Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[Nintex]

The economy sucks and people just know they'll get it at like half the price in a month. Mix in Ubi+ and the EGS exclusivity to get even worse results.

But I thought Bidenomics was working 

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/investors-seems-very-dissapointed-about-star-wars-outlaws-sales-numbers.970842/page-2

Ubi makes really good games,

Skill Up was so fucking weird about the game. Admiting that it sucked in almost every way but it had charm.  (He just didn’t recommend it)

I blame the Star Wars brainroot.

[TylenolJones]

I mean after the beta i think we all could have seen this game was fucked .
People outright did not care about the game .
You got near 50 million plus members and not even1% check out the beta that how sad it was .

Nah. This is a completely unique situation that I don't think ANYONE predicted, and frankly I think anyone who tries to turn around and claim they saw this coming is a liar.

Like...this shit didn't even last a month. I've seen flop gacha games that were pre-dead before pre-registration was over last longer than a month. This is a historic flop for Sony.

 

Sony Pony haters are feasting tonight!!!

https://www.resetera.com/threads/playstation-studios-ot42-hot-bot-summer.894603/page-394#post-128106693

[BananaBlast]

Says the people who cheered and hoped for Stellar Blade, Hogwart's Legacy, and recently Blackmyth Wukong's failure

Thanks for reminding me, you had several Ree users trying to laugh at Stellar Blade selling 1 million copies.

Which is not only a financial success, but an impressive showing for the floundering PS5 and for a totally new IP.

Then Black myth Wukong 10m copies being sold being downplayed as much as possible, and bans everywhere to whoever upset the frustated jannies.

Fucking losers are all just too brainrotten from the culture war. Trying way too hard to gain a victory for the leftist side instead of just being honest. Just wish they'd stop being cowards and just admit it already.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/concord-sales-ceasing-immediately-offering-refunds-to-all-customers-the-game-will-be-taken-offline-beginning-sept-6th.970872/page-10#post-128101653

Serious question.
How do they retain talent after this?

Sure they could close and transfer people around. But does HR try to step in and say please don't go?

[Propagandhim]

[HaughtyFrank]

I cannot tell you how much I can't stand people.

"Never cast your pearls before swine."

People are unbelievably superficial and uncritical, it is stunning.

So is we just gonna grieve or is we playing today or what?

I think I'm just going to wash my hands of this.

I was already this close to stopping to care about this industry/video games, multiplayer ones in particular.

Everything about this is going to push me over the edge in regards to that.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/concord-ot-calling-all-freeguners-game-being-shut-down-sep-6th-check-threadmarks.957465/page-60#post-128114622

Sunny nooo

[jooseloose]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/concord-sales-ceasing-immediately-offering-refunds-to-all-customers-the-game-will-be-taken-offline-beginning-sept-6th.970872/page-32#post-128109888

It's funny how the same chuds you guys are complaining about are currently going after Deadlock because a few characters are gay and non-binary yet that campaign is falling completely flat on its face. Deadlock is still averaging 100k players daily. Almost like this shit doesn't matter except to a few terminally online losers in an echo chamber!

 at the bolded.

[Taco Bell Tower]

I cannot tell you how much I can't stand people.

"Never cast your pearls before swine."

People are unbelievably superficial and uncritical, it is stunning.

So is we just gonna grieve or is we playing today or what?

I think I'm just going to wash my hands of this.

I was already this close to stopping to care about this industry/video games, multiplayer ones in particular.

Everything about this is going to push me over the edge in regards to that.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/concord-ot-calling-all-freeguners-game-being-shut-down-sep-6th-check-threadmarks.957465/page-60#post-128114622

Sunny nooo

Incoming SunnyD suicide thread 

User Warned: Dismissive Drive-By

And they thought people were bullshitting in the last thread! If you saw ANY value in concord your opinion should be immediately discredited and discarded.

[DocWager]

I cannot tell you how much I can't stand people.

"Never cast your pearls before swine."

People are unbelievably superficial and uncritical, it is stunning.

I think I'm just going to wash my hands of this.

I was already this close to stopping to care about this industry/video games, multiplayer ones in particular.

Everything about this is going to push me over the edge in regards to that.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/concord-ot-calling-all-freeguners-game-being-shut-down-sep-6th-check-threadmarks.957465/page-60#post-128114622

Sunny nooo

Incoming SunnyD suicide thread 

User Warned: Dismissive Drive-By

And they thought people were bullshitting in the last thread! If you saw ANY value in concord your opinion should be immediately discredited and discarded.

Or shoot into a crowd.

[Boredfrom]

People on Reddit, Youtube, TikTok, Twitch were harassed if they positively voiced the game. The official discord was a mess of trolls too.

Some people here think there's no way the vocal "gamers" would ever do such a thing but it's like come on.

[D3RANG3D]

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[Boredfrom]

So is we just gonna grieve or is we playing today or what?

 Go down in a blaze of glory comrade

How embarrassing…

[DocWager]

I can get turning into F2P, but what else can they do? I don’t see Sony putting more money into this catastrophic failure to improve it.

[Boredfrom]

China of all places approved this character:



 

But yeah, Concord has good character design.

[BisMarckie]

Since I am one of the few losers who still play Overwatch I gave Concord a shot during the beta. It was the blandest, most uninspired game I have played in a while..
How anyone over at Sony or the dev thought it could succeed is completely baffling.

pronouns were an easy target for the culture wars, but the game failed completely on its own merits. Hell, Overwatch was "woke" before that word was a part of the dumb online discourse and still is and nobody cares because the game was fun and it became a huge success.

btw. Nepenthe, for someone who spent thousands of hours one tricking Lucio, is fucking terrible at the game

[Nintex]

They have more members discussing why it was shut down, than members who played it 

[Propagandhim]

Why does this thread have 2k posts? What is it about this that got people so happy?

Now the chuds have made it so you all are reading this thread about the game's failure instead of completely ignoring it.   Can we please ban discussion of Concord now?




Someone's 82 year old abuela and some GroupOn children's party clown.   Those are the "good" designs.

[Tucker's Law]

Sheryl Weikal theleftistlawyer

I need people to understand something.

"That's illegal" has never in the history of humanity stopped anyone from doing a damn thing.
The law is a list of consequences which MAY be imposed upon you for certain actions. It's not a magic force that prevents you from doing those actions. And your race, gender, socioeconomic status, disability status, religion, and gender identity all play a role in determining whether and what consequences are imposed.
Illegal things happen every day.

Playing massive catch-up on all I've missed here, but had to chime in with this instant classic:

Illegal things happen every day.

Sure does ring similar to a certain former gaf mod's "many fetishes" statement, when following all that previous lunacy about law.

[Lonewulfeus]

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jesus christ. that korea game looks like shit but they aren't fucking around over there

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Imagine the panic at Microsoft, who is probably knee deep into developing gay HALO and many other DEI studios.

dutchposting

We've arrived at a point where average Korean Gacha slop is better designed than western AAAA+ releases.
The mission design in The First Descendant is better than what I've seen in some recent titles.

Although you have to play the same mission 400 fucking times to get Hailey

I played the shit out of the first descendant when it dropped, I farmed every descendant, maxed out ultimate bunny ultimate gley and ultimate lepic plus several weapons.  I even got to do Kyle smash for the 12 hours the bug was publicly known about before it was patched.  I read the patch notes for season 1 and said fuck that to hailey.  Game is fun but other than maxing out Enzo and yujin support builds I have nothing left to do.

[BisMarckie]

Why does this thread have 2k posts? What is it about this that got people so happy?

Now the chuds have made it so you all are reading this thread about the game's failure instead of completely ignoring it.   Can we please ban discussion of Concord now?




Someone's 82 year old abuela and some GroupOn children's party clown.   Those are the "good" designs.

The weird thing is the characters are not only badly designed, they also give off the vibe of "I don't want to be here". Who the fuck greenlit this garbage?

[NekoFever]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/j-k-rowling-and-her-legacy-of-hate-the-uk-gender-critical-movement.643740/post-128081871

Kagari
She's back terrorizing another athlete, this time a trans woman at the Paralympics:

checkout that package 

[BisMarckie]

I played the First Descendant for two hours and got tremendously bored. But I guess I am not the target audience because I think Destiny has always been boring as hell

[Besticus Maximus]

Bazz has an important backstory. She was bullied in school because she liked Sailor Moon when the other kids were busy talking about football or low-femme things like Britney Spears. Although she was super smart she didn't do well in school on account of her neurodiversity but everyone agreed she was a super genius anyway. Later she almost moved out of her moms house. There's a lot to like.

[Nintex]

China of all places approved this character:



 

But yeah, Concord has good character design.

I think China is flying "too close to the sun" with their embrace of Japanese weeaboo culture and it's too late to turn back now.
It's obvious that they aim it mostly at overseas markets but all the Gacha / Animu stuff is basically a gateway drug into hyper capitalism. 

At some point the CCP will realize their error and tries to ban the animu but then there will be riots. 
Anime and Gacha will have the same effect on China as Perestrojka did for the former Soviet Union.

[Disco55]

So just got home and just saw the news. Never in even the any worst case scenario did i think Sony would immediately pull Concord off shevles in two weeks. I figured they would at worst have it be FTP in a few months before putting a bullet in the head after it doesn't work out. That is crazy.

[Anti-Monitor]

Does anyone sane actually like cum. Man, woman or whatever?

Fresh off the source? It’s an acquired taste.

What does it taste like

It varies but typically kinda like salty jello

Thank you for speaking your truth, which is valid. 🙏 Anti-Monitor is a major source of this forum's toxic boys club behavior that puts the high femmes safety at risk but there's very little I can do about it even within my position without risking either staff cohesion or my personal safety.

Well if that’s how it is let me use the near top of the page to engage in you club behavior

[Boredfrom]

Why does this thread have 2k posts? What is it about this that got people so happy?

Now the chuds have made it so you all are reading this thread about the game's failure instead of completely ignoring it.   Can we please ban discussion of Concord now?




Someone's 82 year old abuela and some GroupOn children's party clown.   Those are the "good" designs.

The weird thing is the characters are not only badly designed, they also give off the vibe of "I don't want to be here". Who the fuck greenlit this garbage?

https://playstation-studios.fandom.com/wiki/Jim_Ryan

[Potato]

Fellas we are about to enter a whole new Malds arc


https://bsky.app/profile/melodyshreds.bsky.social/post/3l3ao7js6552i

Bonus: Alavards bsky with his full name https://bsky.app/profile/adamstacey.bsky.social

Melody jumping up the Oppression Olympics pecking order!!!

This will be next:

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/nearly-40-years-ago-a-platformer-pulled-the-gaming-industry-back-from-the-brink-of-collapse.970197/

Will history repeat itself?

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

I just...the level of   on that site is off the charts.

You'd think Astro Bot was some timeless, beloved, classic mascot with a long history of 10/10 games going by every thread about it on Era.

How many Mario killers has Sony had now?

Crash
Spyro 
Sly Cooper
Sackboy
Astro Bot

Probably a shitload more that ended up in the same place Astro Boy is heading...