blacktout
Member
Well, I have good news and bad news.
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Concord is being taken offline on September 6, purchases refunded
Well, I have good news and bad news.
DForce
NaughtyDog Defense Force
It's like Marvel vs Capcom Infinite. The gameplay may be good but the art direction was terrible and it turned a lot of people away from the game.
This is worse because they're trying to appeal to a small crowd of gamers.
If this game were to come back magically, they would have to *at least* re-design most of the characters.
newtypepilot
Member
it's funny how people still defend this. The market has spoken and rejected the game overwhelmingly because it failed to attract any audience. Its open beta on steam had peaked less than 2400 players, which is outright abysmal. The devs ignored all criticisms and responded by telling people to not buy the game, yet somehow it's the players who are "being unfair for not giving this a try". Why would anyone stick around and spend $40 when the free alternatives are better?
i don't even care about the character design if a game is fun and has good gameplay.
especially in First Person games.
The market has spoken and rejected the game overwhelmingly because
i corrected that for you
Killjoy-NL
Member
Even if it were the best game in the world, if nobody plays it, it's going to get shut down.
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Snake29
RSI Employee of the Year
If I were Firewalk, I would go back to the drawing board and revise the whole game incl new name. Work with the community to develop this game and listen to their wishes. I think it is a waste not to do anything more with it because there are plenty of assets that are perfectly usable.
GymWolf
Gold Member
Don't worry, we still have marathon and fair games.
newtypepilot
Member
LOL neither did you. Shouldn't you be playing your beloved game instead of posting here?
Steam chart says there's only 34 players right now! What are you waiting for? You only have 24 hours left!!!
Ceadeus
Gold Member
Imagine being responsible of a video game crash
So, what you're saying is, firewalk should consider adding ET in Concord and finally make their grand return, so they could sell 1.5M copies!! Their dream come true!!
Let's gooo
Emedan
Member
Dev cost for ET was like a week worth of pizza and dr pepper as well.
KiteGr
Member
I'm not gonna bury them yet. Concord was very egregious with it's Wokeness and Blandness, but Fair games at this point in time has shown to be cringe at best. Writing off entire games isn't something we shouldn't take lightly.
At least wait for them to show signs of LGHDTV+ propaganda in their game before bashing them. I have to say though, watching at the DEI at their site info, things do not look promising.
GymWolf
Gold Member
Yeah stronk black woman in front-center dressed like a no-more-oil activist trying to steal from rich bad people is definitely not in your face wokeness alright....
Sorry, but it's too late to trust sony until they show that they are changing route.
People's trust is on an historical low level with sony and its gaas projects, and for good fucking reasons dude.
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Ultros
Banned
Who is this guy? And why do I constantly see his videos posted here (since even before my account got accepted)? I refuse to watch it, but I assume it's a Youtube just parroting the "current topic". And by the looks of it, he also needs a bath/shower
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GymWolf
Gold Member
More like 10 showers and sandpaper sponges.
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MetalFreak
Member
Well it is a hero shooter and having characters as charismatic as a plank of wood doesn't help.
Ultros
Banned
I could literally smell the youtube thumbnail.
GymWolf
Gold Member
People in the know have said that he smell like a mix between old people and a corpse.
I think they were just being gentle because he was with them at the moment
PeteBull
Gold Member
They live in clown world, bro, they cant comprehend to this day what is wrong with those "rightwing cis male white gamers" that dont buy their stunning and brave concord game, its lost cause
Cyberpunkd
Member
You don't know Asmongold? The guy is wholesome fun for us boomers (and by boomers I mean 30+).
KiteGr
Member
He says he's a developer who apparently also makes Yt videos. He kind of exploded recently after criticising Concord.
KiteGr
Member
I've been hating Woke ever since they gave Star wars and He-Man to feminists.
However let's not become a mindless angry mob. Being mindless is their thing.
If the signs for FareGames prove true in future trailers and gameplay and we start seeing pronouns, trans and half shave boss girls, then we'll rip it a new asshole and then ignore it to death.
Until then, let's give them the benefit of the doubt.
Ultros
Banned
I'm a boomer also. Never heard of the guy, but I'd much rather play games than watch Youtubers talk about games.
Senua
Member
Just some nerd who people listen to for some reason, I've watched a few vids and don't get it, seems kinda man-child like.
Schmendrick
Member
GymWolf
Gold Member
Sure we can wait to see more but i already see some red flags and sony really doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt for now.
It's less about being mindless and more about recognising patterns.
Ultros
Banned
Buyer: "Sir how much is the Honda?"Future reserve currency will be concord controllers
Dealership: "It's very expensive"
Buyer: "How many Concord Controllers did you say???? That's insane, I'm going to another dealership."
Friend: "Things are crazy these days mate, they quoted me about 11 concord controllers yesterday for that repair on my roof."
Angry_Megalodon
Member
People "didn't give it a chance" because the product was not appealing to them. There is no contradiction.
As a general rule, consumers don't have to give anything a chance. It's the TV show, the game or the movie that has to draw people's interest by being attractive, intriguing, and genuine. Concord wasn't any of that.
Peroroncino
Member
Marking September 6th in my calendar as Concord Day, if there ever was a cause for celebration, this is it.
Bernardougf
Member
Because spreading "the message" give you an automatic +2 to +3 points in any game you make. So this 7 is in fact a 4 or 5 max.yo but why like this..
MALpractice311
Member
Oh, don't worry. Fairgame$ will be here soon enough.
DrFigs
Member
I mean if it's been in development for 8 years, it seems unlikely that this would be Jim Ryan's fault.
laynelane
Member
I've seen this line of thought repeated elsewhere too - that it's somehow the customers' fault that Concord failed. It's baffling, to be frank. Not only did Concord fail to appeal to the audience, it was exceedingly obvious there were issues prior to release. The beta numbers, the general feedback from the first reveal onward, etc. It was clear there were some problems with how the game was being received and the response from the devs and Sony was to ignore it and go full steam ahead. As well, the idea that people should spend their money to give a product "a chance" is ludicrous.
Nikodemos
Member
For a game of this size, the first year and a bit tends to concentrate on pre-production stuff. And, in this particular instance, 8 years points to a major rework at some point during development (not dissimilar to what Cyberpunk suffered). Ryan was one of the senior decisionmakers between 2017 and 2019 (when he eventually became CEO of SIE).
Bernardougf
Member
This "pronouns and stuff" where always on the forefront of the game development and PR by the devs, so it was clearly very important to them, if it is important to them why the fuck it shouldn't be important to the consumer, more exactly to me ? They can make the decisions they want to make and make the game they want to make exactly like they envisioned.. and we are supposed to ignore it all ? And just consume product ? Because the weapon goes bang bang good enough? Fuck off.
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ViciousAgenda
Member
They dismissed it as white noise.
No game is owed a chance. My time is valuable and I'm certainly not spending it and money on something that doesn't appeal to me.
This they/them/him/her/it/insert what you want here, over at reee has to be on crack, right?
I think things are blown out of proportion here. The game will probably release again as a f2p with lots of cosmetics and will, probably, do fine. I think this was the smart action to take towards generating income from the game. It will resurface after some time with a small improvement or two and people will definitely try it out. For some it will stick and money will come from there. Being f2p will also bring some 'im not interested but I'll give it a try' players and some might like it.
I think things are blown out of proportion here. The game will probably release again as a f2p with lots of cosmetics and will, probably, do fine. I think this was the smart action to take towards generating income from the game. It will resurface after some time with a small improvement or two and people will definitely try it out. For some it will stick and money will come from there. Being f2p will also bring some 'im not interested but I'll give it a try' players and some might like it.
Nikodemos
Member
It getting retooled as F2P would mean even more money spent on redevelopment. Given how spectacularly it has bombed the first time around, I wouldn't be surprised if Hulst (or whomever has final say) gets cold feet and decides to just pour several shovelfuls of earth over it, Hyenas-style.
Bernardougf
Member
His not talking about fairgames .. its about sony and their decisions of lately... just the fact that they bought this studio and game (concord) mid development its a MAJOR redflag ... someone has gone to visit the studio with this devs and saw this games and thought "SOLD" . The benefit of the doubt its lost my friend. But you make a fair point, this time will come for you to and others, unless they strongly course correct wich may well happen since they are a Japanese Company afterall ... if it was all up to california, then fuck, they would be already lost.
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ElFenomeno
Member
This could have saved it
DrFigs
Member
Yeah i think the decision of seeing the game and deciding to buy the studio before it released was a major mistake. Idk if that as Jim Ryan or Hermen Hulst, but yes, someone clearly doesn't understand the market. If it is Hermen Hulst, he should be fired immediately.
Esppiral
Member
If the game would be a success just because of this I would find it equally sad, really.This could have saved it