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• Concord's beta was released today but failed to generate any buzz in the industry.
• On Steam, it had just over 1000 concurrent players.
• Over on social media, reactions range from negative to middling, with most people not being too impressed.

On Steam, the game has peaked at less than 1000 concurrent players. PlayStation players need a PS Plus subscription to play the beta, but accessing the beta on PC requires pre-ordering.

Nonetheless, the current beta does not seem to be doing too well. Only 372 users are currently playing this game, which is disappointing even for Concord. The beta was released 14 hours ago, and the all-time peak sits at a mere 1124 players.

 

[Dacvak]

 

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[BlueLyria]

Lmao, dead game like everyone expected

 

[nemiroff]

 

[bender]

Someone call in a wellness check for Men_in_Boxes

 

[Facism]

mashallah

 

[Alexios]

Hardly "open" beta if you gotta preorder (where we have actual numbers at least). Edit: it's still a flop folks, just saying, no reason to write misinformation/lies on top of it.

 

[Audiophile]

 

[nial]

Over on social media, reactions range from negative to middling, with most people not being too impressed.

Ass of Can Whooping liked it.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

It's because it wasn't inclusive enough.

 

[LordCBH]

As expected, this game will bomb. Brilliant idea funding this one, Jim.

 

[Bernoulli]

Why release a beta first?

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

The internet gonna do it's thing.

GAAS gonna do it's thing.

I'm not sweating it.

 

[BennyBlanco]

Concord at #80 on the top sellers list and the Last Descendant sitting at #1. Go woke go broke. Shame because the game itself seems perfectly competent and probably would've done just fine if they didn't make the most "for modern audiences" game ever.

 

[Danjin44]

The internet gonna do it's thing.

GAAS gonna do it's thing.

I'm not sweating it.

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

Ass of Can Whooping liked it.

Already got my smurf accounts ready to go to ensure positive reviews

 

[GHG]

It's already dead.

Goodbye and good riddance. Shame on Sony for wasting time and money on this. Whoever was responsible for deciding to go ahead with it should be fired IMO, it's that bad.

 

[Perrott]

Its not an open beta...

 

[STARSBarry]

to be fair that's about 1000 players more than I expected.

 

[Hudo]

That's not too bad for shit like this.

 

[Perrott]

As expected, this game will bomb. Brilliant idea funding this one, Jim.

Concord was greenlit by Shawn Layden, all the way back in the spring of 2018, predating the Jim Ryan - who doesn't go around looking for and greenlighting individual games, that wasn't his job - and Hermen Hulst era.

 

[LakeOf9]

Wasn't it only available to pre orders?

 

[graywolf323]

Hardly "open" beta if you gotta preorder (where we have actual numbers at least).

yep, next weekend is the open beta so this seems premature

 

[nial]

Concord at #80 on the top sellers list and the First Descendant sitting at #1.

Looks lame, Blue Archive has much better waifus.

 

[Taddypole]

Thought you have to pre order the game to be in the beta the beta is only open for ps plus players

 

[Xyphie]

Wasn't it only available to pre orders?

You can pay 40 bucks now to play the game now. You're going to have to pay 40 bucks to play the game when it launches either way. You can of course just refund if you don't like it. Will a free beta move the needle two or three orders of magnitude in player count? Seems doubtful.

 

[HRK69]

 

[Housh]

Wasn't it only available to pre orders?

That's correct for Steam this weekend is the beta for PC preorders. On PS5, it's this weekend for preorders and people who are PS+ Subscribers. Next weekend is open beta on both platforms which will interesting to see the Steam numbers.

I thought this game looked like shit but actually played it cause of PS+ and now I'll probably pick it up. Looking forward to trying it on the PC next weekend.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

Obviously why they opened the PS version to PS+ members as preorders are horrid which literally anyone could see coming, cept maybe for 300+ who are playing it atm

 

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Wasn't it only available to pre orders?

So, its got 1100 preorders then?

 

[SEGAvangelist]

 

[Fake]

As trash as the Playstation CEO that approved this shit.

 

[SJRB]

This is 100% guaranteed lopsided because it requires a pre-order to play this beta on pc.

Wait until the open beta and see what happens.

 

[Ulysses 31]

 

[StueyDuck]

Isn't open beta 16th

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Overwatch/Guardians of the galaxy from Temu.

no one wants to play a knockoff. They didn't follow the Shawn's quote about being "first or better"

I almost can see headlines like:


"a decent game 5 years late"

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

This is 100% guaranteed lopsided because it requires a pre-order to play this beta on pc.

Wait until the open beta and see what happens.

Its just an indication preorders were stupid low

 

[BennyBlanco]

Looks lame, Blue Archive has much better waifus.

Vs

Gonna have to disagree

 

[adamsapple]

Is that good or bad?

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Concord at #80 on the top sellers list and the Last Descendant sitting at #1. Go woke go broke. Shame because the game itself seems perfectly competent and probably would've done just fine if they didn't make the most "for modern audiences" game ever.

It's kinda sad. Go woke go broke indeed.

Remember when Overwatch was revealed? All the characters looked so cool and different. Everyone was excited to try them all out. Dorks were simping for D-VA and the other waifus. It captured our imagination.

Seeing Concord's cast was like "what… the fuck is that… oh god she's even worse… they seriously put fucking gender pronouns in the character select screen?"

If they had just created characters that people found attractive and wanted to play as, and the trailer wasn't some cringe "we have Guardians of the Galaxy at Home" that felt like it was chasing trends that got stale years ago, I think this could've been a hit.

Wonder if they'll learn their lesson this time.

 

[Three]

So, its got 1100 preorders then?

Not exactly. That's CCU not all players and only on steam too, preorders could be any number higher than 1100 but yeah it's not high by beta standards for CCU. I imagine other preorder bonus betas trounce it on steam but I have no examples at hand.

 

[Holammer]

So, its got 1100 preorders then?

Minus dozens or hundreds for influencer/review copies.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

... is this game going to have more or less CCU than Redfall?

 

[Aenima]

Not enough pronoums on aliens.

 

[Musilla]

Great news, I don't want these kinds of shitty games to be a success for Sony

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

Is that good or bad?

Whenever I looked earlier there were over 1200 games that had more players on Steam and was behind Football Manager 2012

 

[Roufianos]

1000 people is fucking hilarious

 

[TrebleShot]

I really like the game but it doesn't look good numbers wise one thing I'll say is that this is pc numbers for a very much PS5 focused shooter.

 

[tmlDan]

its not open beta on steam fyi, still bad but the game should be free to have a chance imo