate."
CFO Shiro Uemura said: "Specifically, the blockbuster Buy MapleStory 2 Mesos PC sport PlayerUnknown's BattleGrounds came our right about precisely the same time, making this market environment very tough for first-person shooters in general as well as for LawBreakers."