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Concord is Ded, Not a Big Soup Rice

09 September 2024

Sixteen days left till my birthday!

I'm back again, sorry. No update yet regarding with the story of Starla N Co, i'm busy with other errands. Including the the thesis. Still battling with those thing, i have another desire to do other stuff but...Man, something really hold me back.

So, what's on the news?

Finally, Concord is dead. Their server cease to exist, online sale pulled out of store yadayadayada.

I'm not joking, around 3 days ago. 06 September 2024, Concord eventually shut down, you can't play it anywhere else, even with physical copy, rendering it useless just like Overwatch disk.

No one mourn the death of Concord, majority of the internet celebrating its death, dancing in their grave if you will. Including myself. That kind of games deserve such failure, i haven't seen any much of people talking about it positively, not even Tumblrites or even Twitter freaks crying over the death of Concord.

Fun fact, housefly life span is only around 15-30 days, which mean those bugs outlived Concord, kinda funny to think about.

While we celebrating Concord's death, gaming urinalist and playstation fanboys is the one that isn't happy and trying so hard to defend the games. And as usual, we laugh about it and not giving a single damn about their buzz.

Even with 8 years development, (yes. It's real, 8 years) We still not caring about it, what are this developer doing around that time? It's also noticed that they have backing from Sony Playstation around 2 years ago, as usual, it's very costly like any modern entertainment project

What causing the failure of the Concord? A lot

The reveal trailer dropped during State of Play, 30 May 2024. It was a CGI animated trailer, people already groaned as they heard the jokes from the character and also the appearance (Hoh, boy. They'll see even much worse later), Of course. The first reception on this game is pretty negative to put it simply. Not to mention it was revealed the game would be a 5v5 hero shooters, and the negativity didn't stop coming, and so Sony and the developer behind this game, Firewalk Studio. They're still insisted to release the game.

They deliver the closed-beta first for those who preorder or maybe buying the premium version, idk. And goodness gracious. The number speak for itself, its only peak about 2000+ players according to Steam, for a live service games. That's very low number. We haven't any ideas how many people play via PS5, but whoever it is, it could be lower than PC.

For a reason, this doesn't seems to bother both Sony PS and Firewalk, they still doing their usual job, releasing character reveal, the cartoon. Yes, a serialized short animated from the game. The dev talk, and more.

It's almost reaching the release date, Sony decided to pull their trump card, another trailer wirh various reaction from the streamers, their reaction is very positive towards the game, and the audience pointing out how disingenuous the trailer is.

Before i revealed the numbers Concord achieved during release (I'm sure some of you already knew) We're gonna talk about the character design, which of course, majority of people didn't like it so much because how unappealing it is, even a professional designer cringed over the design as well.

Daw, Bass, Emira, 1-OFF, DaVeers, was the main spotlight where people throwing their tomato.

I jokingly to myself about Bass is basically Thugnificent from Boondocks but transitioning, but later it was revelaed that Bass is really a trans. According to the lore and also the fact that she's also based from a black trans musician that no one heard of until now. I don't think i find the jokes funny anymore, it's not even a joke.

And now, it was revealed that Concord only reached 600+ players during its release, and the player slowly only got 100+ or less, this is disastrous.

As usual, gaming urinalist try their best to whiteknight the game, several studio under Sony PS banner shill the game as well, but it's not really helping at all, only making people laugh at Concord even harder.

Several developer who worked at Firewalk even say some political shit even before the game release and shitting on other people because of how terrible the game is, one of the dev said talentless freak to the people.

There's a lot, but you find all of these blunders behind the scene via YouTube, it's just disastrous.

the cost for this game is 40$, i'm sorry. What kind of bullshit is this? Why did they put 40$ price tags for this abomination. In this fricking economy too! What a dumbass.

And it was revealed that the sale only got 25k copies, it's very low for the size like Sony PS.

Eventually, 03 September 2024, Sony PS announce to pull the plug and cease the sales online, they even will refund it as well.

And now, 3 days, post-mortem. People still shitting on the Concord and rightfully so, this is supposed to be the message and a lesson for gaming industry that we DON'T want this shitty hero shooters with unappealing character design.

But hey, i'm sure these big corpo still doubling down and releasing another unwanted slop and let the gaming urinalis and fanboys defend it and calling you a name for not consuming the slop.

But one thing i have to give a credit to this game is they're polished and bugs free, which is rare in this current video game climate. Not to mention that they're not going to in-game store or even battlepass (But the game is dead anyway)

So yeah, that's my 2 cent about the Concord, this game will come down to the history of the worst video game ever and their failure deserve to be studied in the future