FewRope
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Sodium 4, this cannot be real
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Concord is being taken offline on September 6, purchases refunded
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
It just sounds very weasel-y and noncommittal. “Explore options, including those that will better reach our players”.
Presumably then, that also includes options that won’t better reach their players i.e. can it.
Fake
Member
MayauMiao
Member
It also works the other way around:Hahaha, I was thinking he is right, then It took me a while to noticed that there is actually one in the picture,
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
FatallyYours
Member
I guess I gotta give Sony credit for one thing: they took the most consumer-friendly decision they could have in response to the game's failure. They didn't try to blame the game's failure on "haters" or "bigots" or the "anti-woke crowd". They didn't insist the game was actually good and everyone else was just playing it wrong. They just accepted that it failed, made no excuses or defenses of it, and refunded everyone who bought it.
But will they do the same thing if Fairgame$ fails just as badly? I guess we'll find out soon.
But will they do the same thing if Fairgame$ fails just as badly? I guess we'll find out soon.
lughnasadh123
Member
When your open beta draws in so few people that could potentially give feedback on the game you need to pump the brakes and find someone outside that sphere for input. They had some warning signs, their hubris just blinded them.
Angry_Megalodon
Member
They ignored the multiple signs cos they are narcissistic talentless mofos. These people are helpless.
I hope Sony is just in damage control mode with the vague PR and don't dare pull the plug while the topic is hot. They are losing money with every passing day.
Sw0pDiller
Banned
But besides all the fun and laughter about this failed project. What do they need to change about the game (besides making it f2p) to make it attractive and successfull. I want detailed ideas
Nice try, Professor!
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.
Should have called the error "Order 66"
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
Plot twist: the audience who did turn out to the theater was majority male.They are familiar.
Saber
Member
It also works the other way around:
The sygnergy between these characters are amazing. Those bland agenda designs fit each other like a glove.
Topher
Identifies as young
It also works the other way around:
Where have I seen that haircut before?
Oh....right....
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Insane Metal
Member
Holy fuck. Alright I change my vote from the last thread. Concord is the biggest bomb ever.
lughnasadh123
Member
-Redesigned characters
-Redesigned skins
-Redesigned maps
-Redesigned modes
-Redesigned gameplay
Or redesigned ambitions knowing it's idiotic to pump more money in this game hoping to make a turn around when they could just convert the bones of it into something else.
lughnasadh123
Member
On another edition of "bitch stole my look"...
Where have I seen that haircut before?
Oh....right....
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
Almost 1500 signatures for the petition!
LMAO more people will go out of their way to troll Concord than actually played it.
LMAO more people will go out of their way to troll Concord than actually played it.
SwordofOlympus
Banned
Watching them dance around why this game has failed has been entertaining, to say the least.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
You mean it doesn't appeal to man-children who think they're too cool to play a cute platformer. It appeals to lots and lots of actual adults.
killatopak
Gold Member
That's Sir Daniel Fortesque.
MayauMiao
Member
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
Now add in Mrs. Freeze, that chick from Flintlock, the nonbinary Qunari from Dragon Age 4, Leslye Hedland, the Fable heroine, and the whole cast of Dustborn.Kay Vass will fit in well too.
2024: the game.
winjer
Gold Member
My eyes kept fixating so I had to double check the original.This is the only part that ISN'T photoshopped. How is the boxart so poorly designed?
Looking at the original box art, it seems they were trying to get the feeling of a collage.
The idea is good, the execution was poor.
MayauMiao
Member
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
8 people still on steam trying to be the last guy on Earth booting up Concord.
I bet some of the guys are going to leave it on all weekend.
I bet some of the guys are going to leave it on all weekend.
Timberwolf25
Gold Member
I guess the devs forgot to take some of the bots they used to try to boast their CCU offline after the game was shuttered
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
I'm an idiot. Whats the meaning of sodium 4?
killatopak
Gold Member
sodium is salt. Basically they are salty.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
I noticed that too. It all blends into that rectangular shape fine except that oddly cut off part at the top where the two characters' shoulders meet. All the boxart guy had to do is expand the big guy's shoulder to the back of hipster shrek's head.My eyes kept fixating so I had to double check the original.This is the only part that ISN'T photoshopped. How is the boxart so poorly designed?
And in the top right corner, that's one of their funky spaceships. It looks more like a giant mosquito. Even if you look at it in detail you still cant really tell it's a spaceship..... at least I think it's a spaceship? lol
The odd thing too is the box art shows characters with guns, so ok people can assume it's some kind of action or shooter game. But unless someone is vested into the universe already or read about it in detail, how would anyone know what Concord or that big N logo means?
It would be like Star Wars movie being renamed Known (I had to look it up), and the logo beside it is a giant M standing for Millennium Falcon.
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StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Cant blame em. They couldnt shut off the bots. They got fired already I bet. Last man standing IT guy in charge of rounding up all the tech gear hasnt got around to shutting off these PCs yet.I guess the devs forgot to take some of the bots they used to try to boast their CCU offline after the game was shuttered
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Bloobs
Al Pachinko, Konami President
thicc_girls_are_teh_best
Member
Welp never mind what I was saying earlier then. Guess they are just trying to distance themselves after reception was bad, not because they inherently felt bad about the final designs.
I mean it could still be possible other artists did the early concept art and this woman is one of the artists who came in later redesigning some into the monstrosities seen in the released game. Like I doubt she was involved with designing every single character.
That's why I'm trying to have some nuance on the topic; it'd help to know who did what designs, and when, including if they did any concept art that was more appealing prior. Maybe someone else did come and tell them to change the designs later, or maybe they as an artist got tricked by far-left idpol ideologies a few years into working on the game and that made them change earlier designs. We probably will never know.
Plenty of kids have PS5s c'mon. And lots of adults are just big kids so they're gonna love it, too.
Just looking at it now; she's probably influenced by stuff like Steven Universe & Noelle Stevenson, but I don't think her style is ugly at all. They...actually have some good stuff in their portfolio, clearly. And there's effort present too, as you said.
Like these here look good, and going by the 2nd they have a pretty solid skillset in traditional art (many digital artists don't). I'm guessing she had sensible viewpoints & politics at one point but then got hooked on "modern audience ideology" a few years ago and that influenced her character design work on Concord.
Because just at a glance, very few if any characters in that game have any appealing visual aspects like these two drawings here. Even for characters who look horrid in the final game, like that tank girl in green with the purple lipstick, their concept art despite being strongly similar is a much better realization of the exact same concept. So the final character designs in the game got stupidly watered down and simplified to the point of being boring & uninteresting.
diffusionx
Gold Member
It was a GOTG style thing where they were space mercs. So free as in speech not as in beer as old boomer open source dorks used to say.
That seems dangerousl. Putting so much ugliness in one place could make it collapse into a black hole of ugliness that destroys us all.
Gambit2483
Member
What would they need to change? Everything.
The art sucks.
The game modes suck.
The characters suck.
The pricing sucks.
There's a reason this game did worse than even Lawbreakers.
Angry_Megalodon
Member
Imagine failing a second time. I doubt they will gamble like that, with money and reputation on the line.
They will quietly bury it. If the studio doesn't shut down, they will recycle whatever they can for the next project.
They will quietly bury it. If the studio doesn't shut down, they will recycle whatever they can for the next project.
VargasPaPuM
Member
Somebody made a DEI detector for gaming
deidetected.com
Concord | DEIDetected
Read about Concord and why is in our list classified as a dei-detected game.
deidetected.com
laynelane
Member
I've seen a lot of questioning here and elsewhere about how Sony could let this happen. There's definitely brand damage at this point. As well, there is notable damage to their GasS push too. People are already eyeballing Fairgame$ as the next Sony GaaS failure.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
People are going to think twice about "Fairlame Dollar Sign" and whatever other unknown GAAS game comes out. Games like GT and MLB are different. And so would a Helldivers 3.
Fairlames already doesnt have a great reception as it might be a generic heist game where the YT vid wasnt exactly eye catching.
Jade Raymond is probably shitting her panties, since Concord has already tainted her game whether she likes it or not. And if the game is truly as bad as Concord (hard to believe actually), Sony is playing hardball lately with bungie layoffs, cancelled GAAS games and pulling the plug on Concord in 2 weeks. So she better ensure her game is good or else Sony has no problem shutting it down early and gassing people.
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Nikodemos
Member
Except it's wrong right out of the gate. Daw isn't a woman, he's just some fat dude with unkempt hair and bad fashion sense.Somebody made a DEI detector for gaming
Concord | DEIDetected
Read about Concord and why is in our list classified as a dei-detected game.
If he wanted to go for a blatant DEI low-hanging fruit, he could've pointed out Lennox. Who is a white dude, but green and spiky, because the game already has a token wyteboi in Teo, and a second one would be "overrepresentation".
A bomb on this scale will have percolated through the organisation pretty quickly including corporate. I speculate that it will have quickly gotten to the point where some very heavy hitters at SIE and Sony Corp started thinking "this isn't just a commercial failure, this is so bad it risks tarnishing the brand move straight to defcon 1". Once that happened the managers in charge of the launch and the game will have no say in what happens, the corporate bosses will decide what to do on a conf call and the word will come down from on high telling the troops exactly what to do. Do not pass go, do not collect £200, refund everyone and we'll work out wtaf we'll do next over the coming days. Priority one is stop embarrassing us.
All of this could have been avoided if they listened to Iwata's "red ocean, blue ocean" spiel. They swam straight into the red ocean of GaaS just as the sector got stupidly overcrowded, they were late to the punch and what they delivered was nowhere near competitive. This is why you hire smart and expensive people to make these strategic calls which don't seem obvious at the time. There's a load of people in SIE who should have realised this and now they didn't the question will be asked "what is the point of you?". A loss on this scale needs some serious blood sacrifices to satiate the gods of finance and corporate.
The next thing they'll be wondering is "can we salvage this?" and it's far from obvious what they could do. No Mans Sky got hideously panned on release but credit to them they stuck it out and turned it into something special. But that was with a smaller team and presumably the cost of letting the dev sort shit out is way less than is needed for Concord. So much money is already in the bin, any request for more to fix it will rightly be side eyed with the most brutal level of scepticism. The opportunity cost of this is nauseating when you think what the investment in Concord could have been used on.
Yamisan
Member
Well with his recent upload being timed perfectly for this, I must take this back, lol.