MindsEye boss Leslie Benzies has allegedly claimed that the troubles going through Construct a Rocket Boy are the results of “inner and exterior saboteurs,” based on a brand new report.
Benzies, who’s greatest recognized for his time because the president of Rockstar North, has reportedly damaged his silence to workers after the troublesome launch of MindsEye, the debut recreation from his studio, Construct a Rocket Boy.
In response to a report from IGN, Benzies addressed workers this week, the place it’s claimed the studio boss blamed “inner and exterior saboteurs” on the problems going through each Mindseye and Construct A Rocket Boy. It was reported final month that the studio is going through mass layoffs within the wake of Mindseye’s disastrous launch.
Benzies’ feedback come as round 300 workers are reported to have obtained emails informing them that they’re liable to dropping their jobs. In response to the report, these identical emails have been despatched to workers at PlayFusion, a studio that was acquired by Construct A Rocket Boy in 2024.
Because the launch of MindsEye on June 10, social media has been flooded with movies of the sport’s technical points and bugs. The state of affairs has deteriorated to the extent that PlayStation has been refunding a number of gamers, a uncommon prevalence that beforehand came about throughout the troubled launch of Cyberpunk 2077, earlier than it was pulled from sale totally.
The studio mentioned it was “heartbroken” throughout an apology launched final earlier this month, saying it was ” totally dedicated to making sure all our gamers have an important expertise”.
The sport’s Metacritic rating at the moment stands at 38 for the PC model and simply 28 for the PS5 model, making it the bottom rated recreation on Metacritic up to now this yr and considerably decrease than any recreation on Metacritic final yr too.
It isn’t faring significantly better on Steam, the place consumer rankings are at the moment listed as ‘Principally Adverse’. Of the 1,833 consumer opinions submitted for the sport up to now, 37% are marked as constructive.
In an interview with VGC earlier than the sport’s launch, MindsEye assistant recreation director Adam Whiting instructed us that whereas Construct a Rocket Boy was engaged on each In every single place and MindsEye, many of the workers have been centered on the latter.
“While we’ve obtained an enormous growth workforce, and a part of the workforce was centered on In every single place for some time, in all probability a bigger half was all the time centered on MindsEye,” Whiting mentioned.
“A recreation of this type of high quality and scale wants plenty of artists, wants plenty of coders, wants plenty of every part, proper? Wants plenty of love.”
