Breaking: Concord is shutting down on September 6, full refunds. (Update: Servers Now Closed)

Airbus

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Hopefully there is a sexy robot you are wank to in Astro or this board will have to hear how much you hate the game and want that cancelled too.
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This thread is about concord

Why bring astrobot into this conversation?

whataboutism bro
 

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Great news for the doomers who seem to think this is a win for them.

This will help Sony resurrect Japan Studios and start making their favourite games.
 
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remember: Days Gone sold 10M+ copies and didn't get a sequel so games like Concord and FairGame$ could be made
Days Gone was broken on day one and the story took too long to get going for people to give a fuck. That's why the ratings were shit.
 

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Sony, Sony killed factions.
or maybe even ND.
ND Killed factions. doesnt really matter for my point.
yet they went full steam ahead with a game that had 0 hype behind it.
ND killed factions. ND has no power over other studios. I can't believe I typed this out. ND can't sign off on another studio's game.
 
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This thread is about concord

Why bring astrobot into this conversation?

whataboutism bro
That post was to someone whose chief complaint of Concord is the characters weren't sexy enough and he wanted to cancel the game. Now reread the post you quoted.

No whataboutism at all.
 
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Airbus

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That post was to someone whose chief complaint of Concord is the characters weren't sexy enough and he wanted to cancel the game. Now reread the post you quoted.

No whataboutism at all.
It is whataboutism

The original post is about concord but you bring astrobot into this convo which is unrelated at all with this game
 

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Wow, I didn't expect this so fast. Sales must have been abysmal on PS too, not only in Steam.

I wonder if they'll try to take some time to rework it adding more appealing character designs for the main group of players that plays this type of game (mostly males, mostly heterosexual and mostly white), a more unique artstyle in the genre (the one from its cartoon shorts would be ok), and some changes in terms of gameplay/game design to make it more unique when compared to similar games.

But to do this would take some time.

Great news for the doomers who seem to think this is a win for them.

This will help Sony resurrect Japan Studios and start making their favourite games.
They continue making games as Team Asobi and XDEV Japan.

remember: Days Gone sold 10M+ copies and didn't get a sequel so games like Concord and FairGame$ could be made
If Bend didn't make Days Gone 2 wasn't because of bad sales. It was because one or some of the heads of the studio wanted to make another new IP instead.
 
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>people are claiming PC is the problem
The game wouldn't have been shut down if it was doing well on Playstation, it would've just dropped support on PC.
It being on PC didn't kill it; it's a live service clone of Overwatch released years after Overwatch itself lost its relevance, and breaking into the live service industry is a lot like gambling.
Live service games are forever games designed to keep people playing. The thing is, is that people who play these titles have already found existing live service games to fill that time, and people only have so much time and money on their hands.
Creating a live service game is like gambling because it's pretty much just luck if the game will take off or not. Helldivers 2 was an anomaly not the norm for what Sony can expect with such titles.

Plus the game just didn't look particularly good? Lot easier to get excited for "it's like starship troopers but as a game where you fight not only bugs but terminators" than "its like overwatch but with worse character designs"