Firewalk Studios is being shut down

[rofif]

I'm trans and i give zero fucks about concord
but concord should be made playable in some way, and you shouldn't close a studio after a single flop

being trans, gay or whatever =/= being woke.
presumably right?

 

[voke]

You mean like nearly ALL gamers? The people who bought Conturd are less than 0.01% of the gaming community.

Sure, if putting it that way makes you children happier

 

[Yurinka]

maybe they closed the studio but moved some people to other studios?

Hermen says there "Neon Koi and Firewalk were home to many talented individuals, and we will work to find placement for some of those impacted within our global community of studios where possible."

being trans, gay or whatever =/= being woke.
presumably right?

Yep. Being woke is basically a religion, it has nothing to do with sexual preferences or identities.

Many LGTB people aren't woke, and many woke people are heterosexual.

 

[Evilms]

 

[Danja]

The minute this game had public existence it was done for. Any one with eyes could have realized that, Those of us who enjoyed the game, were simply just able to look past the vitriol and appreciate it. My 5 man, whenever we matched with familiar players, we all laughed bc we KNEW it aint normal for the matchmaking pool to be so small at launch.

The game is literally the ugly duckling that's actually quite nice if you give it a proper try. I think I ended my journey with nearly 3000 kills / 1000 deaths, 350 Wins 50 Losses.

One of the finest PvP games I have played all generation. Sad we will never get it back.

Exactly! The reception from the revela cinematic trailer alone sealed the deal even I was not amused but the gameplay trailer reeled me back in. The game faced a smear campaign that made it hard for the devs or Sony to overcome. Granted FireWalk and Sony holds some blame for how they chose to reveal that game. But the vitriol was next level lol. Even on this small forum you couldn't actually discuss the game in peace.

But there's a lot of talent there so I hope Sony helped some devs moving forward. Definitely a game I will always look back fond on. I made some cool new PSN friends off it too, that I'm still in touch with.

 

[voke]

Exactly! The reception from the revela cinematic trailer alone sealed the deal even I was not amused but the gameplay trailer reeled me back in. The game faced a smear campaign that made it hard for the devs or Sony to overcome. Granted FireWalk and Sony holds some blame for how they chose to reveal that game. But the vitriol was next level lol. Even on this small forum you couldn't actually discuss the game in peace.

But there's a lot of talent there so I hope Sony helped some devs moving forward. Definitely a game I will always look back fond on. I made some cool new PSN friends off it too, that I'm still in touch with.

100% It should've started with closed beta, and gameplay FROM THE START. PvP gamers care little to nothing about cutscenes, let alone a Marvel quip fest knockoff. If it we're to have the beta, maybe something could've been done with the designs. I know for a fact they had an amazing gameplay system with concord.... no one can tell me otherwise the gameplay was straight crack.

 

[TrishaCat]

being trans, gay or whatever =/= being woke.
presumably right?

technically yes but
Generally that demographic leans left
either way
I, specifically, am extremely "woke" according to the internet. But a game having "woke" character designs is not going to sell me on a game, and I'm sure that's true of most people.

 

[TrishaCat]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: this game didn't fail because of woke
It failed because live service games are a gamble by default, and the game was an Overwatch clone from an unproven studio with forgettable character design years after Overwatch lost its relevance.

 

[rofif]

technically yes but
Generally that demographic leans left
either way
I, specifically, am extremely "woke" according to the internet. But a game having "woke" character designs is not going to sell me on a game, and I'm sure that's true of most people.

exactly!
You dont want character to be your way just for the sake of it.
Story has to be good. Everything has to be earned. And for the most part, in most stories, it should never be even implied who the character fucks since it shoudl not matter.

 

[Dr. E99]

I think everyone knew this was going to be the end result. The question is: did Sony actually learn anything, or are they just tooling up the next GAAS game?

 

[Vertigo]

Writing was on the wall since launch day. Crazy

 

[Danja]

100% It should've started with closed beta, and gameplay FROM THE START. PvP gamers care little to nothing about cutscenes, let alone a Marvel quip fest knockoff. If it we're to have the beta, maybe something could've been done with the designs. I know for a fact they had an amazing gameplay system with concord.... no one can tell me otherwise the gameplay was straight crack.

Absolutely! The game should have had its own State of Play and then instantly announce a PS+ only beta and announce the beta would be live immediately after the State of Play. But I guess the developers assumed players would care about their world building.

I'll be honest I didn't even explore the Galactic Map much outside of earning some free bonus XP... It became a chore after 5 mins lol.

They should definitely keep the technical devs tho and whomever worked on the gameplay aspect... Send me to Bungie

 

[Yurinka]

They didn't shut down Japan Studio, they restructured it.

And in these 8 years they acquired:
Insomniac
Bungie
Bluepoint
Housemarque
Firesprite (basically SCE Liverpool Studio + Evolution + Bizarre Creations + part of Supermassive)
Nixxes
Haven
Valkyrie

Plus did open their PS Creative Arts Malaysia Studio and highly grew the manpower of studios like ND, SSM, Bend, Guerrilla, Polyphony, Insomniac, Bungie etc.

And also acquired other non gamedev stuff like EVO.

SIE's dev studio looks way better than than 8 years ago, I think they right now are a big improvement over what they had 8 years ago.

 

[Dr. E99]

Sony needed to do so much more to make this game stand out, and to justify the $40 asking price. There wasn't really anything on offer that you couldn't get from the myriad of F2P titles already available.

 

[voke]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: this game didn't fail because of woke
It failed because live service games are a gamble by default, and the game was an Overwatch clone from an unproven studio with forgettable character design years after Overwatch lost its relevance.

This is the truth but you know they need a punching bag that justifies their outrage.

 

[Bryank75]

 

[Vertigo]

I don’t agree with this either tho. Concord couldn’t cut it and the devs are responsible too.

 

[Would_you_kindly]

I don’t agree with this either tho. Concord couldn’t cut it and the devs are responsible too.

Herman is responsible when it comes to playstation... He saw concord & jumped on it acquired the studio & bought the IP because he saw some early gameplay of concord

 

[Dr. E99]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: this game didn't fail because of woke
It failed because live service games are a gamble by default, and the game was an Overwatch clone from an unproven studio with forgettable character design years after Overwatch lost its relevance.

Yea...if this game had been released like 7 years ago it might have been a hit.

 

[Gods&Monsters]

It was the same scenario as Redfall afterall with the multiple patches on Steam and then studio shutdown

There were similar reports for Redfall and then Microsoft shutdown the studio and the DLC cancelled

Right as usual

Neon Koi was another useless purchase and rebrand. Zero release. Sony is just being stupid with the GAAS and PC push. The brand is beyond recognizable.

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