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[lordrand11]

when u make shit f2p no1 wanna touch it with a stick anyways(maybe few weirdos will but thats it;p)

The game wasn't F2P, that was the issue. Don't make a live service game like this and then charge for it. Destiny has been the exception and even that shit got old quickly.

 

[Drunkensamurai]

Let me guess, this dude makes his living preaching the virtues of DEI, now he's panicked because companies aren't buying his bullshit anymore.

He's the ultimate DEI grifter lol.

 

[PeteBull]

The game wasn't F2P, that was the issue. Don't make a live service game like this and then charge for it. Destiny has been the exception and even that shit got old quickly.

Bro, concord had many other issues too, not just being 40$, plenty of games are 40$ but dont bomb or at least dont bomb as hard

 

[nephilimdj]

Be a lot of interesting discussions at Sony, Helldivers 2 insane success would of brought them 6months of joy and hope from the restructure from Japan to West (RIP Studio Japan) and now this.
I dont even really care to reflect on this games political agendas, console manufacturers need hits and Sony needs to keep a ahead of Microsoft.

 

[navii]

This comes to mind

 

[GymWolf]

Commenty from yt: I have fruit in my fridge that out lived Concord.

 

[ReBurn]

This is unprecedented.
Nothing like it has ever happened before.

They are unreleasing it. Never thought I would see it happen from a first party.

 

[adamsapple]

Commenty from yt: I have fruit in my fridge that out lived Concord.

Concord did not outlive the Lettuce.

 

[Jaybe]

Wasn't he in the Era mod's "secret" Discord?

"A four-act stage play"? No, but perhaps Concord The Musical. The game was already Producers like, though instead of Springtime for Hitler, it used DEI overloaded characters. The perfect musical for our times and guaranteed to sell more tickets than the game sold copies.

 

[ReyBrujo]

Geez, gotta choose between The Lost Child for Switch or Concord for PS5... I wonder which one will hold the most collectible value in the future...

 

[hinch7]

This comes to mind

With this going down as one of the biggest failures in video games history. This should be a hard lesson for VG companies in the west to actually listen to what people, and actual audience (customers) wants.

Edit - And I'm not even talking strictly obtuse DEI, but also the inane attempt to push souless live service titles by mega corps.

 

[FewRope]

Wasn't he in the Era mod's "secret" Discord?

Of course he was

 

[diffusionx]

By literally doing nothing I destroyed a giant console maker, their entire publishing strategy, a development team of hundreds of people, a purple themed video game forum, and a game that took eight years to make. Me right now:

 

[IAmAnAgnostic]

Wasn't he in the Era mod's "secret" Discord?

Yeah, guy was and is a loon.

Developers, publishers, platform holders and investors; "Here is what we are doing and why, watch our public presentation! Just so you won't miss it, we'll be really in your face about it and repeat it countless time too! This is a good thing and you should like it!" (In this case referring to DEI, aka 'wokeness')

Pic from here, from Sony, includes gems like the unironic use of the word 'Latinx.'
*product does horribly and is unappealing*
Mongoloids after; "Wow, the disgusting players didn't like the product and made up a baseless conspiracy to claim to know the motives behind the actions of the developers, publishers, platform holders and investors! They are so dumb too for their conspiracies with no known public evidence!"

Anyone playing dumb like this and gaslighting can go and eat lead paint, imagine trying to hold up a narrative for you and the other 10 Concord fans. Beyond sad. Jason Schreier fits this bill 100% as well.

 

[CityHunter1981]

I'd buy it if they modeled every character after Eve.

You are not alone. I wish Sony would finally recognize what men want and what not. Even a lot of women would like it.

This is the modern audience (the same as it has always been) and not some audience the professor is dreaming of.

 

[kikii]

Concord Players Are Killing Themselves In-Game in a Race to Get the Platinum Trophy Before It Shuts Down

With Concord going offline on Sept. 6, players are killing themselves in-game to get the game's Platinum before the shooter is pulled.

mp1st.com

 

[Kagero]

I was able to snag the last copy from Amazon before it got yanked mwahahahahaha. Am I a part of the problem?

 

[Cyberpunkd]

True diversity...with 6 Asians and who looks like an Indian guy.

 

[Draugoth]

What about people who bought on G2a and similiar sites? Rip 40€

Dont ever buy live service games on Gray Market Sellers, that's like using your Facebook account for porn websites.

 

[Northeastmonk]

Wasn't he in the Era mod's "secret" Discord?

that guy is another tool.

He's like that one dude who worked on Concord and claimed all the people who didn't like the game were talentless.

 

[Chuck Berry]

 

[hououinkyouma00]

Saw this earlier and it made me laugh. The amount of people that think this game failed because of the "anti-woke" folks is crazy to me. A AAA game doesn't fail because of one single group. It would be different if the game sold 1M copies because then you can point to a loud minority but Concord has failed because NOBODY bought it which includes the same mentally ill people that constantly defend the game blindly.

 

[BuddyLaDouche]

"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it"

 

[Guileless]

What Daniel Ahmad is really saying is that the theory of evolution and the billions of years of selective pressures that programmed certain preferences into human psychology is a "conspiracy focused narrative."

Arguing with him is no different that arguing with creationists who think the earth is 6,000 years old.

 

[ReBurn]

Geez, gotta choose between The Lost Child for Switch or Concord for PS5... I wonder which one will hold the most collectible value in the future...

16 watchers, no buyers. Too soon to be trying to sell this for 150 bucks.

 

[Tams]

Is this for real?

The number of simultaneous players on PC almost hit zero. 37 was the lowest I saw; no multiplayer game can survive on that.

 

[winjer]

Saw this earlier and it made me laugh. The amount of people that think this game failed because of the "anti-woke" folks is crazy to me. A AAA game doesn't fail because of one single group. It would be different if the game sold 1M copies because then you can point to a loud minority but Concord has failed because NOBODY bought it which includes the same mentally ill people that constantly defend the game blindly.

Of course they would think like that.
For people like these, it's never their own fault, because that would mean their ideology would be wrong.
So they always have to blame other people.

 

[Branded]

Saw this earlier and it made me laugh. The amount of people that think this game failed because of the "anti-woke" folks is crazy to me. A AAA game doesn't fail because of one single group. It would be different if the game sold 1M copies because then you can point to a loud minority but Concord has failed because NOBODY bought it which includes the same mentally ill people that constantly defend the game blindly.

That's satire/rage bait btw.

Steam Discussion is full of that sort of stuff to bait people into using a Steam Points on their posts.

 

[Ultros]

This is so dumb. Just because our opinions are different that automatically means I am a right winger trumper. Can't even express opinions without offending the snowflakes. Society is so soft these days. The game failed because it was bad all the way around in an overly saturated market.

What the fuck is a chud?

 

[Warspite]

Saw this earlier and it made me laugh. The amount of people that think this game failed because of the "anti-woke" folks is crazy to me. A AAA game doesn't fail because of one single group. It would be different if the game sold 1M copies because then you can point to a loud minority but Concord has failed because NOBODY bought it which includes the same mentally ill people that constantly defend the game blindly.

Any way of finding out if they actually played the game they seem to love so much?

 

[KINGMOKU]

"A four-act stage play"? No, but perhaps Concord The Musical. The game was already Producers like, though instead of Springtime for Hitler, it used DEI overloaded characters. The perfect musical for our times and guaranteed to sell more tickets than the game sold copies.

I don't like being mean, for the sake of being mean, but that guy is just an idiot. Calling other people grifters, when he is dismissing what is actually happening in corporate America, is the height of willful ignorance.

Just a clown.

 

[hououinkyouma00]

Of course they would think like that.
For people like these, it's never their own fault, because that would mean their ideology would be wrong.
So they always have to blame other people.

Unfortunately technology has made echo chambers all the more prevalent. Unfortunately the loudest get the most attention (this goes for both sides, while I find the woke people more annoying overall both sides are obnoxious).

That's satire/rage bait btw.

Steam Discussion is full of that sort of stuff to bait people into using a Steam Points on their posts.

I actually found it on /v/ and found it funny.

Any way of finding out if they actually played the game they seem to love so much?

I mean I'm sure you could check the steam profile?

 

[Topher]

Seeing similar talking points as Zhuge from Schierer and others (below), must've been told what the coordinated message is from their superiors… they just can't stand the anti-DEI crowd taking the W

lol....fascists

 

[Esppiral]

That was quick. Is this now officially the biggest flop in the history of video games? I think destruction all starts survived more, but probably cost fraction of concord. They wanted another Helldivers 2 and ended up with total flop. It happens, but this speed of action means that literally no one played this game.

This is ET levels of catastrophe, they should bury this game in some random desert.

 

[Saber]

The game wasn't F2P, that was the issue.

No it's not lol
The game has a multitude of issues. If the paid portion was the problem, the same would happen to Helldivers. Helldivers bought interesting things and it wasn't a disaster in terms of presentation and concept designs. Also the game had a free beta, almost no one appeared.
Seriously, people should give up with this low effort thinking that money was the issue.

Easy reskin;

Playstation AllStars Battle Royale 2.

Totally a interesting thing that I would be willing to give a try.
The main issue is, now we're dealing with modern Sony. So, alot of things would be tuned for modern audiences, Fat princess would not be a thing, no attractive female characters in the roster, etc.

 

[Fake]

Using the price as an excuse is stupid. There are loads of GAAS paid, not to mention the BETA was not paid and was a disaster as well.

 

[ManaByte]

 

[Ogbert]

Geez, gotta choose between The Lost Child for Switch or Concord for PS5... I wonder which one will hold the most collectible value in the future...

Managed to get a standard copy this morning at rrp.

Most sold out.

Will forget about it for 30 years and then see what the value is. Should be a good collectors item.

 

[GymWolf]

The number of simultaneous players on PC almost hit zero. 37 was the lowest I saw; no multiplayer game can survive on that.

Yeah but this is probably a first timer for an AAA game.

 

[clem84]

If they're pulling it so early, it has to be to work on it and try to salvage what they can from it, and not let all that dev time go down the drain. If they just wanted to completely abandon the game, they would have kept it active for a few weeks/months until it was completely dead. That would be my guess.

 

[winjer]

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

If they're pulling it so early, it has to be to work on it and try to salvage what they can from it, and not let all that dev time go down the drain. If they just wanted to completely abandon the game, they would have kept it active for a few weeks/months until it was completely dead. That would be my guess.

the free beta had less players on PS.

this shit so dead

 

[AJUMP23]

The Concord Platinum will be a badge of honor.

Concord Players Are Jumping Off Cliffs In-Game as They Desperately Grind for the Platinum Trophy Before Shutdown - IGN

Sony’s shock announcement of Concord’s shutdown just two weeks after it went on sale has sent what players the game has remaining into overdrive as they desperately try to secure its Platinum trophy before it’s too late.

www.ign.com

 

[ManaByte]

Seeing similar talking points as Zhuge from Schierer and others (below), must've been told what the coordinated message is from their superiors… they just can't stand the anti-DEI crowd taking the W

I really wish Sweden would pull the plug on that site.

 

[Begleiter]

Concord Players Are Killing Themselves In-Game in a Race to Get the Platinum Trophy Before It Shuts Down

With Concord going offline on Sept. 6, players are killing themselves in-game to get the game's Platinum before the shooter is pulled.

mp1st.com

This is such a great story, I'm sure it's been commented on a bunch but it's just perfectly emblematic and I'm sure will feature in the many documentaries made about this event.

 

[FoxMcChief]

Of all the games to bring back this meme, I'm so glad it was Concord.

 

[Banjo64]

 

[SSfox]

Easy reskin;

Playstation AllStars Battle Royale 2.

It's late now for this. Now one that love and respect those iconic characters want them to be used to be out in a trash dead corpse.

 

[sloppyjoe_gamer]

You know it's bad when Gamestop is trolling your epic failure of a game.....yikes LOL

 

[Warnen]

Imagine if all these butt hurts actually played the game, maybe it would have survived…