Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[Boredfrom]

Holy shit. 

Hyper bomba. They didn’t even bother in trying to salvage it.

[Venice]

Concord is immediately ceasing all sales, refunding anyone who bought the game and taking it offline. 

Era thread is already great 

just goes to show that everyone worrying about CCU and sales was panicking for no reason. Obviously the game sold so well that Sony already had their fill and has decided to but in a break so they can catch up and count the money-bin's worth of revenue they made off of this.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/concord-sales-ceasing-immediately.970872/#post-128099214

ResetEra 0 - 1 Dastardly Chuds

Those chuds keep getting away with it!  

[HaughtyFrank]

From the wording it sounds like they might try a relaunch. I'm guessing as a f2p game

However, while many qualities of the experience resonated with players, we also recognize that other aspects of the game and our initial launch didn't land the way we'd intended. Therefore, at this time, we have decided to take the game offline beginning September 6, 2024, and explore options, including those that will better reach our players.

[DavidCroquet]

In the end, at least the name checks out.

Concord - agreement or harmony between people or groups.

DeliciousSunnyD notwithstanding, when is the last time the gaming audience has experienced this much unmitigated concord?

[Boredfrom]

Thats crazy....Damn.

Hate to say this but this might be a legendary bomba from a platform holder in this day and age. Who signed off on this ?

Werent you defending Jim Ryan honor in the “Jim Ryan did it” thread??

[HaughtyFrank]

*Tomorrow at Firewalk studios"

"Hi, my name is Dennis and I'm here to turn this baby around"

[TylenolJones]

What’s the point of paying $80 a year for multiplayer if the exclusive multiplayer game can’t stay online for more than a month?

[malfoyking]

Id still like to blame pronouns for this lol. Why did the fucking robot have a pronoun??? It's a robot!!!

Lol anyway I do feel bad for the Devs though. They should try in a year and turn it into f2p. They can salvage something from it

[Vertigo]

Lol, even the Sonybots can offer no excuses anymore.

They cut and run. 

And if Sony and Firewall think F2P is going to bring anyone back

Good luck.

[HaughtyFrank]

Id still like to blame pronouns for this lol. Why did the fucking robot have a pronoun??? It's a robot!!!

Lol anyway I do feel bad for the Devs though. They should try in a year and turn it into f2p. They can salvage something from it

I feel bad for the ones who just wanted to make a multiplayer shooter. The ones who probably fought for pronouns and the blandest character designs in existence can suck a lemon though

[HaughtyFrank]

Just remembered they had weekly animated episodes planned for this and now it's dead before the third episode

[Boredfrom]

What’s the point of paying $80 a year for multiplayer if the exclusive multiplayer game can’t stay online for more than a month?

Helldivers 2

[DavidCroquet]

Just remembered they had weekly animated episodes planned for this and now it's dead before the third episode

Did the first two episodes even come out? I would like to watch them.

[Ethan]

Concord... I am a son of Hades! I fuck Concord in her ass!

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

Rewatching the show right now and got to this episode yesterday. Made me think of the game. Fitting with today's news

[Boredfrom]

They should retool it into a single player or co-op game. The character designs are so wasted on just another hero shooter. I actually liked a lot of the design of this game but i didn't get it because it's just another hero shooter. it really seems like that genre in general is dying ever since Overwatch 2 disappointed everyone.

[Switters]

wut

[D3RANG3D]

Concord is immediately ceasing all sales, refunding anyone who bought the game and taking it offline. 

Era thread is already great 

just goes to show that everyone worrying about CCU and sales was panicking for no reason. Obviously the game sold so well that Sony already had their fill and has decided to but in a break so they can catch up and count the money-bin's worth of revenue they made off of this.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/concord-sales-ceasing-immediately.970872/#post-128099214

ResetEra 0 - 1 Dastardly Chuds

Those chuds keep getting away with it!  

[Switters]

LOL! Sunny D Suicide thread when?



(they set their profile to private) 

[FEUER FREI.]

Fellas we are about to enter a whole new Malds arc

Melody Shreds statistics:

Number of Genders: 85
Number of Self-Diagnosed Mental Illnesses: 64
Number of Gundam Toys: 52
Number of Human Sexual Partners (dead or alive): -1
Number of times masturbated to t-girls and loli: 68,525,498

And most importantly:

Number of years, days, minutes, seconds spent in paid employment: 0

Suicide bait threads: 41

[DavidCroquet]

Id still like to blame pronouns for this lol. Why did the fucking robot have a pronoun??? It's a robot!!!

Lol anyway I do feel bad for the Devs though. They should try in a year and turn it into f2p. They can salvage something from it

You're right to, that's certainly a big part of it. And the thing is, it's not even a right-wing chud-work or whatever boogeyman people want to pin it on. Apex Legends is a treasure trove of identitarian trinkets, and by all accounts is doing well in a great niche with no signs of slowing down.

You can have this stuff in your game, but there's a right way and a wrong way to do it. Imagine if McDonald's included a big highlight in all of its advertising about how much potassium is contained in their food. Is it ok to have potassium in food? Yes. Do some people deliberately seek out potassium? I gotta assume yes. But no one is slavering for an opportunity to get a burger and fries at "The Potassium Restaurant".

[EaldNarche]

I think the general consensus of actual medical professionals is that DID isn't even real. People either convince themselves they have it or are coached into it. So when being trans and disabled just isn't enough, you gotta roll out the DID diagnosis too.

[Alpacx]

Crashed so bad it should have been named Concorde 

[Propagandhim]

The average return of the S&P was 14.5% each year, for the past 8 years.   Concord cost $250m and 8 years.   If you had invested $250m in the s&p 500 at the beginning of 2016 and compounded the returns through August 2024 and sat on your hands, you would have nearly $600m in profit plus your initial investment.
 
Instead you have this:



and $250m of debt from 8 years of labor.



This is why we have to destroy capitalism.  It incentivizes people to do nothing and make money off of investing in the open market that everyone has access to, while a select few good people doing good things who know how to make the right decisions about how money, time, and labor should be used are a complete money sink.  It's a completely inefficient and wasteful system.

[Boredfrom]

Id still like to blame pronouns for this lol. Why did the fucking robot have a pronoun??? It's a robot!!!

Lol anyway I do feel bad for the Devs though. They should try in a year and turn it into f2p. They can salvage something from it

I don’t feel bad because it is obvious how much out their league they were with stuff like “weekly story driven CG cutscenes”. There is ambition and there is outright foolishness.

[Boredfrom]

Lol, this is ridiculous. Let it run and vanish into oblivion, but completely shutting it down 2 weeks after release is a slap in the face to everyone currently enjoying it and really, really bad sign for their future GaaS stuff.

This dude was batting hard for the game, saying how good it looked over other hero shooters and lamenting the market going F2P.

[Steven Snell]

OK how will Crossing Eden spin this into a good thing for Concord?

[BIONIC]

It's odd that Ree's headmates are always little girls. Never seen any of them claim they share their heads with insurance brokers or retirees. No janitors. Truck drivers. Office staff. Just little girls. If I get a headmate it'll be Steven Seagal.

A bloated has-been of a joke actor that makes terrible direct to video action movies? 

Also successful recording artist to you, chudlord

[Boredfrom]

Genshin impact is an actually bad game and makes more money than small countries. GAAS is not dead just because Concord, a game with actual good gameplay and fair monetization, bombed.

 This fucking dude. 

[HaughtyFrank]

Just remembered they had weekly animated episodes planned for this and now it's dead before the third episode

Did the first two episodes even come out? I would like to watch them.

Was only able to find these



Though that's from a month ago so I'm a bit confused about how they scheduled the release of those

[Boredfrom]

Sony put themselves in a no win situation with this game. Keep it going, wasting money on a game nobody is playing? Lose. Revamp it as F2P even though the open beta didn't draw a crowd? Lose. Kill it off completely and completely destroy consumer confidence in future releases? Lose.

It doesn't even seem like there's a least bad scenario. They're all disasters.

Dude, the main problem is that nobody is playing the shit game to care. At this point the game has become a meme game than anything else.