'Concord' makes their final pitch...

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Concord is a sci-fi player-versus-player hero shooter video game played from a first-person perspective. The game features a variety of alien characters, each with different abilities such as robot legs for high jumps and diamond skin for enhanced damage absorption. One of the groups within the game is known as the Freegunners, who are mercenaries. Some of the game mechanics include special equipment like healing pads and trip mines, which persist not only between deaths but also across rounds.

Five playable characters unveiled are: Vale, Haymar, Star Child, Lennox, and the robot 1-Off. At launch, the game will feature 16 characters. The game will also have free post-launch updates that will add more characters, maps, vignettes, and more. Every week, the game will feature new vignettes that will show what Concord‘s characters are up to outside of gameplay in the Concord galaxy. The vignettes will tell an ongoing story, with characters receiving their own narrative arcs.
~ Wikipedia
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[philfedora]

>Mid shooter
>Ugly Characters
>$40 cost
>Microtransactions

Adding cosmetics for ugly characters is basically just shining a turd.

[Torp-N-Only]

I have never seen more sauceless character designs in a game before. It's like they looked at a 5/10 sci-fi movie with mediocre CGI characters and said "yeah, that's it!"

[tehbeernerd]

Saying this is a dead game implies it was alive in the first place. Congrats, Sony, you’ve made the first stillborn live service.

[Jcrow]

I love that changing the colors of your characters armor used to be free. And now in this game to change the shaders it is 10-20 bucks... PER What a wild time to be alive

[KaoruMzk]

The devs saw Suicide Squad's cosmetics and said "I can do worse".

[coltonwilkie]

If Sony is so hell bent on live service games, here's a few ideas for them.

- Bring back Killzone
- Bring back Twisted Metal
- Do another PlayStation All-Star Battle Royale game
- Put Last of Us Standalone Factions back into development
- Tell Arrowhead to get their heads out of their behinds so Helldivers stops nose diving into the ground

5 options, all 5 are infinitely more profitable than Concord.

[Jbonesaa]

Paying extra to play early is wild, won’t even be enough people to fill a lobby

[trolltollz]

The funniest part is that Sony saw this and said, we gotta have this studio 😂

[NDenizen]

This game is such a mystery. There have been plenty of almost identical looking flops in the same genre spanning the last 3-4 years, more than enough time to pivot away into some kind of new niche or at least a unique visual style. The publisher and devs all saw Lawbreakers, Hyenas and Allstars Destruction all fail. Instead this game has apparently stuck to its guns the whole way. They think it has a chance, I just don't get it.

Sony too have decided that with all the revenue generated from their now well-established niche of high fidelity, polished single-player games, they would invest that into a multitude of failed live services games. They established a speciality they're known for, then immediately chased for the market shared already competed for (and dominated by) 100 other companies. It's madness.

[kalicula]

Fun fact: "Hope" rhymes with "cope" which is what Sony will be doing once this hard flops.

[ghkevilhd]

Why are we still saying "free updates" like its a Feature and something we should be glad about? Free Updates (modes, characters and weapons) to multiplayer titles have been Standart for over 8 years now

[ragingfurball]

Bollywood Guardians of the Galaxy! Hahahaha. That's the most perfect description I've heard for this game.

[Tyrannosaur]

Is the “Next-Gen” of gaming in the room with us?

[ebickachow]

concord is like that one friend that keeps referencing a joke from years ago, and it got old really fast but you still feel bad bc his delivery is on point

[Monique-izlp]

The fact that's Valve's unannouced hero shooter has 10x more players than Concord's beta peak kinda says it all.

[bryandedon]

Most of those cosmetics are straight color swaps of their normal outfit. Who the hell would pay for that?

[MKB]

It feels like a game of poker between gamers and companies they always think we are bluffing, but we never are.

[StateBlaze]

Coming back to these videos well after everything has been dead and buried, I am still surprised by how much content they thought they would put out for this game and that roadmap.

[Juan-GC]

Companies will make dogshit games with pretty decent monetization practices, but dogshit cosmetics. Then blame the monetization strategy for the downfall of the game, only to go back to predatory tactics.

[lDarkSlayerl]

Concord is a game tailored for the Modern Audience, and now we see that the fabled Modern Audience is about...2000 people. Big crowd... very lucrative market.