Concord - robots with pronouns

Burt Ryan said:
Then there's that other game where you play a band of whatever, where you can TRIGGER and CANCEL people. That studio is the next one on the chopping block, mark my words.
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Dustborn was made with a grant from the Norwegian gov't, as long as whichever committee made the grant likes the game the studio is fine.
 
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Thomas Talus said:
Dustborn was made with a grant from the Norwegian gov't, as long as whichever committee made the grant likes the game the studio is fine.
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Yea but the guy who wrote it burned all his credibility. When the committee changes, as elections sway. His ass is going to be left with nothing. It is all well and good saying he does not lose today. But in 3 years when all his committee friends are up for re-election and lose their seats. Then he is going to be crawling back. More right winger causes are gaining momentum in Europe right now, despite attempts to sabotage it. In 10 years we will have to once again point out how a kid playing a video game is not a school shooter or summoning the devil by playing D&D. Because the nutter Christians will be back in cultural power.
 
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Forgot to post this one from the steam forums. This one I found quite amusing soulconcord.png
 
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Duke Nukem said:
So does this mean that Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing is no longer the worst game ever made and sold?
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That crown was stolen and is still held by FlatOut 3 though. Big Rigs has the meme value of being an engine test sold as a "game" and Concord is incredibly high quality for what it is, meanwhile FlatOut 3 has to be seen to be believed. You thought Concord was a waste of $40?

(though in all fairness, FlatOut 3 was probably still "successful" as the studio specialized in making a profit out of dogshit by having the budget of a pack of smokes, Concord didn't really have that luxury)
 
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Commander X said:
People keep saying this has to be an elaborate money-laundering scheme but I say you can never underestimate the idiocy and incompetence of gaming executives.
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It's not really a scheme - it's just to a scale that people don't seem to understand.

Executives don't care about games - they're just products; a means to an end. Virtually every executive is the same - they just sell products. The executive team at Coca Cola don't all drink Coke during meetings, the executives for Toyota don't actually drive Toyotas, and so on. They are so interchangeable that you could reasonably take a mattress executive and shuffle him into a different vertical without any issues because most corporations are set up the same and have the same goal (number go up).

Gaming execs want their product to be the next Fortnite (aka generating 25 billion dollars) and when you're chasing that kind of money - an investment of $300,000,000 isn't that significant. They don't understand gameplay feel, character design, matchmaking, etc - they literally just think "We are investing/risking X dollars in an effort to generate Y revenue" and that's it. The pitch to them is probably just "a newer version of <POPULAR GAME/GAME THAT MADE MONEY> but with our spin on it".


It's just the equivalent of buying a cheap scratch off ticket for $1 - maybe you win $5, $10, or even $80 from it. You aren't going to go bankrupt from $1. Sony (and all game studios) are just kind of gambling on lottery tickets with releases like this, but the tickets cost a few hundred million and can win ten billion. Quite literally one big hit game (aka a Skyrim, a Fortnite, Candy Crush, etc) can bring a studio enough money to essentially live forever.
 
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Actually that other one is a GIF.
Really its "art style" reminds me of JMAA and his "art", last I heard of him he was attempting to crowd fund a "documentary" on gamergate or some shit. (come to think of it, thats not even posted in his thread yet)
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EDIT : I've been informed this has already been posted here Thank you to @USB 3.2 Gen 2x4 for the headsup
 
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Two Dollars said:
The ET comparisons are interesting because they’re nearly opposites.

ET was made by a single competent dev (the same guy who made Yar’s Revenge) under an extreme time crunch of less than six weeks, and its infamy is less because of the game itself - the 2600 had a lot of crap, after all - and more because Atari marketed and produced it to such a ridiculous degree that even its respectable 2 million-ish units sold wasn’t nearly enough for their massive gamble. With a mere month of additional dev time and maybe one or two other people working on it, Atari could have toned down the marketing, produced a reasonable number of units, and had a modest success on their hands.

Concord was made by well over a hundred people over the course of eight years and was so laughably hated by everyone that even making it F2P isn’t worth the cost of keeping the servers running two weeks after launch, and it had fewer concurrent players than Sex with Hitler. No amount of additional time, money, or developers could ever have hoped to save it.
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To add to that, the PC gaming market in the 80s managed to offset the video game crash despite personal computers themselves suffering a similar fate soon after. Now, PC gaming is arguably more accessible than ever thanks to the Steam Deck and lower cost of entry for parts. I don't even think Concord will be the catalyst of a gaming crash, just a contribution. GTA 6's $2 billion budget will be more of a factor for such a crash; Sony themselves may suffer long term to recoup costs from Concord.
 
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mudwogg said:
There is a way to put 'ugly' characters in a game without people complaining about them. Just include them in the cast and don't put them in the forefront.

Back in the Quake III days, it was easy to tell which female characters were popular by the amount of custom skins being made for them. Lucy barely got any
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If they hadn't made her look dirty and pockmarked she would've been way more popular.
 
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Extremely late on this but the person who posted about economic lgbtq terrorism forgot to add there's merchandise linked at the bottom of the article advertising it's okay to commit illegal acts and be a homosexual.
Archive of the website.
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You know it " journalism of colour " when they are perfectly okay with selling t-shirts that add to the sentiment that minority groups commit the most crimes lmfao.

This tshirt design was my favorite.
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The I'm gonna plug my ears now if that's okay shirt. Omg it just keeps getting better, the placed the small sizes near the end and the large sizes at the front, you legit have to scroll to find a small size because the 3 defaults are medium, large, extra large.Screenshot_20240905_132535_Brave.jpg
 
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I also think its funny that these 'diverse' games are generally super hated by some major diverse groups: basically all brown and asian men ouside of usa/canada/etc with a mild interest in video games.

I feel like those developers were thinking they were doing all people of colour a favour with this, but instead ive seen concord generally mocked in mexican, south american and indian online spaces talking about it, and the east asians are openly repulsed.
Not to mention the 40 dollar pricetag pricing most actually opressed people out of playing the game, had they wanted to.

I really wonder what the player demographics look like, this game has got to (ironically) have a way bigger % of western (and white) players than other aaa games, right?

Hogwarts legacy is also still selling extremely well globally this year btw and the estimated budget for it was 150 MILLION. And thats probably made over 2 billion by now.
 
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PunkinMan said:
https://uploads.kiwifarms.st/data/attachments/6372/6372535-5139d8eae6b2270747658af1e480c187.jpg

You know it " journalism of colour " when they are perfectly okay with selling t-shirts that add to the sentiment that minority groups commit the most crimes lmfao.
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The crime is this shirt:

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Wich is using this historical piece of the mexican press:

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The Calavera Oaxaqueña as it's called, is a parody of the mexican macho culture from the late 1800's, and the accompanying poem doesn't alude to crime, but to talk the talk and walk the walk in a satirical way, or "don't thread on me" depending on how you read it, but the satire is still present.

Very antifa of them to do cultural appropriation of this piece and make it gay.
 
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