An important update on Concord

Concord will go Offline as of September 6, with refunds being issued to anyone who purchased the game.

[RaidenBlack]

"Concord will therefore be taken offline so Sony and developer Firewalk Studios can "explore options, including those that will better reach our players"."
~ likely exploring F2P routes
But the game died faster than Cliff Blezinski's LawBreakers

[ocelot07]

It didn't even last as long as Radical Heights they released after lawbreakers and that game got the studio shut down a month after release.

[fr0sty]

Sushi, do you even know what dei means? What part about this game was held back by that?

[helicoptergirl]

Well the majority of PS fans rejoice today. They should know we never asked for this. We ask for Bloodborne. We ask for Resistance. We ask for Warhawk. We didn't want this game

[Cacabunga]

Jim Ryan and Hulst should refund from their pockets.. they had broken gaas vision, forced many of their developers to embrace it..

I hope they go back to reason and can Sony Bend next gaas and give us Days Gone 2 with multiplayer elements it’s alright and it’s what gamers want

“ Concord fans — we’ve been listening closely to your feedback since the launch of Concord on PlayStation 5 and PC and want to thank everyone who has joined the journey aboard the Northstar. ”

Next time listen to gamers right after the first trailer.. you knew this was DOA but still insisted.. here you go

[VenomUK]

I saw a guy on Twitter a couple of days ago showing of his Concord platinum trophy and celebrating its rarity - that will likely be 1000x now! Unless Sony retracts the trophies - which i don’t think it needs to.

[OtterX]

What's actually amazing is that "The Concorde Fallacy" is an already existing term referring to Sunk Cost, when it has become apparent that businesses will never recoup their initial investment!

"Concord" was a friggin omen! 😯

https://www.forbes.com/site...

[attilayavuzer]

Don't know if I've ever seen a major game get unreleased before.

[IAMRealHooman]

debatable on scope, but Overkill's the Walking dead way back when, unreleased and console versions were cancelled.

[Obscure_Observer]

"Don't know if I've ever seen a major game get unreleased before."

Me neither. I can´t recall of such major flop in the freaking gaming history.

After the sad news today, I believe people at Bungie (Marathon´s director just got fired), Jade Raymond and her teammates at Haven Studio are scared to death right now.

[VenomUK]

Holy moly this got serious.

At least Sony is offering no-fuss refunds. Although I wonder if the game is so damaged that people will refuse to download it now even if it goes free to play. With hindsight, it may be that Sony will say that it should have reevaluated the business model straight after it gauged the reaction to the beta instead of charging ahead regardless. I also wonder if other publishers will learn lessons from this and Suicide Squad.

[Seraphim]

Fun fact, Final Fantasy XIV was pulled after release. Yoshida was appointed head & a new version of the game would launch later. Its not common but it's not unprecedented either that a big game gets pulled.

[DarXyde]

The Day Before is pretty close.

Game failed, and I'm sad for the developers because Firewalk is a good studio, but I'm hopeful for the lessons learned here. The game wasn't really hyped up with a big marketing campaign and that was perhaps for the best. We only really found out what gameplay was like a month and a half ago.

I can appreciate the very sharp pivot. Some flops are held together by duct tape and bubble gum and there's a refusal to pull the plug.

I'm hoping the studio survives—they were sent out to die, and that's not right.

[Information Minister]

I am old enough to remember Kakuto Chojin on the original Xbox. It was a first party game meant to showcase the power of the hardware. It reviewed poorly and was removed from stores a few months after release because of religious content.

[The Wood]

This should a stark warning to sony. Slow right down on service games and focus on what has propelled the ps brand to the levels above its direct competitor.

[derek]

@ The Wood, this is such nonsense thinking. Sony would be derelict in their responsibilities as a company to not try their hand at producing the type of games that make the most money by far on their platform. There is no such thing as garunteed success (even single-player games which can cost way more to produce) if you're to afraid of failing then never try anything.

[VenomUK]

@The Wood The issue for Sony is that making these super expensive single player games like Spider-man 2 and God of War 2 could be hugely financially damaging IF they flop because of the financial investment. A successful GaaS can mean years of profit like Genshin Impact. I believe Sony has to continue to try and discover its own as the console business might change. It’s just Concord, and half baked.

[The Wood]

@derek I said slow right down NOT stop altogether (wasnt there a plan to develop over 10 lsg's which they halved)... was that nonsense?? Playstations bread and butter isn't live service games and nobody is saying they shouldn't develop any at all.

@ VenomUK, live service games also carry a financial burden in upkeep alone. They have to be upgraded/refreshed periodically. IF its true one of Naughty Dogs reason to X fractions was the constraints it put the team under and the fact it would take resources away from their upcoming projects then that kinda indicates making and maintaining lsgs may not be so simple

[PapaBop]

This should have been a stark warning like a month ago when the writing was on the wall, they could have acted then and saved face. As Eurogamer I think put it, Sony sent this game out to die. Instead it's a giant embarrassment that we could all see coming.

[TOTSUKO]

I see gaas as a necessary boon to PlayStation as a whole. It would bolster their funding even higher.

This is how I see it. AAA sp games is Sonys cultural obligation to make for the industry and the PlayStation brand. Problem is AAA is a fluid term every start of a generation. Dev time to cost goes up and the risks goes up. As much as fans hate it playstation has a financial obligation. Gaas would alleviate most those problems. PlayStation would be financially sound to keep up their brand of games that we love.

We PlayStation fans don’t necessarily have to buy a PS gaas. We just need alot others to buy it lmao

[darthv72]

I said at one point [before release] that this could be their version of Bleeding Edge... at least I have the controller still in its box. That should go up in value soon enough.

[RaidenBlack]

Bleeding Edge atleast lived for 1 year

[jznrpg]

@RaidenBlack never heard of Bleeding Edge but I don’t follow gaas very closely

[purple101]

Did you get you me limited edition controller?

Pretty sure that’s going to be worth some serious cash in future if they do indeed send it out

[blackblades]

Meaning its not dead yet as they are exploring other options for it. They arent gonna just abandon it not after all the money they put in it. We'll see in do time what happens to it before it's official death. They'll also probably learn there lesson with this and rethink that marathon game. Also this comment section is disgusting y'all should show some class.

[RaidenBlack]

You should check some of the past Xbox comment section then ... got even more disgusting.
But I guess people are more shocked at the news coz of the miniscule time the game got till it got axed ... that being a PS5 1st party game. Smaller games have endured longer and if concord was from a smaller studio nobody would've bat an eye lid.

[TheEroica]

The biggest flop in video game history.... And it ain't even close.... Well done Sony! Oh! I have a good idea! Buy the studio.... 🤦

[kingeliran]

Mindless Pvp shooters is just a way for a greedy studio to get money quickly

[itsmebryan]

So, was it worse that Redfall? I didn't play either.

[Sonic1881]

Probably the worse game ever made by Sony and the biggest flop in history. Should have never canceled Factions. I hope they learn their lesson.

[OtterX]

Man, Factions 2 could have become Sony's biggest Multiplayer success story in history! Given the combat improvements since TLOU1, it would have played so smoothly.

[GamerRN]

Maybe, but if it flopped they would damage a franchise...

I understand why they didn't release it, but I kinda remember playing Uncharted online and think it could have at least been as fun as that game...

[MADGameR]

I agree 100%

[crazyCoconuts]

Even if it wouldn't have been the next Call of Duty, it would have satisfied the PlayStation faithfuls and hardcore LoU fans. That would be a better outcome than this

[--Onilink--]

To be fair, part of the issue why it was canned is because to support it would have meant a HUUUGE amount of resources suddenly going from making SP cinematic games to supporting a live service title and ND decided it was not the direction they wanted to take, which is understandable.

Just look at Arkane Austin, putting aside the quality of Redfall in the end, it was a massive shift for the studio, which lead to significant turnover and overall they not really being ready to support such a massive change in game genre

Just making a MP mode that plays smoothly does not make a live service game and unfortunately, packing a MP mode into a SP game like they did in Part 1 probably wont fly with executives in 2024

[DarXyde]

But if they did that and it was successful (likely, I reckon), I think the risk is too great, where GaaS is the new direction.

[Tacoboto]

To think Concord didn't need to exist, and Firewalk could've taken over the roadmap for Factions after Naughty Dog built the world, characters, and core framework...

[RaidenBlack]

I think people are just burned out from hero shooters. Fans were expecting something similar to killzone or such.
It seems Sony is trying hard to target the popular sub genres with their GaaS titles :
Concord is a team-based hero shooter.
Fairgames is a heist competitive shooter (likely with some twist).
And Marathon is an extraction shooter (likely with some twist).
...
Doubt Fairgames can surpass the likes of The Finals, which is really well made and is getting constant updates ... and most of Haven studio is comprised of ex-Ubi devs.
And rumors are Marathon's already in some sort of internal trouble.
Marathon should've been an immersive sim to begin with.

[-Foxtrot]

The thing is…Factions was cancelled because ND wouldn’t have been able to keep up with the live service approach

They’d have to keep working on it and the resources it would have took to keep it going would have strained the rest of the studio

It was Factions or more single player titles.

The reality is they shouldn’t have gone ambitious with it, it should have just released with the game or maybe a month of so later like how Ghost of Tsushima did their online mode.

[ravens52]

Then put these people from firewalk on it. They were gonna be stuck on a live service game anyway. Should've let Naughty Dog do their thing then put FW on it to run it. ND could've went back to their SP games.

[The Wood]

That's a big risk @ravens52. These guys couldn't see the signs and wouldn't be able to give factions that personal touch that only the Nd team could achieve imo

[victorMaje]

This is the way. Ghost of Tsushima did it perfectly.
OT: I wish this kind of game bad reception followed by removal happened to SP games with Mt…

[ravens52]

I don't mean let them create freely. Follow a ND blueprint.

[Christopher]

Definitely not their worst game, just a game no one asked for.

[coolbeans]

"...just a game no one asked for."

Except for my buddy who sounds just like you. :P

[Christopher]

Your buddy must like playing the same game with different skins.

[coolbeans]

Maybe.

[helicoptergirl]

Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't the complaint about the longetivity of the game and the repetiveness? I think the game play would have been really great. So much so that Naughty Dog were excited about it. But the game just wasn't fit for a live service

[Cacabunga]

Factions would surely have been gaas, so Sony canned it not to hurt a possible TLOU3

[DiRtY]

I would appreciate any educated guess how much money was burned with this one game.

[Eonjay]

If the lesson is to not try something new then I suggest this is a lesson they should skip. Keep trying something new. I don't want them to make the same old game over and over. It's like mind cancer to me. If I want to play a game like God of War, I will just go play God of War.

[coolbeans]

-"Probably the worse game ever made by Sony"

Oh, they've done *much* worse than Concord. lol

[Rangerman1208]

Didn't even survive for atleast one more year. Even Sony's other live service titles like destruction All Stars and Harsware Rivals managed to endure for a few more months. It was expected but I'm genuinely feel bad for the developers. Now I'm worried about FairGames suffering the same fate.

[Sonic1881]

They should start from scratch and look at the drawing board with that game. Tbh, I think they should develop a new single player IP with multiplayer

[RaidenBlack]

The irony?
Fallout 76 is at its 6th year and is going stronger than ever
The live-service game that was not supposed to last more than a year.
Currently 14K players are online & was averaging 10K before the TV show ~ and that's just on Steam.

[Eonjay]

Excellent point.

[ZeekQuattro]

A 8 year project dead a week+ after its release. Quite the accomplishment. 👏

[Walalon]

Looking for the bright side, they are gonna get a Guinness book page for it.

[ZeekQuattro]

The little things in life. 🤣

[bloop]

How the hell did they spend 8 years making this game? Seriously, how? I can completely understand something like GTA and RDR2 taking this length with the insane detail in their worlds, character designs, storyboard, voice acting production, soundtrack, the amount of game mechanics at play, all the different systems running at the same time from NPC's behaviour, enemy ai, real-time weather and day and night cycles, all the way down to in game economy, all having to be designed/created from scratch.......... but this?? A generic and unimaginative arena hero shooter? What the hell was going on at that studio all this time??

[ZeekQuattro]

I couldn't tell you. Nothing about it makes sense. I'm sure there'll be leaks over the coming weeks/months all about this cluster fuck. I can't see things going over quietly. Mudslinging is almost quareented to happen over this.

[outsider1624]

Maybe 8 years back this game would have been something. But its 8 years too late.

[ZacultronTheFirst]

I believe it wasn't really 8 years but given the fact that such wording gets attention, so they hoped to get interest peaked before release. But what do i know,i'm only speculating just like everyone.

[Blashted]

Glad to see garbage games getting taken to the town square. Gamers getting the refunds they deserve for such low quality games. Game is not deserving of the Sony name and should be forgotten. Whoever greenlit this turd game (prob Jim Ryan) should be reviewed. This money could have gone towards The Last of Us MP which would have been cool. Instead we got generic rainbow hero shooter with forgettable characters #542 aka Battleborn clone, insult to the term PlayStation exclusive

[Neonridr]

8 years in development?

big yikes

[GaboonViper]

8 years, 8 damn years, for this.....my God.

[outsider1624]

And 100 milion.

[Ninver]

Incompetence is the appropriate description.

[FPS_D3TH]

Record setting but not in the way the devs would like I’m sure

[pwnmaster3000]

As much as I like this game, I’m glad this phase of Sony is hopefully over. Time for them to go back to there roots

[attilayavuzer]

They still got like 5 more of these games in the pipeline right now.

[crazyCoconuts]

Nothing like 5 more bumps to the head to teach a lesson

[-Foxtrot]

Hopefully. Least we know why Jim Ryan took “early retirement” now

Bungie in shambles and paid too much for them

Destiny on a low

Concord is a failure

Core studios forced to work on live service titles which has given us a massive first party drought. (NaughtyDogs next game probably delayed because of how ambitious Factions II got for example).

Buying Firewalk Studios for a GaaS title (Concord)

Buying Haven Studios for a GaaS title (Fairgame$)

He got the f*** out of there before shit hit the fan and I think Sony knew it thus the 180 after his retirement announcement last year

[ApocalypseShadow]

Maybe you should interview Jim himself instead of all this speculative bull.

[-Foxtrot]

1) It's a commenting site, most things we talk about here is a mix of what's there and our own speculation / opinions

2) The evidence is growing as his plan falls apart

3) No one in his position puts a massive plan like this in play then leaves before anything comes from it. Shawn Laydon and even Jack Trenton both left on a high, once their work was done, the launch of new consoles.

So be good and pipe down

[I_am_Batman]

People will have a rude awakening when they realize that Hermen Hulst is as responsible (if not more) for everything going wrong at Playstation and that things aren't going to get much better as long as he's still there.

[BeHunted]

Concord budget: $200 million

Lasted 9 days. Biggest flop in gaming.

1. Concord

2. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

[DOMination-]

200m budget??

Surely that can't be true..

[SonyStyled]

Before they were acquired by Sony they received 200m from an investor/group. I’m guessing they wanted their money back and that’s how Sony acquired them. 200m is a number, but anyone’s guess at the actual development cost and purchase of the studio and IP

[Eonjay]

It's not true. An outside investment in a company and the production cost of a project are not the same thing. We don't know how mich was spent on this game.

[uth11]

ET actually sold more than a million copies, making it one of the best selling 2600 titles of its day. The only reason it is considered a flop was because Atari produced millions more cartridges than they could hope to sell thinking 2600s would fly off the shelves so people could play this game. That never happened so they ended up burying many carts in a landfill and a legend was born

[ChasterMies]

Concord’s budget was not $200M. There is a lot of bad speculation on the budget for Concord based on the amount Sony has spent on single player games and the cost to acquire Firewalk Studios. Firewalk Studios employed roughly 150 people in May 2023, according to fandom.com, and at an average of $100,000 / person for 2 years, that’s $30M. (I know people focus on 8 years of development, but it was 6 years of thinking about the idea and 2 years of actual development.) Folks also forget about Daikatana, either because they weren’t born yet or because all their gaming news comes from mainstream media. Daikatana needed to sell 2.5M copies to break even. It sold 40,000.

[GaboonViper]

LOL Sony have even locked the replys on their blog, as someone who owns all consoles but prefers PlayStation Sony better have a masterpiece in Astro, have a mega showcase and roadmap dedicated to SP games otherwise im off to PC, DISGUSTING display from Sony lately.

[ocelot07]

Wow just wow but tbh it's for the best. I doubt they are just going to abandon it. I think they will rework it and release as a free to play game. But then there is no guarantee it will be a success.

Fans have been asking for a new killzone or socom or resistance for years. They could of taken one of them IP's and made into a online only MP and released as a FPS game. But instead thought Concord was a great idea another bloody hero shooter.

[I_am_Batman]

They should cut their losses and run from this IP as far as their legs can carry them. The amount of work that would be required to convert this game into something that has a decent chance at succeeding in the f2p market isn't worth it. They'll just make this disaster go into a second round for no reason whatsoever.

[ocelot07]

I agree with you.

[TheColbertinator]

Outta here. Thank goodness.

[outsider1624]

Hopefully this should make Sony rethink their strategy.

[sushimama]

I'm telling people, this is great news for a number of reasons. We'll all be better off for it in the long run

[I_am_Batman]

They need major structural changes, not just a rethinking of strategy.
Everyone could see this game flopping from a mile away. Everyone except for Sony apparently.

They've seen this game up close for 3+ years and despite that, agreed to a publishing deal in 2021 and later acquired the studio in 2023. The fact that no red flags were raised during 3 years of development (including focus tests and mock reviews) suggests that something is deeply broken about their internal review process.

One has to wonder what else could possibly be going wrong behind the scenes when the leadership is out of touch to this degree.

[-Foxtrot]

I bet the special controller ironically sold more than the game…

[Walalon]

And the studio won a page on Guinness world records for fastest killed game in the history of videogames.

[TheNamelessOne]

This was inevitable, but even faster than I was expecting. Now just to wait and see if they even bother retooling it for F2P.

[Friendlygamer]

Wow I feel kinda bad for the devs. Regardless of the game quality they spent years working on this thing

[-Ghost]

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[H9]

When your modern audience doesn't actually exist, this happens

[ocelot07]

I really hope this shows Sony that the majority of users don't want GAAS. Stick to single player games or games with MP modes as well as single player.

[jznrpg]

Personally I don’t want most MP modes either. I’d rather they put in more single player content. But I agree it’s better than a full GaaS game

[ocelot07]

Some games simply don't need online MP. For example the new Astro Bot that is releasing soon.

Last of us had a really fun MP mode that didn't take away form the single player as did Uncharted. Same goes for Resistance and Killzone.

Other titles like Days Gone I think could of benifited with a co op option or a online mode similar to last of us.

Things like ratchet & clank again doesn't need any sort of co op or MP.

[SimpleDad]

ET phoned home

[DivineHand125]

This is the biggest failure I have ever seen on the Sony side but I think it was the right decision. Microsoft should have done the same with Redfall instead of continuing to let that game damage their brand.

[LikAChicken]

This is objectively worse. There’s a reason this might be a Guinness record.

This title spent at least 3-4 more years in development and the range of cost is between 100m to 200m. Even Redfall had a better all time peak. Same goes for suicide squad.

[IAMRealHooman]

i mean even the r34 crowd couldn't get anything from this game.
if they can;t fap you know your fucked.

[jznrpg]

I’m old I have no idea what you are talking about lol

[IAMRealHooman]

rule 34

[DOMination-]

The fact they've killed it straight away and refunded everyone is great. Means people won't be out of pocket if they do go F2P.

I think it's too late to be saved but you never know. It would require a LOT of commitment from Sony to turn it around and unlike MMOs like FF14 and FO76 that had redemption stories, I can't see a hero shooter having enough content to draw people back in after such a poor launch.

[Evil-Gouki]

It was lame from the reveal, a lot of Sony bots defended it but very obviously didn’t play it.

[sushimama]

I hardly saw anyone defending it. The majority were in agreement from the get go

[outsider1624]

No one defended it..lol. Hence it's lowest sales. Even if someone did, it was mostly "a try it out".

[Elda]

Not true. Most PS5 owners did not want Concord, the dismal sales are proof of that.

[generic-user-name]

I'm a Sony fan and I didn't even bother downloading the free beta. Nobody was hyping this game up, lucky for Sony they have Astro Bot coming out the same day this game shuts down to wash the bad taste out of the mouth.

[Charlieboy333]

I think you are confusing Sony fans with Xbox slaves. This game was criticised from day one by us Playstation guys.......we ALWAYS call out stuff that isn't up to par. Unlike Phil worshippers who can't say a single negative word about Xbox when they produce trash ( which is 95 % of the time ).

Literally at this very moment all the dumbasses are damage controlling xbox consoles tanking, putting games on their direct competition's consoles, missing out on the hype with games like Black Myth Wukong ( I don't give a crap what excuses you have.....the fact is there's issues with the xbox version ), Microsoft going all in on no more physical games, being given disappointments like Halo Infinite, Redfall, Starfield and Forza Motorsport instead of the bangers they should have been........the list goes on and on.

Sony fans have standards and are vocal when they are not met. Xbox fangirls enjoy eating repeated helpings of shit and telling Phil it tastes great !

[XtraTrstrL]

Damn, gotta feel bad for them. That's rough, didn't even get to test the game out yet.

[Good-Smurf]

Good, this game needs to die so that the new SIE can be reborn.
Hopefully the game that leads to that change will be Astro Bot so they can bounce back from this rather quickly and take notes and learn the lesson the hard way.
This is what I said a few days before they pulled the game:
"Nothing like another unoriginal copycat coming into the over saturated market with bored tired and burned-out public that couldn't keep up with all the time sinkers looter shooter that is also just ugly to look at in the Concord's case is such a double dud and turnoff to most.
I just want them right back to do smaller scale games but it's a lost art nowadays and even they let Indies and 3rd party to do all the heavy lifting when their game output is off.
Astro Bot is our chance us fans to send them the right message that we want stuff like Astro Bot back instead of whatever big money Live Service experiments they got themselves into and trapped in.
Let Concord be the one expensive lesson for them to learn that Live Service is a deadly obsession and desire for perpetual easy money making.
Continue on this path and they will lose more than they gain."

[Chocoburger]

I have my copy of Astro Bot pre-ordered! Many of the Sony Japan Team moved over to Team Asobi, so its my dream that they make Ape Escape 4 next, despite the fact that I was told there isn't a fan base for those types of games anymore, its very clearly obvious there's no more room for new live service hero shooters either, and a single player platformer sure as heck is a superior investment than Concord was.

[Scissorman]

Bring back Shawn Layden. He is the hero Sony needs now.

[jznrpg]

I want Shuhei back

[BlaqMagiq1]

Or Jack Tretton.

[vTuro24]

Damn, that was faster than I expected.

[gold_drake]

oh shit it rly happened lol

i guess pulling the plug now rather than wait, is the better decision

[XxSPIDEYxX]

Purchased Firewalk, Purchased Bungie, Purchased Jade Raymonds studio. What a baffling generation of PlayStation. So many awful decisions being made, and people are paying for it.

[Chocoburger]

Jim Ryan walked away before disaster struck. Herman Hulst has to pick up the pieces and deal with the problems.
Let's hope he takes PlayStation back to an earlier time before all this live service obsession took over the industry.

[VivaChe]

Can we please just have F*t Princess back? How about that one, instead of stuff like this?

[Tankbusta40]

No more live service GAAS hero shooters!!!!!!!!!!! That fad peaked years ago

[OWCY]

marvel and deadlock seem to be doing ok

[TheNamelessOne]

Deadlock hit a little under 100k concurrent players, and that's an invite-only closed beta currently on just one platform.

[RhinoGamer88]

I think Sony did a pump and dump on this one. How in the world did they decide to buy this developer in 2022?!
Again, there are so many qualified people looking for work, time to clean house at Sony.

[Deathdeliverer]

BONCORD will be releasing in 6 months and it will be free to play, no characters will be recognizable, and the rivers will flow red with the blood of the fallen because it will be edgier.

[CobraKai]

😂😂😂
28514;😂😂㈳ 4;😂😂

[Petebloodyonion]

I expect the game to be re-released as a PS+ game and after as a F2P to include PC gaming.

[Inverno]

People just make it free to play. I swear the biggest idiots are in charge of these companies. How do you not see the trend over the last year moving towards free to play multiplayer? LoL, DOTA, Overwatch, Fortnite, Genshin Impact, Rocket League, PUBG, CSGO, Destiny 2, Call of flippin Duty has its own F2P game on both mobile and PC/Consoles. I don't get the decision at all to charge for this. Should've launched it as a PS Plus game, test the water for an eventual f2p release.

[Elda]

I'm a PS supporter of most of their generations of exclusives, I knew Concord was going to be a major flop something most PS5 owners did want or asked for. If they wanted to test the waters with Concord it should have been F2P out the gate or it should have had an interesting 8 hr story gameplay campaign for $40 along with the multiplayer.

[ZwVw]

Flopped harder than CrossfireX.

[Abnor_Mal]

At least they cut their losses early instead of dumping more money into content, updates, balancing and whatever else would have kept the cost of the game ballooning.

Granted it’s a game that should have never been made, but that was Sonys attempt at chasing a bag they had no business trying to chase.

[ApocalypseShadow]

Damn! Lol. Should have went plus and free to play. Lol

[CrashMania]

Should have been going more all in on Helldivers, this is just a sad situation, what a genius move by Jim Ryan.

[Hofstaderman]

Good. I never asked for GaaS. Now focus on single player games Sony.

[purple101]

wow, this is massive news. - kinda good on Sony for getting out infant of bad press, (which would inevitably follow) and refund everyone, its admitting their mistake, issuing refunds, - they failed, but their owning the fail in the best possible way. - full refund.

[derek]

This was the best outcome of a bad situation. Game didn't garner any consumer support so instead prolonging the inevitable they pulled the cord (pun intended) right away and gave refunds. Lessons will be learned from this game and hopefully for any future gaas game projects of theirs.

[Goodguy01]

Good on refunds. Man...what a mess. Please let this be a lesson on the games industry.

Hope Sony just releases it as free to play for a second chance I guess lol.

[TheNamelessOne]

If they didn't refund people they would probably be hit with multiple lawsuits. The money made on sales probably didn't even justify the cost of keeping the servers up for any real period of time, so they cut their losses.

[Stevonidas]

Oh no… *giggle*

[Aaroncls7]

Wow, as predicted - absolute failure

[thesoftware730]

Wow, this has to be the biggest flop of the gen thus far, so bad it was pulled? They couldn't even ride it out for a month or so huh.

The cost, dev time, and this pulling + refunds makes it the worst I have seen in a long time.

FTP was always the way to go for this game, I have no idea why they chose to charge people $40 for this...I mean it's been talked about for months and interest was low, the writing was on the wall, why the hell did Sony ignore it is anyone guess.

[Hofstaderman]

Redfall. Halo Infinite. Starfield. Take your pick.

[TheNamelessOne]

Yeah, yeah. Outside of Redfall both other games were received well and see thousands of concurrent players on Steam every day. That's not even including Xbox.

Concord is literally the biggest videogame release flop of my generation.

[thesoftware730]

You are well aware that you are being ridiculous.

Do I say have at it!

[HankHill]

Yeah, Halo Infinite and Starfield are definitely the same as this 2 week failure of game. Even that garbage known as Redfall is still up and running. Cope some more. 🤡

[isarai]

Dang, i feel sorry for the devs but ut just wasn't good enough to stand out in such a saturated genre of the market. Not to mention they picked the one audience who didn't want this type of game to start with.

[phoenixwing]

I knew this was crap from the beginning but I didn't expect it to flop this hard

[MADGameR]

LMAO! That's what they get for cancelling Factions 2. This was so satisfying.

[ocelot07]

Curious, The disc copies of Concord. Obviously people are going to be able to bring them back for a refund. However, What of people keep them. Surely they will come a collectors piece in due time? I recently sold a copy of Lawbreakers for £30. A physical copy of Fortnite (yes these exist) cost hundreds after a few short years out of circulation.

[shadowT]

Even Hellbalde 2 sold more units

[Knightofelemia]

Wow that didn't take long.

[YourMommySpoils]

Good. Back to proper story driven, single player, games, please. None of this mess anymore.

[mastershredder]

It looked one a foreign copy-cat marvel clone movie. it absolutely reeked of being intended for mainstream trends like 5 years ago.

[Flewid638]

Even Suicide Squad didn't die this fast.

[Tedakin]

"Exploring options" is just padding to lessen the blow. The game is never coming back and Firewalk is probably getting gutted. This has to be about the biggest failure in gaming history.

[Ninver]

Was only a matter of time.

[franwex]

I think there should be a legal repercussions for Sony buying this studio. I’m thinking that some executive in Sony must’ve had some type of financial incentive for the sale going through. Maybe a spouse, or girlfriend worked there or something. I cannot fathom Sony bankrolling this. Like they saw this and said “yes! This will sell millions!!” How can a whole committee within Sony (which is supposedly destroying its rivals) agree to purchase this??

Oh well. Lesson learned right?? Right?

[Chocoburger]

I was told that there wasn't enough of a player base for single player platformer games, and that this game was a better investment than Ape Escape 4. How could I be lied to like that?!

Let's see those Astro Bot sales, and find out who was right in the end.

[Johnh5223]

So this made it but twisted metal or some online component of socom didn't yet awful

[z2g]

Brutal. Now PlayStation has a redfall.

[Demetrius]

Execs and other management forcing devs to make online only bs knowing damn well that'll cause shutdowns. They do that on purpose to keep money in their own pockets I bet, so they won't have worry bou contributing towards future titles being made. Smh

[REDGUM]

This is sad, regardless of game, gameplay, players, etc it's just sad to see something fail after all of the efforts that are put into it.

[8bitAssassin]

Go back to your creative PS2 & PS3 days. Start supporting Japanese games again. Geezus Crys stop killing your identity.

[montebristo]

Eh, it happened to Fortnite. That game was junk when it came out, look at it now.

[ChiefofLoliPolice]

I think this game fell off quicker then Babylons Fall. That's impressive🤣

[L1ghtz4lyfe]

🔥

[Boog_89]

Even if they/them wanted to redesign the characters from scratch to address one of the main complaints about the game, Im assuming there are already multiple of those 'vignettes' produced and ready to go, which will have taken a considerable amount of time , effort and money to produce. Do those just get tossed aside?

[Zenzuu]

Hope this is a big wake up call to Sony to stop placing so many resources into live service games, and dedicate it to release more single player games.

[EternalTitan]

HAHAHAHAH

AH hAHAHAHAHAH

[MADGameR]

Update: It's in a casket ready for burial

[anast]

This should have been canceled in pre-development.

[Haki1112]

60 million ps5s in the wild and only around 0.025% supported this game lol remember that when they tell you xbox players don't buy games😂

[DaniMacYo]

LMAO.

[Boog_89]

Strapped in and ready support it for years to comes.

[Ninver]

Epic Fail