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Wrong time, 5 years too late
Wrong price, $40 too much
High friction, PSN account required
Nothing new, no new mechanic or feature or playstyle....
From all accounts the game is fine, but nothing makes it stand out enough, against ANY OF THE FREE GAMES: overwatch, planetside, warframe, halo infiniate, tf2!, apex, finals, destiny2, pubg, valorant, cs (not really hero, but close enough), cod warzone, fortnight, and deadlock...
So you have 6 buddies want to play a game... which one are you going to pick?
Yeah everything about this is wrong.
They could have had this golden opportunity if this came out the very week OW1 went OW2 and pissed everybody off. Even with the pay-once price and all that.
But now, it's much much much too late.
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Also, people underestimate just how much art style makes or breaks these games. Concord has some neat hero designs, cool ability sets and smart ideas, but it looks so utterly generic. The heroes are somewhat okay even though they really need an art style that doesn't look like a leftover CoD asset, but wow the levels and gameplay and weapons and all all look like asset flips.
Artists, Sony. Hire some. Your AI cannot save you, as should be evident at this point. Stop paying the corporate accountant to design level art.
When I saw the thumbnails, I legit thought that this game was some kind of spin off from guardians of the galaxy
Lawbreakers came out ~7 years ago and it was too late to get in on the genre then.
Relevant video:
https://piped.video/watch?v=wJ4v2LgVlEA
Holup. Planetside is still around???
https://steamdb.info/app/218230/charts/
https://activeplayer.io/planetside-2/
Yup, and 1,355 people are enjoying it right now!
Wow is that like one server?
I loved PS1, played a bunch of PS2. Game is good but it really suffers when the population of a server is localized. Probably not as big a problem these days I guess
https://www.daybreakgames.com/status/
7 servers
Boo hoo! Let me play a sad song on the worlds smallest violin 🤏
I don't think anybody is upset about Concord failing. At all. I think there are people who are genuinely sad for all of the workers of Concord, in the games industry having a good game on your resume is important. There's probably more than a few completely new employees, first job out of school, spent 7 years, and now they have nothing to show for it. It's not great
So I think we can be empathetic to the people who wasted their lives on this poorly concepted project.
But I haven't seen a single Concord fan out there, I don't see anybody arguing that we should be playing it, nobody's defending it. Hell even Sony is just cutting their losses, they didn't do any real advertising, just slipped it out there