Why were people so quick so shit on it before it could become something great?

>>715931105 (OP)
People are pro-choice.

>>715931105 (OP)
It was 5 years too late and didn't offer anything particularly unique or interesting.

For kicks

The $40 price tag in a genre of mostly free-to-play games seemed like the biggest mistake. Obviously the character designs or atrocious. But I wonder how much a few Johnny Cage boys and sexy waifu girls would have actually helped.

>>715931105 (OP)
It was $40
From a purely gameplay standpoint it was fine It had some unique weapons. a few movement gimmicks, minor tweaks to the formula but nothing to really make it stand out against any of the other hero shooters.
It was an easy punching bag, but none of the punching actually hurt the game. if anything the nonstop shitposting was the only thing that kept people slightly invested in it.

>>715931105 (OP)
It was just $40 Overwatch. What could it have possibly become that Overwatch 2 didn't already provide for free?

>>715931105 (OP)
the people shitting on it gave it more attention than any of the actual players did, mister sony marketer

>>715931105 (OP)
>P2P model in an oversaturated market where even the standouts use F2P
>Slow-paced controller-focused gameplay
>Characters range from boring to hideous
>Dull maps
It never managed to be anything more than a bland, unexceptional hero shooter that cost more than its contemporaries and had no memorable heroes.

>>715931804
>afroamerican-piece
Concord is bad but that nigger-oriented anime is worse

>>715931105 (OP)
>Goth hag is busted and has insane map control
>Green human is a 1:1 to Solar Hunter from Destiny
>Failed barafag gorilla needs to chain skills or else he's useless
Great game

>40 dollars
>Ugly characters
>Another hero shooter in a sea of hero shooters
>When people actually played it, it did nothing of interest and was sluggish on top of it all, which reflected in middling reviews online

Take your pick. It set itself up for failure. Even if it did grow into something great, why would people be there for the ride? You're supposed to make a game that is great from the start, especially when you're going to charge for it.

>>715931105 (OP)
40 dollars, didnt bring anything special to the genre to make it stand out and it had awful looking characters. The pendulum is swinging the other way and after years of putting up with ugly ass characters, shit is returning to normal.

Another thing that people here havent mentioned is that Marvel Rivals was also around the corner and had some hype behind it because it was basically the inverse of Concord plus it had the Marvel IP. So spend 40 dollars on an ugly looking game or just wait about a month or so and play a marvel IP game for free with good looking characters? The answer was obvious and people shit on Concord for fun.

>>715932473
Yes the game that treats its women like sex objects is le good
https://www.reddit.com/r/mendrawingwomen/s/hp7bOotZ9f

>>715932772

>>715932829

>>715932772
Of course it's fucking Reddit. Perhaps Magic Mike would be more to their taste?

I unironically like bazz

>>715932926

>>715932983

>>715932772
>>715932829
>>715932884
>>715932983
ISN'T A PROBLEM

Whenever women bitch and moan about men having sexy women in their games just say
>It wasn't made for you, men deserve their own spaces, fuck off.
I don't need to hear from a 40yr old white woman about what didn't "work for her" about Cortana's design.
It wasn't made for her.
>also; sexualized, objectified character thread. Because men deserve their own spaces.
Men like sexy women. Thus sexy women appear in male spaces; therefore to label them as in any way "bad" is just a dishonest tactic used to attack & destroy male spaces.
>Remember, they equate male interests with negative things, because they hate men.
They don't care about "realism", "practicality", nor "historicisity". So don't fall for it.
They just hate men.
>men's spaces is the world.
Reject and dismiss. Point out that the west is gynocentric, point out that men now lag behind women in almost all areas now, and point out that society carters to women at every meaningful level.
>if men enjoy sexualizing women in their own spaces, those spaces do not deserve to survive because it is inherently wrong to sexualize women.
Call her out for being sexist. Do not beat around the bush. Point out that what she just said boils down to,
>men's interests are bad
>men's spaces are bad
>the only acceptable psychology is female
She's a bigot. Tell her that. Point out she is a hateful narrow-minded sexist, and walk away.
Reject her premise outright, and discredit her as being a hateful sexist.
Fuck 'em.

>>715931105 (OP)
>become something great
the devs made everyone ugly as fuck because they hate players
why the fuck would I give it a chance?

>>715931105 (OP)
BAZZGODS WILL RISE AGAIN.

>>715933083

>>715931105 (OP)
It was a 400 million dollar dei shit fest

>>715931105 (OP)
The star of david is literally on the cover art

It's funny to me how this would be the single biggest case study for Stop Killing Games, but hardly anyone cares to bring it up in the discourse.

>>715933313
Rare bazz.

we're in an era where the supply of good videogames outstrip the demand for good video games. Concord was competing with fornite, roblox, counterstrike and other games and there's nothing going for it to make people want to play it. Time is limited and people are already entrenched into the games of their choice. The industry has changed so much that the idea of games making zero dollars after spending hundreds of millions are now more and more possible.

>>715933461
Sony gave full refunds so it doesn't count.

>>715932772

>>715933119
h-he's based-!!!

>>715933313
>>715933503
shes so cool

>>715933119
>Reject her premise outright, and discredit her as being a hateful sexist
Anon, you're acting like a woman. Your prognosis isn't looking good.

>>715931105 (OP)
Concord was made to be a tax writeoff.
Convince me otherwise.

>>715931368
No one cares it was $40. It didn't sell because no one knew about it. People were interviewing cashiers and even the cashiers didn't know it existed.

>>715934120
I doubt it. IIRC Hermen Hulst was so convinced that Concord was going to do Overwatch-tier numbers that he ordered an entire merch run with Concord-themed PS5 peripherals.

>>715931901
Hell you got against One Piece?

>>715934423
Don't forget, he not only ordered weekly(!) lore videos for the characters, but also paid for a slot on the Secret Level anthology series. That shit don't cost a dollar.

>>715934120
>Convince me otherwise.
I have 4 very good reasons for why you're wrong:
You are retarded.
You don't know how taxes work.
You don't know how money works.
You don't know what a tax writeoff is.

Source: If paying people to do nothing productive was a way to make money you would have started a company and pumped out games nobody wants already. But you are a retard with no knowledge of taxes, money and what writing something off entails.

>>715931105 (OP)
I guess we'll never know!

>>715934120
Far from it, they thought that shit was going to be the next Star Wars. If they really wanted to use it as a tax writeoff, they would have killed it before release like Sega did with Hyenas - that way, it could be justified as Research and Development materials. Instead, they released it as a full and complete product, and had to account for it as such even though it shut down after two weeks and they refunded every copy of it.

>>715932772
>MCU Black Widow
>not objectified/male gazed
What are these people smoking?
The reality is, it's like everything else;
if it's well-made, people will forgive the 'flaws'

>>715931105 (OP)
Why did Sony shut it down after 10 days if they had any faith in it?

>>715931368
Every time you ask this, you incorrectly imply Overwatch and Marvel Rivals got popular for their gameplay.

>>715935341
Because it cost them 400 million USD and sold maybe 25,000 copies.

Because I gave it a try. I didn't let the ugly designs deter me, i tried the free beta and it was the most boring hour of time i've spent playing a multiplayer game. Add onto that the ugly designs and "writing" and it's just a shit game all around.

>>715931105 (OP)

>>715935456
10 days. They didn't give it time to build a player base if there was a chance. That was planned before release.

>>715935341
>had total faith in it and intentionally ignored any bad press because it's "just those annoying gamers again"
>journos shilled it
>Assumed the poor open and closed beta player numbers could be made up for on release. I mean it's a SONY FIRST PARTY GAME for crying out loud.
>Numbers come out and they're even worse than the last beta. No one is interested, no one is even glancing at the game
>10 days pass and numbers don't go up
>realize that servers aren't going to meet their upkeep with such a small player count
>kill it because they're already 400m+ deep and not seeing anything close to breaking even in the game's life time.
>>715931105 (OP)
It couldn't ever become something great because it killed off everyone's interest in the game on the first trailer. They tried to do an Overwatch where they have a cool cinematic trailer that makes you go HOLY SHIT I WANT TO SEE MORE OF THESE CHARACTERS and EVERYONE that saw it noped out. Those that didn't see the trailer saw the key visual you posted and noped out because it just looks ugly. Price wasn't a factor, it never even had a chance to BE a factor. It was simply killed by the first trailer.

>>715935683
>Oh gee lets keep that server farm up and running we're sure to make use of it!

>>715931195
Pro - choice as in feminists should self marry themselves instead of invading other spaces, sure.

>>715935791
10 days. I know that feels like a long time at your age, but it's not for adults.

>>715935683
Anon, they thought it would be a multi-plat launch, and it didn't even crack five digits.

>>715935868
10 days, live after barely attended betas.

>>715932772
>newfags unironically post Reddit links and screencaps
Go back to your faggot website

>>715931105 (OP)
pattern recognition

>>715931105 (OP)
Will you guys ever let this game fucking go

>>715933119
>>715935285
>unironically replying to reddit screencaps
Actually sucking another man's cock to completion is less faggy than these two posts

>>715936717
Its the comic where they make titanic sink and try to make others sink. We got one movie to morb and they gotta try to morb it all.

>>715932772
Yeah this
It backfired badly they had a world tournament on Twitch and still the viewers was 62K total for the game, not even top five game. Can't just treat women like slabs of beef.

>>715931105 (OP)
As someone who appreciates seeing graphics and animation improve each gen I thought the game looked pretty slick from a production point of view. I would have liked to play it at least once as a f2p.

>>715931105 (OP)
>game was such woke slop they gave a fucking robot pronouns
>$40 entrance fee + paid battle passes + paid skin
>0 soul, completely designed from the ground up for investment groups expecting an infinite growth model simply because they made their own Overwatch thats somehow even more sanitized and woke than that gay ass blizzard game

Dude what the fuck
Its corporate slop of the highest level. There wasnt any soul, from the characters being diversity comittee hires to the gameplay being low sodium destiny 2 (ex nubungie employees)

>>715931269
And it looked like a woke turd, don't forget that.

>>715936987
It was free to play during the beta. It was a closed beta initially but they were huffing their own ass gas so hard that they thought people would pre order that shit just to get into the closed beta but what actually ended up happening was that so few players were even on that they had trouble with matchmaking kek. Then they walked back the closed beta with an open beta and people just shat on the game

>>715936926
Literally one of the top played games on steam but ok retard

>>715932772

>>715933461
It's a case where the game is better off dead.

>>715931105 (OP)
They/them should try again. People were busy or something.

>>715931105 (OP)
Character design. That's literally it. If it had hot girls in it people would be more willing to give it a chance, there would be at least some fanart and some free shilling and publicity. But everyone saw the characters and though "wtf is this shit?".
Sure you have the gameplay, the price tag, etc.. but at the end of the day first impressions matter and gamers have a gamer sense that warns them of a shit game just by looking at it.

>>715931105 (OP)
Hold up OP. You're not some low effort shitposter. Make the best case of why we should have given any fucks at about this game, partcularly pre open demo.

What was compelling enough to make this game worth playtime and money?

The guy at Bungie who told Sony to buy this studio must have been having a giggle. Definitely still on Microsoft payroll lmao.

>>715931105 (OP)
It didn't flop, chuds are just stupid.

I genuinely can't believe these were the legendary skins. These were the things they thought you'd want to grind for.

>>715932071
Don't forget that the Star Lord knockoff (Mr. Safety Vest) needed to actually get a kill just to unlock his second pistol to use at all. Literally half his damage output is locked behind getting a kill while kneecapped and if he died he lost it again.

>>715936887
Get morbing.

>>715939637
B3's helmet lady looks neat though.

>>715938327
A cast roster with about 6 negroid lesbians and not one straight white male (or woman for that matter).
Remember that these faggots all constantly say that players need to 'feel represented'.
Their intentions were pretty clear.
>FUCK YOU WHITE MAN.

>>715934120
it wasnt.
it AND its studio was made by probablymonsters to SELL to some idiot as a scam.
sony bought it, and instead of making it a tax writeoff like the previous 2 suckers, dumped another 200 million into it.

>>715939879
if you mean the girl with no face because of her helmet, its because anyone who had prettier facial features than bazz got their face fucked up or covered up.

>>715931368
why helldivers sold a lot while concord failed? it supposed to be sony's biggest live service game

Reminder that Sony forced its studios to play this shit at launch so those abysmal player numbers are actually inflated.

>>715942203
Maybe the one with the aquarium on her head?

>>715931105 (OP)

>>715939637
I’m never gonna get over the asparagus sniper that shit’s hilarious

>>715934120
They bought the fucking studio

I like seeing major corporation burn hundreds of millions on garbage, best video rundown on the while thing?

>>715932772
It's still being a fucking cancerous faggot tourist even if you're doing it ironically.

>>715934137
damn ur retarded af lol

>>715931105 (OP)
>before it could become something great?
Make a game that is great from the start.

>>715932772
>r/mendrawingwomen
Misandry sub hating on women, nothing to see here.

>>715934120
People just throw this meme around because they think it makes them sound cool and in the know. You have no fucking idea how taxes work.

>>715931105 (OP)
They had functioning eyes and ears.

>>715931105 (OP)
that Professor guy's a huge walking red flag
I don't understand game devs getting too uppity, they should shut the fuck up and remain boring names on credits screens

Bazz was too good for this game

>>715954430
Should yes, but it is impossible for that kind of people to shut up their retarded shit

>>715931105 (OP)
an already generic hero shooter with some of the most awfully designed characters in video game history was not capable of being something great, no matter how much time it was given. don't kid yourself.

>spend years developing a game
>it comes out and is horribly received

tough pill to swallow I know

>>715954430
Credits, you say?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfbu0De0oBU

>>715943943
yes, that one. she is one of the best looking girls in the game, so they covered up her face.

>>715931105 (OP)
>let's release a hero shooter way after the genre has been destroyed by BRs
>you know a game like overwatch that used to have attractive men and women
>yeah lets do that but the best looking character is a fucking trashcan

>>715955942
this shit is going to be dead within two months of release unless they add gambling to it

>>715956110
>let's release a hero shooter way after the genre has been destroyed by BRs

feels like it's been years since we got BRs and games have just been in a holding pattern ever since

people just can't make anything fresh

>>715955942
It was intentionally designed to be received horribly and they knew that the entire time, their intention was to go "yeah it's shit what you gonna do about it chud" because they thought the slop eaters would play it regardless of reception and were only caught off guard that even slop eaters have standards.

>>715932772
>>715932829
>>715932884
>>715932983
>>715933083
>>715933353
raider trying way too hard

>>715931105 (OP)
woke bad

they get what they deserve

>>715933313
>>715933503
Do you think they thought they would be praised for making the first black transwoman character in a triple A game?

>>715932772
As expected of reddit. Anyway, their opinions do not matter, fuck them.

>>715934137
>No one cares it was $40.
You're so wrong there.

>It didn't sell because no one knew about it.
Wrong again. Sony advertised the shit out of it. They even made some stupid amazon movie short.

> People were interviewing cashiers and even the cashiers didn't know it existed.
Most cashiers aren't gamers. They just paid to do a fucking job an that's taking payment for goods.

>>715955998
>A button to 'celebrate'
>A SEPERATE button to 'cheer'
>Over an hour long, they even have a progress bar at the bottom
It's so nice to see this behaviour get the treatment it deserves. Thank god I'm in the timeline where this game failed.

>>715955998
Jesus christ there's even a meter that tells you how long the credits have been going

>>715939637
It would work for a comedy setting where a bunch of nerds assemble their larping outfits out of garbage, cardboard and duct tape, but it took itself too serious for that.

>>715955942
>every streamer that tried it said it would be the next big thing
>some of them gave up their whole OW careers to move to deadlock full time even though the playerbase isn't there
doesn't seem like it was that horribly received to me

>>715931105 (OP)
If someone shits on my face, I'm not giving them the benefit of the doubt.

>>715960186
Unless it's Cyberpunk apparently

>>715958040
>Twisted Metal: Small Brawl but a team shooter/mmo
would be too kino i'm afraid

>>715933503
goofy ass nigga

>>715932983
>men are 'threatened' by unfeminine women
lol.
Why do they always use language like this? I find masculine women *unattractive* not 'threatening'.
I sure don't want to spend hours of my life tolerating the constant presence some bulldyke cunt character while I'm trying to enjoy a computer game. If you must give me a woman to play, better make it a big-titted hottie like Lara Croft or Samus.

>>715965715

>>715965715

>>715966516
Who is the principal market for vidja?
>Straight guys who like hot chicks
>Feminists butthurt about 'objectification'
Which market is most likely to see a return on your investment if catered to?
See Concord for your answer.

>>715966791

>>715966917
Ooh a bachelor's degree in sociology, lol.

>>715966917
I think I will just respond to those people with
>ok so you have no college education, got it

>>715967163
>>715967229

>>715967417
are you just gonna post some midwits reddit retardation?
I don't need to hear some idiot vomit up propaganda about all the imaginary progress they were supposedly making in shitholes that stone you to death for not following their barbaric culture.
Islam is only more civilized in places where it has literally been corrupted from its barbarism by cultural exposure to the modern world, which is what that idiot is talking about.

Islam is a YOUNG barbaric religion, and has 200 years to go before it will be as old as Christianity was when Martin Luthor shattered the catholic hegemony.

>>715967973
Watch out anon, zhe might downvote you.
That would affect your karma.

>>715931105 (OP)
No one gave a shit about this game until it bombed, literally never seen anyone talk about it until then

>>715968321
If my big dick energy is so massive it reaches all the way into reddit to slap a bitch across the face without me doing anything, that aint my problem.

Tell her to be a good islam bitch and shut the fuck up while men are talking; its culturally insensitive of her to go about without a man to make sure she doesnt act like a whore, per islam.
Literally part of their book and one of their core practices.

>>715959790
streamers do that for every game that comes out

>wow guys I think this game is gonna be huge
>play it for a week
>done with it

>>715968527
it bombed as soon as it was hyped up, idiot.

>>715968321
>>715967417
>>715968576
This dude is actually an arab male living in france according to his profile

>>715933119
>Point out that the west is gynocentric
They'll call you deluded. What examples can we give that prove otherwise, aside from family court?

>>715968527
Well that's why it bombed.
But Sony spent 400,000,000 on it which is hilarious. Shows how out of touch the suits who disburse the funding are.

>>715968576

>>715931105 (OP)
The best looking character was a trashcan. Maybe that has something to do with it. When I want to play these games I want to be a gigachad.

>>715969087
Why do you keep posting this homosexual arab's feminist reddit posts?
Are - are you trying to *educate* us, anon?
lulz

>>715968845
I don't care where the useless idiot is from.
Sociology as a class is pointless beyond the 101 stage, as is psychology.
Anything after that is for morons who cannot apply the knowledge to study things properly themselves, and get fed propaganda and the thinking of other people instead of forming their own.

>>715969041
no, sony spent 200 million developing it further after buying it for whatever amount from probably monsters.

>>715969087
>9gag
as if I needed a reason to value his opinion less.
everything he is trying to tout as deep was shit he should have realized as a fucking freshman in his 101 classes on sociology at the latest.
this is the barest of fucking basics to understanding people.

>>715969305
You are brainwashed by the patriarchy and white supremacy my guy. Be a decent human being for once, yikes. Stop being icky

>>715969305
This nigger posts on r/kengan ashura and r/grapplerbaki lmao

>>715969414
I wanted to be a good feminist ally but I don't have a fedora.

>>715969483
so go make a subreddit to stalk him from and leave us OUT of it.

>>715934120
You don't throw $400 million at something if you want it to be a tax writeoff

>>715931269
This. Why would you play this when overwatch is free? Literally just overwatch but somehpw shittier

>>715955942
>>715956171
>>715956230
>>715959790
>mindbroken /v/tard still convinced a goddamn beta is actually the full release
>"BUT I THINK-"
fuck your mother.
no amount of increasingly deranged screaming will make it the full release.

>>715942335
Learn to speak English before posting on this site. With every passing day you ESL retards give me ever more eye cancer

>>715970597
you didnt even read my post

>>715939637
These two skins look much better that the originals

>>715971562
That fucking hat is worse than the helmet.

>>715958040
it would look better in a more stylized art style
realism for weird sci-fi was always gonna look off-putting

>>715931105 (OP)
it didn't have a healslut character in a hero shooter
imagine kicking out female players because you want to have quirky gameplay design

>>715931105 (OP)
Looked like DEI slop designed to make a profit in a saturated market
Ended up being DEI slop designed to make a profit in a saturated market

>>715939637
they truly are among the least inspired character designs ever conceived
impressive in a way

Didn't most of the concord lead devs already get new jobs as leads?

>>715931105 (OP)
>promotional material consists of long rendered story cutscenes
>mention that they want to focus on regular episodic story content
>partenered with amazing to make a full episode for their new story game
>in a pvp shooter with no coop or story mode
they had completely lost the plot on what they were making, not one person in any executive position had a clue

>>715972221
It's not that far fetched of an idea. People really get into the lore and world building of games like league and even overwatch despite not having pve or story modes, and there is usually an audience for it in those communities. Giving lore content to characters can help make them more attractive to players too.
It's bizarre because games like overwatch had next to nothing, most of its lore was retconned literally as the game came out, and the rest was in fucking tweets.

>>715931105 (OP)
I'm a hero shooter fan and I played the free PS5 beta; it was really slow and mid and just not very fun. And to ask for $40 on top of that in a competitive live service world, like the game was still stuck in 2016? It deserved its failure and Sony was absolutely stupid to not pull the plug on this instead of burning a quarter of a BILLION dollars on this. Think of all the games we could've had but didn't for this disaster that any real gamer that's not a trend-chasing corpo empty suit could've seen coming from a mile away. Concord is the epitome of Sony's live service slop failure and Marathon is looking to be next.

>>715972652
no, it is.
the things you are talking about are difficult to cultivate and require capturing the attention of a large enough audience that you naturally net the sort of creatives, autists, and paypigs that can create a self-sustaining fanbase full of content.
They were acting like they would be the next Overwatch during its original explosion.

>>715972652
Having a lore-hungry base first requires having a base. No one cares if a dev offers a hundred hours' worth of character lore and worldbuilding if no one cares about the characters and world in the first place - and the test releases should have made it very clear to the devs that they didn't have the market to support the multimedia franchise they thought the game would be.

>>715972898
Is Marathon still coming out? I thought the plagiarism scandal got the project dumpstered.

>>715973234
Marathon and Fairgame$ are both apparently still coming out despite everyone knowing both are going to fail spectacularly. It's astounding how badly sunk cost has taken over Sony's decision making since they'll end other live service games in the womb that would have been at least mildly successful like the Spider-Man one or The Last of Us one but keep going on with these awful ones? How in the world hasn't everything been Hyenas'd and more focus been made on singleplayer new IPs?

>>715936507
half the board is already full of faggots from /r/neet by now tho

>>715931368
>>715931595
$40 for a game is not the issue. people will pay for a game if the game looks good.
600k + people on steam paid $30 for POE2, a game that will be free to play in the next year.

if concord wasnt dogshit it would have sold just fine at $40.

How poor do you have to be to care about $40? Sony shouldn't have refunded you thirdies.

>>715974182
>$40 for a game is not the issue.

It IS a issue when none of it's competiators were charging a cent.

>600k + people on steam paid $30 for POE2, a game that will be free to play in the next year.

They wanted early access to play that shit now instead of waiting a year. It's a enitrely different situation.

>>715972898
>>715973234
>>715974029
Marathon is good. suck my dick

>>715974269
>Sony shouldn't have refunded you thirdies.

you stupid? If they didn't refund people, they would have been in massive lawsuits over charging people and then closing the servers in a week. It would have been bait and switch.

Sony had to cover their arses when they closed the servers.

>>715974029
Fairgame$ is especially baffling to me, because Sega tried "futuristic FPS about three-man teams of off-beat misfits robbing rich people", and binned it before release because no one wanted to play it. What does Sony think will happen?

>>715974365
nah bro. literally nobody played the game or even tried the free open beta. if the price tag is the issue the game would have had a lower player count, not a literally non existent player count. people just didnt want to play. there's a reason why they shut the game down and closed the studio instead of altering the game into a free to play model.

>>715974269
You don't have to be broke to get pissed off when something you paid good money for turns out to be dogshit.

>>715972652
It might have helped if all the characters in Concord weren't fat brown homosexuals and if all their backstories weren't retarded.

>>715931105 (OP)
Personally, i'm dead fucking tired of hero shooters and never even liked them, to begin with. I thought peak tf2 was boring and i thought peak ow was boring.

>>715935630
>jon weisnewski
>we
These fucking kikes.. every single time...

>>715931105 (OP)
It's a skin shop disguised as a video game for faggots, niggers and women. it flopped immediately

>>715977161
Weirdest shit is, most of the premium skins look genuinely worse than the default outfits. >>715939637

>>715974535
How close to launching was hyenas?

>>715972652
People only got into OW lore because they thought it was gonna go somewhere. They thought Blizzard was just laying the foundations with the character shorts and then there'd be a big epic story, especially when they announced a PvE mode. Then then cancelled that mode and did nothing but retcon previously established story elements and then the story never happened.

I like how everyone just forgot deadcock exists.
Mfs made a game worse than tf2 (17 years old soon) in every way and they want to tell me the competency crisis isn't real. Lmao.

>>715977839
There wasn't an official release date, though the game had a closed beta running through the start of September 2023, and was speculated to be aiming for a Q4 release the same year. However, low interest and poor reception to the beta led to Sega cancelling the game at the end of the month.

>>715978343
Isn't the game in an invite-only closed beta?

>>715936717
This game is now the biggest commercial failure in video game history surpassing ET. No people are going to keep talking about it.

>>715974471
What? You're not entitled to those servers, retard. You rented the game and you got to play for 10 days. You agreed to it.

>>715931105 (OP)
Designs looks visually unappealing, pandering was desperate and it released maybe 12 or 13 years past the point it would have been received well.

Normies are getting idpol fatigue. Why play something that proselytizes towards me when I can play Space Marine 2 or Dave the Diver instead?

>>715979127
>Publisher shells out 400 million dollars for a game (including the cost of buying the studio itself) over eight years of development
>Makes literally zero dollars and zero cents
It might actually be the biggest commercial failure in the history of media. Even the most expensive movie flops made back SOME money.

>>715974535
Snoy has a huge ego and thinks that PS5 owners will unconditionally eat up whatever slop they are given. They're correct to an extent given the PS5 library, but even they have their limits. Unappealing live service garbage outdated by almost a decade seems to be the straw that broke the camel's back.

>before it could become something great?

Why do you fags accept shit on a plate and hope it stops smelling like shit over time? Games use to just release as a good product.

>>715931105 (OP)
Shameless lootbox-selling vehicle disguised as an actual video game in a genre that's already inundated with titles and that arrived roughly five-six years too late. It's trying to be Overwatch but here's the thing, no-one likes hero shooters anymore, they are trite, boring, and frankly not very fun to play. You are more likely to get irrationally angry and feel like shit playing these forced, overly-tuned, sensitive metaslave games that ranks you in arbitrary matchmaking than have fun; all so you can be kept on a treadmill which wants to sell you lootboxes, and probably battle passes.
DOUBTLESS they had plans for a huge league tournament and they shamelessly though this wet noodle shartfart of a bland IP would be their big huge money wagon Marvel Studios moment and it's extremely, extremely off-putting. I don't want to play franchise garbage like I am some 6-year old cheering for McDonald's, I want to play a video game with some actual chops and credence to it; good damn luck with that.

>>715980843
>Shameless lootbox-selling vehicle
That's the thing, they were only going to sell skins after launch for a set price to upkeep the servers, the game had everything else available for free just by leveling up each individual character. There were no lootboxes and I don't think there was even a battle pass. They advertised the game on this which is why they argued it was a good deal for $40.

>>715981543
Doesn't matter when that's the perception people have of your game

>>715939637
These people are vicious highly skilled and professional killers shooting at one-another in a high-stakes life-or-death gladiator game in space; competing with their life against organic and inorganic beings from all over the universe, that's a very very big and very very dangerous contender pool because in theory it would know no limit to the individual power of the contestants.

So why are they all so fucking cheerful and why are they so colourful and carefree and whimsical and quirky and always high-morale and in good spirits?
The tone is just so off

>>715931105 (OP)
I like the fat poojeet character. They should make a 3D platforming game with him in it. With garbage and shit everywhere because India

>>715974182
>people paid $30 for POE2
That's different THOUGH. POE2 is the kind of game where you get a distinct advantage for getting in earlier. It's basically a $30 P2W charge. People spend far more on those kinds of games to get an edge, even without an in-game cash shop or what have you.