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[intbal]

Microsoft, it's not too late.
You've now seen that the Sweet Baby death kiss is fatal.
You can still force Compulsion Games to completely redesign South of Midnight.

 

[Putonahappyface]

She's going to be incommunicable for quite some time.

 

[ViciousAgenda]

Omg. The fucking fibromyalgia victimization. My mother takes Lyrica for years now. She's 82. Never complained one day of her life and this is one shitty disease.

These people are unbearable.

Seriously, why is this a thing with so many people.

 

[ViperZombie]

Where's all these modern gamers they keep making these games for, oh that's right they're probably glued to a highway somewhere saving the planet.

 

[Chuck Berry]

 

[Embearded]

Now we have to wait 5 years until the PS6 for a new game. Great strategy.

You do know they have games under development and they don't have to start from scratch right?

 

[Pasta la Vista]

Surprised it happened so quickly,, that's gotta be a world record.. What a legendary failure.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Wow I didn't realize Prof was a published novelist as well:

An Unlikely Flock

Growt doesn’t remember who they used to be before the P…

www.goodreads.com

Growt doesn't remember who they used to be before the Pit. They were lucky to fly out, but Growt can't fly away from what it left inside them.

Fuck this really sounds like a page turner

 

[near]

LMAO

Who was that one dude on the forum that was always coping about the impending flop of this game?

How is he doing?

I'm not doing so good right now.

 

[intbal]

wdym?
...
i'm looking at this and i'm rock hard

That's a tumor.
Looking at Concord gave you cancer.

 

[Interfectum]

 

[havoc00]

This has to be a record right? Like nothing has come close to this? I still cant believe a game i bought like a week ago is getting de-listed lol,

 

[Fabieter]

Slightly inferior $40 dollar product in a F2P field.
The worst sense of progression in any game I've played in a long time.
DEI characters made the game mockable on social media. PvP type people might react more strongly against these characters.
6 game modes had "Jack of all trades, master of none" effect.

I just hope the studio leadership gets shaken up, they do a thorough review of what it did wrong, and they're allowed one more crack at a proper, forward thinking multiplayer game. They're currently hiring for 8 positions so it's possible Sony is giving them another crack. We'll see if those job postings are still up in a month.

With the right idea, art style etc they could absolutely smash it. It wasn't all bad.

 

[SweetTooth]

A piece of gaming history now!

Cmon chief, I thought that was a refund request.

Im disappointed

 

[MarkMe2525]

What a move. I never thought I would see the day that we would find a Sony developed and produced game in this situation. Honestly, probably for the best. It was dead in the water due to the perception (I can't say if it was really deserved or not), and they have the opportunity to maybe change that perception. That's assuming it doesn't just got tossed in the trash and written off.

 

[Interfectum]

Wow I didn't realize Prof was a published novelist as well:

An Unlikely Flock

Growt doesn’t remember who they used to be before the P…

www.goodreads.com

Fuck this really sounds like a page turner

"I loved this book. After reading it the first time, I immediately restarted it to read it again. And then I did it again. And this was when I was already had a lot more things to do than usual.

The book was sweet, and I will no doubt return to it many, many times."

Ok "Kate" aka The Professor.

 

[TintoConCasera]

Not much to say, aside from

 

[MatrixReloaded101]

Hopefully this is a wake up call for publishers to pull back on live service games. The market is too crowded now and the single player space is still wide open.

 

[TheAmazingSpiderMan]

LOL this is hilarious, u didn't need a crystal ball to tell you the outcome of this doomed game.

Everyone saw it but Sony

 

[Nydius]

The game is technically functional, so reworking it to be F2P probably won't take long (a couple of months, maybe). Since everyone who already bought it is getting refunded, they're kind of absolving themselves of their existing roadmap and commitments. They also have time to potentially tweak the character designs to make people actually want to play this vs the thousands of other popular free games on the market.

It'll still do laughably bad numbers, but it would allow Sony to recoup SOME costs from this turd.

Are you familiar with the idiom of "don't throw good money after bad"? The game failed to capture any audience even when it had a free beta. After a dismal beta period and even more dismal launch, that has now culminated in today's events, the game will forever be considered a failure.

Even if there's a framework here, the reputation of the game has made it unsalvageable. Spending the money to retool the game into a F2P offering would be a massive waste of money, resources, and time. It would be the second biggest bungle behind letting it launch in the first place.

 

[M1chl]

To be honest, why shutting it down, load on servers has to be minimal, most likely it runs on something like Kubernetes, so I don't see a reason to shut it down, just make it F2P and it has a chance, I believe. This is weird move

 

[Interfectum]

Hopefully this is a wake up call for publishers to pull back on live service games. The market is too crowded now and the single player space is still wide open.

Should also be a wake up call for publishers and developers on how to treat their fanbases. The demographic those developers hate are the same demographic that will buy their game. Some day they will sort this out.

 

[Peroroncino]

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Kotaku self-pity article when? After all they did it for acolyte, I guess they can rewrite it with minimal changes.

Blame Modern TV For Star Wars: The Acolyte's Cancellation

The series was forging new paths and telling different stories in a franchise that often leans too much on nostalgia

kotaku.com

 

[Interfectum]

To be honest, why shutting it down, load on servers has to be minimal, most likely it runs on something like Kubernetes, so I don't see a reason to shut it down, just make it F2P and it has a chance, I believe. This is weird move

The concurrent player base dipped down to 24 players on launch week. The game is dead. Even if they paid people to play it would't move the needle. Time to cut losses and move on.

 

[Astray]

To be honest, why shutting it down, load on servers has to be minimal, most likely it runs on something like Kubernetes, so I don't see a reason to shut it down, just make it F2P and it has a chance, I believe. This is weird move

IP is thoroughly poisoned now. There is no point in spending one dollar more on it than is necessary.

 

[Connificent]

You can still get the controller.

 

[jshackles]

Are you familiar with the idiom of "don't throw good money after bad"? The game failed to capture any audience even when it had a free beta. After a dismal beta period and even more dismal launch, that has now culminated in today's events, the game will forever be considered a failure.

Even if there's a framework here, the reputation of the game has made it unsalvageable. Spending the money to retool the game into a F2P offering would be a massive waste of money, resources, and time. It would be the second biggest bungle behind letting it launch in the first place.

I'm very familiar with the phrase, I used it a few days ago to describe this very scenario

I'm not saying they WILL go F2P, just that Sony might still gamble a little more to try and make something back from this mess. And I agree, it would be a huge bungle.

 

[Sleepwalker]

lol good luck ya'll with physical copies

Might become a collectors item lol

 

[KINGMOKU]

"Concord fans..."

Making it sound like they are speaking to the masses.

Your speaking to the dozens.

"Dear moderately sized group of blue hairs..."

 

[Chuck Berry]

 

[Nydius]

just make it F2P and it has a chance, I believe

Servers cost money to run, and when the game was completely F2P on PC for a four day weekend, it got a whopping 2388 max concurrent users. Even if it did ten times that number on PS5, it wouldn't be enough to financially justify it.

 

[peek]

Ayyyy! Hope yall ordered and bought those special concord controllers! Its gonna be a rare collectors item like the ET game xD

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Also, Polygon article is wrong:

Sony pulled CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077 from the PlayStation Store in 2020 over quality issues with the game, which returned to sale about six months later.

Nope, Sony didn't care about quality issues, it's because CDPR told people to go and get a refund from Sony, big no-no in a corporate world. AFAIK Xbox never pulled the game.

 

[violence]

Servers cost money to run, and when the game was completely F2P on PC for a four day weekend, it got a whopping 2388 max concurrent users. Even if it did ten times that number on PS5, it wouldn't be enough to financially justify it.

Their message sounded like it was going free to play at a later date but now I'm questioning it.

 

[N30RYU]

I won't laught till firewalk gets closed or have directive layouts

 

[Yoboman]

Damn Sony are going to have to refund hundreds maybe 1 thousand dollars

 

[CLW]

 

[havoc00]

>concord going offline
>dustborn bombed
>acolyte 2 cancelled
>borderlands movie flopped
>blue hair and journos seething

 

[The Pleasure]

Sony has a simple plan

 

[Aguero9320]

Why is Chris Dring acting like a pussy here? Grow some balls and be honest with the people. There were reasons to root against Concord.

He's missing the mark here - I've seen just as many, if not significantly more Sony fans shitting all over Concord. This one has transcended the console wars...

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Sony doesn't fuck around huh

I wonder how long Firewalk has before they are shut down and everyone at that studio are laid off?

8 years development and God knows how many millions spent for this LMAO

 

[SweetTooth]

That They/Them whatever is going to get his ass beat by the Japanese CFO !

 

[chromatic9]

Author of A Likely Flop

 

[M1chl]

Servers cost money to run, and when the game was completely F2P on PC for a four day weekend, it got a whopping 2388 max concurrent users. Even if it did ten times that number on PS5, it wouldn't be enough to financially justify it.

Like I said if its on Kubernetes, price for this would in few USD per month with such a low player count

 

[Zacfoldor]

Sony just shot themselves in the foot.

I don't know how much the rest of you know about hero shooters (I'm an expert), but honor and shame are huge parts of it. This isn't like Lawbreakers, which was developed for Overwatch loving assholes. If you screw someone in the Playstation community, you bring shame to yourself, and the only way to get rid of that shame is repentance.

What this means is that fans of hero shooters after hearing about this, are not going to want to purchase GAAS games on any Sony system, nor will they purchase a PS6. This is HUGE. You can laugh all you want, but Sony has alienated an entire market with this move.

Sony, publicly apologize and bring back Concord for PSN or you can kiss your business goodbye.

So they alienated the pvp market and are hurriedly scrambling to slap together a soulslike(probably)? AND I won't have to fight scalpers for my PS6?

I'll allow it.

If they really want to do a GAAS that will get players back there's always Bloodborne Kart.

 

[EviLore]

Additional Level Design on Hyper Light Drifter, and Additional Sandbox Design on Destiny 2. What a resume!

 

[Kurimao]

 

[Nydius]

The only person I feel bad for in this whole mess is Daniel Pemberton, the composer of the soundtrack. He did a phenomenal job with the music for this dumpster fire of a game. A shame his musical work will go unnoticed.

Quite literally the only thing about Concord that I liked.

 

[BlackTron]