Concord Cancelled

[Elttharion]

Sony is killing Concord already lmao

Therefore, at this time, we have decided to take the game offline beginning September 6, 2024, and explore options, including those that will better reach our players.

While we determine the best path ahead, Concord sales will cease immediately and we will begin to offer a full refund for all gamers who have purchased the game for PS5 or PC. If you purchased the game for PlayStation 5 from the PlayStation Store or PlayStation Direct, a refund will be issued back to your original payment method.

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[tommy heavenly6]

Sony is killing Concord already lmao

Therefore, at this time, we have decided to take the game offline beginning September 6, 2024, and explore options, including those that will better reach our players.

While we determine the best path ahead, Concord sales will cease immediately and we will begin to offer a full refund for all gamers who have purchased the game for PS5 or PC. If you purchased the game for PlayStation 5 from the PlayStation Store or PlayStation Direct, a refund will be issued back to your original payment method.

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Biggest flop ever?

 

[Alienman]

Lol, for the few that actually enjoy it, they got to play the game for a whole week. Fastest live service game death ever.

 

[Reinhardt]

i like this new trend of "number of developers > number of players"

 

[ropetight]

Sony is killing Concord already lmao

Therefore, at this time, we have decided to take the game offline beginning September 6, 2024, and explore options, including those that will better reach our players.

While we determine the best path ahead, Concord sales will cease immediately and we will begin to offer a full refund for all gamers who have purchased the game for PS5 or PC. If you purchased the game for PlayStation 5 from the PlayStation Store or PlayStation Direct, a refund will be issued back to your original payment method.

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Concord will probably switch to the free-to-play.
It will be interesting to see how much Sony can salvage from this trainwreck.

 

[Elttharion]

Sony is killing Concord already lmao

Therefore, at this time, we have decided to take the game offline beginning September 6, 2024, and explore options, including those that will better reach our players.

While we determine the best path ahead, Concord sales will cease immediately and we will begin to offer a full refund for all gamers who have purchased the game for PS5 or PC. If you purchased the game for PlayStation 5 from the PlayStation Store or PlayStation Direct, a refund will be issued back to your original payment method.

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Biggest flop ever?

Arguably yes, the 80's E.T. game is the only one that can maybe compete with this

 

[markec]

 

[babayaga]

I mean, homm 3 was cool and all, but it’s a dated game with dated, simplified mechanics. Copying it just for the sake of being a spiritual successor is just lame. Who’d want to do the same shit but with modern ugly visuals is beyond me.

let us enjoy our old classics, bi*c* libt*$! *uc$! there's plenty of modern games for you to f**ck off and play:

Concord is no longer on steam LMAO
They took it down just now lol

 

[Dr1f7]

Concord is no longer on steam LMAO
They took it down just now lol

https://blog.playstation.com/2024/09/03/an-important-update-on-concord/

Therefore, at this time, we have decided to take the game offline beginning September 6, 2024, and explore options, including those that will better reach our players.

LMAO

guess Hydro won't have any games to play now

 

[Nirvash]

Sony is killing Concord already lmao

Therefore, at this time, we have decided to take the game offline beginning September 6, 2024, and explore options, including those that will better reach our players.

While we determine the best path ahead, Concord sales will cease immediately and we will begin to offer a full refund for all gamers who have purchased the game for PS5 or PC. If you purchased the game for PlayStation 5 from the PlayStation Store or PlayStation Direct, a refund will be issued back to your original payment method.

Source

Concord will probably switch to the free-to-play.
It will be interesting to see how much Sony can salvage from this trainwreck.

How do you even free play this?

This game gimmick is about swapping the heroes you play for upgrades, so you can't paywall them.
And the characters are so ugly, and the costumes/skins so shit, good luck at monetizing that.

 

[Cyberarmy]

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/s...-offline-after-just-over-a-week/1100-6526235/


Good riddance

 

[ind33d]

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/s...-offline-after-just-over-a-week/1100-6526235/


Good riddance

these fucking motherfuckers wasted millions of dollars on concord instead of porting Destiny 1 to PC AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

 

[ERYFKRAD]

these fucking motherfuckers wasted millions of dollars on concord instead of porting Destiny 1 to PC

So they deserved it. Plus now they got to refund both the guys who bought it.

 

[Tyranicon]

Concord is such an unmitigated disaster people actually have to ask themselves if it's the biggest in the industry. Going so far back as the gaming crash of '83 lol.

Holy

 

[ferratilis]

Does anyone know what Concord's exact budget was? I've read articles with wildly different figures,ranging from 50 to 250 million.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Does anyone know what Concord's exact budget was? I've read articles with wildly different figures,ranging from 50 to 250 million.

300 m is my reckoning, can't remember my source though.

 

[Peachcurl]

I doubt it's below 100 million, but there's no official numbers available.

 

[Nirvash]

Does anyone know what Concord's exact budget was? I've read articles with wildly different figures,ranging from 50 to 250 million.

So...

They acquired the sotware house for this.
8 years dev, but "only" 3 under sony.
100+ devs, game is realistic and detailed.
Extensive quality cg trailers and videos.
Game servers.
Dropped the ball on actual marketing but they paid some big streamers.
Whole cg episode from the netflix thing.
Some sweet baby associates bribes?

Yeah, my bet is 200m or more.

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

Sony is killing Concord already lmao

Therefore, at this time, we have decided to take the game offline beginning September 6, 2024, and explore options, including those that will better reach our players.

While we determine the best path ahead, Concord sales will cease immediately and we will begin to offer a full refund for all gamers who have purchased the game for PS5 or PC. If you purchased the game for PlayStation 5 from the PlayStation Store or PlayStation Direct, a refund will be issued back to your original payment method.

Source

Concord will probably switch to the free-to-play.
It will be interesting to see how much Sony can salvage from this trainwreck.

How do you even free play this?

This game gimmick is about swapping the heroes you play for upgrades, so you can't paywall them.
And the characters are so ugly, and the costumes/skins so shit, good luck at monetizing that.

You could still paywall the characters.

That said, it’s not going F2P unless it also becomes a completely different game. And becoming a completely different game would cost even more money, and I doubt Sony is looking to dump even more time and money into Concord. I’m almost surprised they even released the game, Concord had a free open beta period and nobody showed up, their peak numbers were only 2,363 people for a free game and they still thought people would pay money for it. Concord wouldn’t even be able to sustain itself as a free game if their player numbers were anything like the open beta.

 

[Elttharion]

Does anyone know what Concord's exact budget was? I've read articles with wildly different figures,ranging from 50 to 250 million.

No but IIRC napkin math put it at around 100 million for dev costs + what Sony paid for the studio + marketing. They only bought the studio in 2023 so Sony probably only footed a part of the development budget, not sure if they had invested in the studio before the acquisition.

200 million bucks would be a reasonable ammount when you consider the acquisition cost but Sony will prbably fudge the numbers there to not include that number in the budget.

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

Does anyone know what Concord's exact budget was? I've read articles with wildly different figures,ranging from 50 to 250 million.

So...

They acquired the sotware house for this.
8 years dev, but "only" 3 under sony.
100+ devs, game is realistic and detailed.
Extensive quality cg trailers and videos.
Game servers.
Dropped the ball on actual marketing but they paid some big streamers.
Whole cg episode from the netflix thing.
Some sweet baby associates bribes?

Yeah, my bet is 200m or more.

The character model are pretty realistic in cutscenes I’ve seen. But the in-game detail... every video I’ve seen of Concord gameplay looks like a game that wasn’t meant to be viewed in first person.

 

[Elttharion]

 

[Average Manatee]

Someone looked at this shipwreck and thought "I could do better"

 

[Caim]

i like this new trend of "number of developers > number of players"

Single dev studios on suicide watch.

 

[rumSaint]

Well who might have thought...
https://blog.playstation.com/2024/09/03/an-important-update-on-concord/