We need to talk about Concord.

Concord is Sony's latest award winning, universally beloved Live Service 5v5 Hero Shooter. Developer Jerrel Dulay shares his analysis of the situation as gamers respond to the overwhelming success of Concord and record breaking sales and user numbers.

[ProjectPhoenix]

This is the most professional “we’re tired of your shit” video I have ever seen.

[justacomment]

"The people pushing these concepts lack the maturity, self-awareness, and understanding to do it correctly, and instead are causing more damage to social progress, pushing social inclusivity back further and further. " SAY IT AGAIN

[Purrrjury]

Concord was so bad they brought out the men in black to shame it 😂

[mixamasl]

0:58 "As an adult, which it seems Firewalk Studios in a desperate need of"
Such first-minute roast with a stone face is something i'm not gonna forget.

[lukekinder]

This video has more concurrent views than Concord has players probably

[Gyldarts]

The dude in less than 7 minutes show more adult behavior and good advice than the entire game industry the ten last year

[cavejohnson]

Asking them to be adults is probably beyond their capabilities

[rdyin]

As a working professional in VFX industry and a gamer, I completely agree on this- The same dumpster fire in all the yards..!!

[Legend_yout]

😎: “I can’t afford to waste my time playing garbage”

[FireBomberBassist]

3:02 Not lying. I am a black woman and games like Concord and Dustborn make people roll their eyes now whenever a back female, or even male is the lead of something. They did a disservice to us with these stupid character designs and obnoxious personalities.

[josetomascamposrobledano]

Be afraid of a serious man.

As an economist, I’ll keep it simple. Their sales expectations and their target audience are vastly different numbers and this was a waste of many years of development and money.

[Drodz]

Damn bro was cooking with the script on this video. Well spoken and puts in the right words how devs are behaving these days with identity politics

[mtoffo]

"I can't afford to waste my time playing garbage" 😎

[drtyboy]

As a regular adult gamer, i approve this message.
99% of gamers don't care what race, gender or identity our game characters are. We want cool characters that are likeable, and are in a good, fun game. A game that doesn't preach at us, and where development staff won't insult us when the game doesn't sell.

[McCloud]

The last sentence in this whole video has me hollering laughing.

[xiphos]

Hello, game dev student here.

This is quite comforting to see. For the last 24 hours, my feed has been flooded with this IP and Dustborn. Hearing about backlash and hate from gamers and devs because of the hot topic of social inclusivity and diversity alike really shook me up a bit from my memorial weekend break from classes. You really helped me with checking facts and how to learn from not only awful PR from a studio, but also keeping myself as a gamer in check and not invest in torches, pitchforks, and the combination of Twitter/X and a online ego fedora.


I'll work as hard as i can to not only be a better developer, but would love to one day be on a team with somebody like you. Glad the algorithm gave me you, and improved my Youtube environment.

Thank you, i truly mean it.

[MisterNightfish]

Imagine being hired at Firewalk and your job is "Adult Consultant" and your job is basically just explaining basic human interactions to people that get panic attacks when their phone rings.

[Tuhar]

I love the no nonsense backhand that you offered Sony and the Concord devs. They do need an adult. Or teams of adults.
Stockholders should be raising torches and pitchforks.

[DragonReviews]

"Diversity CAN make a good game better but diversity WILL make a bad game worse." Best quote of the video.

[BillytheBolter]

Dude the "adult" offering advice on things our grandparents learnt in their teenage years would be a good bit to keep doing