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This cracked me up...

 

[ManaByte]

 

[tommib]

Second day and it's already dropping under 200 concurrent players.
I was expecting low numbers, but this is pathetic.

A turning point for Sony. The Heaven’s Gate of our time.

 

[willothedog]

It is a game so bad even Rule34 won't do anything with the characters

 

[BlackTron]

This game BROKE rule 34

Mistake or tryhard fantasy you have hot game?

 

[nkarafo]

I wonder if AVGN would ever bash a game for these kind of characters nowadays. I guess no even though they deserve it.

Nowadays no, not yet.

In the near future though... Woke media will not age well, you can bet on that.

I don't know how people will react to all the shit we produced the last 10 years in the near future. It will probably be just cringe and embarrassment. Maybe it will become a cult niche, something weird during a weird period of humanity. Kinda like how we see 70's sexploitation movies nowadays. Or maybe it will be completely forgotten and ignored forever.

 

[TerribleAtThisGame]

A turning point for Sony. The Heaven’s Gate of our time.

This guy knows his film debacles.

 

[solidus12]

But I thought Sony bought bungie for their expertise on gaas and that they would crack the code for a successful line up of live service games.

 

[MayauMiao]

This cracked me up...

Of the 697 players, how many of them are Sony employees desperately trying to save the game?

 

[adamsapple]

This cracked me up...

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

the whole Concord team now is playing the game. they are wating for the weekend bump.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

a second prise the sun from adamsapple?
Xbox still shit, so you know

 

[MayauMiao]

 

[TheUsual]

Of the 697 players, how many of them are Sony employees desperately trying to save the game?

This must be some mandatory Fun Time policy being enacted.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Paul tassi has given up wating for the glitch to be fixed

 

[Esppiral]

To no one surprise.

 

[MayauMiao]

When it can't even beat the beta numbers.

 

[adamsapple]

a second prise the sun from adamsapple?
Xbox still shit, so you know

 

[SmokedMeat]

Oof those Skull and Crossbones numbers. No wonder Ubi’s been emailing me about free trials and “it’s on Steam!”

Concord being even worse warms my heart and gives me faith that people are tired of the same old GaaS games.

Meanwhile a new single player game is the talk of the town.

 

[struggler_guts]

Some people are still playing gollum!?!

 

[Nickolaidas]

Some people are still playing gollum!?!

Twitch streamers and YouTubers making fun of the game to this day must be at least 30% responsible for those numbers.

 

[clarky]

You might want to stealth edit your number clarky.

Should have edited it more it couldn't even hold 300.

Also Lol Ass of Can Whooping . At least you still got those 2 light attacks coming up buddy

 

[Ozriel]

I got enough of concord in the beta

Fun for weekend, but then felt like there’s was nothing more for me to do.

I ain’t stanning for this game at all, but merely putting its failure into context. Some believe it’s a bigger deal than it really is.

If you were truly ’putting it’s failure into context’ you wouldn’t be trying to compare it to Hellblade 2 which would have been made on a much smaller budget.

This is a GaaS game with a lot of money thrown at it, expensive CG ‘episodes’ already paid for, including the reveal trailer that probably cost a million.

Context would be comparing it to Skull and Bones or maybe Suicide Squad, but you can’t help the console warring, can you?

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

it's climing up! allies all over the world are waking up to make the impossible.

 

[FunkMiller]

If you were truly ’putting it’s failure into context’ you wouldn’t be trying to compare it to Hellblade 2 which would have been made on a much smaller budget.

This is a GaaS game with a lot of money thrown at it, expensive CG ‘episodes’ already paid for, including the reveal trailer that probably cost a million.

Context would be comparing it to Skull and Bones or maybe Suicide Squad, but you can’t help the console warring, can you?

This is fast becoming the largest first party disaster in modern gaming history, regardless of what platform it's on.

 

[Tomi]

You wanna tell me that Sackboy had more opening players than Concord which was in development for over 7 years and probably whole cost was like 20 Sackboy games to make?✓
And that Sackboy was 60€ when released on steam, and Concord is 40€?✓
And Sackboy was also available on ps5 for like 3 years before steam?✓

Biggest LOL in gaming industry if true ✓

 

[Skifi28]

You wanna tell me that Sackboy had more opening players than Concord which was in development for over 7 years and probably whole cost was like 20 Sackboy games to make?✓
And that Sackboy was 60€ when released on steam, and Concord is 40€?✓
And Sackboy was also available on ps5 for like 3 years before steam?✓

Biggest LOL in gaming industry if true ✓

Hey, Sackboy was a great platformer. Don't go using its name along with Concord.

 

[clarky]

This is fast becoming the largest first party disaster in modern gaming history, regardless of what platform it's on.

Easy. Love to be a fly on the bean bags at Firewall right now.

It will be someone elses fault no doubt.

Big question now is what comes first? Zero CCU or Ass of Can Whooping ban expires?

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Hilarious. I have it set to not show games on the Steam store with either of those tags.

Thanks for pointing that out otherwise I might’ve accidentally bought it. Nice try Concord!

 

[Holammer]

It is 15:00 CET now, by now many game should start climbing as Steam peaks in user engagement around 16:00.
But it looks like Concord flatlined below 300.

 

[Fafalada]

Pushing 170 heads, in Seattle WA. The last 2 years alone have exceeded $100,000,000. Total spend is probably close to, if not exceeding, $200,000,000. That 5 minute Marvel style CG shortfilm they did had to be $15,000,000+.

To be fair - most of the budget was paid for before acquisition by someone ;P
Wonder how much Sony actually paid for the studio though.

They were likely expecting 10 million+ sales lifetime

This I really doubt though.
Engagement metrics have a lot more visibility than +1 day to launch - I've witnessed bombing performance from the inside before and it was never really a surprise to anyone (or at least - there was never a discrepancy of even a single order of magnitude - let alone several). Ie. you might miss predictions by say - 50-100% - but not by 10000-50000%.

 

[Punished Miku]

Some people are still playing gollum!?!

I'm jumping in when it hits $5.

 

[The Mad Draklor]

Going woke is going broke

Also, with the exception of helldivers sony has a terrible track record with live service games

I think in this case, Concord fits Razorfist's version better: go broke, get woke, ultimately croak.

Just casually making like 10 % of all posts in this thread alone?

It's rather telling when the person who swears Concord is a good game has spent more time running damage control than... actually playing the game.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

291...nothing stops this train.... 301 Choo-Choo.

next stop:
Unmitigated success

 

[Fafalada]

Funniest part about this picture is - S&B started as part of the previous Industry GaaS push 15 years ago. It took so long to develop it skipped the entire market failure of the 10s and got on the second wave and still managed to bomb.

Also indicative of how this industry never learns from the past - not even an attempt to introspect was made, making all the same mistakes all over again a little more than a decade later.

 

[Setsuna Mudou]

If you were truly ’putting it’s failure into context’ you wouldn’t be trying to compare it to Hellblade 2 which would have been made on a much smaller budget.

This is a GaaS game with a lot of money thrown at it, expensive CG ‘episodes’ already paid for, including the reveal trailer that probably cost a million.

Context would be comparing it to Skull and Bones or maybe Suicide Squad, but you can’t help the console warring, can you?

Hey let's keep it real here ok, Hellblade 2 is massive dookie too and it was used to prop up the xbox series x console in the reveal trailer. Love to hate on this piece of shit concord all along, but at least it's still a game, not a tech demo
It's a bit rich seeing people that were defending Hellblade 2 here somehow trying to take a moral highground

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

If you were truly ’putting it’s failure into context’ you wouldn’t be trying to compare it to Hellblade 2 which would have been made on a much smaller budget.

 

[FunkMiller]

Guys, guys...

Both Xbox and Playstation have had some epic fucking disasters recently. No point in arguing about whose enormous pile of shit is slightly bigger than the other.

 

[Joel Was Right]

How many is this now?
Foamsters?
What was the other one before it?

I count at least 3.

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

 

[FunkMiller]

How many is this now?
Foamsters?
What was the other one before it?

I count at least 3.

Do you mean high profile GaaS failures? We've got to be in double figures by now.

Helldivers 2 has been the only real diamond in a bowl of horse diarrhea.

Men In Boxes rn:

 

[Madflavor]

Acolyte cancelled, Concord bombing, Dustborn bombing, meanwhile games like Stellar Blade, The First Descendant and Black Myth have been very successful. It's been a good year.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

When it can't even beat the beta numbers.

Anyone remember Hyenas that was canceled after the poor showing in the beta?

 

[FunkMiller]

Anyone remember Hyenas that was canceled after the poor showing in the beta?

Concord shows how wise that decision was. Better to take the small reputational hit by cancelling a game, than release something that bombs so massively. Much more high profile. Much more embarrassing.

 

[adamsapple]

Men In Boxes rn:

If you can believe it, he's being called an Xbot elsewhere

 

[StereoVsn]

Not even era buy this.

But they will verbally “support” it and will be sad why mean and “gamergate” gamers don’t buy it and they the studio had to close.

Mind you, they won’t play it themselves, just “support” it.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

Concord shows how wise that decision was. Better to take the small reputational hit by cancelling a game, than release something that bombs so massively. Much more high profile. Much more embarrassing.

They actually scored a few points with me for canceling a game no one wanted

But this Concord ride has been fun and I am so glad they pushed it out the door

 

[StereoVsn]

Sony really going after GAAS as hard as possible. So itching for GAAS, they bought this studio last year to add Concord to their GAAS strategy. And I dont think Firewalk and Concord were even part of their powerpoint slides recap in 2022. So it was an incremental game count to their GAAS tally.

They probably realized some of their internal GAAS games were fizzling out. So they needed a quick fix GAAS game they can launch soon, which Concord fit the bill.

What’s wild is that anybody with 2 brain cells would have realized this shit was going to flop and flop hard. How in the world did Sony manage to do no due diligence on game’s prospects.

 

[Rocco Schiavone]

How many is this now?
Foamsters?
What was the other one before it?

I count at least 3.

Destruction Allstars???