Concord is a Colossal Failure - It's Worse Than You Think

Concord from Firewalk Studios has been released and it is a failure. The game simply does not have a lot of players and that usually spells disaster for something that spent 8 years in development. The Concord game stream charts are lower than titles like Gollum, Suicide Squad, or even older games like where Half-Life Alyx sits today and Alyx requires a VR headset to play.

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[DestinL]

Why do you think Concord did not find an audience? Let me know!

[MUSIKO]

150 Million on concord but cancel Days Gone 2 smh

[daviddesrosiers]

No way I'd claim Concord on my resume. No shot. I'd claim to have worked on Gollum first.

[J.A.Z-TheMortal]

Sony could have revived:

-Killzone
-Resistance
-SOCOM
-Infamous
-Bloodborne

But since under Jim Ryan all the want is generic mainstream games, they said "Let's make a game that looks like Guardians of the galaxy and plays like Overwatch, and call it a day! Yes that should sell a lot! 🤑"

[daviddesrosiers]

Tumblr in 2016 is the target audience for Concord.

[matthewhardwick]

What baffles me is that Sony have a dedicated The Last Of Us Factions fanbase. And they cancelled it in favour of Concord? That's not right at all.

[TamalesDeRajas]

It’s funny how IGN or Gamespot or most big media outlets haven’t wrote any articles of this catastrophic failure but they all wrote like 100 articles about Redfall which had 10x more players and about how they gave Starfield a 7/10 for weeks lol

[David-dvov]

I think people are much harsher on this game because they really want Sony to get the message that they don’t care about generic live service games

[Zagor]

What do you mean who is it made for? The "modern audience" of course, all 700 of them. xD

[yahyano]

They fired everyone who said no

Only yes employees are promoted in the industry now

There is a big industry developer culture problem, & no one wants to talk about it

[seank]

7:22 “Who played this game and said ‘yeah, you should keep going?’”

Bungie did. They are the worst investment Sony has made this generation.

[Cyael]

You needing to say it's not woke fascinates me. I'll dedicate myself to emphasizing the player sentiment that the designs killed this game since you're vehement in downplaying what AT A GLANCE - Harmed the game they removed the LGBT tag from. Good luck, Destin.

[BlueMuros]

I dont think the right question is " did it flop because it's woke " or " did it flop because its a terrible game", the answer is, its a perfect mixed bag of both. There's also reason to believe that all the focus on demanded DEI practices is muddying the waters for proper artistic/ gameplay design choices and steers focus away from what really matters, making a game we want. The focus becomes solely inclusivity and ticking the DEI checkboxes, making the proper game we want comes last.

[Gogomonkey]

What makaes the playercount comparison with Redfall more devastating for Concord is that the game is on Game Pass, so a portion of the players didn't need to buy it on Steam, and even taking that into consideration, the game STILL had 10x more players than Concord on Steam alone

[blaster]

Still waiting for the IGN review of Concord. I can already see it: 8/10.

[jingtroc]

People were celebrating the failure of redfall. And before someone tries to say no they didn't, don't make yourself look ignorant and biased because it makes your opinion void in that case. Concord devs getting sympathy, yet unlike redfall devs the concord devs have even started attacking gamers, whereas Redfall devs said they are sorry and are working hard to fix the game🤷🏿‍♂️. Im not including Destin in this obviously as he didn't celebrate redfalls failing, but you know it was a thing at the time, they got nuked by the media and by the people

EDIT: and I've just seen ohnoitsalex upload a video exactly about what I posted here. It's hard to have sympathy for a group that charge you $8 to post a tweet and then attack you for fair criticism. Xbox tax is real.

[justsprx]

Publishers don't understand why certain games are popular. They also tend to be late in bringing their version of something out.

[jasonarnold]

2:15 is he serious? This game was made for the so-called modern audience that doesn’t exist. why won’t anyone call it out or what it is? A woke DEI infested shit show.

P.s. they canceled factions multiplayer, and the Spider-Man multiplayer for this shit.

[desprog]

Game dev here. I have friends in Firewalk and I feel really bad for them. But I was vocal that the game does not feel good when I played the beta though at that point it was too late to turn this around. I worked on Unreal Tournament 2004 at Epic and other fps games. Plus, I was an avid FPS player in my youth and a level designer before I went into art. Even played against some well-known pro players, but never went into tourneys but held my own against them. I gave it a shot and the game was just not good. Same thing it felt slow, and the mechanics are not well done or presented well. I feel terrible for friends who dedicated time on it. With that said though one thing I will say is the game was bug less, polished pretty well. And the art assets were good beyond art direction which is questionable. Animation was also very well done, but probably expensive. In the end while some may say they wasted 8 years or so. Some devs did wonderful work and they will find better jobs with a better studio culture. 8 years of dev time on a game that does not do well it is still great experience. Also imo also a great experience for devs to fail and understand it. I worked on Halo Infinite and while it is not akin to this in numbers of fail. I know it could have been way better and I have learned valuable lessons in life due to the making of that game. So, it is never a waste imo. Many devs are not in the position to change the trajectory of a train especially if the train lacks breaks. Some very stubborn people made this happen.

[ashaman]

I'm so disappointed the modern gaming audience didn't show up to support Concord. Very disappointed 😔.