Thread 719691604

Architect of Sony's disastrous 'live-service push' says failures are good actually, because now there's "more nigorous and more frequent testing"

>I figured out how to use inspect element
2/10 attempt, apply yourself

>>719691604 (OP)
Look mom! I learned what F12 does!!!1!!1
EBIN, JUST EBIN :DDDD

>>719691604 (OP)
Hehe, nigorous

>>719691685
https://www.gamesradar.com/platforms/ps5/architect-of-sonys-disastrous-live-service-push-says-failures-are-good-actually-because-now-theres-more-rigorous-and-more-frequent-testing/

>>719691727
>>719691685
holy seething samenigger

>>719691604 (OP)
nigorous kek

>>719691604 (OP)
>Here's how throwing away 400 million dollars is actually a good thing for the company
do these retards have a functioning brain?

>>719691959
>two people cannot POSSIBLY have the same thought when seeing something
I will never not be astounded by the bullheaded stupidity of you morons

This article is pure cope
if it was a small budgeted failure it'd probably make more sense but Concord was fucking catastrophe with how much money it cost and how little it sold
It was a complete waste of money for 8 YEARS of work PLUS extra for all the marketing material like getting a episode dedicated for it in Amazons Secret Levels

>>719693542
>This article is pure cope
>if it was a small budgeted failure it'd probably make more sense but Concord was fucking catastrophe with how much money it cost and how little it sold
>It was a complete waste of money for 8 YEARS of work PLUS extra for all the marketing material like getting a episode dedicated for it in Amazons Secret Levels

>>719691604 (OP)
I am bleeding money, making me the victor!

>>719691604 (OP)
>Nigorous

>>719693638
Don't @ me with such an ugly picture thank you :3

>>719691604 (OP)
"Nigorous"?

Why are they STILL batting for the game so long after it died?
It fucking flopped, it was forgettable, it was a blatant attempt to cash in on a dying trend, and on top of it the game was hideous to look at. If they're really going to pretend that several years of development + hundreds of millions of dollars invested only for the final product to bomb was somehow a good thing because they're cautious is so delusional.
We know why the game flopped, the designs were ugly and unpleasent and the game offered less than what overwatch or marvel rivals does.

>>719693957
You don't spend that much without getting something

>>719692513
>>719693957
Because they're trying to recontextualize the failure, and protecting the motherfuckers who failed that hard. They did the same for Veilguard even after it was demonstrated to be a full spectrum failure.

The lead character designer on Concord, the one who insisted on some really racist shit managed to land another job in AAA, at Call of Duty.

Notice how this article de-empasizes how much they blockded out the "chuds" from work ,from testing, from marketing, from every step that would have told them that this shit was a massive failure, and how much extra money they blew on less than useless DEI shit that ended up just hurting the product in the long run?

The press is also covering for itself on how hard it fucked up.

>>719691604 (OP)
utterly niggerlicious

>>719693542
Astro Bot probably got such a huge boost because they had to repurpose the advertising money spent in advance for promos like winning the Game Awards

What the fuck is niggerous??

>>719694248
This. You idiots need to realize that these games are either written off long before they get made. You would be an idiot to think that they didnt calculate this and understand that it would flop. They wanted it to flop.

>>719693957
They knew all of this stuff, and still did it.

>>719696452
what about that cinematic episode they produced? Why spend the time and energy if you're going to cancel the game

>>719697030
Doesnt matter. It was meant to flop and thats it. Nobody can really grasp what they were really going for but you can be damn certain they knew the ins and outs

>>719696452
>>719697073
nigga are you stupid? thats 8 years of dev time + the studio they fucking BOUGHT and then closed after release + the fucking amazon show
That's WAY TOO MUCH MONEY to just simply be a write off.

>>719691604 (OP)
>more niggerous
With nim and niggor

>>719697874
no you don't understand Sony is very smart they play 7D chess mere mortals like you can't possibly grasp and that's why you're poor

>>719691604 (OP)
>nigorous
I see what you did there

>>719691604 (OP)
>nigorous

>>719693957
While the designs are hideous and the game offered little, I think the fact that it wasn't F2P is underlooked in hindsight. They were charging $40 for that piece of shit when Overwatch went F2P a year before, Marvel Rivals was already doing playtests and was F2P, and TF2 had been free for almost 15 years. Even if the game had good character designs it was entering a saturated market with an upfront price tag that neither the established and upcoming competition had.

>>719691604 (OP)
>nigorous
Well that's an unfortunate typo! This is why you need editors, folks. Rather thematically appropriate, actually.

>>719696452
>>719697073
>"Sony ruined their place in market on purpose, you see!"
Bruh. Concord failed so hard that they're starting to ease out of console manufacturing. Are you serious right now?

>>719697874
You do realize they can make up the fact that it was 8 years right? It didnt cost that much either
>>719699259
Thats not even true at all. The ps5 is on track to beat the ps4 most likely and is their most profitable gen to date.

>>719699259
They didnt ruin anything. Call of duty is where they make their live service money from.

>>719693638
This article is pure cope
if it was a small budgeted failure it'd probably make more sense but Concord was fucking catastrophe with how much money it cost and how little it sold
It was a complete waste of money for 8 YEARS of work PLUS extra for all the marketing material like getting a episode dedicated for it in Amazons Secret Levels

>>719699059
To be fair the open beta was free, and even then the playercount was abysmal.

>>719699706
Doesnt matter. They knew it would lose and it did. It didnt take 8 years, they just say that to meet the parameters of whatever tax bill/trying to pay themselves secretly through loopholes, etc. Youre retarded

>>719693389
it's really easy to fake this, obvious samefag

>>719699762
>They knew it would lose
How many levels of 4D chess can you ascribe to playstation, you filthy fanboy?

>>719691604 (OP)
>literally the entire internet was telling snoy that concord was DOA months in advance before it released
>retard "journalist" see this as a "good" thing
LMAO

>>719699848
Its true. Its the way things work. Nobody would agree to that unless it made sense

>>719691685
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEZsGUqgtHQ

>>719693709
Do you really believe that they didnt know what they were doing?

>>719699848
I’m sure Fairgame$ and Marathon can be successful enough to recoup any losses

>>719700120
not expected to, just more write offs and under the table payments to themselves

>>719700090
>"Sony totally knows what they're doing!"

>>719700191
You do realize sony has shareholders and investors. No one can justify wasting millions for "write offs". Also that would be highly illegal and very obvious you dumbfuck

>>719700120
>Marathon
You meant the game that everyone hate on sight because it has fuck all to do with Marathon? The extraction shooter they somehow thought was a good idea? The game that was made with stolen art? Dude.

>>719691604 (OP)
>nigorous

>>719699950
>Nobody would agree to that unless it made sense
How new to life are you? Big losses aren't commonly fraudulent galaxybrained plans to rip off investors- most of the time they're fucking retarded mistakes.
Corporate America IS retarded. YOU are a retard.

>>719700395
What if its the shareholders and investors who are using Sony as a vessel to move their money behind the scenes? Bet you didnt think of that.
>>719700384
Nobody would buy those ips and it doesnt matter if they would. These companies dont care about making money. They are doing operations completely independently of it. They can just use ip strategically

>>719700395
Even the shareholders publicly expressed disappointment that Sony refuses to just make normal video games.

>>719700473
Theyre not ripping off anyone if its the investors who are perpetrating it

I mean if I lost $400M I'd also generate a coping mechanism for it

>>719700461
People are still going to buy it just because it has Bungie’s name on it.

>>719700518
*secretly paying yourself and acquaintances that money and disguising it as a loss

>>719700542
But everybody hates Bungle.

>>719700567
at least try and post an opinion you even slightly believe in

>>719693957
The company itself uses these type of ''This complete failure wasn't actually a complete failure!!!" cope articles to lie to investors. It's not written for gamers to try and convince us it's not a total failure, it's so they have ''news/media sources'' to show at the next investor meeting and lie to them.

>>719691604 (OP)
>nigorous
Someone please tell me what does this mean?

fuck you

>>719700395
Kill yourself. Studios in hebrewood, particularly yidsney, do it all the time. One subsidiary flops like Star Wars, well that's okay because marvel sold just fine.

>>719700687
Ooh, this is an unusual sort of mad! But it's true: Bungle is collapsing at its rotten seams with nothing to show for the nearly-4 billion dollar acquisition but a dead-on-arrival extraction shooter!

>>719700702
Marvel's not doing well at all.

>>719700684
You'd think it was a typo but the R key and N key aren't even close.

That's what we need. MORE testing. Game dev cycles are already 5-8 years but what we need are games to take 9 years to release! Yay!

>>719691604 (OP)
>nigorous

>>719700473
>>719700482
>>719700514
Herman Hulst said Concord was the most important Sony IP since Horizon, he claimed it was going to become a big Star Wars tier multimedia property. You're not going to gas light people into thinking Sony intentionally lit 400 million on fire as some sort of 4D chess genius move.

>>719702574
other keyboard layouts exist

>>719702758
I don't believe Scott uses that layout.

>>719693638
uh oh, looks like gcj is here

Stop talking about the shit game and post it-z.