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Concord bombs on Steam with less than 1k players on launch day
- Thread starter Dr. Samuel Hayden
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N30RYU
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PeteBull
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use this direct link https://steamdb.info/app/2443720/charts/#1w 39ccu atm ;p
s_mirage
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This is the second time in two days I've ran into someone like this. The other guy claimed to be a senior vfx artist, yet the only company I could see where he claimed to have held that role was his own. Where he appeared to be the only employee.
He wasn't talking about Concord though.
struggler_guts
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37 now
CityHunter1981
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37 now. Just wow.
Zuzu
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It’s amazing that Sony chose to buy this studio when it hadn’t proven that it could make a good game. Maybe they believed so much in the game’s potential that they reasoned that it would be best to buy the studio for cheaper before the game came out. If that’s the case then they have seriously dropped the ball regarding their ability to pick games which are likely to be a success. They basically picked the equivalent of a No 1 pick NBA draft bust. In hindsight they should have just signed a 3rd party exclusivity deal with Firewalk instead of going all in and purchasing them.
I think Fairgames will fail as well. I think its trailer looks even worse than Concord’s reveal did. And Haven is also a new studio and is unproven. Yes, they have experienced developers but that doesn’t mean that the studio as whole will work well together. So Sony is doing the same thing again with them.
If I was Sony I would cancel Fairgames and make Haven a support studio for the Marathon game. I would then change the focus of Marathon to be primarily a single player game but with a multiplayer component and have Haven support Bungie in developing the multiplayer. I think this would restore a lot of faith from the Sony fanbase back in Sony because they’d be refocusing their efforts on making a single player focussed game and Haven would get a chance to prove themselves if the multiplayer part of Marathon turns out good.
I think Fairgames will fail as well. I think its trailer looks even worse than Concord’s reveal did. And Haven is also a new studio and is unproven. Yes, they have experienced developers but that doesn’t mean that the studio as whole will work well together. So Sony is doing the same thing again with them.
If I was Sony I would cancel Fairgames and make Haven a support studio for the Marathon game. I would then change the focus of Marathon to be primarily a single player game but with a multiplayer component and have Haven support Bungie in developing the multiplayer. I think this would restore a lot of faith from the Sony fanbase back in Sony because they’d be refocusing their efforts on making a single player focussed game and Haven would get a chance to prove themselves if the multiplayer part of Marathon turns out good.
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Warspite
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I wonder if its just the devs playing it now?
ChuckeRearmed
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"I can go lower"37 now
CityHunter1981
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But feeling sorry for the people in the team who didn’t made the decisions. They are probably already checking for new jobs. A studio in the current situation that develops such a flop is on death row. Just a matter of time until the hard truth arrives by email and they know it.
Herbspiceguy
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The credentials look decent on paper:
I can imagine such a team would give Sony management a feeling of 'they know what they're doing, these guys are industry vets, let them cook'.
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Jinzo Prime
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Yeah, but at some point the head of publishing at Sony should have looked at Concord and realized that the team was moving far away from what the market wanted. More than just the dev team is at fault for a flop this huge.
Robb
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Angry_Megalodon
Banned
IMO those are anti-credentials. People expelled from other companies that had been slowly turning into shit.
Firewalk feels like a well-planned scam made by freaks whose only talent was to find someone fooler than them.
Cakeboxer
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Devs + Youtubers.
hinch7
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Buying Bungie for 3.6B without doing so much research was the red flag. Even Microsoft did theirs and passed.
In all fairness, a lot of the big gaming companies were jumping on the live service bandwagon. Only to be holding the bag when finding out the customers are already satifisfied with the products they already own. They would have to create something really special and unique to stand out from the crowd. Not a copy-pasta hero shooter with awful characters and TEMU quality OW+GOTG clone.
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Tams
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Maybe it's 0 and Steam can't account for that?
Someone on resetera counted the number of posts from the twitter official account:
Scathing
- August 19th - 9
- August 20th - 12
- August 21st - 7
- August 22nd - 4
- August 23rd - 10 (launch day)
- August 24th - 12
- August 25th - 4
- August 26th - 0
- August 27th - 0
- August 28th - 0
- August 29th - 0
- August 30th - 0
- August 31st - 0
- September 1st - 0
- September 2nd - 0
Scathing
FewRope
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The studio it's so fucking dead
ViciousAgenda
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I guess they knew.
ThisIsMyDog
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Solo indie dev sold 3.6m units. If Concord had those numbers, Sony would be calling it a success.
Lunarorbit
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Ree has 93 pages on this topic. Most of the replies are in support of concord or trying to justify why it's doing so poorly.
93 pages?!? If 1 person bought concord for every page they have in the thread the user count on Steam would double.
It's just performative anger. NO ONE on ant side of gaming is playing this game.
93 pages?!? If 1 person bought concord for every page they have in the thread the user count on Steam would double.
It's just performative anger. NO ONE on ant side of gaming is playing this game.
Tams
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world. On one hand it's absolutely hilarious.On the other, so many resources are being wasted by so few.
Anyway, I just love that we have massive threads dumping on this rubbish, and all we have to do is not buy or use it.
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ManaByte
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Sony just sent out a survey update email to people who get their surveys.
If you specified you played PVP shooters, Concord is one of the options and if you specified you owned an Xbox they asked for your Xbox gamertag (Sony has NEVER asked for that before).
They're going to switch Concord over to F2P and put it on Xbox. Wait for it.
If you specified you played PVP shooters, Concord is one of the options and if you specified you owned an Xbox they asked for your Xbox gamertag (Sony has NEVER asked for that before).
They're going to switch Concord over to F2P and put it on Xbox. Wait for it.
hinch7
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Even if this game released as free to play, it would still fail. It is that unappealing and generic. It honestly looks like one of those fake games you see in the movies or TV shows.
One look at the characters and I don't even know who this is designed for. Other than the developers themselves.
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Holammer
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I mean, it's obviously the Titanfall 2 situation all over again, Concord was sent out to die when going up against Wukong.
I'm joking of course, but there's a delicious irony how Wukong still remains the global top selling game on Steam despite the negative campaigning against it.
That's interesting, maybe they are about to release some games for Xbox as part of a tit-for-tat deal. We know Sony works on one Switch game with Lego Horizon Adventures, so the idea is not far fetched.
Roman Empire
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Probably already fired the intern resposible for the news updates. I'm so curious about the most-portem stories for this game.
This is probably the biggest AAA trainwreck of a multiplayer. I don't think it is salvageable at this point tbh.
geary
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No
Not even 4 complete games. Jesus…IP bloqued... to many F5?
I can see them from my mobile network
winjer
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I find it funny how they never put their money, where their mouth is.
It's always other people that have to waste money watching or playing bad movies, games, tv shows.
The struggle is divided between everyone else and they get the benefits. It's called Communism.
Cyberpunkd
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45 now! Comeback begins NOW!
Pharaoh 117
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Concord right now:
CuckooBananaNuts
Banned
Tiago Rodrigues
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IP bloqued... to many F5?
I can see them from my mobile network
There's more people in some classes as we speak. How the hell did this happen. Holy shit.
And releasing this in other platforms isn't gonna help. If they release this on Xbox how much would it be? 5 players?
ljubomir
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geary
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A gamepass deal made at its time might have saved the project and recouped the investment…Maybe Gamepass release will save it
MLSabre
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If anything, the negative campaign has done the opposite of its intended purpose.
GymWolf
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CityHunter1981
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Even if they put it on gamepass, it cannot be saved. And I don’t think Sony is that stupid, it would need some time to port it and therefore cost more money and by the time it arrives, no one wants to try it out anymore. Sony knows how pointless that would be at this time. Honestly at this point the cheapest option for them could be to pull the plug immediately and refund the people who bought it.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
IP bloqued... to many F5?
I can see them from my mobile network
SIE employees in the west coast are starting to wake up.
Moridianae
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IP bloqued... to many F5?
I can see them from my mobile network
On a holiday. Yikes...gonna get worse as this week is Astro Bot and the *open* CoD beta...might even go to single digits by the beginning of next weekend. What a disaster..
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Is there possibility the studio is shut down?
Hush hush during launch week and everyone will find out this week from employees posting on Twitter and LinkedIn they are looking for a job?
