WTF?! Construct A Rocket Boy, the studio behind 2025’s greatest flop thus far, MindsEye, is just not having an excellent time proper now. With each worker on the firm doubtlessly set to lose their job, founder Leslie Benzies is insisting that the sport will relaunch and is blaming the troubles on inside and exterior “saboteurs.”
With Benzies being a former Rockstar North president and the lead producer on the GTA sequence from Grand Theft Auto III by means of Grand Theft Auto V, there have been excessive hopes for third-person sci-fi shooter MindsEye – some questioned if it might even be a GTA challenger.
However the quite a few involved feedback that appeared within the sport’s trailers proved an correct foretelling of issues to return. The sport launched with bugs that broke missions and rendered the sport nearly unplayable.
As of proper now, 22 persons are enjoying MindsEye on Steam, down from the 24-hour peak of 38. Even the all-time concurrent peak stands at simply 1,393 gamers. It has a Largely Destructive ranking on Valve’s platform, a Metacritic rating of 38, and a person rating of simply 2.5. The PS5 model has an excellent worse ranking (28).
The scenario was so unhealthy that there have been experiences of Sony providing patrons refunds, one thing it hasn’t executed en masse since Cyberpunk 2077’s disastrous launch.
With the corporate promising to launch patches to handle the problems, co-CEO Mark Gerhard tried to put the blame on social media bots allegedly employed by Rockstar Players, calling it a “concerted effort” to “trash the sport and the studio.” The boss of MindsEye writer IO Interactive stated he did not consider this was the case.
Final week, the studio started a 45-day consultancy interval that’s required by UK legislation each time an organization is planning to put off 100 or extra staff – Construct A Rocket Boy (BARB) presently has round 300 UK staff and 200 primarily based overseas. BARB stated on the time that the cuts would “concentrate on delivering ongoing updates and efficiency optimization for MindsEye, whereas additionally guaranteeing the long-term success of Construct A Rocket Boy’s future ambitions.”
IGN sources say the redundancy emails have now been despatched to all UK staff at BARB. Employees at PlayFusion, which BARB acquired late 2024, additionally obtained the emails.
In a video name yesterday, Benzies insisted that the studio will bounce again, relaunching MindEye so it will probably presumably redeem itself à la Cyberpunk 2077 and No Man’s Sky. He added that the sport’s struggles have been coming from inside and exterior saboteurs, amongst different issues.
