If they wanted to make the game F2P it’s to late now. Concord been slandered as a solely 5v5 pvp hero shooter for $40 while other pvp games are F2P.My guess is they'll have to take this F2P and try to monetize the game in a different way, but even that might not help at this point.
Making it F2P now will further make it seem like no one cares or is buying the game & further piss of people who did put money into it & having to cancel there pre orders. Not to mention that people already label concord as a $40 game.
This game deserves to bomb. From the clear agenda driven elements to PS making it $40 to further entrench PS console user into PS+ while PC players don’t need PS+. Hopefully PS & firewalk learn to never pull some shit like this again. Make a great pvp game w heroic/iconic characters design players would invest into not being inclusive just for the sake & having ugly as shit character design just for diversity. The only games PS should be charging $40 is PVE games. All PS PVP game should be F2P the only case a PVP PS game should cost money is if it’s something like PS allstars or a multiplayer centric game using Sony/PS characters in a sandbox party style game even then it should be F2P & monetize through skins/cosmetics & battlepasses