Introduction: Reflecting on Video Game Failures:-
I’m sure that there’s a fair bit of expectation as you all know we like to talk about some failures that happen in video games now earlier this year I I made fun of a game known as Suicide Squad and at the time I thought whoa this is probably the biggest live service slop failure that I’m going to see for a while you know I want to say 5 days ago four days ago I made a video on a game known as Concord which was one of Sony’s biggest flops and I said in that you know even though this game doesn’t look like it’s selling it’s probably going to be around for a year no no it’s not.
The Rise and Fall of Concord:-
Concord is no longer available on the steam store yeah this game dropped on the 23rd of August 2024 and you know if we were about the old uh calendar over here real quickly ladies and gentlemen it has barely survived 2 weeks in fact if anything it has not survived 2 weeks because according to Sony over here they’re actually about to take this game down September 6 2024 so Concord fans you know.
I hate how they’re using fans in the plural sense you know I went to English class plural means more than one Sony and I don’t even think there was a Concord fan all right I’ve been on the subreddit that shit’s dead than anything we’ve been listening closely to your you know if they were listening to anything they wouldn’t even bother burning millions of dollars on this trash since the launch of Concord on PlayStation 5 and PC and want to thank everyone who has joined the journey aboard the North Star your support and the passionate community that has grown around this game has meant the world to us now I don’t want to jump into any of the crazy uh discussion around it this game was barely advertised it was a generic slop hero shooter with character design that probably rival that of my actual Doodles in kindergarten and uh that was pretty much about it it is a failure however while many qualities of the experience resonated with players which qualities which qualities the exit button the exit Game option was that the quality that you’re talking alt f4 oh yeah that resonated with everyone we also recognize that other aspects of the game in our initial launch didn’t land the way we intended therefore at this time we decided to take the game offline beginning September 6 2024 and explore options so I don’t know maybe they might do like Concord A Realm Reborn but they’re really going to try doing something that’ll better reach players now obviously while we determine the best path forward Concord sales.
Player Base and Sales Figures: A Stark Reality:-
Hey listen if you burn money on this well you’ll get it back uh especially those that bought that digital deluxe edition and you should be getting it back especially when the game was taken from you two less than two weeks after it comes out now to give you an idea of like the people playing Concord uh last night maybe it reached actually it’s not even last night or actually that is uh was probably like Peak 109 players currently.
Concord is uh played by 32 individuals which means statistically the metal gear online 2 private servers uh that people are playing through PlayStation 3 emulators and Playstation 3 systems with DNS Rec configuration yes Metal Gear Solid 4 a dead private server of a game has more of a active has basically overd doubled the active community of a Sony AAA slop live service shooter uh obviously this is probably numbers reflecting after the game is being on its way taken out but yeah it’s a bad look all right the game is dead all right we get it so yeah if you actually look into the amount of sales some people were expecting that the game apparently sold I’m not joking with you somewhere around 25,000 units based on Experts basically scraping all of the data that they could and uh yeah 25,000 units for a video game of Concord size and development budget yeah it’s not something that’s going to absolutely rake in the dollars and uh you know when it comes down to the budget for this some people are speculating A1 to $200 million which again it’s a massive amount of cash look at the end of the day this game probably was pretty costly to develop if it was in development for years with a giant Studio attached to it or a larger Studio than average and uh clearly it’s obvious like you can say this without a shadow of a doubt it did not make its money back and it definitely didn’t make the bean counters at Sony anywhere excited whatsoever so yeah Concord one of the largest actual video game in fact as far as this year
goes look you can rip on suicide squad all you want but at least that game is still functioning you know at least it’s still runs you know the day before I knew that game was a was a scam to begin with it wasn’t backed by big Sony anyways so when that game went down yeah people kind of expected it and we laughed but this is an actual genuine Bonafide no questions asked about it a proper solid definition of a failure and you know if you go to like the Concord Reddit about it too it was actually really funny because every time I try to like look at these gaming reddits usually they always consist of people that are snorting that copium to no to no end look the game just wasn’t good okay that’s pretty much what it comes down to it was sitting in a market where if you wanted to pay 40 bucks for a video game like Concord you may as well just download Destiny you may as well just download something like OverWatch you might as well download any hero shooter that is actually available for free right now in fact I’ll give give you a better option go and buy Unreal Tournament 2004 on GG and you can play that with your friends and have a far better time than playing whatever game Concord tried to give to you and it’s actually a shame because I wanted to wake up and buy the game just so.I can play it and experience this failure but it’s gone and it’s gone to the point where Sony isn’t even going to offline patch it so you can play with like a bot group or something or you can play it over local area network or direct IP with all of your friends no this game is actually completely gone and if we were to app to stop killing games mentality that’s where I kind of am sad this piece of gaming history is actually taken away there’s not going to be any people playing so if you got to play Concord within this two we time frame.
Missed Opportunities and Sony’s Missteps:-
Congratulations you are one of the Brave few and quite literally the actual few that got to experience one of Sony’s biggest slop failures you know effectively happen right in front of your eyes I also like to think that when it comes to games like Concord for instance which require things like a PlayStation Network given the restrictions when it comes to PlayStation Network accounts Sony was shooting themselves in the foot to begin with Not only was this a paid for experience but when you’re limiting the amount of people that can access your paid for life service oversaturated experience you’re not really going to look at anything that is successful and it’s wild to me that Sony is a company that has so many interesting and intriguing IPS and actual ways to mak crazy money like literally the day ago we were emulating bloodborne just to actually get that experience up and running and going and if Sony had actually instead of putting the money towards this and decided to Port a game like that which actually has a lot of fan demand they would succeed pretty heavily look this isn’t like you know uploading a YouTube video and having a few one out of 10 and having a good time and uploading a video that you’re passionate about that you know is going to fail this is an actual massive project that Sony put millions of dollars behind and you damn well were expecting that they were going to make a serious ton of cash through this or at least have something that was going to drip in life service money like no tomorrow but I think it’s also a good blessing that Gamers responded in this way too like we don’t really need an excess amount of these kind of games and obviously the market reflected that and that’s why this project failed and uh ultimately that is the end of Concord and there’s not really much more you can say about it other than what an actual failure and quite literally a failure indeed so ultimately I do feel bad for the development team behind this like obvious viously I believe this is their first game and you know while it wasn’t clearly successful.
I am worried about the jobs that those people are going to have clearly there’s going to be layoffs uh and there is talented individuals who probably worked on the actual gameplay and whatnot with the stuff.
Conclusion: A Sad End for Concord:-
I still can’t even get behind those character designs but when it comes to a project like this there’s a lot of people with their lives on the line their livelihoods on the line and uh yeah that’s the only thing you can really feel bad for in this situation but hopefully those people get reshuffled to a useful development team and useful projects not stuff like Concord which was literally a failure as it was announced and it’s weird like two months ago they show this game they release it without any Fanfare and then Sony expects somehow that people are just going to like inhale this and purchase this to no end like literally you know any other IP that I’ve seen launch multiplayer wise has done far more successfully by a wide multiple amounts of margins as compared to something like this insane failure.