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Concord bombs on Steam with less than 1k players on launch day
- Thread starter Dr. Samuel Hayden
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Bernardougf
Member
LooooooL thats keeping faithful to your beliefs right there! Fucking lunatics
nkarafo
Member
I wonder what else the industry needs before we finally see all those activists get fired from every single studio they infested.
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
I hope that from now on, any game designer or movie producer who utters the phrase “modern audiences”, “inclusive”, or “representation” gets laughed out of the room.
People are so fucking sick of this shit that they’re actively avoiding anything that has even the slightest smell of DEI about it.
People are so fucking sick of this shit that they’re actively avoiding anything that has even the slightest smell of DEI about it.
That paid for part would have added to the valuation of the studio when Sony bought them.
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
Wanna try re-reading my post to see if you understand it any better?
Punished Miku
Human Rights Subscription Service
I never really obsess about sales numbers to the extent some PS fans do on here, but what is actually hilarious is only 1 day after Concord mega bombs suddenly it is useless to compare them.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
Hellblade 2 is a short art game not designed to be played for long periods of time. It also released on a sub service. Even then it did better than Concorde and it cost $10 more. It also reviewed higher, will likely win best graphics and audio of the year in multiple places and is likely in the running for best graphics in a game ever at this point.
Even Redfall did better and its on a sub, and its a decent 20 hour single player game and it was $70.
Everyone should let this sink in next time an Xbox release is dogpiled as the worst game ever.
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jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Anyone wanna lay odds on whether the world will actually see any of those "three seasons of content" that were promised last week?
www.digitaltrends.com
Concord is committing to at least three seasons after its launch next week | Digital Trends
Firewalk Studios announced Concord's post-launch road map, showing that at least three seasonal content drops are in the works.
www.digitaltrends.com
Joel Was Right
Gold Member
You think this game failed because devs advocated inclusivity?
Not exactly, but definitely making unattractive inclusive characters the main roster played part. Videogames are escapism, I know I have plenty of rough edges but I want a nice looking character if I am playing in fantasy
PeteBull
Member
It just hit the perfect storm of being offputing for 99,9% of gamers, even ones who love arena shooter genre, hopefully sony HQ learns stuff from that- aka no woke shit and no wokesters as heads of the studios, those always lead to low quality product and diseasters.
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
I think that’s a big part of it. Probably would’ve been fucked either way but at least they could’ve got gamers to give it a chance if the character roster wasn’t so damn ugly.
Madserb2023
Member
It was the final nail. Look at it this way. It's a worse version of Overwatch 2 that's free to play. Imaging opening a burger fast food chain which sold burgers that tasted half as nice and cost twice as much as Mc Donald's and to top it off, the burgers are made purposely garish and ugly for political reasons that only even apply in a select few countries in the West which people still don't get. It's not a global thing yet the product is.
Spyxos
Member
Looks like it is user generated. Even if not, Concord will not attract many more players as a result.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
The real perfect failure storm probably has more to do with the fact that this genre is now incredibly crowded, and it's crowded by games that are free. The free to play model for arena shooters relies heavily on cosmetic shops - but this game has both a price tag of $40 and a cosmetics shop. It could be the most fun and polished game ever made, but if your main competition are hugely established franchises that have no upfront costs, you're already fighting an uphill battle to put this in player's hands. Combine the fact that this has no single player campaign (even a tacked-on one would have helped), so people who enjoy your game are reliant on there being lots of other people buying your game, and this was set up for failure from the start.
Now that nobody is playing the game, its death spiral begins in earnest before things even get off the ground. Steam is probably processing a huge number of refunds on this game, and matchmaking times will start getting longer and longer from here. Nobody wants to buy a dead multiplayer-only game.
Ugly characters and disparaging remarks from the devs have only helped cement its failure further.
Angry_Megalodon
Member
Inclusivity was at the forefront of the conception of this game, so yes. It's disingenuous to say that only the bad character designs are a product of DEI. Everything in the game is, for there is no innovation within a DEI environment.
Joel Was Right
Gold Member
Come on, man. You think PC gamers are so invested in 'anti-woke' rhetoric that they've elected to boycott the game because the devs advocated inclusivity in their...*checks notes*....character designs....
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DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
Some of them maybe. I think more gamers aren’t consciously aware of the ideology behind the game. Rather they just think the roster looks like total ass. Which is kind of a kiss of death for a hero shooter.
Come on, man. You think PC gamers are so invested in 'anti-woke' rhetoric that they've elected to boycott the game because the devs advocated inclusivity in their...*checks notes*....character designs....
But the reason the roster looks so shitty is because they went down some diversity & inclusion checklist while designing them, then took great care to make sure the men aren’t too masculine and the women aren’t to feminine or appealing to the “male gaze”
HeisenbergFX4
Member
The initial reveal did it no favors either
Here we waited for a PS show and this game took the first what 10 minutes with over half of that being a dumb CGI cinematic?
Maybe I am just getting old but release that type of shit on Youtube and let people go watch it if they want
In a "showcase" or State of Play don't do CGI shit, give me gameplay
GriffinCorp
Member
This is a the best lol
AyraSutoraifu
Member
As i long time fan of single player games and a PS gamer... i say, good!
bosnianpie
Member
Hopefully this will put an end to Sonys Gaas strategy.
Arsic
Loves his juicy stink trail scent
I did finally get into a match of rivalry which is their take on competitive ranked.
This is where the game shines. You build a deck of heroes you want to use, and each hero has a perma boost to your characters for remaining rounds. So for example you get more health regen on this character, next round you pick a sniper that has longer range with guns, but now also has health regen. It forces the player to think in immediate ways of selecting a hero they are good with to win a round, but also think long term to get to buffs that will make later picks even stronger.
One life per round so you’re now needing to communicate , coordinate, and actually have a back and forth tug of war with the enemy team.
It’s good and fun, but this game is dead within a month tops.
Free to play can’t save this either.
This is where the game shines. You build a deck of heroes you want to use, and each hero has a perma boost to your characters for remaining rounds. So for example you get more health regen on this character, next round you pick a sniper that has longer range with guns, but now also has health regen. It forces the player to think in immediate ways of selecting a hero they are good with to win a round, but also think long term to get to buffs that will make later picks even stronger.
One life per round so you’re now needing to communicate , coordinate, and actually have a back and forth tug of war with the enemy team.
It’s good and fun, but this game is dead within a month tops.
Free to play can’t save this either.
Raven117
Member
It is one reason of the bigger point that firewalk made a game that nobody really wanted, in a saturated market, and charged too much. We can debate how big a reason that is till we are blue in the face, but we won’t ever truly know. It’s just an unappealing product.
Come on, man. You think PC gamers are so invested in 'anti-woke' rhetoric that they've elected to boycott the game because the devs advocated inclusivity in their...*checks notes*....character designs....
It’s all there is to it really.
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Madserb2023
Member
No, because that's not what I said. I said it was the final nail but not the integral part of its failure. If it was an amazing game, free to play and not launched into a saturated market then it would have done better all things remaining the same. However if the product is already unappealing then its aesthetics will make it even worse. You may not like but there will have been people who bought Stellar blade because of how the main character looked. I work for a company that makes product for a primarily female customer base and every time we have made the products to appeal to s more masculine audience they have bombed complaining it doesn't look feminine anymore. This is just the way it is. This stuff can matter to some.
Come on, man. You think PC gamers are so invested in 'anti-woke' rhetoric that they've elected to boycott the game because the devs advocated inclusivity in their...*checks notes*....character designs....
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Currently 4.6k viewers on Twitch, meaning there are about 80 or so categories/games more popular right now.
3,859 of those viewers are from 4 streams with women in various states of undress.
Arsic
Loves his juicy stink trail scent
The only thing this game offers is top notch visuals in this genre.
Overwatch is more competitive, and a game like marvel rivals is more fun to a casual.
This game is good- don’t get it twisted. It plays very well and has tight combat, but that’s nowhere near enough to compete against those two and it isn’t free to play.
It needed to do a lot more, have some better character designs or at least alternative skins that aren’t just color swaps, and drop the woke agenda speak online.
Even then? I still didn’t have as much fun at almost level 20 in this game now as I did with marvel rivals beta.
Haint
Member
What's there to doubt? You don't spend this amount of money developing a $40 game expecting to move 100K or even 1 million units. Their internal revenue forecasts were clearly on par with their premier singleplayer titles. There aren't even any signs of predatory microtransactions or gambling mechanics trying to capitalize on a few whales, they straight up expected an incredibly high volume of raw units sales and missed them catastrophically.
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DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
For sure, you could practically see the audience turning against the game in real time during the reveal.
“Ooh we finally get to see what this Concord game is! Sony bought this studio and the game has been in development for a long time. I bet it’s something good.”
“This is some high quality CGI”
“Alright this feels kinda like Guardians of the Galaxy complete with the quippy Marvel dialog.. oh well, what really matters is the gameplay”
“Finally some gameplay…. Wait, it’s seriously another 5v5 hero shooter? Nobody wants this.”
“Oh my god these are the worst character designs I’ve ever seen”
“LMAO they even put gender pronouns on the character select screen”
“They’re going to charge 40 bucks for this??”
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
2024 in a nutshell.
Setsuna Mudou
Member
I'm shitting on concord since the reveal video. I've also shitted on Hellblade 2. I'm talking about people that were defending one while attacking the other. I don't think i've seen anyone here on this thread really defending Concord. Did see some damage control about how big of a financial hit it is to Sony, but that's pretty much it. I'm just observing a bit of a double standard by some people, that's all
Yes, redfall and hellblade 2 sold better than concord... might say more about the standards of both audiences. Not sure it's something to celebrate
BigBeauford
Gold Member
How many more bombs do you need to see?
Come on, man. You think PC gamers are so invested in 'anti-woke' rhetoric that they've elected to boycott the game because the devs advocated inclusivity in their...*checks notes*....character designs....
Concord
Flintlock
Suicide Squad
Zau
Dustborn
And there is a difference between being inclusive and being woke.
P:axMagellanic
Member
I could have been playing Days Gone II.
Anyway, this DEI shit is a cult. They'll never give up, no matter how many billions it's costs the industry. Nishino needs to go full samurai on all these studios and start lopping heads
Anyway, this DEI shit is a cult. They'll never give up, no matter how many billions it's costs the industry. Nishino needs to go full samurai on all these studios and start lopping heads
HeisenbergFX4
Member
Not only did Redfall and Hellblade 2 sell better on Steam I would venture to say maybe even more people played them via Gamepass on PC dividing those numbers even moreI'm shitting on concord since the reveal video. I've also shitted on Hellblade 2. I'm talking about people that were defending one while attacking the other. I don't think i've seen anyone here on this thread really defending Concord. Did see some damage control about how big of a financial hit it is to Sony, but that's pretty much it. I'm just observing a bit of a double standard by some people, that's all
Yes, redfall and hellblade 2 sold better than concord... might say more about the standards of both audiences. Not sure it's something to celebrate
apocaliptic
Member
How much did they pay SBI for they/them consulting? Sony must be proud, maybe one day they/them will break $100k in revenue and maybe reach Redfall numbers.
FunkMiller
Gold Member
Come on, man. You think PC gamers are so invested in 'anti-woke' rhetoric that they've elected to boycott the game because the devs advocated inclusivity in their...*checks notes*....character designs....
While far from being the only reason for this game's disastrous launch, it would be disingenuous to suggest that the designs of the characters, and the way they have been positioned, did not contribute to that spectacular failure.
The characters are universally ugly, poorly designed, and largely exist to cover a demographic that does not play these games en masse. Sorry, but people don't want to play big fat women in their hero shooters. They want wish fulfilment, not lard fulfilment. That goes for female and male players.
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FoxMcChief
Gold Member
I think the level at which it bombed is a surprise.
HeisenbergFX4
Member
I expected a few thousand on Steam but agreed, not this type of failure
Imagine taking away the Sony employee numbers playing it
James Sawyer Ford
Gold Member
What exactly do you mean by “did better”?
0*anything = 0
These games all had effectively zero player counts, meaning they lost massive amounts of money
Hellblade 2 took ages to come out with a large team working with a new engine and it regressed in gameplay from the original. Its an overrated massive shit sandwich and in no way anything other than a massive failure
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Holammer
Member
Budget wise I think Suicide Squad's Rocksteady might be worse off even if they managed to shift a few copies at release, much larger team with almost 100 employees more than Firewalk and they worked on Squad since 2012. Both teams likely used contract workers for voice acting, localization and such.
While I'm at it, Concord's credits list a PVE mode.
Setsuna Mudou
Member
You're probably quite right about that. It's the defense of shit games like all of those on here that is fucking annoying, independently of the varying degrees of commercial (in)success though.
It's just good to see mediocrity being punished no matter on which console it is
Nydius
Member
I think Overwatch can be a prime example of this statement. The game launched with an extremely diverse cast. There were white, black, Hispanic, middle eastern, and Asian characters. Male, females, and robot. There were young and old characters, a midget/dwarf, a butch fem and rule 34 fodder. Countries around the world were represented.
That was diverse.
Then they began pandering. Tracer’s gay! Surprise so is Soldier (and maybe Reaper too)! Did we mention gay?! Pharah’s a lesbian now and Baptiste swings both ways! Symmetra’s on the spectrum and please don’t wank to D.VA, she has PTSD.
That is wokeism.
Concord jumped straight to the latter with ridiculous nonsense like giving pronouns to a robot. Never in the years that I played Overwatch did I wonder about the pronouns of Bastion or Zenyatta… because they’re fucking robots.
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spartan30gr
Member
Second day and it's already dropping under 200 concurrent players.
I was expecting low numbers, but this is pathetic.
