8 years of development 100 million wasted 2 weeks shutdown A lifetime of shame in the gaming industry This is the longest and most expensive comedy skit I've ever seen.
They could've literally just pumped it all the money into the S&P500 and they would've almost doubled their investment... The woke-devs are so bad that they can't even compete with a stock.
People have been straight up telling Sony what games they want. e.g Bloodborne, yet they make shit like Concord just to shut it down after 2 weeks. Wild.
Sony can hold the L on this one. Shutting down internal studios to chase live service trends was an awful idea and this is the result of that decision.
not just simply chase lie service, chase after polittical propaganda and pushing ideology, and you could argue an extremist ideology even because these 'woke'' people are just as extremist as actual far right which they themselves dont know how they are because they call anyone who disagrees with them a far right fascist when they themselves and the ones they defend and praise are usually very close to or actual real fascists
@TraeBaldwin best idea for Sony to go under. If we want all this live service and political crap to stop. Then sometimes the best way to get a point across requires negative reinforcement.
Refunding the game isn't commendable, it would have been an absolute scam if they took the game down after 2 weeks and DIDN'T refund people, a refund is frankly completely warranted and morally neutral. Considering how little the game sold, it's not even like it costs Sony that much to refund it all anyway.
A few cinemas have done that though and actually made money simply from the meme. Like that meme that got guys to dress in suits to go see Minions. Concord has no memes besides how terrible it is
@@ShadowHosithe difference is that FF has an existing fanbase and people are willing to give it a chance. Concord came out of the gate as a very undesirable game and no one wanted it
I genuinely get angry knowing that studio japan got shutdown so shit like concord can happen. Almost 25 years of the best industry talent in Japan got let go so crap like concord can be made
this game literally lasted less time than the literal scam that was the day before concord: ~14 days, august 23-september 6 the day before: 45 days, december 7-january 22 literal world record numbers here guys
@@crimson-foxtwitch2581 i seriously thought of muv-luv immediately when i heard the news not 10 minutes ago. i guess nothing really can top muv-luv mobile yet, but this is impressive.
I always knew it was probably low. We just had no idea exactly how low. You do have a couple of metrics to see how bad it was. I checked last week before the weekend, 8.8k people rated it a 3 out of 5 on PSN. You have to buy it to rate it, so already that's not great. You can also look at the trophies and see the percentage completed for all owners of the game, they weren't pushing high numbers either. Like, I think there's a "win a match" trophy that was in the 80 percentile.
Just two hours before the Sony official update, the concord Twitter profile posted saying there are doing maintenance updates soon. So I don’t think even anyone in the studio knew what was going to happen.
They won't do a re-release. If so, I doubt they'd give a refund. Concord has been immortalized as that woke trash game that broke all the wrong records.
@@jellorelic You can't tell me that all the hard working artists, animators, programmers, and other production roles on the team that made Concord only went along with it because the suits told them to. No doubt some did, but it's more likely that a good chunk of the teams working on this live and breathe the ideals that dictated the creation of such a stupid, ugly product. These bland and gross characters were the baby of some artists who put their all into them. Unfortunately their best resulted in those abominations. The only good thing I've heard about this game is that the balance wasn't all that bad compared to similar games of the genre, so good on the balancing team for that.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a live service shut down this quickly, especially a AAA live service game. I don’t know if it’s impressive that they saw the writing on the wall and knew when to call it quits while issuing refunds, or if it’s sad that they didn’t course correct earlier.
I worked on that Amazon battle royale that died in 3 days but was maintained for another 4 months, Crucible. Thankfully here's an even worse release to dethrone us. What's with these shit-tier games having similar names?
Both. The fact they didn't course correct or listen to the mountain of criticism against this game from the initial reveal is astounding. Hopefully this is the bitch slap Sony needs to wake the fuck up though and stop this pandering horse shit once and for all.
Them addressing their post to "Concord fans" reminds me of when I used to work at a dollar store in a bad neighborhood and I'd regularly see tweaked out bums having full blown conversations in an empty aisle like there was someone else there. Delusional people talking to nobody.
> I'd regularly see tweaked out bums having full blown conversations in an empty aisle like there was someone else there That's actually fascinating. Someone should write a ghost story based on that.
I hated the character designs in Concord man, there wasn’t a single person that interested me. All you have to do is compare Overwatch to it and you’ll see the problem. Concord has a fat guy character named Dew. When Overwatch made Roadhog, they went all out with making his weight a strange and fun part of him, giving him a pig theme and a big rusty hook, and made one of his abilities guzzling a jug. When Concord made Dew, they made him fat and gave him a gun. That’s all they did. Theres nothing fun about the way he looks, they just made him fat because I assume they wanted to promote body positivity. And you realize when looking at more and more Concord characters that there was no artistic expression or creativity used in designing any of them, they’re almost all there to fill some sort of quota instead. Character designs cannot be interesting or exaggerated in a game where they’re focused on making sure people feel represented first and foremost. It leads to the most bland roster of average people who all dress and act marginally the same.
I once found a video on RUclips from a professional artist or character designer and what they did with the characters in this game just screams that people don't understand simple things like tone and contrast. In a sense it’s okay, if the characters were boring, but they were made by amateurs with a bunch of rookie mistakes. It's amazing for that kind of money.
-The world and characters are painfully generic, ripped right out of a knock off marvel movie -The gameplay is just another overwatch clone, and anywhere it even tried to innovate, it did so to poor results -The character designs are among some of the worst in AAA gaming history -The game advertised a deep story, but it was completely disconnected from the gameplay -The game advertised progressive politics, but it was incredibly surface level, like that time JK Rowling started saying that a bunch of Harry Potter character were gay, or a corporation changing their logo for pride month. Enough to push conservative audiences away, but done too poorly to pull in liberal audiences -The initial reveal trailer was incredibly misleading, as a CGI trailer for what looked to be a co-op PvE shooter -It was $40 dollars, when most of the competition is F2P How could this have been anything other than what it became?
@@resolutogamer4859 It's not gonna end with DEi consultation firms still existing. Start avoiding games they have anything to do with if you want to vote with your wallet. By games like black myth - dont buy games like concord. Simple.
@@resolutogamer4859 Having a political message and being "brainwashing" are very different things. Spec Ops is among the greatest narrative games of its time, yet it has a very clear and powerful political message. The Fallout series is riddled with political messaging. Both of them are pretty obviously left-leaning and no one is complaining. Don't confuse garbage writing and cynical pandering with truly politically engaged media.
@devcrom3 It can only be amusing to bear witness to a group of people walking around with their heads lodged firmly up their own posteriors if your head isn't equally preoccupied.
nah, theres 1250 owners on psn profiles alone and a very small percentag of players are registered on there PSNP only have 568,000 members So 1250 owners is pretty big, that certainly suggests to me 25k is accurate, maybe even a bit low
Unfortunately, the culture in these places is such that they actively don't want the "wrong sorts of people" liking their games/shows. They'd rather keep losing money than lose face by being that guy who makes games that some Trump supporters say nice things about. They cannot bring themselves to do anything else, so expect more of the same to come. It will require a whole new industry, built from the ground up, to solve this problem. We are not there yet.
I don’t think they refunding players out of the kindness of their hearts. I think they’re refunding players because the game is getting shut down so soon after lunch, it didn’t sell very many copies so the total amount of money they have to give back isn’t that high relatively speaking, and having to worry about legal implications of shutting something down so soon after lounging it in so many different countries just makes it more financially reasonable to refund everyone. 8:12
True, but this will also be their only way to salvage any sort of reputation they have. If they decided to just say so long and thanks for the fish, it would alienate even more of their audience than them running their mouth on X
@@MordecaiandMonroe Not really. The day before lasted 6 weeks, Concord lasted 2 and I'm sure I'll forget about it in the next week or so, specially because there's already a song I associate with Concord more.
Honestly the atrocious character designs killed any potential interest I had. Overwatch is sitting here with Disney-tier, iconic character designs and they're like "let's make some boring looking normie people and put some shoulder pads on them"
People underestimate good character design. Capcom did a ton of shit in the 2010s but their character designs are so good that somehow they still had fans.
In addition, where are all the white guys? I realise we are into this inclusion whilst excluding others, but when the vast majority of your player base in the biggest market in the world are white guys, you really should have more than one in the line up.
@@jackochainsawthe white dude I saw isn't even white. He's like alien-white. You mean the Starlord lookin dude right? He's definitely not white IMO. Wheres Christian Bale? Where's Joe Rogan? Where's Lex Friedman and Morgan Friedman and Milton Friedman?
@@jackochainsaw they tried to do a "gotcha! roles reversed" with making a single white guy and multiple black people, but they forgot they are doing a product that has to sell
Conservative gamers hate it because it panders to progressives, and progressive gamers also hate it because it panders to progressives; They should just stop trying to pander to me and focus on making the game stand on its own merits instead of prattling off about 'Diversity', 'Inclusivity', or 'Representation' if they're not going to go the extra mile to make those statements come off as anything more than platitudes.
this doesnt make sense. do you mean sony as a whole? cuz you're wildly wrong about that just the concord devs alone? this is their only game or do you mean multiplayer games by sony? cuz ppl wanted factions 2 and the spiderman 2 co-op
@@krack-a-lackerthey're referring to the mystical "modern audience" that wants identity politics shoved everywhere, which of course doesn't exist in numbers high enough to actually support anything
Let this be a lesson to Sony. Black Myth sold 10 million copies. Concord is shutting down after 2 weeks. Single player games are what Sony needs to focus on.
Not really, the lesson is not to develop shit games that no one asked for. You can see Valorant, Deadlock, etc. There's always space for GOOD games but if you just throw money to any generic idea with no soul, you are bound to fail from inception.
Sony needs to realise that quality single player games is what made them get to the top. Not love service games. They should just stick to that we all will be happy.
I'd say 'spent on hookers and blow' but it clearly got given to the art team and not the game dev team. Maybe, as suggested by others, a PvE planetary mission system could work for a relaunch. Better yet, could even get some old school UT99 style game modes in and up the pacing of the characters. Could be fun for some deathmatch
Watching this game fail was like watching a slow-moving train inch towards a nitro glycerine plant. Everyone got bored and left before even watching the explosion.
The "concord" game went the same way as the jet plane The dev statement reads as if the game has been online for over a decade with a long standing, loyal and humongous fanbase. The game has only been out for....what....like a few days?
I watched a video recently (I'm 80% sure it was a Luke Stephen's video) and bro said "concord probably has a year of being online before it's shut down" so it's funny hearing that and immediately hearing "never mind it's goin down next week"
Let this be a message to big publishers: We do not want corporate slop anymore. We can identify it, and if you give it to us again it will fail just as surely if not as spectacularly. The jig is up. Publish more games with actual heart behind them or don't publish anything at all.
Honestly, if they reuse the engine to create a campaign or something PvE related, that might incentive players to pick it up, they could at least make some of their money back instead of it being an absolute failure, who knows how long it would take but that’s the best move they could probably make if they want to keep the Concord name alive
It's not okay. It's more than okay. It's an amazing piece of news for gaming. Maybe now Sony will pull their fingers out of their asses, and start pumping this kind of money into good gaming projects, like, I don't know, an official Bloodborne remaster, maybe? Here's hoping.
I mean, looking at the bright side, they did sell 25,000 copies. For simplicity, let's just assume that's 100% profit, so that's a cool million dollars! And if you compare that against the development costs, which are... **checks notes** ...oh. OHHH. Okay. Yeah. I wonder what those conversations were like when they realized just how much of a disaster this was turning out to be. But, hey: at least that's a really nice tax write-off!
@@VlasimoEstacimo The whole thing like the video said, is just mind boggling like it's so retarted that we have to try and rationalise it with things like money laundering, which I actually hope it is. Cause if not and they developed this crap, whilst watching things like overwatch and valorant take off and still thought they could compete. Then idk what to say lmao.
It’s a good lesson for those calling the shots. Trend chasing never pays off. This game probably would have popped off if it was a co-op pve shooter. With a lot of gamers getting older a lot don’t have the time to put in to be a competitive gamer
I don’t think they’ll re-release this ever. The tweet just sounds like positive manager speak when in reality everyone is about to lose their job. The best they could do is salvage the assets of this game to make a different kind of game.
Yeah that PSN lockdown really is hurting development. I'm surprised that developers even make games for Sony with how limited the market is in their ecosystem.
Just maybe it's slowly dawning on people that ridiculously wealthy people aren't particularly smart. Not necessarily dumb, mind ya; they're just good at convincing other wealthy people to let them gamble with their money.
Nah, Sonic has the advantage of being a deeply beloved franchise so a redesign was enough to get people back on board. No one gives a shit about Concord.
To make a successful game that will last for generations, all you have to do is make a good game. Portal, Team Fortress, and Half Life are great examples. This should be common sense, but instead companies exploit us.
tbf, it's not enough to be good, you need to find an issue and improve it, it's how the biggest battle royales stuck around. Apex Legends improved inventory from Fornite, Warzone (also had cod base) improved UI and world interaction. I think some studios with insane budgets forget about the small things and go ambitous too soon because of said increased funding. Spider-Man 2 spent a good chunk of dev time an MMO concept, they were also working on destructible enviroments which were scrapped. Imagine if they decreased the scope and improved on the foundations, destruction would've been dope.
Warcraft III and AOE 2 still stand the test of time as some of the best RTS games ever, and have not been dethroned. Make a good game that's creative publishers. Stop throwing cash to make money. Make a good game, and you WILL make money.
No matter how bad the lead developer is, I’m sure there were some normal developers who put their sweat and long hours into this game. I kinda feel bad for them having to tell their families and friends that the big new game they were working on vanished into thin air.
@@Kromattdevs don’t decide how to make a game, blame the designers and studio heads who designed the house, not the workers who laid the bricks where told to
unfortunately what's likely to happen is sony will look at something like deadlock and go "see, you can have a lucrative live service game that's new" and just keep funding more of them
Is deadlock really that popular right now? I know valve pushed a bunch of new invites, i got one, but do people actually give a shit about it? Personally i only liked the character designs, but the gameplay i dont want at all.
@@gesi7072 The people who like the moba playstyle, really like it. It's not for everyone, which is exactly what every game should be. Catering to a specific niche.
@@gesi7072 yep it's very popular, especially for a game that has limited access and zero marketing. To give you an idea it has double the player count currently of overwatch
"Any Press, even Bad Press, is Good Press" surely wasn't helping Concord here. I had a wokey friend who coped by saying that on my Discord. Shame people actually think "Bad Attention" won't have any negative consequences. Like "Oh it'll have more eyes on it, so they'll get curious and play it!" Nah. We knew to avoid this dumpster fire.
Big difference between controversial press and bad press. Controversial press turns peoples' heads. On the other hand nobody in their right mind wanted to play concord lmao
Even the free beta had pretty abysmal engagement, so we already know what the F2P potential looks like. People just aren't interested in the game, period. There are certain aspects of Concord that look really well made, but if you can't pull the whole package together as a product that resonates with gamers it just does not matter if the graphics are great or the animations are well done, etc.
Like the video or I'll make you play Concord.
Please don’t Luke
Okay papa Luke please dont make us
NUH UH
Pronouns: Was/Were
God please no
I have fruit in my fridge that out lived Concord.
So, the typical housefly lives 15-30 days, this lasted 14 days... it literally didn't have the lifespan of a fly.
lol
Same its a cucumber
I have milk that lasted longer
ROFL. 😂😂😂
The game lasted two weeks. Sony practically paid $50 million per week.
So the players can't complain much, in that light. They paid about 25 cents per available opponent.
They spent $200-$300 million on Firewalk.
~100-150 million a week
And 50 players
@@4newestaccounNot to mention that they had to pay to develop the game itself after owning the studio.
@@M98747 they also had to pay to buy the studio.
8 years of development
100 million wasted
2 weeks shutdown
A lifetime of shame in the gaming industry
This is the longest and most expensive comedy skit I've ever seen.
Very funny also
200 million plus
I thought it was $250 Million
It will be retooled and re-released 100%
They could've literally just pumped it all the money into the S&P500 and they would've almost doubled their investment... The woke-devs are so bad that they can't even compete with a stock.
People have been straight up telling Sony what games they want. e.g Bloodborne, yet they make shit like Concord just to shut it down after 2 weeks. Wild.
Bloodborne is 10 years old and already on PC, Sony hasn’t cared for years lmao
@@fluffly8935 Yep, Bloodborne is a RETRO GAME now. Let that sink the hell in.
@@KopperNeoman When games as a medium actually develop mechanically in tech terms from Bloodborne, we can start calling it retro.
Sony can hold the L on this one. Shutting down internal studios to chase live service trends was an awful idea and this is the result of that decision.
the guy that was in charge, jim ryan, who people say is the reason for this insane live service push, stepped down from his position
Well said
@@Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0000no one wants Sony to go under. We just want them to focus up
not just simply chase lie service, chase after polittical propaganda and pushing ideology, and you could argue an extremist ideology even because these 'woke'' people are just as extremist as actual far right which they themselves dont know how they are because they call anyone who disagrees with them a far right fascist when they themselves and the ones they defend and praise are usually very close to or actual real fascists
@TraeBaldwin best idea for Sony to go under. If we want all this live service and political crap to stop. Then sometimes the best way to get a point across requires negative reinforcement.
Leading their announcement with "Concord fans" is certainly bold.
As long as there is more than one, they aren't lying 😂
"Are these 'Concord fans' in the room with us right now?"
I know! Never seen a headline to address specifically such a small demographic.
Concord fan*
They could have just sent out 90 emails and kept the embarrassment to a minimum.
That was faster than my middle school relationships
Timeline fits too. Didn't even last a month 😂
Well no, at least this actually happened.
💀😂
LMAO. Sick burn
Don't lie, you've never had a middle school relationship.
Refunding the game isn't commendable, it would have been an absolute scam if they took the game down after 2 weeks and DIDN'T refund people, a refund is frankly completely warranted and morally neutral. Considering how little the game sold, it's not even like it costs Sony that much to refund it all anyway.
Relaunching this game as free-to-play would be a lot like putting Morbius back in theaters.
It's Morbin time!
Relaunching can work, look at FFXIV 1.0 was a failure, they shut the game down remade it and 2.0 a realm reborn was a hit
A few cinemas have done that though and actually made money simply from the meme. Like that meme that got guys to dress in suits to go see Minions.
Concord has no memes besides how terrible it is
What do you mean, this game made 100 concordillion dollars
@@ShadowHosithe difference is that FF has an existing fanbase and people are willing to give it a chance. Concord came out of the gate as a very undesirable game and no one wanted it
Sony shutdown Japan Studio for this. Gravity Rush deserved better treatment.
They can make it up to us by shutting down Firewalk.
I genuinely get angry knowing that studio japan got shutdown so shit like concord can happen.
Almost 25 years of the best industry talent in Japan got let go so crap like concord can be made
Puppeteer deserved better, we lost Japan Studio and LocoRoco, Patapon, Gravity Rush and Puppeteer for this. I’m sooo sad. 😢
@@lenarmangum8630Patapon is the best! I still keep my psp to play it when I get the itch (and eng patch of 3)
@@lenarmangum8630maaaan I knoww, Patapon 3 was a banger and innovated a lot from 2, a Patapon 4 would go crazy hard nowadays ngl
this game literally lasted less time than the literal scam that was the day before
concord: ~14 days, august 23-september 6
the day before: 45 days, december 7-january 22
literal world record numbers here guys
“Literal”
Muv-Luv Alternative(mobile gacha game): 6 hours.
The culling 2 was fast
@@crimson-foxtwitch2581 yeah i remember seeing one that lasted like 3 days before eos
@@crimson-foxtwitch2581 i seriously thought of muv-luv immediately when i heard the news not 10 minutes ago.
i guess nothing really can top muv-luv mobile yet, but this is impressive.
ive have had a plate on my desk that i have been meaning to take downstairs for longer than concord was live.
this comment is the motivation i needed to take that plate to the sink thanks
Free to play won’t save this train wreck. The beta was free, and many people didn’t bother playing it. It’s pretty much done.
This
They need to change the character designs, or completely rehaul the entire roster.
The beta probably cost them 80% of their "box" sales. 4 out of 5 people logged in and thought, "Yep, it's as mediocre as I figured..."
@@medio7570 Gameplay was on point thou.
@@seanatkins4978no it wasn’t
"But the Playstation player count!"
Apparently so dangerously low, they had to shut down the whole thing.
peeps at resetera are even estimating that the PS playercount are like multitudes more than pc lol.
Its fine, xbox numbers will pick up the slac.
8 years in development and only lasted 8 days 💀
@@Benri05 I mean, multitudes of less than 700 is still nothing
I always knew it was probably low. We just had no idea exactly how low. You do have a couple of metrics to see how bad it was. I checked last week before the weekend, 8.8k people rated it a 3 out of 5 on PSN. You have to buy it to rate it, so already that's not great. You can also look at the trophies and see the percentage completed for all owners of the game, they weren't pushing high numbers either. Like, I think there's a "win a match" trophy that was in the 80 percentile.
Just two hours before the Sony official update, the concord Twitter profile posted saying there are doing maintenance updates soon. So I don’t think even anyone in the studio knew what was going to happen.
I mean, a shutdown is definitely an update.
Which is even funnier.
godDAMN
that makes it so much better
with those player numbers, even blind person would see that shutdown is gonna happen. yet alone people working with it
Love that this happened in sync with Wukong’s success. Couldn’t write it any better.
And the same day as the new Astro Boy game releases, which is faaaaaaaaarrrr more likely to be a success compared to Concord 💀
I think if they do relaunch it it’ll be a Morbius situation where it gets rereleased and STILL nobody gives a fuck.
Multiversus 😂😂
They won't do a re-release. If so, I doubt they'd give a refund. Concord has been immortalized as that woke trash game that broke all the wrong records.
Morbius was them too omg 😂
Sony can't be dumb enough to re-release this. It's dead.
And nothing of value was lost.
Not entirely true, something of value was gained. The money spent in this game will be refunded.
This
Many, many thousands hours of some clearly talented folks was lost to terrible decisions by those above them. And we never get time back.
Other than the many millions of dollars Sony spent making the game.
@@jellorelic You can't tell me that all the hard working artists, animators, programmers, and other production roles on the team that made Concord only went along with it because the suits told them to. No doubt some did, but it's more likely that a good chunk of the teams working on this live and breathe the ideals that dictated the creation of such a stupid, ugly product. These bland and gross characters were the baby of some artists who put their all into them. Unfortunately their best resulted in those abominations. The only good thing I've heard about this game is that the balance wasn't all that bad compared to similar games of the genre, so good on the balancing team for that.
THEYRE OUT OF TOUCH!
AND NOW OUT OF TIME!
THEY LOST THEIR HEADS
WHEN NO ONE WAS AROUND!!!
Lol... that fits perfectly.
Based
Doesn’t even rhyme. But I’ll take it.
WE'RE THE GAMERS
WE WALK AMONG YOU
YOUR TIME IS PAST
YOUR GAME WON'T LAST
ruclips.net/video/DCkJ5lGPqFs/видео.html
Why make an announcement? They could've just DM the players.
Daaaaaaaamn. Brutal. Hahaha
This is brutal 🤣
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a live service shut down this quickly, especially a AAA live service game. I don’t know if it’s impressive that they saw the writing on the wall and knew when to call it quits while issuing refunds, or if it’s sad that they didn’t course correct earlier.
calling it a AAA game is a strech
I worked on that Amazon battle royale that died in 3 days but was maintained for another 4 months, Crucible.
Thankfully here's an even worse release to dethrone us.
What's with these shit-tier games having similar names?
wasn't The Day Before a live service game? It didn't last 2 days iirc
Nothing beats the Day Before. Supposedly triple A.
Both. The fact they didn't course correct or listen to the mountain of criticism against this game from the initial reveal is astounding. Hopefully this is the bitch slap Sony needs to wake the fuck up though and stop this pandering horse shit once and for all.
Them addressing their post to "Concord fans" reminds me of when I used to work at a dollar store in a bad neighborhood and I'd regularly see tweaked out bums having full blown conversations in an empty aisle like there was someone else there. Delusional people talking to nobody.
they are saying like that because of PR. and thats it
🤣🤣🤣
It's like seeing an originals band with 3 people watching them up by the stage: "We'd like to thank Steve for coming out to see us, tooonite!"
@@bleyk_267 What PR? It is a dumpster on fire xD I'd be surprised if Sony didn't just fire EVERYBODY
> I'd regularly see tweaked out bums having full blown conversations in an empty aisle like there was someone else there
That's actually fascinating. Someone should write a ghost story based on that.
The Freegunners on the NorthStar died on their way back to their home planet
😂😂😂
I hated the character designs in Concord man, there wasn’t a single person that interested me. All you have to do is compare Overwatch to it and you’ll see the problem.
Concord has a fat guy character named Dew. When Overwatch made Roadhog, they went all out with making his weight a strange and fun part of him, giving him a pig theme and a big rusty hook, and made one of his abilities guzzling a jug.
When Concord made Dew, they made him fat and gave him a gun. That’s all they did. Theres nothing fun about the way he looks, they just made him fat because I assume they wanted to promote body positivity.
And you realize when looking at more and more Concord characters that there was no artistic expression or creativity used in designing any of them, they’re almost all there to fill some sort of quota instead. Character designs cannot be interesting or exaggerated in a game where they’re focused on making sure people feel represented first and foremost. It leads to the most bland roster of average people who all dress and act marginally the same.
I don't think Sony actually understands what the real "modern audience" is
I once found a video on RUclips from a professional artist or character designer and what they did with the characters in this game just screams that people don't understand simple things like tone and contrast. In a sense it’s okay, if the characters were boring, but they were made by amateurs with a bunch of rookie mistakes. It's amazing for that kind of money.
-The world and characters are painfully generic, ripped right out of a knock off marvel movie
-The gameplay is just another overwatch clone, and anywhere it even tried to innovate, it did so to poor results
-The character designs are among some of the worst in AAA gaming history
-The game advertised a deep story, but it was completely disconnected from the gameplay
-The game advertised progressive politics, but it was incredibly surface level, like that time JK Rowling started saying that a bunch of Harry Potter character were gay, or a corporation changing their logo for pride month. Enough to push conservative audiences away, but done too poorly to pull in liberal audiences
-The initial reveal trailer was incredibly misleading, as a CGI trailer for what looked to be a co-op PvE shooter
-It was $40 dollars, when most of the competition is F2P
How could this have been anything other than what it became?
also; the name of the game sucks and the color palette was taken straight from the department of waste management.
The name should have been, "Battle Royale: B Movie Cosplay".
Please God, let this era end, I just want to play a video game for fun, I don't want political brainwashing
@@resolutogamer4859 It's not gonna end with DEi consultation firms still existing. Start avoiding games they have anything to do with if you want to vote with your wallet. By games like black myth - dont buy games like concord. Simple.
@@resolutogamer4859 Having a political message and being "brainwashing" are very different things. Spec Ops is among the greatest narrative games of its time, yet it has a very clear and powerful political message. The Fallout series is riddled with political messaging. Both of them are pretty obviously left-leaning and no one is complaining.
Don't confuse garbage writing and cynical pandering with truly politically engaged media.
I saw a user from another post say, “The developers have changed their pronoun to was/were.” Damn.
Is that what passes for conservative comedy these days? Yikes.
Somebody get the devs a max revive. I don't think a burn heal will do the work. 😂
@@devcrom3it’s pretty funny. Lighten up
@@devcrom3pretty funny
@devcrom3 It can only be amusing to bear witness to a group of people walking around with their heads lodged firmly up their own posteriors if your head isn't equally preoccupied.
I dont believe the 25K copies sold thing. Going by the trophies, thats not even possible. Game probably sold like 4000 units.
Going by the trophies. What do you mean?
@@dripfoe_3307 player count estimation for players on PS5 by looking through thropies/achievments player has achieved
@@dripfoe_3307 there's an achievement to get 1 kill in game and it's nowhere near 25k
nah, theres 1250 owners on psn profiles alone and a very small percentag of players are registered on there
PSNP only have 568,000 members
So 1250 owners is pretty big, that certainly suggests to me 25k is accurate, maybe even a bit low
Yeah that bit of disinformation spread far and wide
Bet the industry STILL doesn't get the lesson here.
Acolyte cancelled, and now this … The world is healing.
People are sick of the woke agenda. I’m actually loving it
The cancer is still here sadly
Unfortunately, the culture in these places is such that they actively don't want the "wrong sorts of people" liking their games/shows. They'd rather keep losing money than lose face by being that guy who makes games that some Trump supporters say nice things about. They cannot bring themselves to do anything else, so expect more of the same to come. It will require a whole new industry, built from the ground up, to solve this problem. We are not there yet.
Not even close, but it's nice to see.
@JackBytez when you push pronouns and only have certain races in movies and games. That’s woke
But IGN said this game was a 7, how is this possible!?!?
7 wasnt a score, it was their prediction on how many days this live service would survive 😂
IGN stands for I Guess Not.
Its mid but it has nothing to offer, it looks like one of those fake games in movies its just has no soul nothing to hold on
IGN is on that agenda 😂 never trust them again
@@elektra8535 and the character in the movie is holding the controller without their fingers on the trigger buttons and spamming every other button.
If only someone could have predicted this? :D
That ain't a live service, that's a death service
Funeral service lmao
I don’t think they refunding players out of the kindness of their hearts. I think they’re refunding players because the game is getting shut down so soon after lunch, it didn’t sell very many copies so the total amount of money they have to give back isn’t that high relatively speaking, and having to worry about legal implications of shutting something down so soon after lounging it in so many different countries just makes it more financially reasonable to refund everyone. 8:12
True, but this will also be their only way to salvage any sort of reputation they have. If they decided to just say so long and thanks for the fish, it would alienate even more of their audience than them running their mouth on X
yea that's kind of how most companies work, they do what is legally required to do.
If they didn't refund, they'd get sued, and the PR from that would be worse than the game failing.
i hate it when my games get shut down after lunch
@@simulacrumdei6462ikr, should be after breakfast or dinner
0:34 Concord fan*
lol
Yeah lol
Bahahahahahha😂
its very funny.... because its true
About 30 people
i am surprised how quick Sony took this game behind the barn and finished the job.
Concord with the record breaking speedrun. Historic!
Day before still holds it
@@MordecaiandMonroe day before shut their servers down after a little over a month.
@@MordecaiandMonroe Not really. The day before lasted 6 weeks, Concord lasted 2 and I'm sure I'll forget about it in the next week or so, specially because there's already a song I associate with Concord more.
@@MordecaiandMonroe man you sure about that 😂
That record is still with Hyenas i assume, that was pulled before it could flop that hard and was basically finished
Honestly the atrocious character designs killed any potential interest I had. Overwatch is sitting here with Disney-tier, iconic character designs and they're like "let's make some boring looking normie people and put some shoulder pads on them"
If i want to see normie people, i can just go at nearby shopping
Mall
People underestimate good character design. Capcom did a ton of shit in the 2010s but their character designs are so good that somehow they still had fans.
In addition, where are all the white guys? I realise we are into this inclusion whilst excluding others, but when the vast majority of your player base in the biggest market in the world are white guys, you really should have more than one in the line up.
@@jackochainsawthe white dude I saw isn't even white. He's like alien-white. You mean the Starlord lookin dude right? He's definitely not white IMO.
Wheres Christian Bale? Where's Joe Rogan? Where's Lex Friedman and Morgan Friedman and Milton Friedman?
@@jackochainsaw they tried to do a "gotcha! roles reversed" with making a single white guy and multiple black people, but they forgot they are doing a product that has to sell
the last time a concord went down that fast the FAA had to investigate
Solid
The funniest part is, Sony likely won't learn one thing from this.
It's almost as if the audience they keep making games for doesn't exist
Exactly lol, like no one asked for this
Conservative gamers hate it because it panders to progressives, and progressive gamers also hate it because it panders to progressives; They should just stop trying to pander to me and focus on making the game stand on its own merits instead of prattling off about 'Diversity', 'Inclusivity', or 'Representation' if they're not going to go the extra mile to make those statements come off as anything more than platitudes.
this doesnt make sense. do you mean sony as a whole?
cuz you're wildly wrong about that
just the concord devs alone? this is their only game
or do you mean multiplayer games by sony?
cuz ppl wanted factions 2 and the spiderman 2 co-op
@@krack-a-lackerthey're referring to the mystical "modern audience" that wants identity politics shoved everywhere, which of course doesn't exist in numbers high enough to actually support anything
@@Supersonicspyro This audience exists only on Twitter, companies need to stop pandering to them
8 years in development and only lasted 8 days before being shut down. That's crazy.
At least The Day Before had more peaked players than Concord 🤣
Even Gollum had more players xD
@@elegathor4251true 😭
The Day Before servers lasted longer as well...
And people knew The Day Before was a scam lmao
Even Skull and Bones is still alive and kicking
Whoever made this game clearly doesn’t know what kind of game people want. 30 players on steam is embarrassing. I honestly feel bad for them.
Let this be a lesson to Sony. Black Myth sold 10 million copies. Concord is shutting down after 2 weeks. Single player games are what Sony needs to focus on.
Single player games censored by China, got it.
Not really, the lesson is not to develop shit games that no one asked for. You can see Valorant, Deadlock, etc. There's always space for GOOD games but if you just throw money to any generic idea with no soul, you are bound to fail from inception.
lol what, Sonys largest grossing game this year was Helldivers 2
@@jonasking9587as opposed to single player games censored by sweet baby inc? precious lol
@@jonasking9587 NPC
This and Dustborn failing is beyond hillarious.
Dustborn got free government cash for a low budget game, so those devs probably don't care.
Dustborn is something that 9gag would parody except it’s done unironically.
@@718HokageWhat happened to Rings of Power?
Redditors are having a meltdown over these games failing lol
Dei woke are too puzzy to fight for these games.
Sony needs to realise that quality single player games is what made them get to the top. Not love service games. They should just stick to that we all will be happy.
I knew this wasn’t gonna last long 😂 must suck for that one dev who had some choice things to say to people on twitter 👏🏼
Anyone asked for their input yet? 😅
@@termnus77 You can't lmao, they privated their profile
The only thing I'm supprised at is how quick they plug got pulled.
Man, he was on that good shit, too. I'd love to hear his thoughts now.
@@Nico78NotThat's a sign that they are clearly not well
200 million dollars
TWO HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS!!!!
Down the drain
I'd say 'spent on hookers and blow' but it clearly got given to the art team and not the game dev team.
Maybe, as suggested by others, a PvE planetary mission system could work for a relaunch. Better yet, could even get some old school UT99 style game modes in and up the pacing of the characters. Could be fun for some deathmatch
Everybody involved with this game needs to be let go. No competent business would look at this and think these people deserve more chances.
@@coltonwilkie241that is about the studio business advice I’ve heard this year. No wonder you still have to live with your parents.
just send me the money it'll save everyone's time XD
Watching this game fail was like watching a slow-moving train inch towards a nitro glycerine plant. Everyone got bored and left before even watching the explosion.
Good. There are way more people watching videos about Concord's downfall than people actually playing the game
The "concord" game went the same way as the jet plane
The dev statement reads as if the game has been online for over a decade with a long standing, loyal and humongous fanbase. The game has only been out for....what....like a few days?
Underrated comment
Don't forget the Costa Concordia: crashed and sank.
Don't disrespect the jet like this. It offered something genuinely new and useful for a while
@@CraigNull You got me. I apologise to all Jet fans. My comment was inappropriate
I bet that was (mostly) written before launch. A template to be filled in.
I watched a video recently (I'm 80% sure it was a Luke Stephen's video) and bro said "concord probably has a year of being online before it's shut down" so it's funny hearing that and immediately hearing "never mind it's goin down next week"
"Hasn't read the post yet"
Has literal graphs and articles and a tax report pulled up just because lol
Editing probably doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Who knows how much time is hidden in the cuts.
Dude luke is one one of the less genuine click bait farmers on youtube@@firstnamelastname4752
It’s officially Concover..
4:00 You know things are getting serious when Luke breaks out Paint
We got Concord shutting down before GTA 6
Jim Ryan really left before the ship sank
Yeah, right after planting time bomb
Pivoting the Playstation towards live service games was his idea
Let this be a message to big publishers: We do not want corporate slop anymore. We can identify it, and if you give it to us again it will fail just as surely if not as spectacularly. The jig is up. Publish more games with actual heart behind them or don't publish anything at all.
2:09 The Culling 2 also died STUPIDLY quickly (one week if I remember correctly) but I don’t blame anyone for not remembering it, for obvious reasons.
I believe that the culling 2 was already dead the next day. But it got shut down 8 days later
that was the one where you had limited games to play per day and had to buy tickets for extra games right? lmao
@@novarat4089 yes(one free per day)
People were struggling to get a lobby with more than 2 players hours after launch
The heck is the culling?
Holy shit HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS DOWN THE DRAIN 😂😂😂😂😂
they did say this game was not made for us 🤣
Oh how i wish i can see their Dei meltdowns at this news 😂
WHEEZING 😂
Honestly, if they reuse the engine to create a campaign or something PvE related, that might incentive players to pick it up, they could at least make some of their money back instead of it being an absolute failure, who knows how long it would take but that’s the best move they could probably make if they want to keep the Concord name alive
Do what Overwatch 2 promised. A single player story would make me curious. No interest in playing another hero shooter GAAS game.
Pretty much. They might be able to reuse the assets that way.
The problem is nobody cares or likes these characters and designs. I think even then it would fail
It’s UE 5… They would need to redo everything. The IP is worth nothing at this point.
@@TheLoneGamr Concord sure was a "gay ass and stupid" game fer sure
It's not bizarre... the "modern audience" showed up
It's not okay. It's more than okay. It's an amazing piece of news for gaming. Maybe now Sony will pull their fingers out of their asses, and start pumping this kind of money into good gaming projects, like, I don't know, an official Bloodborne remaster, maybe? Here's hoping.
I dunno mate, if fucking is addictive, then fucking the consumer probably is also. In other words, nothing will change. They won’t learn.
Or.. BIG COPIUM INHALE ------------ Days Gone 2. A man can hope.
@Im_dsr I think literally everyone even those who didn't like days gone would prefer that than anymore time or money going to concord
No they won't. Sony is full on woke.
We don't need prayer in school. We need the threat of having to play Concord.
Do your homework or you'll be playing Concord this weekend.
Santa is gonna come and put Concord in your stocking.
@@h0nkey4life06 😆
😂@@h0nkey4life06
Kids are gonna want Jesus to protect them from Concord.
Source: I do too, bloody hell
A little Schadenfreude never hurt anyone
you would have more elderly playing chess in a park than there are people playing this game, globally
Y'know what's crazy? The game was out for so little time that even RUclips even doesn't have an icon for the game.
The modern audience fails again to show up and support games made for them
Who TF ever is the "modern Audience" anyway 😑
@@RetroDudeX77right 😂😂
I mean, looking at the bright side, they did sell 25,000 copies. For simplicity, let's just assume that's 100% profit, so that's a cool million dollars! And if you compare that against the development costs, which are... **checks notes** ...oh. OHHH. Okay. Yeah. I wonder what those conversations were like when they realized just how much of a disaster this was turning out to be. But, hey: at least that's a really nice tax write-off!
All those copies will be refund
And I have a hottake that this is all but a money laundering scheme
They refunded the money to those who purchased it
@@VlasimoEstacimothat’s probably it lmao wouldn’t be surprised if
@@VlasimoEstacimo The whole thing like the video said, is just mind boggling like it's so retarted that we have to try and rationalise it with things like money laundering, which I actually hope it is. Cause if not and they developed this crap, whilst watching things like overwatch and valorant take off and still thought they could compete. Then idk what to say lmao.
The greatest thing from this is the happy little "ooo I'm getting a refund! :D" from Luke
Same lol 😂
It’s a good lesson for those calling the shots. Trend chasing never pays off. This game probably would have popped off if it was a co-op pve shooter. With a lot of gamers getting older a lot don’t have the time to put in to be a competitive gamer
Decades later, someone would find the buried copies of concord somewhere in a desert.
And unlike that other game, it'd take more than one little patch to turn it into a classic.
[TF2_classes_laughing_at_you.mp4]
I don’t think they’ll re-release this ever. The tweet just sounds like positive manager speak when in reality everyone is about to lose their job. The best they could do is salvage the assets of this game to make a different kind of game.
Well this is certainly gonna put a lot of studios off the idea of creating online service games, great news.
You see no comments because they closed all! You can't post one there or on Twitter.
It could have a chance if it was not $40 and released to the remaining 117 countries.
Psn is more important
Marketing was bad. Should have stated everything could be earned in game for $40. No lootbox, store with micro transactions and battle pass
PSN is in every major market. Concord wasn't going to succeed because someone from Ethiopia didn't get to play.
@@e3vL1Design was bad. Game was DOA. They forgot the main demographic for all shooters are men from age 10-40
Yeah that PSN lockdown really is hurting development. I'm surprised that developers even make games for Sony with how limited the market is in their ecosystem.
200-250 millions on development + Cost of acquiring Firewalk Studios just for this dumpster fire. What were Sony executives smoking
Just maybe it's slowly dawning on people that ridiculously wealthy people aren't particularly smart. Not necessarily dumb, mind ya; they're just good at convincing other wealthy people to let them gamble with their money.
The bad shit 😂 very very bad trip they went on lmao
This alleged game is the 21st century's version of Atari's ET.
DEI stands for death, extinction and ireelevance.
What if they pull a Sonic movie, and redesign the characters? That'd be pretty wild.
Yeah except I think you're going to need an entire new team of artists and that's going to take time to put together and how much more do you spend?
You mean remove the fatasses and the ones with colored hairs?
Like they'd be willing to make their modern audience characters less ugly.
Nah, Sonic has the advantage of being a deeply beloved franchise so a redesign was enough to get people back on board. No one gives a shit about Concord.
Puting the game offline and refunding everyone for character redesigns, it's not likely
The development time for Concord was 206 times as long as the two weeks it was alive.
The monetary problems can easily be fixed via a break in case of emergency glass in the shape of bloodborne.
How many lives are these companies going to ruin before they wake up and realize no one cares about live service games
All of them
It's not about being a live service game, it's about being a woke game with ugly characters in it.
Too many!!
Live Service games aren’t the problem. Bad live service games are.
Tell that to marvel rivals, Helldivers 2 and first descendent
where is the "modern" audiance that they appael them so much
On twitter yelling about bigots, trump, and HUwhite people.
@@zibix4562😂😂
there is..they just dont play games
@zibix4562 so, russian bots?
@@JimmyConway-tm3ojThey just don’t have fun. What they call “fun” is the same feeling that others would call “catharsis”.
The Day Before, a genuine pump and dump scam, lasted longer than Concord
Sony takes another L.
7:44 you forgot to mention horrible character design, that is definitely one of the most important reasons
2 weeks, 2 *WEEKS*. That's not the lifespan for a game, that's a long fever
bro I actually am down with a heavy fever since sunday. Lets see if my fever outlasts the shutdown on sep. 6 lmao bro
To make a successful game that will last for generations, all you have to do is make a good game. Portal, Team Fortress, and Half Life are great examples.
This should be common sense, but instead companies exploit us.
tbf, it's not enough to be good, you need to find an issue and improve it, it's how the biggest battle royales stuck around. Apex Legends improved inventory from Fornite, Warzone (also had cod base) improved UI and world interaction.
I think some studios with insane budgets forget about the small things and go ambitous too soon because of said increased funding.
Spider-Man 2 spent a good chunk of dev time an MMO concept, they were also working on destructible enviroments which were scrapped.
Imagine if they decreased the scope and improved on the foundations, destruction would've been dope.
Good point, Half Life or Portal only have 2 games, but have a legacy. People are still willing waiting on the third games from these franchises.
Just look at how many people still play Skyrim.
Warcraft III and AOE 2 still stand the test of time as some of the best RTS games ever, and have not been dethroned. Make a good game that's creative publishers. Stop throwing cash to make money. Make a good game, and you WILL make money.
@@Tougebeat Crystal Chronicles is remembered as "that one cool multiplayer Final Fantasy with the GBAs and the crap remaster".
No matter how bad the lead developer is, I’m sure there were some normal developers who put their sweat and long hours into this game. I kinda feel bad for them having to tell their families and friends that the big new game they were working on vanished into thin air.
It is going to be hard to tell their families, that " I've been laid off " because our game was shit.
@@Kromattdevs don’t decide how to make a game, blame the designers and studio heads who designed the house, not the workers who laid the bricks where told to
Don't worry, those people call you "talentless hack".
stop sympathizing with game devs. they all hate you. the ones who don't quit or got fired years ago.
@@hassathunter2464it was one ex dev...
Wukong 🥂 Eve(Stellar Blade)
Sony breaking records, just not the good kind...
I can't even look at my old Sony Walkman the same after this game.
Its hilarious how IGN's 7/10 review was entirely based on it being a live-service, and how it will be better in the future
Rip concord noone will miss
Duke nukem frachise but it dies instantly
The modern audience has spoken.
unfortunately what's likely to happen is sony will look at something like deadlock and go "see, you can have a lucrative live service game that's new" and just keep funding more of them
Is deadlock really that popular right now? I know valve pushed a bunch of new invites, i got one, but do people actually give a shit about it?
Personally i only liked the character designs, but the gameplay i dont want at all.
@@gesi7072 The people who like the moba playstyle, really like it. It's not for everyone, which is exactly what every game should be. Catering to a specific niche.
@@gesi7072 yep it's very popular, especially for a game that has limited access and zero marketing. To give you an idea it has double the player count currently of overwatch
"Any Press, even Bad Press, is Good Press" surely wasn't helping Concord here. I had a wokey friend who coped by saying that on my Discord.
Shame people actually think "Bad Attention" won't have any negative consequences. Like "Oh it'll have more eyes on it, so they'll get curious and play it!" Nah. We knew to avoid this dumpster fire.
Big difference between controversial press and bad press. Controversial press turns peoples' heads. On the other hand nobody in their right mind wanted to play concord lmao
Even the free beta had pretty abysmal engagement, so we already know what the F2P potential looks like. People just aren't interested in the game, period. There are certain aspects of Concord that look really well made, but if you can't pull the whole package together as a product that resonates with gamers it just does not matter if the graphics are great or the animations are well done, etc.