Saints Row Launch Didn't Go To Plan, Embracer CEO Still Confident It Will Turn Profit

Of course they want to convince investors it's not a total flop, this statement isn't for gamers who couldn't care less if the game is profitable, they just want it to be good - and even without bugs it sounds like the story is trash. Like some Boomer hopped on Twitter and TikTok for a week and thought they had an idea on what Gen-Z liked.

Saints Row was great when it was like GTA but goofy, the online multiplayer was goofy and fun, I never got into the new ones.

"Saints Row Launch Didn't Go To Plan"

Kinda the understatement of the year.

It would be easy to trash talk this like so many others however, the backbone of the game is there, a beautiful environment, some good ideas, a patch to make the visuals this gen and some interesting side missions would lift this, crouch or cover fire option.

Iron out the bugs that really do embarrass the devs (in this era of gaming), we expect some but not what we got.

Drop the price tag, i paid full whack for this and the installation time was longer than my play time!!!

It just feels, plays and looks ps2 era

Shame, as ive said it could be great

I really wanted it to be good, but just so many bugs. I had ones that kept me from progressing on top of many that would just keep me from ever getting the plat trophy. I hoped that would be a priority with fixes, but it seems not.

Wow, they really think there is a long-term market for a woke hipster Saint's Row game. I wish the devs luck (they're going to need it). BTW, SR2 (with the Gentlemen of the Row mod) is still the best SR.

The TikTok Starbucks SJW Zoomer Hipters didn't buy the game😱😱😱

Nobody wants to play your shitty hister trash. If you spend years developing such shit, you should make it a Starbucks exclusive, because outside of one, nobody want to play your garbage game.

And he is a fool if he thinks that he will make money on this pathetic video game. Everybody has already forgotten about it, imagine how it'll be in a month from now. This is literally Babylon's Fall 2.0, so cancel sales and apologize to your fans.

Wait -- it launched?!?

LOL... didn't even notice

I mean, I vaguely recall seeing articles pass by, but can't recall clicking on them...

Quick everybody.. show him how wrong he is, and how out of touch they all are.

I hope he never sees profitability out of what they did to this franchise and how they launched this game.

Maybe then the rest of 'em will learn

I'm wondering how much could be attributed to the decision to not also launch on Steam.

Question is,

How long after release will it take to "still make a profit"?!

Any game or movie can be profitable years or decades after release...

The trick is to become profitable in less time than it took to make the content.

I liked the original first and second game. Every game after were to goofy and try hard comical for my taste.

These days if a story based game is made in the US by a big team, I know to ignore it.

They were aiming for a target group that doesn't exist. Hipster-gangster wannabees

And the Woke segment of the player base they were aiming for didnt even care, too busy on the Twitter Crusade to play video games.

And don't let me start on the bugs and overall drap game.

Imagine that, alienating a good chunk of your existing fanbase doesn't pay well.....