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Sony’s shock announcement of Concord’s shutdown just two weeks after it went on sale has sent its remaining players into overdrive as they desperately try to secure its Platinum trophy before it’s too late.

Soon after that announcement, reports indicated that Concord players were throwing Rivalry matches in a bid to earn experience points as fast as possible. Rivalry mode sees two teams of five players battle for dominance across best-of-seven single-life rounds. At least, that’s how it’s supposed to work. Now, players are starting a match and immediately running off a platform to their doom, resulting in a win for the opposing team and the end of the round.

Rivalry matches are the perfect choice for this tactic. Win or lose, it rewards players with more experience points than other game modes. And because it’s the best-of-seven single-life rounds, as long as the whole team gets in on the act and each round takes about 30 seconds, you can finish a match in just a few minutes — again, as long as all players follow suit and you lose or win four matches in a row.

Thus, this is the quickest way to earn experience points in Concord, and thus the quickest way to earn that Platinum trophy (you need to get to reputation level 100, which takes hundreds of thousands of XP), with just two days left before the game shuts down. But be warned: your win percentage will take a hit if you keep deliberately losing. Still, that might not be much of a concern given Concord’s impending doom.

IGN has verified that Rivalry matches are currently being played out in this fashion. The race, it seems, is very much on.

Some Concord players are saying there’s not enough time to grind to the Platinum trophy, so it might escape them. Others are holding out hope that Concord returns in free-to-play form, although there’s no guarantee it will return at all. As a result, the Concord Platinum trophy may go down as one of the rarest in PlayStation history.

Concord Players Are Jumping Off Cliffs In-Game as They Desperately Grind for the Platinum Trophy Before Shutdown - IGN

Sony’s shock announcement of Concord’s shutdown just two weeks after it went on sale has sent what players the game has remaining into overdrive as they desperately try to secure its Platinum trophy before it’s too late.

www.ign.com

 

[Davevil]

reeetards

 

[Mephisto40]

The trophies are more than likely going to get removed with the game, what a waste of time

 

[Bartski]

news like this make me think I'm not really as weird as I sometimes look

 

[Herbspiceguy]

Sad

 

[Flabagast]

A game made by retards, for retards

 

[Mownoc]

The trophies are more than likely going to get removed with the game, what a waste of time

Why would they be? I don't know of any game that has had it's achievements/trophies removed from profiles after it has been shutdown/delisted.

This will probably be the rarest, no longer obtainable, platinum trophy out there.

 

[The Cockatrice]

for a second I thought the special purple ppl were killing themselves over the games cancelation lmao.

 

[Three]

The trophies are more than likely going to get removed with the game, what a waste of time

Why would trophies be removed? Trophies don't get removed for delisted/shut down games.

 

[killatopak]

Weak willed.

I'd understand if you lost money but Sony refunding everything means this is just a tantrum.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

Ah yes, but the terrible gamers you should be aware of and stay very away from are those with a brain and some taste in chara design, instead. Definitely not these people who are wasting their time on this earth doing retarded things to chase an award for a game nobody will remember for anything else than its spectacular failure. And no, getting that plat will not get you laid, you synapse-lacking morons.

 

[dotnotbot]

The trophies are more than likely going to get removed with the game, what a waste of time

Why would they be? I don't know of any game that has had it's achievements/trophies removed from profiles after it has been shutdown/delisted.

This will probably be the rarest, no longer obtainable, platinum trophy out there.

Even games that were cancelled before release like NBA Elite 11 never got their trophy lists removed:

NBA Elite 11 Trophies

1 Platinum • 3 Gold • 5 Silver • 42 Bronze

psnprofiles.com

Even some test trophy lists with close to 0 owners stay forever on their servers:

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake (unreleased) Trophies

1 Platinum • 7 Gold • 7 Silver • 10 Bronze

psnprofiles.com

Sackboy: A Big Adventure (unreleased) Trophies

1 Platinum • 3 Gold • 10 Silver • 32 Bronze

psnprofiles.com

Tutorial Shooting Game (unreleased) Trophies

0 Platinum • 2 Gold • 2 Silver • 5 Bronze

psnprofiles.com

Sony never did that before. What Concord devs can do though is change requirements for trophies (happened for Rocket League recently) or remove some of them from the list (for example Max Payne 1 had one trophy removed just before release).

 

[Robb]

But be warned: your win percentage will take a hit if you keep deliberately losing.

 

[Three]

Weak willed.

I'd understand if you lost money but Sony refunding everything means this is just a tantrum.

You're going to have to explain how trying to earn a rare trophy is weak willed, throwing a tantrum or related to losing money. These aren't people actually walking off a cliff.

 

[Tommi84]

don't know of any game that has had it's achievements/trophies removed from profiles after it has been shutdown/delisted.

Have you ever heard of a game costing 100 million dollars being shutdown after two weeks? Exactly

 

[asdasdasdbb]

I think we've found who actually bought it... Trophy Whores.

 

[Gonzito]

I will never understand the obsession with gaming trophies

 

[killatopak]

You're going to have to explain how trying to earn a rare trophy is weak willed, throwing a tantrum or related to losing money. These aren't people actually walking off a cliff.

two-folds actually. A useless trophy and the gesture of suicide.

 

[Mownoc]

Have you ever heard of a game costing 100 million dollars being shutdown after two weeks? Exactly

What kind of logic is that lmao. A game getting shutdown because no one plays it happens all the time, but never this quickly. A games trophies/achievements being removed because it's been shutdown has never happened and there's no reason to do so.

 

[theStartupSound]

Why would they be? I don't know of any game that has had it's achievements/trophies removed from profiles after it has been shutdown/delisted.

This will probably be the rarest, no longer obtainable, platinum trophy out there.

I think because of the refund, not the shutdown.

 

[Spyxos]

Omg, imagine you are one of the players who had actually fun in this game. And just want to play few rounds until servers are down, but no. Everybody ist just killing himself.

 

[Three]

two-folds actually. A useless trophy and the gesture of suicide.

 

[Mownoc]

I think because of the refund, not the shutdown.

Still doesn't make sense to me. People who got refund for Cyberpunk on PS4 didn't get their trophies removed. As posted above their are games that never even released that have trophies still on PSN.

 

[ManaByte]

Trophy hunters are compensating for something.

 

[Eimran]

A game made by retards, for retards

Retardism has no limits

 

[nightmare-slain]

Deleted

 

[Fake]

Players deserve this stupid game.

 

[Revolutionary]

Turns out the real concord was suicide

 

[nightmare-slain]

Deleted

 

[Cakeboxer]

 

[SJRB]

They should do that irl

 

[ReyBrujo]

What a fitting end...

 

[Camreezie]

This is what Sony has driven them to

 

[King Dazzar]

I reckon good luck to them. Different strokes for different folks n' all that.

 

[STARSBarry]

The joke is people where doing this before the shutdown, it was in the subreddit like 4 days ago.

Just now there all doing it because there's no other way to grind out 100 account level just by playing.

 

[Robb]

We should all agree to never name anything with Concord in it again. First the plane and now the game = dead.

That Mario game has a lot to prove now lol.

 

[ssringo]

I doubt they will but it'd be super hilarious if they did delete the trophies after taking it offline.

 

[Fake]

The real Suicide Squad.

 

[poodaddy]

If I played Concord I'd probably jump off a cliff too, I understand.

 

[Embearded]

It woupd be funny if they patched it until tomorrow.

 

[{insert code here}]

It just keeps better and better

 

[diffusionx]

I couldn't imagine a more fitting headline for this game.

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

lol pathetic.

 

[Labadal]

"Concord Players Are Jumping Off Cliffs"

Good, good.

"In-Game"

DIsappointed.

 

[mckmas8808]

The trophies are more than likely going to get removed with the game, what a waste of time

Ah man! Didn't think of that LOL!!!

 

[Saber]

Jumping off the cliffs in-game is the exact type of reaction I would expect from the social people that this game aimed at.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Ign gave concord a 7/10 the game is good to a certain extent what is the deal with the internet, what do they want? How about unreal tournament? Oh last of us 3 with online multiplayer? There’s a ton of options.

 

[StueyDuck]

Concord Players Are Jumping Off Cliffs In-Game as They Desperately Grind for the Platinum Trophy Before Shutdown - IGN

Sony’s shock announcement of Concord’s shutdown just two weeks after it went on sale has sent what players the game has remaining into overdrive as they desperately try to secure its Platinum trophy before it’s too late.

www.ign.com

At least it's in game and not forcing them off real cliffs

 

[havoc00]

lol

 

[JimboJones]

Platinum badge of shame.