CONCORD TO SHUT DOWN SEPT 6TH: EVERYONE REFUNDED!

[Rroff]

I guess licensing is a good part of the cost but I'm in the wrong job if someone paid $100m to have this made, aside from animating stuff like humanoids, there isn't much in the footage of the game I couldn't do and in a lot less than 8 years. Someone could slap this together with UE5 and the marketplace and a bit of AI content creation.

 

[LostCorpse]

Would Sony seriously just write off a £100m game after just 10 days? 8 years in development, that would mean there would have been around 130 people on average working on this over that period and this was the best they could come up with?

It makes you wonder why there seems to be so little corporate oversight and governance going on at some of these big multinational companies. If I were a shareholder I would be calling for heads to be rolled over for such a disaster.

For the record Rockstar spent $250m on GTA 5 but that included marketing. I remember at the time Rockstar saying they had bet the whole company on the game being a success and had it flopped they would have been in serious financial jeopardy. Crazy how Sony can be so casual with Concord's fate.

could be used as a tax right off / loss

 

[NZXT30]

This will end up to the Go Woke Go Broke museum. A perfect specimen.

 

[Apex]

This will end up to the Go Woke Go Broke museum. A perfect specimen.

It failed for many reasons but you can't have heros that look like this and expect people to want to play them, some of them are beyond belief. DEI land whales, and every single one looks like an accident in the paint factory.

 

[BS Dave]

Not surprised, there are so many of these games and the 'vibe' I read is that people are now tired of live service games (rather than 'getting tired' which has been the last few years). Unfortunately the game industry is several years behind just because of how long it takes to make a game (eight years in this case).

Honestly I am not sure where the AAA / console/PC game industry goes from here. It takes such a long time to make an AAA game, a game needs to make so much revenue or profit in the eyes of publishers or investors that why would they bother? AA games don't really exist any more and those that do don't make enough money to satisfy publishers/investors or whoever. BG3 and Elden Ring etc are loved and I am sure sell well but I doubt they make the money of peak Destiny / GTA:O / whatever the popular mobile games are. I'm not sure there is a way of making more money that peak live service games and I am not sure decision makers will accept making less money.

^^ This. So much stuff gets shut down not because it isn't making money, it's just not making enough...maybe if live service dies a death, and investors take their money elsewhere (Nvidia shares??) we can get back to some good indie studios and AA games? Amazing GFX are great, but i got bored of Avatar and that looks amazing...

 

[ZXSpectrum]

It will go down in the annals of history as one of the biggest gaming screw ups/failures of all time along with ET, Immortals of Aveium and Anthem.

What is a pity is that Sony invested so much into this but wouldnt give Days Gone a sequel.

 

[NZXT30]

^^ This. So much stuff gets shut down not because it isn't making money, it's just not making enough...maybe if live service dies a death, and investors take their money elsewhere (Nvidia shares??) we can get back to some good indie studios and AA games? Amazing GFX are great, but i got bored of Avatar and that looks amazing...

The gaming landscape is enormous these days. We got everything including hilarious and spectacular failures. A dozen of games release on steam every month that I would like to play. The biggest constraint is time not quality.

 

[BS Dave]

The gaming landscape is enormous these days. We got everything including hilarious and spectacular failures. A dozen of games release on steam every month that I would like to play. The biggest constraint is time not quality.

Maybe i'm more picky. I still think the sooner the 'milk gamers' mentality goes the better we'll all be.

 

[xaldub]

Maybe i'm more picky. I still think the sooner the 'milk gamers' mentality goes the better we'll all be.

That will persist as long as studios/developers continue to get absorbed into corporate entities such as Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft, Tencent etc. The continuous expectation for year-on-year profit is what leads to the "milking" of gamers. In reality it's not sustainable ... but they are locked into this capitalist ideology. The only hope for gaming's future will be from indy developers and private studios, who don't have to satisfy the whims of investors & shareholders. We've already had a taste of this with Larian, for example, and the release of Baldur's Gate 3.

 

[arknor]

is it true this game had an LGBTQ tag on steam, but after the game started getting ridiculed they removed the tag?

 

[LeMson]

At least it hasn't festered on, just remove it and forget it

 

[Armageus]

I imagine there's a lot of people like myself who just looked up and watched some gameplay and thought, no surprise there. Cookie cutter mechanics and bland art.

I didn't even know it existed until I saw this thread and similar articles on Eurogamer/Kotaku.

Having watched the trailer on the Steam page, I can't be the only person thinking why would I play this when Overwatch (2) already exists?
(And if you didn't want to play Overwatch, then Team Fortress 2 is undergoing a bit of a resurgence)

This will end up to the Go Woke Go Broke museum. A perfect specimen.

is it true this game had an LGBTQ tag on steam, but after the game started getting ridiculed they removed the tag?

Aside from the apparent need for characters to have their pronouns on display on the character select screen, what is Woke / triggering etc about the game? I can't see that it being woke is a reason for it's death, just that it's a crap rip off of Overwatch.

 

[arknor]

I can't see that it being woke is a reason for it's death

me neither really but it just seems weird if it's true they had the tag and then removed it.

from what I saw of the game, not a whole lot, the character select screen etc looked like generic placeholder hero photos...

almost like it's made by AI

 

[Vinno]

Goodbye Concord, and good riddance. Hopefully publishers use this as a warning on how to waste 8 years of dev time and $200m+.

 

[NZXT30]

I didn't even know it existed until I saw this thread and similar articles on Eurogamer/Kotaku.

Having watched the trailer on the Steam page, I can't be the only person thinking why would I play this when Overwatch (2) already exists?
(And if you didn't want to play Overwatch, then Team Fortress 2 is undergoing a bit of a resurgence)




Aside from the apparent need for characters to have their pronouns on display on the character select screen, what is Woke / triggering etc about the game? I can't see that it being woke is a reason for it's death, just that it's a crap rip off of Overwatch.

Have you looked at the character designs? Who in their right mind would want to play as an overweight woman with a fupa?

The developers have also been caught participating in DEI incentives. You might not be aware but there is a culture war going on as the silent majority have had enough.

There are videos covering such topics that get hundreds of thousands of views daily.

A game like Apex might have gotten away with it 5 years ago but the appetite for wokeness and DEI is zero right now.

EDIT: Most people are also not aware of how much Concord failed. If you take some time and look at the numbers, do some comparisons you'll find out it's a failure of an unprecedented magnitude.

Concord simply makes every other major flop in history look like a huge success.

 

[Apex]

me neither really but it just seems weird if it's true they had the tag and then removed it.

from what I saw of the game, not a whole lot, the character select screen etc looked like generic placeholder hero photos...

almost like it's made by AI

It's made by finance bros who want whatever's hot right now in every game (hence the Guardians vibe), even though that game is going to be out in another 5 years at best. This was made back in a time when they thought appeasing the DEI mafia would be easier than telling them to **** off. This is only a very small part of why it has failed though - but it does show as we have seen time and time again where their priorities lie.

So you get hero's like this who no-one would ever want to play, which means before you even get into gameplay and core mechanics, the game is already dead.

Clearly they prefer losing $100M to having a few dozen mentally ill people screaming at them on Twitter.

It's a wild World.

 

[Armageus]

Have you looked at the character designs? Who in their right mind would want to play as an overweight woman with a fupa?

I didn't make it that far. The first I knew of the game was the news of it closing.

From the videos it just looks like a clone of Overwatch... If I wanted to play a hero shooter there is nothing that would make me consider this over Overwatch. Character designs aren't even on my radar.

The developers have also been caught participating in DEI incentives.

Fair, but again not a reason for the games failure

You might not be aware but there is a culture war going on as the silent majority have had enough.

No I'm not aware. But seems like you are pushing your own agenda here

There are videos covering such topics that get hundreds of thousands of views daily.

I don't do youtube/tik tok/whatever so have no exposure to those kind of videos

A game like Apex might have gotten away with it 5 years ago but the appetite for wokeness and DEI is zero right now.

EDIT: Most people are also not aware of how much Concord failed. If you take some time and look at the numbers, do some comparisons you'll find out it's a failure of an unprecedented magnitude.

Concord simply makes every other major flop in history look like a huge success.

But again I honestly don't see what difference wokeness has in regards to it failing. It's failed because it's crap, at a time when other hero shooters have also failed, and when there is already a clear market leader game, that they were never going to unseat.

 

[Tombstone]

Have you looked at the character designs? Who in their right mind would want to play as an overweight woman with a fupa?

Not being down with the slang that young people are using today, I had to google what a fupa is

 

[Kelt]

Not being down with the slang that young people are using today, I had to google what a fupa is

Glad I'm not the only one!

 

[NZXT30]

I didn't make it that far. The first I knew of the game was the news of it closing.

From the videos it just looks like a clone of Overwatch... If I wanted to play a hero shooter there is nothing that would make me consider this over Overwatch. Character designs aren't even on my radar.


Fair, but again not a reason for the games failure


No I'm not aware. But seems like you are pushing your own agenda here


I don't do youtube/tik tok/whatever so have no exposure to those kind of videos


But again I honestly don't see what difference wokeness has in regards to it failing. It's failed because it's crap, at a time when other hero shooters have also failed, and when there is already a clear market leader game, that they were never going to unseat.

Character designs on a hero shooter are not even on your radar? You'll find you're an absolute tiny minority if you honestly believe that.

If you live an isolated existence without even YouTube then I'm not ready to explain to you what has happened in the past 15 years.

Yes I do have an "agenda" like the vast majority of people. No tolerance for wokeness in my entertainment.

But the thing is Concord is not a terrible game. It got decent reviews with praises for it's gunplay and graphics. Plenty of clones survive with their own playerbase, some clones even thrive. That ain't it.