An important update on Concord - Concord is getting closed down, all players refunded.

Concord fans — we’ve been listening closely to your feedback since the launch of Concord on PlayStation 5 and PC and want to thank everyone who has joined the journey aboard the Northstar. Your support and the passionate community that has grown around the game has meant the world to us.

However, while many qualities of the experience resonated with players, we also recognize that other aspects of the game and our initial launch didn’t land the way we’d intended. Therefore, at this time, we have decided to take the game offline beginning September 6, 2024, and explore options, including those that will better reach our players.

While we determine the best path ahead, Concord sales will cease immediately and we will begin to offer a full refund for all gamers who have purchased the game for PS5 or PC. If you purchased the game for PlayStation 5 from the PlayStation Store or PlayStation Direct, a refund will be issued back to your original payment method.

Customers who purchased from other digital storefronts will also be refunded. More information about refunds from Steam and Epic can be found below:

Steam Store – Steam Store will refund players who bought the game over the coming days. Steam will send confirmation of the refund once it has been processed.

Epic Games Store – Epic Games Store will refund players who bought the game over the coming days and will contact each customer directly to confirm that the refund has been processed.

Other retailer refunds – For customers who have purchased a physical copy at a retailer location outside of PlayStation directly, please refer to the refund process of the retailer you purchased it from to obtain your refund.

Once refunded, players will no longer have access to the game.

We’ll keep you updated and thank you again to all the Freegunners who have joined us in the Concord galaxy.

* Refunds for PlayStation Store and PlayStation Direct purchases may take 30-60 days to appear on your bank statement. If your original payment source was unavailable, the purchase amount will be refunded to your PSN wallet.

 
What an absolute disaster. How embarrassing is it to release a product so universally disliked and awful that you not only pull its sale, but give out full refunds? That's a level of shame and fear of future reputational impact that I'm astounded by from a big company. Then again, I guess it isn't too much of a loss to refund the several hundred people that bought it versus development cost. Apparently the novelty of playing as a Basketball American bulldyke with a machine gun or downie in a parka just isn't enough to keep players interested.

E.T. on the Atari 2600-tier failure.

Take the game out behind back and shoot it, then pretend it never happened. It's unsalvagable. Better luck next time.
 
Concord arrived August 23, 2024, meaning it has been removed from sale just 11 days after launch and taken offline for all players a mere two weeks after. Even those who bought Concord will no longer be able to play after September 6.

This comes after eight years of development and presumably tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions, of dollars, spent by Sony

:story:
 
First game with a playable Black Trans character, and CHUDS kill it in the first two weeks by refusing to give the proper reparations to Sony. SMDH.

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While you were busy hating minorities, she was studying the box cutter (this is actual in game lore.)

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Imagine pissing 200 millions only to piss even more in refund fees
Just make it f2p and give skins to the retards that paid
Nah best thing Sony could do now is make it tax write off much like Zaslav has done to projects at WB.

They would need to redo everything bar the gameplay and levels, as well as making it F2P to even have a chance of it not bombing this time, and even with that it will likely bomb again and cost them even more. Even just making it F2P would cost more than refunding if the 25k units sold is true, Clawing what they can back with making it a tax write off, is the only sensible thing,
 
tl;dr: Game targeted at an undefined "modern" audience that that brought nothing new to the table fails spectacularly.

I won't be surprised when this leads to a bunch of "restructuring" at Sony and they start cutting the (trans)fat from every division.
 
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