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[Panajev2001a]

However, while many qualities of the experience resonated with players, we also recognize that other aspects of the game and our initial launch didn’t land the way we’d intended​

How far does your head go up your own behind?

“Game had MANY qualities that resonated with people, but few bits and pieces did not… so we will shut the entire thing off and refund everyone”.

Yeah, keep trying to sell it as a misunderstood success… .

 

[cormack12]

Sony are going to have to be careful that the Prof. doesn't get headhunted

 

[Yoboman]

Additional Level Design on Hyper Light Drifter, and Additional Sandbox Design on Destiny 2. What a resume!

They are going to need it

 

[Setsuna Mudou]

Great decision and a big W for the playstation fans, sending a message loud and clear and get Sony to reverse course. Sony had to wake the fuck up and hopefully start reversing course and do what they do best.

If only a certain other fanbase would stop defending shit for years and years, we could have an actual competitor

 

[havoc00]

 

[Neon Xenon]

Dead_Games_in_Boxes

 

[SweetTooth]

Great decision and a big W for the playstation fans, sending a message loud and clear and get Sony to reverse course. Sony had to wake the fuck up and hopefully start reversing course and do what they do best.

If only a certain other fanbase would stop defending shit for years and years, we could have an actual competitor

I agree with wholeheartedly!

 

[finalflame]

Additional Level Design on Hyper Light Drifter, and Additional Sandbox Design on Destiny 2. What a resume!

I was going to say that D2 and HLD aren't ALL that bad, and yet, those are the bad parts of each. Lmao. Who keeps employing this person?

 

[TrippleA345]

Male or Female?

 

[Nydius]

People like this must live in a different universe because we were “able to try” Concord as well. For two weekends no less. And we immediately saw it was a shit game.

 

[kevboard]

What should I buy with my refund? Thinking the new space marine game?

 

[Revolutionary]

Called it.

Concord will probably be shut down by the time this is released

(in reference to the Tim Miller CGI show)

 

[aerts1js]

well, yeah. but this's a classic example of 'having to learn the hard way'. & a corporation as established/experienced as sony should never have to be reduced to that learning level, which's traditionally the domain of up'n'coming businesses...

I love Sony but we all know they aren’t flawless when it comes to their choices. I mean this was an extra kind of stupid but yeah.

 

[Interfectum]

>concord going offline
>dustborn bombed
>acolyte 2 cancelled
>borderlands movie flopped
>blue hair and journos seething

 

[SweetTooth]

Boohoo

He/she/them/they/fuck is acting like they/them/fuck don't know what caused the game to bomb this bad .

 

[Kenneth Haight]

Games gone from the store already holy shit.

 

[CLW]

@Mod of War can we unban @Ass of Can Whooping for his measured and reasoned take?

 

[PeteBull]

Male or Female?

fat/overweight but female, no male chin/jaw is ez giveaway, rl isnt western AAA game so she cant automatically give herself masculine face =]

 

[Timberwolf25]

Sony absolutely made the right call. This was a mercy killing and they are refunding everyone. You simply can’t force people to give a shit about your GaaS slop. Biggest mistake Sony made was not delaying this and quietly canceling it after there were tumbleweeds blowing through their beta. Ubisoft has done this with several flopped GaaS attempts.

Why am I not surprised that this tweet is coming from an IGN employee?

 

[tmlDan]

People like this must live in a different universe because we were “able to try” Concord as well. For two weekends no less. And we immediately saw it was a shit game.

not many people tried it even then to be fair.

And they are right, Deadlocks characters look like dog trash doo doo.

 

[Bernardougf]

Sony didn't believe in this and failed to support it? Really now? The same company that bought them and threw money on developing the game?

I am relieved Sony pulled the plug. Now they have to return to single player cinematic games that put them on the throne they are sitting on

This people never ever take accountability for anything... and so they cant improve to survive... and thats why they soon will be a footnote in a dark time covered in history books and laughter stocks for our grandsons and daughters

 

[havoc00]

The subreddit has gone full lockdown since the news hit. You can't post in it or make new threads

https://www.reddit.com/r/ConcordGame/

 

[SpiceRacz]

 

[Bernardougf]

Why am I not surprised that this tweet is coming from an IGN employee?

And a green hair one ... shocking I say.

 

[Topher]

 

[Fabieter]

They should just stop even if it must be hard. But this won't make this or any future game any better.

 

[havoc00]

 

[Killjoy-NL]

People like this must live in a different universe because we were “able to try” Concord as well. For two weekends no less. And we immediately saw it was a shit game.

He's not entirely wrong, but the gaming community pretty much collectively rejecting the game says everything there is to say.

 

[Bombolone]

Not my words...
"It should not be a surprise that this stuff fails. Just make a good game and learn the art of allegory."
- reddit dude

Where are the adults? These games aren't your diaries, your college art projects.
Or just bring down the budgets to reflect that. Nothing wrong with that at all. It's Sony's fault for putting so much money into this.

 

[Complistic]

You can still get the controller.

It's honestly not a bad looking controller.

 

[Natsuko]

People who say stuff like that ... do they have a tree on which money grows? I have a limited amount of money at my fingertips. If I have the choice between a game where I read shortly after launch that it will be more difficult to find matches because nobody wants to play it and something that is better received ... why exactly should I buy Concord?

 

[Unknown?]

>concord going offline
>dustborn bombed
>acolyte 2 cancelled
>borderlands movie flopped
>blue hair and journos seething

Wish Snow White got cancelled.

 

[Drunkensamurai]

Why am I not surprised that this tweet is coming from an IGN employee?

Stell NSFW

Lol That's the girl selling ASS online lol, how does she have a job.

 

[AyraSutoraifu]

Sony absolutely made the right call. This was a mercy killing and they are refunding everyone. You simply can’t force people to give a shit about your GaaS slop. Biggest mistake Sony made was not delaying this and quietly canceling it after there were tumbleweeds blowing through their beta. Ubisoft has done this with several flopped GaaS attempts.

Six months for… 10-30 players?
Yeah whatever. It's their own fault, hope some of those people sweep some streets with a rainbow-colored broom for a job

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

So is this a thing now, where people put their disabilities and chronic illnesses on their twitter bio?


BRB I need to add PREMATURE EJACULATION to mine…

 

[Lokaum D+]

 

[AJUMP23]

It's honestly not a bad looking controller.

Collectors Item.

 

[rickybooby87]

Concord player models and skins when it returns F2P in October:

GOTY ASSURED

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

There can be no doubt now. Concord, Sony’s AAA first party title, is the absolute biggest flop of all time.

A new ip from a studio no one has heard of which didn’t have hardly any hype by definition cannot be the biggest flop of all time

It’s just a flop. Suicide squad is a bigger flop

 

[StreetsofBeige]

It’s a fantastic win.

If the company is smart enough to figure it out they won’t do it again and make a better game next time.

Other kind of companies are different because if you like popular Mountain Dew, Pepsi isn’t going to stop making it. Any new products will be addition to the classic yellowy goodness. Gaming is different as studios usually make one game at a time over 5 years kind of thing. One stinker game means they just wasted a ton of money and time when they could had made something good.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

>concord going offline
>dustborn bombed
>acolyte 2 cancelled
>borderlands movie flopped
>blue hair and journos seething

This is a long war bro, these aren't even the first real battles. The real challenge lies ahead to get rid of the mind virus infection that the entirety of Sony's studios are filled with

 

[2612]

Concord won't look good on the devs' resume if they have to find a new job...

 

[Yoboman]

I wonder if Sony are realising the woke issue

Coming from a lefty the writing is on the wall. Woke ideas in media is dead. Not because having diversity or whatever is wrong, because it is fundamentally not cool

Right now these near 40 millenials with purple hair telling everyone how to think and behave. Sorry gen alpha and gen z to a lesser extent are going to have zero interest in what you are preaching. They think you are losers. It's the equivalent of expecting people to be interested in a game about Christian virtues in 2004

 

[Schmendrick]

 

[Fabieter]

A new ip from a studio no one has heard of which didn’t have hardly any hype by definition cannot be the biggest flop of all time

It’s just a flop. Suicide squad is a bigger flop

Would say similar flop tho.

 

[xanaum]

In my opinion, Sony deserves credit for handling things this way. I wish everyone would own up to their disasters like this.

On the other hand, they need to learn from their mistakes. Games as a service, combined with an obsession for diversity, is like turning on a bomb and hoping for a happy ending.

I wonder if Hermen Hulst is really the right person to lead Sony's studios, and what will happen with Fairgame$, which seems to be paired with Concord in this cringe dance.

 

[Zacfoldor]

To the gaming press, gamers are the most annoying people on the planet.

It tracks, honestly. They hate us cuz they ain't us.

 

[eerik9000]

This is the correct move. Good to see Sony took my advice.

Hilarious. I hope Sony refunds the poor suckers who bought this. It is okay to admit you failed and move on.

 

[rickybooby87]

A quick clean death, unlike Redfall.

 

[djjinx2]

I have only read page 1, can we confirm Men_in_Boxes is ok?