Support NeoGAF

[BigLee74]

 

[Vlodril]

Why the hell did they even release it? You didn't release factions at all but you thought this would be ok to release?

 

[Kotaro]

Sony to gamers

 

[Deft Beck]

Easily the biggest bomb in PS history. They wasted a lot of time and money on this game and they're going to regret it.

 

[MaKTaiL]

I can only think of everyone who bought it and will never be able to get the Platinum trophy. My OCD would be going crazy.

 

[Topher]

I voted

 

[Madserb2023]

This is the biggest disaster since ET on the Atari except it will be in a digital landfill.

 

[MayauMiao]

The woke media headlines will be hilarious.

 

[Aenima]

Sorry to ask, but apart of woke crap in this game, what else was wrong with it, or it flopped only on this?

Seems like a combination of things.

- Woke with pronoums + anti white privilege message on twitter from the devs.
- Ugly ass /boring AF characters in a hero shooter
- 40$ when the competition is Free 2 Play
- Serviçable gameplay that dont bring nothing new to the genre.

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

After it transitions, can we still call it Concord or will that be considered dead-naming?

 

[finalflame]

LMAO. Holy moly. Honestly the studio needs to be shuttered after this. I wouldn’t trust anyone working there another day.

 

[rkofan87]

Redfall, hell, Gollum beat them!

well you can still buy and play redfall and gollum if you want so.

 

[AJUMP23]

WOW it is DEAD. This and the Acolyte are super dead.

 

[Shubh_C63]

The hybrid alien in Alien: Resurrection lasted longer.

After Romulus, I have been watching all the Alien movies again

 

[N30RYU]

Faster than expexted.

Learn your lesson Sony

 

[diffusionx]

If this doesn't lead to major changes at SCE I would be pretty surprised.

We need Men_in_Boxes to comment

 

[ThisIsMyDog]

Even in biggest bomb of all time Sony needs to outdid Microsoft by a mile, that some dedication.

 

[SSfox]

"Concord fans —"

Such thing exists? Like genuinely serious question.

 

[Gonzito]

Good riddance. This is a lesson for all companies. Do not infect videogames with DEI propaganda.

Fuck the developers behind this shitty project and fuck Sony for funding this dumpster fire

 

[winjer]

Two weeks and it's officially dead.

 

[R6Rider]

Seems like a combination of things.

- Woke with pronoums + anti white privilege message on twitter from the devs.
- Ugly ass /borring AF characters in a hero shooter
- 40$ when the competition is Free 2 Play
- Serviçable gameplay that dont bring nothing new to the genre.

You forgot just releasing in a saturated market already.

 

[finalflame]

Seems like a combination of things.

- Woke with pronoums + anti white privilege message on twitter from the devs.
- Ugly ass /borring AF characters in a hero shooter
- 40$ when the competition is Free 2 Play
- Serviçable gameplay that dont bring nothing new to the genre.

Realistically only the bottom 3 actually contributed to the game’s abject failure.

 

[Kurotri]

I dunno... they're not hiding from the truth and they are facing it head-on, unlike Redfall but I suppose, that team was shut-down wasn't it? So, we have to at least wait to see if that happens with Firewalk, to call this a bigger blunder.

I guess it depends on how you see it. Concord died after less than 2 weeks of service on consoles, to me that is some next-level shit.

 

[Flintty]

Absolutely mental situation.

I’d like to think that in 5-8 years time we’ll look back on this (and the success of Wukong) as the turning point in game development and the audiences the developers are catering for. We’ll see.

 

[Darsxx82]

A big warning for all the studios that develop games of this type that are looking for the goose that lays the golden eggs.

It hurts the Studio and those who have worked for so many years to see their dreams destroyed in this way that I don't remember before. But this is the situation of the video game industry today

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

Rather than F2P, Concord created a new genre - Nobody 2 Play.

 

[daclynk]

 

[Shakka43]

Failure of colossal proportions.

 

[Topher]

"Concord fans —"

Such thing exists? Like genuinely serious question.

This meme was made for this game

 

[LakeOf9]

But I was told the early numbers meant nothing and this game would pull together

 

[MayauMiao]

Stuttering Craig is buying copies of Concord and the response from cashier was hilarious on the state of the game.

 

[FoxMcChief]

Sony to gamers

They wish.

 

[AJUMP23]

At least MS let Redfall live.

 

[Madserb2023]

The woke media headlines will be hilarious.

Definitely and the far right will be involved in some way.

 

[Von Hugh]

 

[FalsettoVibe]

HOLY MOLY

 

[Pharaoh 117]

Wow I'm shocked Sony took such a drastic approach to it. The game flopped even harder than we expected.

 

[Fermbiz]

So I can run to the store, pick up a 40 dollar coaster, then get a refund??

brb!

 

[GymWolf]

Sony policy before concord was a thing

 

[Hollowpoint5557]

This is going to cost them atleast $500 in refunds.

 

[Killjoy-NL]

But I was told the early numbers meant nothing and this game would pull together

Absolutely nobody made such a claim.

 

[Davevil]

 

[Quantum253]

Sorry to ask, but apart of woke crap in this game, what else was wrong with it, or it flopped only on this?

You can't have a "hero" shooter, in today's competitve market, with boring, horribly designed, and uninspiring character designs. It doesn't work.. The gameplay can be tight and have interesting mechanics, but the highest level of interaction is with the characters.
The goodwill is gone, however. This will be a case study for how to destroy a studio and franchise.

 

[gooner4life_uk]

Herman Hulst should absolutely be fired after this shit show.

 

[M1chl]

Tsar Bomba

 

[zapper]

I was thinking that this was one of the smartest moves of Sony in recent times (shut it down in less than a month) but from what they wrote in the blog they want to relaunch it? like f2p...? I take it all back, they didn't understand anything if that's the case

 

[Chuck Berry]

There's no way this is coming back. No fucking way. They'll bury it.

Never seen something like this occur in all my years gaming

 

[AJUMP23]

I bet if they did that one guys redesign it would sell 5 million.

 

[Three]

Guys, that scam The Day Before had a longer lifetime than this.

Jesus.

What do you mean by lifetime? The Day Before shut down the studio one week after release and just ran with the money. The 'lifetime' of the game was just the fact that they continued to scam people by not taking the game down.

With concord they refunded 2 weeks after and stopped further development. It was the right thing to do, especially if they had promised content previously.

 

[TheUsual]

About how gamers are bad and how hate culture is to blame, no doubt.

Leigh Alexander is thinking she is about to start her 2nd world tour due to this lol.