Sony's New Game Concord Is Now Offline After Just Over A Week

The new Anthem is holding up to its nickname.

While some idiot at Sony got the brainfart to make live service games for some of that Fortnite pie they forgot why people bought PlayStations: Astrobot, Gravity Daze, Uncharted, Little Big Planet, Demon's Souls, Gran Turismo, Motorstorm, Infamous, Wipeout, Ratchet & Clank, Ico, God of War..

They want variety, not your latest attempt at live service trash!

As I said before, it never felt like it was made for the average gamer, but for a small minority of (toxic) people who are trying to control what gaming should be.

Glad to see that someone sensible is pulling the plug in a reasonable amount of time instead of only whining about how it's anyone else's fault but their own...

Holy crap that was fast. But a good decision. Hope they learned their lesson this time and will stick to single player games.

Maybe more and more companies will realize that very few people are interested in this live-service nonsense. Fortnite is already enough for those who want to scratch that itch.

It all comes from all those dumb CEOs who saw a spark of interest in these products over the pandemic, thinking that this is the future of gaming.

The money that they’ve wasted on this one could’ve come in handy elsewhere.

With how messed up internally the devs are based on several reports and the simple fact the game is just a derivative product in a space crowded with also-rans this outcome is hardly surprising. Sony's insistence on preventing PC purchases in the 177 countries where PSN is unsupported also didn't help.

OH my, this is a historic failure. Hope the devs don't get the brunt of it

Hopefully this serves as a warning to others wanting to enter the multiplayer-only service game space. That space is filled with players who have already invested money and time into other games. Those games take up a lot of time, they want players to check in daily for new goals and rewards, and have more content coming to keep people engaged.

That means if you want to make a new game in this space, you have to pull people away from all of that not only love your game, but make them OK with missing out on something in another game.

If developing AAA big budget games is risky, then developing a AAA big budget service game is far riskier.

If you're still bent on making a service game, you need to start small and engage people organically, take feedback, and build from there until it grows into something that naturally pulls people away from other games. The more people you get interested, the more money the developer can invest in the game.

But this isn't something investors want big companies to do. They don't want to foster small petri dish projects that may or may not grow. Investors aren't interested in the long view 5 or 10 or 20 years down the line. Those types of long term investments are unfortunately gone. They are now only interested in the next quarter.

This is why bigger companies are trying to buy up smaller projects that are becoming successful instead of starting that themselves. It's why big publishers are shutting down studios but still buying other new ones.

Derivative hero shooter loaded with current year nonsense. Nothing of value lost.....except maybe for Sony, what a colossal failure of an investment.

The game industry can't get out of its own way lol. Time for a reset.

The fact that they were banking on this game to be successful just shows how out of touch Sony is nowadays. Some high-level firings are in order for a course-correction. They marketed Concord very aggressively, releasing a character trailer for every character. They made Concord their banner picture on their social media accounts. They made a Concord controller for PS5. They offered Stars points for pre-ordering and playing the game. I've never seen a video game being marketed so much only to be a spectacular failure on every level.

"While many qualities of the experience resonated with players..."

How delusional is this guy? No part of this game resonated with anyone, which is exactly why it flopped. The gameplay was ripped from other more successful hero shooters. The characters designs and vibe were ripped from Guardians of the Galaxy. It's a derivative product with cringe "modern sensibilities" that came at least five years too late. The 40 dollar price tag was just more insult to injury.

Dang, that was quick. They super missed the boat on hero shooters though, and with Overwatch being both well entrenched and free, Concord never really had a hook for what market is left in that space.

I'm sure the usual folks will want to blame "woke", but this game could have had all straight white dudes and sexy ladies as characters, and it wouldn't have changed the fact Concord is an unoriginal pay-to-play hero shooter coming out in 2024. It was never going to work out no matter what its "message" was.

I feel for the developers, must be an awful feeling. Putting this much effort into something for it to end like this.

At the same time, I like the signal this sends about what types of games Sony should focus on and not. There is nothing about Concord that appeals to me on any level. I'm glad the market agrees.

Ahahahaha what an incredible GWGB moment. Hahahahah. This is so funny.

Well, it happened. Took a little longer than I thought, but it happened.

Good lord, a week and 25K copies? This might be the biggest flop in modern gaming history.

Here's a tip: Change the title. "Concord" gives no hit whatsoever as to what the heck it is. Concord is also a sleepy town in Massachusetts that is associated with the American Revolution and 19th century authors, which is very much NOT what this game is.

Good riddance. We don't need more Team Fortress-like games. The market is absolutely saturated with them. Just stop it.