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Concord was a sizeable investment for Sony. Here's how it panned out.
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The lifespan of the common housefly is 2 weeks.
A housefly outlived Concord.
😅😅😅😮😮😢
LMAOOOO
You mean the lifespan of a common housefly is two concords.
GIGACHAD Housefly!
Dang it I was gonna make that comment
The entire lifespan of Concord was shorter than how long it took to create this video
True
Still had a larger player base than Payday 3.
It was a live service game for less time than the lifespan of a house fly
and there is more.
NO!
@pauly260 It literally didn't. Payday 3 at least had a peak in the 5-digits. Concord in it's beta only snagged ~2k and not even 1k on full release on PC.
*"It costs 400 million dollars to run this game, for 12 days."*
Meet the heavy
Wait, THAT'S where the funny cuts cutscene idea came from... and Man, meet the team is something else
Go woke, Go broke 🤷♂
I am Heavy Losses Guy, and this is my weapon
All jokes aside, I wouldn't be surprised if a significant portion of that was pocketed during development. Sure wasn't used on the game or the marketing, I'll say that much.
One of my favorite comments I've seen about the character design was that it gave the aestetic of industrial cleaning supplies and honestly that's spot on
and car tire companies😂
Damn, if only they had the aesthetic style of tide-pods...
I completely agree, the "aesthetic" is generally awful and beyond redemption, and thank God no one will replicate it ever.
Here is a fun fact: On some media site such as FB, Sony bought ads contract for Concord, the game then died BEFORE the ads contract run out, so even after the shutdown, some of Concord ads were still running. The game died before its own ads, funny.
it's like a zombie but somehow even lamer
Loooooooooooooooooooooooooool!
I actually had Concord adds appear on my FB feed as recently as two weeks ago.
In Korea they collabed with a pizza company and we got cheaper pizza for a month 😂😂 The sale outlasted the game
GameFAQs was littered with Concord ads. Mods were in full swing on the forums silencing any and all dissent. Website's become Diet ResetEra.
"ChatGPT version of a hero shooter" is diabolical 😭
But it's true
As someone whose job it is to train AI, I will say... This is accurate. ChatGPT is just as overrated and also really terrible and unreliable.
@JohnPeacekeeperare you a researcher or a data labeling contractor?
@JohnPeacekeeper
It's pretty cool as a faster google for stuff that's well documented on the net but you don't know about
@JohnPeacekeeper Naur mate ChatGPT makes awesome stories and stuff, best AI out there so far
But indeed Concord was a woke disaster XD
My favorite part was people literally throwing themselves off of cliffs in the game’s last few hours just for the Achievement Farm before the servers shutting down.
No, those were just Firewalk employees.
1930's all over again boys
@DENOhritko1929, but yeah pretty much lol
That reminds me of the last day of the Acheron's Call beta servers.
Main difference is they had an ingame armageddon type scenario planned to end the beta.
And then everyone had the game wiped from their accounts anyway, including all the achievements
There’s indie developers that would break their legs for .001% of that kind of life changing money.
0.001% of 400M dollars is just 4k though, that's not a whole lot of money although definitely enough to get very nice blender models
cewla3348 I mean 4K uncle Sam *is* some money but 0.001% of 4M surprisingly is not a whole lot, that's like probably 2 months of income here, I wouldn't say it's worth breaking your legs kind of life changing
cewla3348it depends on where you live because $4,000 is either 4 months of rent, or 2 months of rent
@周生生-f1fthat's still a lot in some places.
cewla3348 I dunno about you but 4k uncle sam dollars really ain't that much for game dev
I still find it hilarious that the concord pilot TV episode hasn't come out yet and concord is already dead.
Edit: a month later, and apparently the secret level episode (that's a mouthful lmao) isn't any better💀
We could have god of war, uncharted, killzone or bloodborne episode instead…
@risosk17 Or Horizon
From what I hear, the Secret Level series isn't even good
@risosk17wasn't god of war in secret level already?
This is the Drake of the 99 Dragons of live service competitive shooters
Remember, they wanted Concord to become a big multimedia franchise that would rival Star Wars & the MCU.
Let that sink in for a moment....
It rivals the MCU after the first three seasons.
Tf does that sink want now?
The DEFINITION of an inflated Ego...
@bsgfan1 Perhaps it wants to propose to Bath?
Definition of delusion...
Not even the r34 artists touched that shi
I tested this notion and there actually are R34 art pieces for it. There's about as many as you can count on one hand, but they exist.
@thedorkmotion let me guess, all of the pieces are inflation fetish art?
@thedorkmotion thanks for taking one for the team.
Concord was my #3 most viewed game on RUclips this year, I couldn’t get enough of watching the game burn
Really!!?! Get this news to Sony! Let them know Concord is popular! They might spend even more money to bring it back!
@themonsterunderyourbed9408 sony couldnt differentiate between sarcasm and actual praise be like
@themonsterunderyourbed9408 Let's make the Morbius thing happen again, but with Concord.
@themonsterunderyourbed9408I think this is more like infamy than popularity
Stop! He's already dead.
Do you guys remember when everybody was joking about nobody watching the movie Morbius by Sony? The joke was the movie being so terrible and everyone was acting as if they watched it. Then Sony releases the movie in theatres again just so it flops even worse again losing more money.
I'm waiting on them to do it again but with Concord this time
I watched Morbius on a transcontinental flight while fucked up on ativan and white wine. In that context, it was pretty good actually.
Sony are just a conclomerate of corporate aliens who try to understand and mimic human bevaviour, it seems xD
At least Morbius was funny
When I hear the word "concord" I think of a discontinued model of airplane and bitter grapes with too many seeds. When I think of Morbius I think "it's morbin time."
I'd absolutely lose it if Sony came out with a trailer for Concord Remastered at the game awards
Concord had the whole Cyberpunk redemption arc planned out before they even launched, then they immediately fell on the first step because they forgot to add legs.
Reminder that they had a season 2 pass and an animation planned out before even seeing what would happen after making the worst designs possible.
And CP is not even that "redeemed" as a ton of stuff is still not in the game.
@michaldworakowski187
...yeah, maybe its not a good idea to abbreviate CyperPunk.
The thing Fireworks forgot was that Cyberpunk's issues were mostly technical while the story, characters, world and gameplay were fine. So CDPR had a base were they could build on once the technical problems were out of the way.
Now Concord on the other hand could have come with the best graphics in the world and run technicly perfectly smooth (which it did I believe) and still has the problem that the characters were terrible, the gameplay lame, nobody got time for the story in a hero-shooter and as cherry on the top people were sick and tied of hero-shooters.
mateoreyes6921 A lot of people forgot this. "Muh redemption arc". WHERE'S ALL THAT BRANCHING STORY BRO
“The absolute chaos of Highguard”
I can see it now
I work in a high school and the most telling thing for me is that during the week of Concord's disastrous launch, I heard some kids talking about Overwatch so asked if they knew about Concord.
Not one of them had heard of it. Their target audience didn't even know the game existed.
well, not every kid is a gamer
just because you play 2 or 3 gams, doesn't mean you're a gamer
@user-xc1qy7ed8l usually, if you play one genre of gaming, you at least hear about other popular title of the same genre. if these kids play overwatch, they are more likely to have heard of concord / paladin / valorant than if they were talking about the latest zelda title
I habe thousands of hours in Tf2 and Overwatch and watching this video was the first time I have heard of Concord lmao
It had an imaginary audience rather than a target. The devs designed the game off the worst parts of twitter and reddit,
Cause it was designed for mentaly ill people not kids lmao
Honestly, this whole thing just fascinates me. Not because the game was good by any means, but because of how much of a colossal failure it was and fellow achievement hunters banding together to platinum the game before it went offline. This whole game’s existence and everything surrounding it is just fascinating.
This will be taught in business schools in the future without doubt.
It reminds me of Theranos.
@Mordeusz2KI actually disagree, Theranos was a product that fundamentally did not work and lying to tell people that it did. Say what you will about Concorde, but it was a physical product you could buy and it was a 5v5 game you could play, not just an extend scheme about ripping of people’s money.
Watching Sony lose $400M feels pretty good NGL.
It's kinda like visiting the ruins of Pompeii.
You know that one Cabbage that outlived a British Prime Minister?
Yeah, that Prime Minister outlived Concord multiple times over.
It was a lettuce lol but you are so right
Liz Truss was garbage anyway. Just like the game!
Who can stand up to the constancy of cabbages?
As a Brit this is harsh but fair 🧐
Lizz Truss lettuce
The trash can is kinda cute, unfortunate he found himself here. Put him in a better game with funny interactions and you have a fan-favorite mascot character
Unfortunately the trashcan's voice line doesn't really fit
Man, I'm still sad that they didn't set the robot's pronouns as Beep/Boop, smh...
@周生生-f1fgiant talking trashcan is still giant talking trashcan, that's awesome
@BINHEVE I mean his voice lines don't really make him sound like an awkward robot, more like somebody in a robot suit
in the battletech we the ultmate trashcan the urbanmech !
This video will make more money than Concord did
I could send you a single penny and you would have made more money than Concord.
I could lose all my money and still make more money than concord did
This vid ran longer than Concord did
i only heard about the game after it got shut down
I want to see a youtube video somehow lose like $390 million :p
This video has officially been up longer than Concord was.
I’m fairly certain the only live service game to live shorter than Concord was the Culling 2, which lasted exactly 1 week
And made more money
*3 MONTHS AGO*
@JackNedry *_4 M O N T H S A G O_*
Snivy mentioned 🗣️
I don't think I could make characters this ugly and unappealing if I tried. Genuinely props to them for somehow making designs with absolutely nothing good going for them. It's like intentionally selecting all the wrong answers at a test while knowing the right ones.
On one of those redesign videos, there was a comment talking about actively trying to make these designs worse and you really can't since any odd stuff you do would ironically give them more character, thus improving the design.
Amazing, really
Same. I suck at art yet I try to draw characters I find handsome and cute.
I gaurentee u the person was a lgbt member who made it
@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 lmao that doesn't mean anything. if you suck at art your characters will look like shit. the MAIN problem with concord isn't that the characters are ugly - they're just straight up horribly designed. but cmon, be real. your dumbass would do worse
Same here. Like, what do I even do with those designs to make them even worse?
And best I came up with, though, is that yellow massive robot uses piss to piss on enemies, because when I saw how that robot attacks, my first thought was "MY SUPER LASER PISS"
Concord tripped and fell so Marvel Rivals can point and laugh.
The door Overwatch left open after it fell was too small for Daw so Marvel Rivals slipped through without a problem
@krajicsek13 but they all die cuz only tf2 survives after countless years
@tiagoferreira1169 people like you are the reason why so many people hate the tf2 community so much
@tiagoferreira1169tf2 will still have players after the nuclear apocalypse
I actually remember Concord being so bad, people actually thought it killed the hero shooter genre. I mean, how on earth was it supposed to recover from this?
Answer: Marvel Rivals
when a company instill the "positive vibe only, no need to think hard" and being critical is not allowed
Where i work we friendly, but frankly, say where we screwed up. Best work enviroment i had so far.
This woman was clearly someone with a revenge complex, got into a place of power and abused it in disguise of "positivity"@Nickname-ef9tv
The problem with the ‘positive vibe only’ is that it really only applies to the workers, and not the management. It’s just a smokescreen to badger and abuse employees
It’s a more amenable seeming form of thought control. The end result is the same: the people at the top get to stifle and ignore dissent.
@Nickname-ef9tv That's the best environment.
How does a mosquito of all creatures live longer than Concord?
Technically incorrect. Male mosquitoes live for a little over a week. Female mosquitoes, on the other hand, have pretty impressive lifespans for an insect - up to several months.
@thecandlemaker1329 did he say male mosquitos.
@thecandlemaker1329your comment is kinda pointless because he didn't specify if he was exclusively talking about the male mosquito.
@Novairis or what exact species
Don't forget trash flies also. Up to two and a half weeks
It's stunning that Sony chose to keep chugging that game along, even after it was clear the hero shooter bubble was practically bursting.
Lol they needed any excuse they could to attempt to garner back the half-billion they wasted on development alone lmfao
this one will kill tf2
@_Devilwell concord failed
While Astro bot succeed
@_Devil Sunk-cost-fallacy.
Worse part is they bought the studio for half a million a year before launch, you know the same year everyone was crying and screaming about Overwatch cancelling the campaign, any sane company would see the rage on social media as a sign to NOT throw money at it, let alone a studio in duke nukem hell
And now we get Highguard, a game so similar to Concord it actually was outsourced to ex-Concord devs to help get it ready for the January release. The saga continues
Really? I mean I've heard of Highguard, but I didn't know ex-Concord devs were involved
Guess they never learn, huh?
It’s a bad case all its own but not quite Concord level in being free to play and lasting longer than 2 weeks
That
Overwatch ❌
Overweight ✔️
Gets me 😂
Now it's just Over
@Dorgpoop Overwoke
@Dorgpoop It was not their duty, it was their destiny
That got me good, lol there's some mean motherfuckers in the internet, cynicism at it's finest
@Dorgpoop nice one👍
Everyone: Make Concord free to play.
Firewalk: We would rather _DIE._
Sony: lmao okay
It's like Ubisoft saying "Get used to not owning your games" but look how that went for them they now don't own their games either.
Going FTP would definitely have been a Sony decision. It would blow my mind if a single Firewalk employee or studio head wasn't desperate for Sony to let it be FTP.
Even if it was free to play, it would have failed even harder.
@themonsterunderyourbed9408No it wouldnt, because they would make some more money out of cosmetics and still would have earmed the same from sales because they had to refund it
@themonsterunderyourbed9408you're delusional if you really think going f2p would've been worse than just cancelling the whole thing.
Ah yes the, "If Internet Historian isn't making a video about it imma just do it myself."
Lol yeah, within 20 seconds of watching I immediately felt Internet Historian vibes. Love this style of content honestly.
@zacharia0654same, and it’s not plagarism
Internet Historian is liar and plagiarist
don't worry, internet historian will drop a video on concord soon that's oddly similar to this
@anniesbigday funny that was the first thing you had to say
almost as if I.H did a plagarism or s o m e t h i n g
Concord is the Morbious of video games. Lovely how both are Sony products.
The superior internet historian returns
YES
The one that doesn't plagiarize
@nick_4972 I do wish big boss would put sources in his descriptions though. After the james somerton stuff there's a whole lot more eyes on lack of sourcing and potential plagiarism.
@nick_4972what you talking about?
All because he didn’t credit someone
Yk your game design is bad when no r34 artists dare to use your characters as source materials 😂
Literally nobody cares and get lost
That is patetically sad
Even Cuphead got theirs within 1 hour after release.
Even PVZ!
@rafaelsilaen9057 alright wtf
More people watched this video than played Concord in its entire run time.
I wonder if any dev looking to apply has concord on their resume immediately gets rejected LMAO.
He finally remembered his password. Welcome back big boss
Its been 2 months
*great joke friend. Video making is take so long. Details, Story Lines and Etc+*
When you can't even SAY!!!! *MY NAME!!!*
Yea I think the dude knows lol@C.A._Old
@peacejoy1396HAS THE MEMORY GONE!? ARE YOU FEELING NUMB!?
“400 million for a game that will be pulled in two weeks?”
“With cheese Mr Squidward, with cheese.”
🔥🔥🔥WITH CHEESE🔥🔥🔥
the concord situation is so funny considering sony shoot their next big thing Helldivers 2 in the foot just as it got popular
Helldivers 2 is still around, doing fine. It was never supposed to blow up this fast, but it did, and it still has several times the original playerbase of Helldivers 1 and many times what they expected it to get at launch, even 10 months later. Sony almost destroyed it, but it's still around and it's in its best state honestly since the 60 day patch
@dylanisntvibing idk man but banning people from 180 countrys surely hurt the game
HD2 is… ok right now. The player base is full of idiots who are bad at completing objectives and who whine way too much.
@aurum0817 That's Sony's fault.
@dylanisntvibing yeah no shit
I want to praise the editing of this video. The constant visual gags mixed with the dry commentary had me in stitches whilst learning very important stuff. 4:12 especially broke me.
Even a halved advocado outlived this shite
😭this comment has me in a stun lock
2:45 was the greatest bit of editing I've ever seen on RUclips. Bravo.
Pyro must agree
@GustvandeWal Pyro got that clip on loop 💀
Fucking hilarious
Lmaooo @RipRLeeErmey
😂😂😂
2:45 that’s the BEST visual gag I’ve seen in ages LMAOOO
HELLP HOW DID BRO THINK OF THIS 😭😭
E X P A N D
Pretty big idea
I giggled at that
L A R G E
If you ever feel stupid, remember Sony bought Bungie, a company with just Destiny, for more than what Microsoft payed for Mojang, which also only had one IP... But that IP was the most successful game of all time. Yeah...
microsoft bought one of the most sandbox type game franchise where as sony bought a dying company that cant even make halo anymore
They bought the company with the most experience with a persistent service, for the sake of assisting their other service based games and provide consistent revenue, which turns out destiny is very feast and famine lol.
Concord really makes you FEEL like a Sony executive who is not particularly smart and doesn’t know how to make and market a successful videogame
Concord felt more like the last Jim Ryan era of PlayStation game
And what’s funny, concord failed launch afterwards: Astro bot became a huge success and made way more than concord did in a few weeks
@RatedShadowXrd>100 million people on their knees begging sociopathic billionaires who have never played a game to make a good product sold at a reasonable price instead of knowingly destroying the industry with inevitably failed attempts to rebottle lightning with a fortnite-style infinite money machine
>"no"
These ceo's and high up people are so out of touch with reality it's seriously disturbing.
@RBFR01 They are busy eating good meals with their clients and potential customers. They literally don't have time to observe what reality looks like, they live in a bubble inside a bubble. The most pathetic type of human are born in highplaces.
People like that made it to executive position. How?
I remember seeing one of the voice actors for one of the characters be so happy at a Walmart seeing the game she acted in being sold. Went to the comments and everyone was clowning her because it was concord. Saying no one played it. Think that was her first big role. Damn I felt so bad that it didn't sold just because she was so happy about it. She acknowledge that the game didn't sell. But was happy either way.
I really hope she was able to move on, because I feel bad for everyone involved that had to witness this crash and burn harder than the Atari ET game
It's cathartic watching a game crash that was made by pretentious developers and voice actors but given this account that doesn't seem to be the case. Whilst it's funny watching Sony lose money I can't help but feel bad for the people who worked on it. Hopefully this won't damage their careers and they can move on from it
thats literally what happens when you have The professor and toxic positivity in your company. you build products that are absolutly dogshit but no one is around to say otherwise, textbook definition to the fall of empires.
This game with the heavy cinematic focus, and a small and tightly made campgain could have been a big hit, just make good heroes.
Yeah, I really feel bad for the actors. They did their job well and weren't to blame for being part of a project that was broken from the start.
voice actors and devs always get the short end of the stick when its the out of touch c-suite ghouls calling all the shots. speaking of shots, they should worry about that nowadays.
The lead-up to Splatoon 3’s Grand Festival lasted longer than Concord’s entire lifespan.
FACTS!!!
😂😂 And from all accounts Splatoon 3's Grand Fest was way more engaging! (As someone who busted her ass on that to get a lot out of the experience)
Crazy how seeing the cataclysm of concord & the grand finale of the splatoon trilogy were both the most enthralling experiences I’ve had with shooters for completely different reasons
Funniest for me was the fact that Sony was so sure about success of Concord, that they already were thinking of making movie series lmao
I can just picture the exact appearance and demeanor of the executives as they made those kind of statements. I can see the way they confidently marched down the hall to the pitch meeting, knowing their reports of "brand new MCU-styled multi-billion megaseries!" would knock their boss' socks off while having _absolutely no clue_ what the hell a Concord even was. Some Lionel Hutz-looking skuzbag confidently knowing NOTHING about the project and basically just gambling with company funds. "Heads I guessed right and I get promoted into next century, tails I get fired and go try this scam again somewhere else."
I am so proud of gamers for proving that they have self respect and refusing the slop that was Concord.
But they accepted Dragon age veil guard.
@vibemasterkorosu2469 No, they didnt. Everyone who liked the old dragon age games and not the new was just banned from the subreddit and moved on to other franchises.
@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 there's like 60K people playing it rn
Hey, it has to be ATTRACTIVE slop. League is STILL kicking.
@Zer0Blizzard Listen, at least League has good porn.
Someone explained this game perfectly
"Its like one of those games a movie will play in the background"
8 years of development, sponsored by Sony. Yet somehow I have not heard a word of this game, until after the announcement of the servers getting shut down. Did this game even have a marketing team?
Also I no longer hear "worked at bungie" as a mark of quality. Ever since "Mighty #9" the idea that someone worked at a prestigious or reputable studio, means nothing to me
I also did not hear about it until this video lmao
Agreed.
same, remember 'back 4 blood', a game that was supposedly 'from the creators of l4d'? game turned out so ass its unreal
@nmmeswey3584it had 2 people how worked in the original team, valve made that game, not 2 random guys
@nmmeswey3584 and despite having a defending gamer base (lol, bunch of shieaters), it still is ass, and live's on... I dunno, mafia money life support? How else, lol
Fun Fact:
The trailer for the Concord segment of Secret Level features new characters that don't exist in the game, why?
Because Sony was betting so hard on Concord being a massive hit that they used this show as an advertisement for a season 2 expansion pass.
Just when you thought Concord couldn't be more of a laughing stock than it already was.
Fr? That's soo funny I can't......I wonder what they will show in the "Secret Level" Concord episode or will they just scrap it entirely!
@GiantGamingGrant ”In a world abandoned by its creators 5 symbols of diversity rise to show the world what they missed out on. Coming this holiday season, with action and confusing social subjects like pronouns and body positivity CONCORD flies in to show their stuff.” Available in the upcoming secret level series.
Meanwhile at the same month, Astro bot became a critical success after the failed launch of concord
Even without all the DEI stuff, the game still sucked ass. Idk what they expected.
@RatedShadowXrd Because it's a good game without DEI garbage
"Unforgettable and unexpected shared moments."
Like, say, everyone coming together to make fun of it?
Funny how the only vestige of this game’s existence is an episode of Secret Level that’s releasing four months after it crashed and burned.
Yooo Trigger, how ya doing, dumbass?
Imagine how funny it would be if we could meme the Secret Level stuff so hard that Sony thinks people will be interested in a comeback, so they re-release it as a F2P game ... Just for it to crash and burn again.
Imagine how funny it would be to make the Morbius mistake TWICE!!
@arandompasserby7940 Ehhh, won't happen. Not as memeable.
At least with Morbius, it's more so an adaptation of a pre-existing comic book character. Even when the movie failed twice, there's still the comics old and new alike for people who actually like the character.
Concord's character designs would literally need to be remade from the ground up to be good.
Hell, the entire everything of Concord would need to be remade, at which point, it wouldn't even be the same game anymore except for the name.
@SmashCrafter321 Change the game's name as well.
The craziest part of this is the game actually functioned on launch and man it’s sad that’s praise worthy when it should be a given
Welcome to modern gaming were the bare minimum is praise worthy
Buuuut they made Story/graphics a day before launch.
Devs thrown under the bus by leadership, art & gameplay designers
funnily enough, there's a saying that goes somewhere along the lines of "if the servers don't crash on release, it's probably gonna be a flop"
It's easy for the servers to be functioning at launch when only 10k~ people played it, to be fair.
you forgot to mention how one of the justifications for the $40 price was that once you bought the game, it was yours forever, no one could take it away from you.
Until the server got shutdown and Sony refund it
which is just a blatant lie lol you can't own a live service game
Yeah just like how I owned The Crew and it was forever mine 😊
@blizyon30fps86 The games you can actually, truly own today grow fewer all the time. Tons of games are coming with required day 1 patches that will render them unplayable one day when the servers go down. "You'll own nothing and be happy with it"
"Yours forever" for a copy of Concord seems like a more unjust punishment than just simply closing the servers
Coming back here after the “reveal” at the end of the game awards… WILL YOU EVER LEARN?!?!?!?
Who the heck calls a game where you run around shooting people "Concord," a word meaning harmony and peace? People who don't know what the word means will just assume the game has something to do with universities. What a bizarre choice of name and that's just the tip of the iceberg for all the strange decisions made by every department involved with making and marketing this game.
I think it's suppose reflect the game's focus on teamwork.
Because, like, apparently that's the only selling point they could think of. There's teamwork involved. In a team shooter
I just thought “plane”
Well they could have called it Discord but then they'd get sued
It could work as an ironic joke. A scifi setting about a colony that was meant to be a place for unification and peaceful cooperation becoming a battleground for mercenaries tearing each other up is a great idea.
But that would require some form of competence and basic level storytelling.
I thought it was a Concord grape simulator
2:20 creative director of Destiny 2. As a long time player this is an omen not a positive
LMAO pre-forsaken too. When I saw that I immediately thought "no wonder it flopped."
2 tokens and a blue 🤑
What do you mean the guy who was creative director during the time when D2 was weeks away from shutting down because it was so bad isn't actually a good game director 🤔
Edge Transit
IHE has many words to say about this one
The day they announced Concord was shutting down, I went to gamestop after work and asked if they had Concord. They told me they only had one copy because someone preordered it and never came by to pick it up. I bought it for $25, it was the best and worst purchase I've made
Congratulations. You now own a soon to be priceless piece of Video Game History.
Congrats on your new worthless plastic circle!! 😊🥳🎉
The art design of concord is stil amazing . Like these are professional artists.
Concord is a fascinating case. The game itself looks and plays just fine without any bugs, yet its presentation single-handedly killed it.
To me, the gameplay looked boring.
The game state may have been solid, but the gameplay offered nothing new or original; because the genre is overdone and overrated.
The reason it died is all because of the poor character design. For a hero shooter to be successful, it first needs attractive characters, gameplay design comes second. You need appealing characters to push people to buy mtx, otherwise your live-service ain't gonna make any money.
Mei, Ana, Roadhog, Bastion are all atypical characters, but they are all well designed and loved by the community.
Compare it with Marvel Rivals, a game that sells itself on pretty much the art alone. Marvel Rivals' gameplay is janky as hell and fairly generic compared to others. But the art and character designing carried the entire game.
@SmootherThanSilk Thing is, I doubt Concord's gameplay was all that good to begin with.
@SmootherThanSilk I don't disagree. But I don't think better character design alone would have saved it. The fact is that Concord was eight years late to the party to try and break in on this genre. It was simultaneously too unpolished to stand with the big boys and too expensive to create to aim for a niche. So not only has the novelty worn off, the genre is already saturated. The characters being better designs would more likely just have lead to fewer youtube videos since all the other reasons the game failed are less inflammatory.
So crazy how they took the lgbt tag down. It’s like they just view it as a source of advertisement rather than actual representation
And that's why Fallout NV worked with gay characters. They were just there, had great back stories, and weren't contrived by a committee to be part of the marketing.
@XandateOfHeaven "They were just there" thats how the (formerly) "LGB community" wanted to be viewed up until around 2014-2015, as normal people whose sexuaIity "didnt define us as people." Then somehow it devolved into a special rights/special status-has to be the end all be all of who they and their "community" are, and is somehow a characteristic and point of "pride" and "bravery" (what could be braver than ****ing someone with the same genitalia as you after all).
The best woke stuff are the one that aren't shoved down your throat
I am at least one of those letters in the ol' progressive alphabet stew of identities (perhaps two), and I didn't feel "represented" by the characters in this game in the slightest.
And even if I did, I wouldn't have cared. I can't remember the last time I booted up a game and thought "first, let me find the character who reminds me most of... me".
It also drives down sales
If you ever feel like you're too stupid to achieve anything in life, remember that there are very highly paid executives who thought "This game style that's popular right now? Let's start making a game for it that'll come out in a few years and is guided by soulless spreadsheets" sounded great.
Wonder what they feel like after seeing marvel rivals
I regret not to play in Concord, probably more people went to space, then people played Concord, it would have been such an exclusive club.
I think it was something like 5,000 peak, immediately dropped to 500 under a day in. All I know is the game was a flash in the pan. Definitely an exclusive badge to be a "concord player" since the game was pulled so quickly.
@SkyNinja759 It wasn't even a flash in the pan. "Flash" suggests it had a huge start. It was more like a dull ignition.
This guy did an internet historian like vid and fucking nailed the style, pacing and humor!
Hats off to you good sir, well played.
It's just about over editing, nothing more
He's been doing videos like this for a long time now
@ Well, as a first time watcher I am having a good time, feels good man.
my exact thoughts lol
and he's not even black
17:26 a comeback I saw "I'm not the one who made Concord"
I think this could go on R/Clever comebacks
@ZestyZeldere The truth slaps
18:05 It’s the least they can do!
He returned when we needed him most
No he didnt, needed to move a couch yesterday, he was nowhere to be found.
@Arendvdvenk He was busy helping me to wax my cheeks
@Arendvdvenk Thank you for this reply, these comments suck
@pin9326 Yours included?
@Arendvdvenk hahahaha :'D that was good one.
My favourite part of the video is when he said it's Concord time, and every gamer stood up to clap. The blind could see again and the deaf could hear the word Concord.
Concord is a game were you distantly witness a huge game flop and say: ouch that looks expensive.
Firewalk truly had the Bungie DNA of toxic positivity and not giving a shit about player feelings and opinions.
Concord devs when the execs blame them for the game's poor performance: "Hold on. This whole operation was your idea."
@SephWylie-o1kyeah the vid said that a lot of the issues came from the direction that the upper brass of firewall aka not the devs
@SephWylie-o1k it was. The devs have no creative control, sony was calling all the shots
@blizyon30fps86 yeah I doubt that a lil bit, at the very least it has to be mixed of both
@blizyon30fps86The professor definitely was calling a lot of shots
@blizyon30fps86 Concord was entirely Firewalk's idea.
Sony only controlled the pricing.
To people saying, "it would have worked if it was launched F2P,"
It had what, 2000 players on the FREE Beta? Including the devs, journos, and streamers?
So no, it wasn't going to work, even free.
And to those saying, "it played well and was bug free on launch,"
Well yeah, only because Sony gave the project to outside contractors for another 18 months.. It wasnt even in an alpha state after 8 years with Firewalk, and it was just a multiplayer-only arena shooter, those types of games are normally given 2-3 years to develop, not 10.
When Overwatch 2 is considered "better," you're in trouble.
Personally, for as much crap as I give OW2 I can't deny there's still a game there.
@StealthTheFoxz it is most certainly one of the games of all time, which is more than can be said for Concord.
Hey at least OW2 is a game and is playable. Concorde isn't playable.
The fact theres no Rule34 Market for this game is already bad enough.
so bland and ugly that not even the r34 artists wanted to do anything with these designs
I can barely find any Rule34 of niche and old yuri anime so….it’s almost like rule34 size is correlated with peoples knowledge of it?
@animefan7424 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
@animefan7424 You can't pretend there isn't adequate knowledge about Concord
@animefan7424 If you want nieche moe stuff - Hyperlesbian Neptunia.
Looking forward to the highguard vid!
Social media has really been horrible for many companies' reputations, it seems the employees just can't shut up. Good for customers, though.
Studios with bad corporate culture need to be fixed one way or another. I'm glad they go nuts on socials only to get called out. Even though the gaming community can be divided on many things, they can all come together to boycott trash like Concord.
@SmootherThanSilk Implying that Concord even had to be boycotted? None knew of its existence...
Honestly, its very good for customer. Now we can see what kind of people that made the game
@SmootherThanSilkthe game was so unknown nobody even had to boycott it wdym boycott concord
Watching this dumpster fire of a game crash and burn and all the 10 players cope hard in real time will be one of my favourite memories of this year.
I never get tired this story. I wish it was in picture book form so I could tell it to my kids at bedtime.
*Meanwhile Helldivers smoking a pack in the corner*
“Hey buddy, right here…”
Arrowhead is laughing while going to the bank.
i think the funniest thing to me for Concord is that the credits are over an HOUR long, and you can press one of two buttons too "celebrate, and cheer" the devs for the game they created
The more I hear about this, the more I feel sad because they wanted it to be successful, but it ended up being lambasted by nearly everyone.
@Cubeytheawesome The only people feeling bad for this is those that wished it succeeded so the game can spread its propoganda
@ I meant it wasn’t right to have them lose their jobs
@Cubeytheawesome People lose their jobs all the time, and it will only get worse over time because of AI. Will you have sympathy for those people too?
@ yeah
Guardians of the galaxy but at home maybe wasn't the greatest idea for a game
i hear in the early design documents, they had some really cool concepts and ideas for characters, something really fun and wacky. but then you look at what they delivered and it was just variations of "guy/gal in horrendous colours with some accessories and a normal gun", which was made even worse by the selected graphical style
Overwatch ❌
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7:09 Some of the characters don’t even look like they belong in the same game.
That’s inconsistency for you.
If Sony got $400 million in cash and just give it away randomly on the streets of poor areas, it would have been a better investment for the company than Concorde
if sony paid me 1 million usd i guarantee in 1 year i can make a banger
@Rafael-oq9vu Long as its not trying to make an MMO off the bat. Even the top of top publishers can loses thousands. What kind of game would you make?
yeah, maybe one of the thousands of hobos would get his shit together and become a decent art director for them
@Rafael-oq9vu I was thinking the same thing. If Sony had spent that money wisely, they could have had 400 superb games by now.
While Sony wouldn't make that $400 million back, the positive press would probably translate into more sales of Sony products than what the Concorde sold.
2:45 😂 that was brilliant mate🤣
big boss posted a videogame essay, and i got a free chicken sandwich. today is the best
My favorite thing about this game is how it caused everyone to start looking up the lifespan of a fly to find out they lived longer than the game
Great to see another post from you man. Keep up the amazing work!
This channel is all killer no filler
The hope is, this will be seen as a lesson about stifling criticism. Because, as much as it sucks to hear sometimes when you think you have a great idea, your coworkers trying to poke holes in your ideas are usually trying to help, not hurt. If people see an obvious problem, your corporate culture should be one where you feel you can talk about that problem openly, and at minimum receive an explanation on why the thing is being done that way that doesn't amount to "stop bullying me."
Exactly. There is such a thing as "toxic positivity" and it has no place in any kind of business. But particularly businesses that create incredibly complex, technical, artistic entertainment. "No negativity" basically means that those characters that the world laughed at would have been first drafts everywhere else. But because they couldn't be criticized, they could also not be *improved and iterated on*. Which is a requirement in game development
Dear God, good thing I can tell which one is constructive criticism and actually taunt a long time ago
you remind me of a project I tried my hand with. Modular headsets. The idea is pretty simple;; Modular headset. Easily repaired, altered, upgraded, customised, and environmentally friendly because we dont need to replace an entire headset, just the broken part.
I messed around with some various solutions, and a firm named Plantronics developed a similar product.
They failed, hard(I never got past the start line mind you lol) and honestly, the idea was good on their part, but they needed someone like myself to add more onto the concept, their RIG 500E headset was so close but they forgot to provide choice and modularity was limited to being modular for the sake of modularity
Missed the part where after the game was pulled the devs went on a social media rampage culminating in a triumphant post claiming the game was coming back and that they were going to prove every critic wrong... only for Sony to shutter the entire studio 24 hours later
Ah yes, the game that couldn’t fail because: “trust me bro it’s the future of PlayStation my boss just told me we good fam”
Concord was so good that I totally missed the player count, like it happened really fast.
mateoreyes6921 Unlike Concord, Overwatch has the teeth to take many of the same traits that Concord's characters have and do them respect and justice.
A diverse cast can only be great if it is treated with proper care, if not then culture vulture rage farmers on RUclips get an easy paycheck for the month.
Toxic positivity should really be an issue that needs to be looked at more. Many of these projects fails because the people in the studios are afraid of giving any critcism that will get them in trouble or go against the asinine decisions of their higher ups.
@toledochristianmatthew9919 But that's not really toxic positivity, that's a toxic work environment or a toxic corporate investor mindset. Toxic positivity is "don't say anything negative, because that might make someone Feel Bad." But if it's "don't say anything negative, because then The Investors might get upset and The Boss might fire you," then that's just a different thing. It's a financial/organizational problem, not a cultural problem.
@incognitoburrito6020 it is not just corporate that is the problem. Yes it is a major factor but one that isnt the only issue. The internal dev culture in these studios have a lot of toxic positivity. Many insiders have pointed how this has been affecting them and it isn't only Concord but many other game studios.
13:44 not the star rail trashcan 🤣🤣
2:45 Daw is the most baffling character design ever 😂😂😂
Bro looks like a tank/defence character but plays like a healer. I know design ideas aren't a strict rule to follow but still
@0uttaS1TE, design philosophy is meant to be followed or broken on a case by case basis. Doesn’t take industry experience or professional guidance to understand that.
The artists at firewalk clearly have no artistic intuition and I’m beyond glad concord failed, otherwise the standards for quality would’ve been obliterated.
Ain't no way bro is running around on a battlefield without a hydration break and an insulin shot every 3 minutes
Honestly, Daw gave me a winter sports feeling when I first saw him with the blue coat and goggles. That led me to believe he was probably like Mei, having ice weapons and building ice walls. I would never have guessed that he was the Medic with a splash of Engineer.
It's like they took the fat character that is usually friend of the skinny protagonist and made him the main character.
7:00 the randomize option in most games delivers better results than their hand crafted "ideas"
Big Boss making a new upload is the only reason why I'm thankful that Concord exists
If Sony was smart, they could make a self deprecating movie about Concord.
I completely ignored everything about this game up until multiple "what happened to Concord" videos started popping out in the last few weeks and I must say that watching these and learning all the context has been a wild ride.
'Firewalk Studios' became 'Fired, walk away from my studio'.