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[ShadyAcshuns]

Damn, another person reposting this.

 

[Frwrd]

 

[Varteras]

The reception to this game is thanks to White supremacy.






Am I doing it right?

 

[Rocco Schiavone]

 

[Oppoi]

I'm doing my part! By Not playing this game!

 

[jonnyp]

How many tens of millions of dollars have Sony now wasted on GaaS shit?

 

[Kenneth Haight]

Disaster

 

[Complistic]

It's at 617 now. Must of peaked for the night already. Or people getting those refunds.

 

[Portugeezer]

That's about 90% of purple haired people playing the game.

Crazy attach rate.

 

[Dynasty8]

Don't mean to offend anyone by saying this, but I wouldn't even play this if it was free. Just doesn't appeal to me.

 

[Gambit2483]

 

[zapiks44]

That's even worse than Suicide Squad or Redfall. Goddamn, I knew this game would fail, but even I wasn't expecting it to fail this badly.

 

[Herbspiceguy]

To quote @Topher


And everything they stood for

Pain and depression hiding behind a 'smile'. Reminds me of Mercante, minus the extra unhinged/psycho factor. I think a lot of these DEI activist devs are actually miserable IRL and having a purpose to push DEI gives them an outlet, like it's their chance to get even.

 

[BbMajor7th]

I'd love to be in the conference room where they discuss this game's day 1 performance, or Studios' financial projections after this.

A conference room? At PlayStation? Surely you mean a Teams meeting.

 

[Omnipunctual Godot]

The person who talked Sony into buying this studio right now:

Nah, Jim made it to the extraction point with a few suitcases of cash before the bomb dropped.

 

[//DEVIL//]

Hooray to diversity and ugly characters !

One way or another, these western Devs and publishers will know that this woke agenda and rainbow shit is not gonna work.

And now they are learning the hard way by losing so much money.

Let’s see who will last more. Normal Gamers or them freaks.

Another western woke closer is pending . Keep bleeding money. Loving it.

 

[skyfinch]

Wtf is Redfall? As a matter of fact, wtf is a Concord?

 

[Little Chicken]

 

[TerribleAtThisGame]

Not a single person of my 30+ friends currently online are playing this either. XDefiant at least had 5+ trying it out for a few days.

Haven't seen a single person even mention this in our Discord and again, these are people that tried out XDefiant and seemingly any new onlinr shiny.

 

[hemo memo]

Seriously. What were they thinking…

 

[kruis]

The fact that Sony decided to buy this studio, based on this game, raises huge questions about their game citation going forward.

 

[Fbh]

Seriously. What were they thinking…

"The professor" probably showed these to her friends and all of them were like

 

[Success]

This is such a cataclysmic flop that I can hardly believe it.

We all knew it would flop but very few would predict a peak of less than 700 players on LAUNCH day.

 

[-Minsc-]

Alright GAF, I didn't want to make a new thread for this poll, so I just made one on Strawpoll. Let's see it.

What are the 3 biggest reasons you DIDN'T you buy Concord?​

What are the 3 biggest reasons you DIDN'T you buy Concord? - Online Poll - StrawPoll.com

What's your opinion? Vote now: Bad impressions (gameplay, systems, etc)., Already invested in another PVP shooter., DEI focus., Not into PVP or shooter games., Don't like Sony., Tri...

strawpoll.com

Where's the "What's Concord?" option?

 

[BbMajor7th]

This is such a cataclysmic flop that I can hardly believe it.

We all knew it would flop but very few would predict a peak of less than 700 players on LAUNCH day.

When you consider that 7k was an outright DOA for Lawbreakers, it's mind-blowing. Concord would need a 1000% Surge in CCU just match that abject level of failure.

 

[Omnipunctual Godot]

Seriously. What were they thinking…

It's like someone asked AI to make a gritty Steven Universe.

 

[Complistic]

When browsing games on the PS store and sorting by "best selling" the game is 63 games down the list.

 

[poppabk]

The budget, I mean, do we know how much money they sunk into this dumpster fire?

And are going to sink? They committed to supporting it for how long?

 

[adamsapple]

Well, Sony is still trying.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Seriously. What were they thinking…

Pro tip: save these pics on your phone. If you ever find yourself getting an unwanted erection, these pics can make that embarrassing boner go away in an instant.

 

[SkylineRKR]

I go on a limb and say this is Playstation's biggest flop in history. They might have some stinkers before the PS3 generation that didn't sell a lot, but this is just pathetic. Especially in this day and age.

 

[Makki]

They/them numbers are awful

 

[Life Diff]

The person who talked Sony into buying this studio right now:

 

[SkylineRKR]

I think the reason could be rather simple; Sony was desperate for some DEI in their portfolio. Firewalk likely checked all the boxes as did their project. Sony signed them for the sake of diversity, nothing more. They had their GaaS game, and their diversity project, 2 flies. They already purchased Bungie and perhaps could let them work on a GaaS team shooter other than Destiny, but Concord was rather far along. They can deliver now.

The problem is that they, and many others at that, fail to see their audience doesn't fall for this shit. MCU is falling off a cliff for a reason too. They lose sight of their most important audience. The actual content buyers aren't these furries I assure you.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

Chinese review bombers did this

Russian collusion!

Damn reds got us again.

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

I think the reason could be rather simple; Sony was desperate for some DEI in their portfolio. Firewalk likely checked all the boxes as did their project. Sony signed them for the sake of diversity, nothing more. They had their GaaS game, and their diversity project, 2 flies. They already purchased Bungie and perhaps could let them work on a GaaS team shooter other than Destiny, but Concord was rather far along. They can deliver now.

The problem is that they, and many others at that, fail to see their audience doesn't fall for this shit. MCU is falling off a cliff for a reason too. They lose sight of their most important audience. The actual content buyers aren't these furries I assure you.

Yeah, but sinking that much money into a game solely to prop up a DEI initiative? It's performative at best at most companies - I'm not sure I believe they'd really take that kind of financial risk with diversity as their primary consideration.

Though admittedly, I don't really understand what reason of any sort they'd have to invest so heavily in a studio that's produced nothing in the past. As I recall, Sony's typically been very careful about working with a developer on a few projects and then, only if there's a very strong fit, looking at an acquisition.

 

[Z O N E]

598 players.

It has already dropped below 600 players during prime time USA on a Friday.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

I think the reason could be rather simple; Sony was desperate for some DEI in their portfolio.

Didn't The last of us 2, Spiderman 2 fill that vapid void, tenfold?

 

[Moridianae]

598 players.

It has already dropped below 600 players during prime time USA on a Friday.

Damn. I've already seen some people saying "but wait for west coast, guys"

Nah. It's Joever.

 

[SkylineRKR]

Didn't The last of us 2, Spiderman 2 fill that vapid void, tenfold?

On the single player front, yes. But they went all in on GaaS lately. I don't know man. This deal doesn't make a lick of sense otherwise. They saw a huge cash cow in this one. Probably the wrong people at the helm.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

There are more people refreshing the SteamDB page watching it bomb than there are playing it:

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

598 players.

It has already dropped below 600 players during prime time USA on a Friday.

589 now and dropping

Pull the plug already Sony

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

it's a glitch

 

[Cre8]

Russian collusion!

Damn reds got us again.

Its not over yet. We can't lose our western ideologies.

 

[Complistic]

This whole things been massively entertaining.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

 

[Arsic]

I have a secret hard on to buy shit games and play them myself to see just how bad they are.

It’s launch day and their ranked mode still doesn’t work.

There’s definitely enough playing on PS5 and PC to get games of it because the other two play lists launch instantly.

Couldn’t fix this at all for early edition buyers but no one is talking about it. They should’ve refunded deluxe buyers the extra $20.

 

[El Muerto]

 

[StreetsofBeige]

The game has less than 600 players on Steam, while it has 16 characters in the game. That post beta tweet said the most played characters were Teo, the flying Chinese chick, and I think the Black guy who looks Deion Sanders.

So the characters used wont skew evenly of course at let's say 35 each.

So there could literally be 100 Teo, 100 flying Asian etc.... and some characters literally being played by 5 people.

 

[Rambone]