An important update on Concord - Being taken offline September 6th, refunds to be issued

Shutdown within two weeks of release.

Never broke 1000 concurrent users on steam.

Estimated $100 million budget.

oof.

If it wasn't for hundreds of people likely losing their jobs it would be really funny that Sony's greedy, cynical attempts to cash in on the live service fad keep failing

So to recap:

• 200 million dollars
• 8 years of development
• Sony shuts down all of their Japanese studios and redirects their efforts into developing "cinematic" experiences to appeal to western gamers
• Sony liquidates countless other studios in the pursuit of funding this game
• Sony buys Bungie to aid in developing this game
• Sony thinks this is going to be a huge success rivaling COD and Fortnite, so they fund an entire multimillion dollar CGI-animated episode to be aired in Amazon's Secret Level anthology series
• Shuts down in 10 days
• Sony refunds everyone

Man, Sony is taking L's like a motherfucker.

The game was alive for about 1.5 days for each year of development that they put into Concord.

Let's acknowledge for a second that well over 100 developers are about to lose their livelihoods. Now let's acknowledge that they were building a product from the start that disrespects consumer rights and preservation of the medium, and I'm still glad it failed.

Will the industry learn any lesson from this?

(no)

"Refunds for PlayStation Store and PlayStation Direct purchases may take 30-60 days to appear on your bank statement"

Why do companies do this? They can process millions of dollars of incoming payments instantly, but take up to 2 months to reverse? Give me a break.

Remember when Sony laid off a ton of Bungie employees? Talk about a series of bad decisions.

At least they're giving refunds.

I wonder why they didn't make it free-to-play and try to cash in on microtransactions

It looked like every other generic hero shooter on the market. They were late about 6 years or so.

Haha holy shit that was fast. Stop shoving live service down your customers fucking throats maybe, sony?

Wow, I expected they'll go straight to free-to-play but I guess the game has such a bad reputation that they decided to take it down completely. Refunds being issued is awfully nice though.

I didn't realize that there was a physical release for this game. I just bought myself a copy to keep sealed in my collection.

Remove from sale. Add more monetisation features. Rerelease as F2P. Cross fingers and hope for best.

Really looks like this game was designed by incompetent suits and marketing teams with the primary goal of turning those millions into more money. The game looked good and didn't seem to play (totally) awfully either. It just doesn't stand out or make anybody want to play it, like at all. It really is a another one of those AAA unfinished style over substance tech demos that masquerade as a game that got released into really saturated market at a really bad time, where the competition is usually also free.

Also something, something big capital overtaking creative process is one of the great disasters of our time.

Could have been a cool single player game

The age of DRM means that they can now "unlaunch" the game and force you into a reimbursement while giving up the game. Why? What if someone liked it and wanted to keep playing? is this an online only game? This is just sad.

edit: this is a good time to remind people, if you live in the EU, please support the "Stop Killing Games" initiative, it has just past a third of the required signatures, and has 10 months to go still:

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

Game Preservationists When a Game Sucks:

"Good I'm glad it's gone."

Oof. Pivoting to free to play then, or at least a PSPlus relaunch.

Like it's namesake it was quick and ended in a big crash.

Get fucked

Jesus christ

Can't help but wonder if this would have been a hit if it was F2P rather?

Kekw