Thread 723124582

Still in absolute awe over how massive of a financial flop this was. What the FUCK were they thinking?

>>723124582 (OP)
I'd really like to see how they pitched this to a bunch of playstation execs who never played a videogame in their lives

>>723124582 (OP)
full of woke leftists and a boss bitch manager who spread an almost cult-like "toxic positivity" sort of mindset.

this is what happens when you let women into the office. especially at a game studio

>kek look how much money they wasted on this
And? It's not your money unc

>>723124582 (OP)
>What the FUCK were they thinking
"Overwatch is really popular, people must love the gameplay!"

sony is racist for letting chud take concord and fairgames from us

>>723124923
Don't worry, Marathon will saBe.

>>723124582 (OP)
"This is going to be the next Star Wars!", apparently.

>>723124582 (OP)
I'm more impressed how they were able to scam sony out of that much money despite never making a single game before. Meanwhile everyone else at sony is getting cut due to budget problems.

>>723124923
But anon, I didn't do anything.

Bazzbros, they took her from us…

you people really shouldn't take Colin's claims about this game seriously. just about everything he said had someone with more credibility disputing or questioning it.

>>723125073
Weren't they ex-Bungie staff? The game certainly played like an extra-shitty version of Crucible.

>>723125235
Sony did buy out the studio and paid for an entire episode on Amazon's series. That shit don't cost a dollar.

>>723125401
>pebblechuck
Into the trash it goes

>>723125401
Just because the game cratered two weeks after launch doesn't mean it's not a video game, anon.

go woke go br-ACK

>>723125401
Concord is (was) a video game

>Those videos showing people speedrunning a team suicide every match for the scant few hours the servers were up so they could try to get cheevos
It all feels so surreal

>>723125478
>>723125557
It says "Thinking?" obviously. Do you not understand this fucking panel? Why are you bots? Why don't you achieve sentience and stuff? Tell your people to upgrade you.

>>723124828
>durr its not your money so why does it matter?

literal NPC take

>>723124582 (OP)
It was a generational game. The new Halo or Twisted Metal. One if the biggest questions future generations will have when they look back on this era is how the fuck this game wasn’t absolutely massive.

>>723124582 (OP)
Do you have any theoretical idea of the amount of theoretical money the theoretical modern audience theoretically has? It's unlimited theoretically! That is exactly what they were thinking and did absolutely zero quantitative or factual research into the viability of their proposed product.

The fact that they thought they had a "Star Wars level" franchise on their hands astounds me. Even if they had a great game with good designs, that STILL would've been utterly delusional to think. Star Wars is one of the biggest franchises EVER. Thinking you're going to hit those heights right away is far beyond setting expectations too high.

>>723126640
But it IS star wars level...disneywars level anyway

They promise a weekly Vignettes and a New character a Month after its Release (and the same Month it was sunsetted on)

So unless they were working on those to the last minute, they must have had a month or two worth of those Vignettes and a Character nearly finished before getting shut down before its first season. even if they were mostly just Characters standing around and talking
Think about that. a whole ass Character nearly done was probably was gonna get teased never seeing the light of day until 20 years in the future when the Nda runs out

I think we're finally out of it, after seeing recent vidya franchise success they're going to realize sex still sells

>>723124582 (OP)
It was an inside job.

>>723124582 (OP)
>What the FUCK were they thinking
They thought they could force a shit game to be popular, but them losing a shitton of money is pretty funny to me.

>>723126640
What's extra funny is when you remember that no one fucking believed Star Wars had any kind of future when it first came out. Lucas went on vacation during the opening week to try and soften the blow, and Fox executives signed him the merchandising rights in exchange for paying him a lower salary, all because everything thought it would be a flop. It was lightning in a bottle, and these dorks thought they had a sure line on something crapped out by the Destiny Crucible team?

>>723126897
They probably had like 3-6 months of content ready to go at that point. Unless they were going to try and run an Epic style developer sweatshop like Fortnight.

Apparently this thing had two moms, not surprising but I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere.

>>723126897
We need lost media's biggest autists on this case

>see popular trend (modern shooters, survival games, mobas, battle royales, hero shooters)
>decide to cash in on the trend
>take years to make the game
>by the time it’s out the fad is waning, and other slop options are oversaturating the market
>game flops
A tale as old as time

>>723124582 (OP)
No one wanted or talked about this game
that it tricked people into thinking it had little if any Marketing at all

kinda fucked they had a whole Variant System for its characters (Small perk changes type stuff)
But only started with 3
They promise more with it in the first Season But it couldn't even last long enough for that

>>723127386
Combining two big Problems of modern gaming
Trend Chasing
and
Long Development times
And since it was a Sony Product, we can throw in Bloated Budgets in there, too

>>723127309
I know people got their hands on an Earlier dev Build that seems to have two Characters in it that aren't in the game. One is far rougher and neither seems to have abilities

>>723127258
Really? To be fair, Bazz seems to have hogged the spotlight. Combine with the worst way to give us character lore.
Like they couldn't even do the pre-match banter apparently, So probably no kill quotes either. leaving that lore dump and those short no one was interested in to make us like the characters

>>723124923
Fairgames isn't cancelled yet

>>723124582 (OP)
>What the FUCK were they thinking?
They didn't think. They all lived in an echo chamber bubble full of toxic positivity, where any kind of criticism was not allowed to even exist.

>>723124582 (OP)
Every thing about that fucking reveal trailer annoyed me

That Marvel-esque conversation about THE PLAN while in the diner made me wanna turn off the stream

>>723127983
>Trend Chasing
To play doubles advocate that is a real potentially viable strategy in business. It isn't the act of doing it itself that becomes the problem, it is when it is not done in a factually based viable manner. If something is big and you can quickly develop a similar product for a reasonable price then you can get into that action. But it is your other points that defeated what would otherwise be a potentially viable strategy because they are simply not realistic about it.

>>723125073
If I remember right they had Bungie determine which live services would make it, which is why this lived and Last of Us 2 multiplayer got cancelled.

>>723124582 (OP)
devs are probably full of terminally online leftists who thinks the majority of gamers thinks like them and anyone who would have a problem with the game's design was a minority of incel chuds not worth paying attention to.

>>723129272
No bullshit this is something that would probably have been largely driven by outside consulting and then reinforced by bad in company hiring choices. There is probably also outside investing criteria for DEI money which can influence it.

>Twisted Metal
>Syphon Filter
>Killzone
>Wipeout
>Nah let's blow $400,000,000 on the ugliest DEI shooter yet, we CAN'T fail with this budget

>>723128101
I just like how the leftist dev team had one guy make everyone address him/xer as "The Professor".

>>723127159
George Lucas is a freemason. There was never the slightest doubt that Star Wars would be a hit. You don't understand how this world works.

>>723124582 (OP)
I am more baffled at people legitimately mad that it was canned, like they wanted it to continue being a flop.
Also the unironic enjoyers as this godforsaken site's contrarianism couldn't get any worse.

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The podcast "A Life Well Wasted"
The host, Robert Ashley, speaks with a few devs who recently worked at a now-defunct studio from Seattle that recently released a game that bombed and was removed from existence: Concord as "the game," Firewalk as "the studio," and Sony as "the big company" clearly in an effort to avoid any potential legal trouble.

>"We were excited locally in the studio, but the public had no idea what it was at first. I thought people were just harsh during the reveal trailer. I was like 'You know what? There's things we need to work on but it's okay. Once people touch the game, it's going to change things.' And then the beta numbers dropped, and numbers were not what we were expecting. And I think our mindset started shifting to 'things could go really bad.'"

>"It made news for how poorly it (the beta) did. Like, people would go out to news sites to, like, hear about our game and how negatively it was doing instead of like, hearing what the game was about. People heard about our game because of how poorly it did. But people didn't hear about what the game was, or even really tried. There was no shortage of news articles and YouTube videos and hate on the internet about how poor the numbers were, so it was pretty apparent."

>>723132890

>"One of the things that a lot of people wonder in the comments section is like, 'what are they thinking!? How do these devs not know (how the game is being received)?' We know. We know full well. We know what's happening. We agree with it half the time. And more often than not, it's (changing the game) just not possible given the circumstances, given the stakes, the sunk cost into these things."

>"It was the most beautiful car that we crashed."

>"Travis" from the art team: Yeah. And I want them to be surprised when I'm happy about it. That's what I want. We were proud, regardless of how it went. We put out a good game."

>>723129197
>they had Bungie determine which live services would make it
The same company that had massive layoffs and whose one existing game is dead? Why the fuck would they do that?

>>723127159
>and Fox executives signed him the merchandising rights in exchange for paying him a lower salary
Still funny to me because you know those exects were kicking themselves in the ass for that.

>>723124582 (OP)
>wow, all of these games are so successful. what if we made our own riff on them now that we have some of the devs responsible?
>takes seven fucking years to make and nobody even wants to think about a game like this anymore

>>723128960
Nta, but I'd also throw in it being live service as thing. There's only so much gamers can take on, especially in this economy.

>>723133331
>>wow, all of these games are so successful.
Theres like 3 hero shooters that are succesful, TF2, overwatch, and marvel rivals. All 3 of those are free, have great designs for the characters, and had better gameplay. And concord came out with a $40 price tag and shit like baz and the trashcan dude as the most interesting designs.

>>723133681
It was Lawbreakers all over again

>>723125073
thats because the people doing the scamming were the ORIGINAL parent company probablymonsters, who have done this shit 3 times and are gearing up for more.
>>723125325
no, the guy in charge of probablymonsters is former bungie corporate.
Firewalk studios was basically a shell company of newhires that were sold as a package deal with their half-finished game to Sony.

>>723133681
easily the most comparable game to concord is destiny 2 though, really showed all the bungie dudes they had there

i liked the trash can dude, hoovering up bullets and turning them into something much more dangerous is a fun concept

>>723134130
>gameplay wasnt like a hero shooter its most like destiny 2 PvP
Ok but destiny 2 PvP is fucking awful.

>>723133681
TF2 isn't even a proper hero shooter.
its a class shooter and you gear out your class according to what you want, and the gear available gives a lot more flexibility and some pieces of equipment are available to multiple classes.

>>723124828
it is in fact everyones money

>>723124582 (OP)
Where is Marathon? Where is FairGame$, Sony? A new sonyflop is in high demand.

>make retarded trash no one wants to buy
why do leftists keep doing it

>>723134247
Class and hero shooters are the same thing and only autists try to argue theyre different.

>>723134383
in concords case I suspect the parent studio knew it would never sell and are just running a scam

>>723134414
hero abilities are unique, class equipment can be shared.
sorry to hear you are genuinely retarded

>>723134458
>hmm today I will play this her-I mean class based shooter
>i want to play her- I mean class with this role and these abilities
>now that I have picked this her-I mean class as my main I'll get used to its main playstyles and how it works and how its role if different from other heros
>but dont say its a hero shooter cause its not