Concord - robots with pronouns

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Is it really funny that eight years of development culminated in character designs that could have been achieved by prompting midjourney with "tumblr gay overwatch pastiche" and then removing the extra thumbs? Yes.

With that said, I hope people aren't mistaking that as the reason Concord flopped and missing the wider point about GaaS and the fickle, inaccessible demographic that has been carefully cultivated to sustain it. Firewalk's target audience, along with everyone else that's trying to launch the Next Big Thing, generally already has a forever game that they can clock into night after night with their friends/coworkers in the hopes of getting some sort of response from their now totally ravaged dopamine receptors. They'll sink thousands of hours into their second job of choice, dropping fifteen bucks here and there for a content pass or cat ear cosmetic for the privilege of being able to play for "free". The hopes of anyone being able to unseat an already well established IP that has a stable population of spenders mainlining their shit are bleak to begin with. You are one negative news cycle or less than enthusiastic playtest from those hopes being totally dashed as hardened GaaS veterans all simultaneously smell a failure and realize that it isn't worth jumping ship from the game they have probably poured more time and effort into than raising their own misbegotten children. It's how D2 has been able to rather easily survive multiple hated expansions, disappointing seasonal content reskins, and straight up deleting paid content from the game. "You've been on this ride for x years/y hours, where are you going to go? And it's all been freeeee*!"

The industry is now in a pickle where there's a clear playbook for laying a golden egg but it's expensive and requires mapping out and executing at least a year's worth of post-launch content before you even know how what you have at launch is going to be received. There is no such thing as a moderate success, only striking it rich or falling flat on your face, and the same design playbook you are beholden to has built in guardrails that have already turned your target audience into slavish devotees of one of a handful of other games. I doubt that the forty USD gate fee for Concord was a miscalculation. It was probably a desperate attempt to recoup something in light of everyone on the inside realizing some time ago that the game had no legs. The character design mockery might have been Concord's bad press moment that doomed a game that would have otherwise been a big hit, but my gut says that it's more of a product of existing live service games already having total control over the market and Sony leadership being asleep at the wheel. Even with a kickass art direction and non-weirdo office culture there is only so much room for more Games as Jobs, only so many people with so many hours to devote to a new style of videogame that demands you to always be logging into it, playing it, or watching someone else play it. Sony is probably going to go back to focusing on pumping out AMC melodrama-tier ledge climbing sims and be fine, but I wonder where a lot of the "too large to be profitable making $20 faux indie titles, too small or financially unstable to take a shot at unseating Fortnite" developers are going to be pivoted to in the next decade or so.
 
$150 million spent on this and the devs throw a shitfit saying we should buy their game because they worked hard.

For context, Live Aid 1985 raised $140 million to help starving kids in Africa (ethiopia) and saved thousands from starvation. I guess Sony really isn't that woke if they're willing to throw this money down the drain vs saving starving niggers.

Joking aside, it really puts shit into perspective when money is allowed to be wasted like this with ZERO benefit to mankind, all because a company is trying to please some twitter trannies.

Die and suffer, Sony.
 
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So uh.... when does the "picking up steam" part happen?
 
You forgot the best character:

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The saddest part is, as shit as Hyena's designs were, they're still objectively better than Concords. Theres some sense of cohesion to the designs and you can tell some thought actually went into then. They're still awful, but an effort was made. I mean ffs, this one in particular is the Mona Lisa compared to every single one of Concords, and its just a fucking lanky autist in a Sonic costume. I genuinely can't get over how fucking hideous this cast is. I just can't comprehend how a sentient being can look at ANY of those characters and think "yeah, that looks good" without their conscience screaming at them to stop being retarded.

The only two I can give a very generous pass to is the mushroom, who's still generic as shit, and the suit robot, but my experience with degenerates leads me to believe its a mega-faggot in game which tarnishes it.
 
The bargain basement character designs certainly didn't help but I also think that there just isn't room for more than a handful of hero shooters. It reminds me how in the 2010s we were seeing a new MMORPG every other week, none of which ever cracked 10% of WoW's player count and the vast majority of which shut down inside of a year.
 
$150 million spent on this and the devs throw a shitfit saying we should buy their game because they worked hard.

For context, Live Aid 1985 raised $140 million to help starving kids in Africa (ethiopia) and saved thousands from starvation. I guess Sony really isn't that woke if they're willing to throw this money down the drain vs saving starving niggers.

Joking aside, it really puts shit into perspective when money is allowed to be wasted like this with ZERO benefit to mankind, all because a company is trying to please some twitter trannies.

Die and suffer, Sony.
$150M and apparently they shut down Japan Studio to help fund this mess of a game.
What pisses me off the most is their reaction to all this, they are just covering their ears and refuse to reflect on why their game was so ill-received.
 
Then you're gonna love Parris of Kinda Funny and Gamertag Radio
I hate this fucking cope. "They poured years of their life into trying to entertain you!"

No they didn't. They poured years of their lives trying to make a product to suck off DEI investors for cheap cash and were fine with filling the game full of ugly niggers to do it. And worst of all, they aren't even pretending for easy money, they genuinely believe they're talented and doing a good thing.

The first thing a dev related to the project did was shit on their audience. AAA devs fucking hate their target audience with a passion ergo they hate ME. You're goddamn right I'm going to call them stupid faggots and relish in their failure.
The bargain basement character designs certainly didn't help but I also think that there just isn't room for more than a handful of hero shooters
While somewhat true Overwatch has been falling apart for years now, a proper AAA successor would very easily supplant it if it was good and had appealing character design.

People say this shit about gachas and stuff too but those games still get made and still print money because the girls are cute. Sex sells. I guarantee people would be playing this if the heroes were big titty anime girls.
 
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the entitled leftists unironically believe it being a Woke Game was the main reason it failed, if I want to play a game like this theres Overwatch and its free to play, they cannot fathom the idea of Hero Shooters being oversaturated in the market, they just want to seethe about Racism thats literally it.
While I'm sure there's wokie cope out there, this post (and the reactions to it) screams troll. *Nobody* cares about this game.
 
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the entitled leftists unironically believe it being a Woke Game was the main reason it failed, if I want to play a game like this theres Overwatch and its free to play, they cannot fathom the idea of Hero Shooters being oversaturated in the market, they just want to seethe about Racism thats literally it.
bloody hell. the steam forums are brutal. the first 5 pages of threads are just people taking the piss
 
bloody hell. the steam forums are brutal. the first 5 pages of threads are just people taking the piss
Admittedly the steam forums have been trolling central for years now. There is no game forum, that is not filled with shitposts. Even on older games. But with this, that entire forum is just shitposts now. That is why the mods have given up and probably got reassigned.
 
I'm a little low key butthurt that there will never be an Evil Within 3 but if trannydevs want to make garbage like this or Dustborn corpos be like "sure here's 200 million! Anything else we can do for you? Suck your ladycock perhaps? These devs aren't even fit to lick Tango Gamework's shoes.

Hell Konami got asshurt over Kojima spending like a third of Concave's budget.
 
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