Concord might become a cas d’ecole.
I want to see the post mortem on it.
Because the usual suspects of game failure are emphatically not present. Not production, not gameplay loop, not development management. All were apparently good, at least competent, certainly irrelevant to the failure. And I don’t think art design was that important to it, not for such a failure.
Only the core concept and executive decisions are.
It’s like it was created in a lab for future study. One of those experiment that smooth out the most variables possible.
Make something that after x years of development, it will actually sell decently and if it’s an online game, have the userbase to keep the game alive. I’m still scared for IO and that online RPG that they are working on. It’s not like these types of games are easy to attract a big number of players on release or if it does, don’t let the numbers fall too low afterwards.
I am all for that. I just doubt that higher-ups at Playstation currently have proven to be a source of good game ideas.
That was the studio’s first game and sure they can’t grow into a well-oiled factory of good games with such a start. I don’t expect they will come up with a good, new and liked idea. But those who made the decisions so far seemingly don’t even can come up with them.
The large companies are even more scared now with so many failures in the western AAA landscape, they might play a safe card and just work on established-franchise games when people want to play something fresh.
Yeah I doubt they can activate any Hitman players for that as it sounds like something wildly different to Hitman. Not that we are that many to begin with. Many studios claimed they grew too much after COVID and because of this have to cut jobs. I can’t help it but the company I saw growing really fast the last years is IO.
The signs were there since its reveal. This was a game that no one wanted because it came way too late in a genre oversaturated.
I once again reiterate that Sony had their massive Last of Us IP gunning for a Live Service title which for sure would have been more popular than Concord, and for whatever reason let the project sunset (good for Naughty Dog) instead of trying to get a different team to pick up where it ended.
Hundreds of millions of dollars down the drain
Here’s hoping Astro Bot sells like golden hot cakes on Friday, to really let it sink in to those executives what the people really want.
There is no postmortem necessary. You had to pay (in my country) sixty bucks for a game in a dead horse genre where every other game is either cheaper or free. That is why Concord is dead right now, it will be free on the PSN store before the year is out. Hell it might even have a larger user base if it did come out for free.
Nah Lawbringers was dead on arrival so the record is still basically a day. I can’t be the only one who remembers that game.
That’s alright. nobody else did either. More people have played Nexon’s last biggest game than LawBreakers. And Nexon’s last big game was fucking Dave the Diver
Honestly I just think it’s crazy that in one year (actually just around 6 months) playstation had two headline-making live service titles on opposite spectrums of public opinion.
Helldivers 2 that was SO POPULAR people couldn’t play for like a week at launch because the servers were overloaded.
And now Concord. A game that is SO UNPOPULAR they’re already shutting it down (for now at least)
I mean, it’s probably not just the unpopularity that is driving this. I bet they crunched a bunch of numbers on recent player counts, realized it’d be a while before their first “big update” that could bring in new players, and realized… yeah we’re not gonna be making enough money off this for the next few months (and the whales aren’t buying it seems either)
I don’t even play or am a fan of minecraft, so I don’t really care about this movie either way but…
I WANT TO KILL IT WITH FIRE
This is really gonna be a movie where a bunch of real people walk around a green screen set…? The animation in this looks pretty good, so… why couldn’t they go that one final step further and make the main “human” characters animated too???
My mind’s eye, the third eye flickers open and I see it as clear as day: 32 percent on Rotten Tomatoes’ critic score, 65 percent audience score and over a billion at the box office in terms of revenue.
Your nephews will quote this film like Star Wars for the rest of the year.
whales aren’t buying it seems either)