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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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FunkMiller
Gold Member
Right, which one of you mad cunts was this?
Fbh
Member
I wouldn't be surprised if it's something similar to what happened to big gaming media.
Some of these people got into positions of power and started hiring and promoting like-minded individuals while blocking the path for anyone they see as "problematic" (which is anyone who doesn't agree with them 100% on social and poilitcal issues).
So now you have this environment with people like "the professor" pushing for stuff like pronouns and ugly characters and your only 2 options are to agree with them or simply stay quiet. Job security in the gaming industry already seems pretty bad so if you work at a studio like Firewalk or Insomniac do you really want to speak out against pronouns and become one of the "problematic" people at the studio?
GHG
Member
Guilty_AI
Member
They either go into less volatile job markets or they're making their own games/studios. And its not difficult to see this
Couple of guys in one of their mom's basement:
Professional studio with multi-billion dollar company backing:
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Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
They either go into less volatile job markets or they're making their own games/studios. And its not difficult to see this
Couple of guys in one of their mom's basement:
Professional studio with multi-billion dollar company backing:
You cannot expect the current crop of AAA developers to make something like Selaco - the notion of "fun" hasn't appeared in their design documents in over a decade.
DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
So, now rhe lgbtq+ community are turning their back on the game?
What a complete cluster fuck.
What a complete cluster fuck.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
It's also often those blue-haired or other differently dyed, weird looking and weird-outfit wearing people who are so vocal and openly about their gender-fluidity or pronouns. It's very rare to find an everyday-looking, sophisticated and intelligent person who you wouldn't guess aren't cis. You know, like your typical collegue from work or the person you work out with in the gym or at the local volleyball match who at one point says "I'm actually trans" or "I don't identify myself with neither of two sexes".
In most cases it is clear as day just from the looks how some people tick.
Jaybe
Member
I’m so happy this has failed spectacularly. 8 years and hundreds of millions of dollars set on fire. Hopefully this gets the attention of gaming C-suite to clamp down on this stupidly, particularly Sony’s. Pronouns for robots, and non-binary crap. Fuck that. I have no patience for radical left agenda being inserted in my games. Decided to sell my PS5 after the Concord’s reveal. It was the straw that broke the camel’s back coming after the Insomniac leak. If Sony is going to take profits from its platform and invest them in this slop, I had zero interest in supporting them further.
I think you mean “toxic patriarchal colonialist past”
PeteBull
Member
Makes sense, since posting on gaf in this topic is way more fun
kruis
Exposing the sinister cartel of retailers who allow companies to pay for advertising space.
Things like pronouns aren't something you can either agree with or not, for woke progressives it's a moral issue: you're a good person if you support them, you're a bad person if you don't want them in games. And how can you possibly get along with co-workers who make the wrong moral choices? This is exactly what creates an unsafe work environment. So anyone who speaks up against everything woke won't last long in an environment that doesn't support diversity of thought.
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DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
LotR Gollum is now trending on SteamDB. I think because everyone is comparing it to Concord LMAO
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.
But there is literally nothing else to talk about with this game
Arsic
Loves his juicy stink trail scent
Join the discord and do some drive by shit posting.
lmimmfn
Member
It's beautiful to see!!!
Even in the discord the butt hurt mods want the game to be an echo chamber. People posting feedback on how to save the game is being taken as hate or trolling. The delusional shit I’ve read in that discord today is insane.
Roman Empire
Member
It feels so good to be right. Game must have been a social experiment, no way they thought this wouldn't bomb as hard as it did.
I'm on chapter 4 of Wukong and it's nuts chapter 3 took me the whole day yesterday. The game is a contender for my GOTY 2025.
I'm on chapter 4 of Wukong and it's nuts chapter 3 took me the whole day yesterday. The game is a contender for my GOTY 2025.
poppabk
Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
Think of the value fir money on some of the skins though - it's like getting 4 regular skins for the price of one.
ChuckeRearmed
Member
It went from 1 yesterday to 16 people today
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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.
Redneckerz
Those long posts don't cover that red neck boy
I have this feeling that this whole Concored negativity is a meme.
I am obviously out of the loop, but beyond it being a bland Overwatch clone with DEI diversity-for-hire requirements, what is the actual negativity on this game?
This isn't a hit, i am just geniunely asking (and out of the loop, mind you.)
I am obviously out of the loop, but beyond it being a bland Overwatch clone with DEI diversity-for-hire requirements, what is the actual negativity on this game?
This isn't a hit, i am just geniunely asking (and out of the loop, mind you.)
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
That's all it is. But the game is so cynical about it all that you can't help but hate it.
Buggy Loop
Member
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.
I looked on Twitch again and the game is down to just 2,000 viewers that are almost completely evenly split between two #ad streams.
The largest maybe-organic audience is a guy playing it for 45 viewers.
There are 35 people in total streaming this game. 14 of those streams have no viewers.
The largest maybe-organic audience is a guy playing it for 45 viewers.
There are 35 people in total streaming this game. 14 of those streams have no viewers.
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Moridianae
Member
That's more than enough to seal its fate, especially considering they want $40 for it when other games with FAR more depth and variety are available and wholly accessible for free.
It's bland, it's boring. There's also no real identity--for example, one of the characters puts down shields, but nothing of his character design indicates that. Contrast that to Reinhardt or even Brigitte in Overwatch 2.
BlackTron
Gold Member
Not saying Concord will do great F2P but this is literally the mobile business model
Trilobit
Member
Seriously. What were they thinking…
I can often see where the designers were going with their choices even if I don't particularly like the endresult. With this I have absolutely no idea and it's horrendous. The more I look at it the worse it gets. Who was this game even made for?!
There's also this running joke about how western developers often portray black women in a very unflattering way and this is unfortunately no exception.
VanCityGamer
Member
So good it might win GoTY for this year and next?
Redneckerz
Those long posts don't cover that red neck boy
Right, so i guess i am not getting the cynical part here. Is it self-referencing this in-game? Like the whole diversity thing is forced?
Roman Empire
Member
Not really. The game came at the wrong time and without anything new or innovative to offer the hero shooter genre. The Heroes are hideous and the lack of defining features like ultimates and whatnot put it behind anything else in the market right now. It'd be dead either way as it is.
People aren't receptive to another hero shooter at the moment.
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SportsFan581
Member
Seriously. What were they thinking…
I'm taking it there is a heavyweight class of character in the game where the characters are larger/slower but do more damage? Or is there no difference?
dottme
Member
you basically got it. It’s bring nothing to the genre. It is more expensive than better alternative.
it’s hard to see who might be the target for this game. The only people I can see buying this is DEI ally that want some Internet point. But that’s not a lot of people.
Buggy Loop
Member
No, DEI would give fat peoples equal athletics to an in-shape character, otherwise its fatphobia
SportsFan581
Member
No, DEI would give fat peoples equal athletics to an in-shape character, otherwise its fatphobia
There aren't different strengths and weaknesses to the characters? In the developer interviews I remember them mentioning 3 or 4 different character "build" types, did that not make the final game?
MayauMiao
Member
Firewalk Studios are stuck in the past thinking Lizzo is still taking the world by storm.
Buggy Loop
Member
I mean like all hero shooters there's different roles but they all shuffle around the map at the same speed. Doesn't matter if you pick the skinniest character or the biggest fat fuck, they'll run and sprint equally.
SportsFan581
Member
That's unusual that they play the same. Generally at the extremes you get the big, slower characters that are harder hitting and the smaller, less powerful characters that can dodge and move quickly.
ChorizoPicozo
Member
so.... how many people are we going to see next weekend... double digits, around 70?
Last Hearth
Member
Did I or did I not call this?uh oh
The removal of the LGBTQ+ tag was a MAJOR slap in the face to all of us LGBTQ+ folx who bought this game. :: Concord™ General Discussions
I will be refunding immediately. Shame on the devs for this disgusting choice. The only thing worse than all the hateful chuds on here is a company who pretends to stand up for a value only to back down the instant they face backlash. Absolutely shameful behavior. I will be convincing my wife...steamcommunity.com
FoxMcChief
Gold Member
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