Concord - robots with pronouns

[Asian tech support]

It looks like Concord is getting a sequel:

Boy are people excited for it
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How many times has this happened so far?
Lawbreakers by Bosskey Productions (headed by CliffyB) which died pretty quickly after it came out. It was released in August 2017 and went offline permanently in September 2018.
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There was Crucible from Amazon back in early 2020 that was aborted before it was released out of open beta
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Hyenas by Sega - closed beta in 2022 and it too was aborted later that year before it came out.
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I mentioned it earlier but I think it's important the consumer realizes that they can very easily destroy hundreds of millions of dollars of investment and waste years of development time. These companies can absolutely be bullied into massive financial fuckups. A rude back and forth with some assblasted and now unemployable artist is nothing in the face of knowing some Californian is going to have to sit on a wooden stake while explaining to investors where the $200m went. This is a completely new kind of game - a game of ruining companies, and it's so very fun to watch it play out.

 

[The Last Stand]

It looks like Concord is getting a sequel:
Boy are people excited for it

Those same people that bought Concord will buy this. They deserve to get ripped off at this point.

 

[FILTH Tourist]

I SWEAR TO FUCKIN GOD... Till yesterday... I thought the one with the blue jacket (number4), is a woman! Im not just trying to be funny, I saw a video yesterday where it was said its a guy. I didnt know.

I though she was a pooner?

It looks like Concord is getting a sequel:

Boy are people excited for it
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Hyenas by Sega - closed beta in 2022 and it too was aborted later that year before it came out.
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A competitive heist game where teams that consist of three diverse members fight each other to steal loot while also sticking it to the ultra rich, where have I seen that before?

Hyenas was a planned science-fiction first-person shooter developed by Creative Assembly and published by Sega. Set in a dystopian near-future, players were to take control of a space pirate known as a Hyena and compete in teams of three to raid heavily-guarded Plunderships. The game was ultimately cancelled by Sega in late September 2023, citing a low potential for profitability.

How the FUCK does a massive corp like Sony look at Hyenas crash and burn last year and then say "I want to do that"!

 

[invisibult plus+]

I mentioned it earlier but I think it's important the consumer realizes that they can very easily destroy hundreds of millions of dollars of investment and waste years of development time. These companies can absolutely be bullied into massive financial fuckups. A rude back and forth with some assblasted and now unemployable artist is nothing in the face of knowing some Californian is going to have to sit on a wooden stake while explaining to investors where the $200m went. This is a completely new kind of game - a game of ruining companies, and it's so very fun to watch it play out.

And it's free to play!

 

[pikachudidnothingwrong]

For shits and giggles decided to see which overwatch characters felt the most equivalent design-wise to the concord slop

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Even when missing some of the most popular characters, the overwatch cast still looks significantly cooler and more fun than concords, and their outfits are way better and know how to utilise colour in a way that isnt overwhelming.

And as far as the 'wokeness' of the characters goes, there's still significantly more to enjoy for the average gamer.

1. Since most gamers are white men, 4 cool and interesting white male characters. (Edit: i accidentally assumed the blue guy was comically tiny in game, can replace with Doomfist for diversity)
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2. 3 skinny and attractive white/east asian girls and 1 chubby but still cute east asian girl
3. 3 girls with dark skin and 1 girl with blue skin who are also skinny and attractive.
4. 2 token cool older ladies for whoevers into that
5. Humanoid robot and unique looking robot

Could of course still use some major adjustments like evening out the gender ratio, but this makes me have even less sympathy for whoever designed these things. I really dont think corporate suits can be blamed for everything that makes them ugly.

Yup. The difference is night and day.. Even with the SJ inspired turn the game took. Don't forget that OW started as a normal game and was created just before the SJW scourge really took over. Tracer's pose meltdown and censorship was really the start of it all.

I had said so on another post, but something else that makes the OW cast likeable is that they're actually characters with something to offer. But besides that OW nails what somebody would find fundamentally appealing about a character. Cowboys with ridiculous big irons are cool, flying mech suits with rocket launchers are cool, being a grapple-hooking wall-hacking sniper is cool. You could go even further and talk mechanics; Tracer appeals because of how much she demands from your mechanics and situational awareness to flank, dive in, try and get a pick, all while you're playing a paper-thin glass cannon on the knife's edge zooming around in the middle of a fight. In a word it's exciting, and that appeals. All the DEI shit with Overwatch is just an afterthought, a byproduct of the setting; they're meant to be a global task force tapping the best of the best from every corner of the world whose unique approaches to problems can offer something to the operation (which isn't unprecedented, see Rainbow Six, even before Siege).

I'll add that the fact that they are from such diverse backgrounds has sometimes driven the characters into conflict with one another, which from a narrative standpoint is interesting; the globohomo approach that the team was designed around naturally introduces clashing perspectives and experiences, and conflict in your story is interesting. Overwatch in execution (within the world of Overwatch) didn't pan out to be as idyllic as its founders had envisioned. From the outset of the game's launch it's established that you're getting the band back together after they had a huge falling out and splintering. If you just make it all sunshine and rainbows and everybody got along happily ever after then what is there to be intrigued by?

Of course, and I think it goes without saying, but in general Overwatch has the sex appeal, and the fact of the matter is that it in no small part sells. OW characters simply look good, Concord's characters look like ugly real-life people, and why would you want to play as that?

This

Sex appeal to often gets overlooked even by anti-woke/SJ types. It's one of the reasons it's so hard to push back against censorship.. even parts of the opposition to SJ propaganda tend to be uninterested and unconcerned... in the best of cases. With shills and other "allies" being more than enough to finish off discussions or push back attempts.

It looks like Concord is getting a sequel:

Boy are people excited for it
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How many times has this happened so far?
Lawbreakers by Bosskey Productions (headed by CliffyB) which died pretty quickly after it came out. It was released in August 2017 and went offline permanently in September 2018.
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There was Crucible from Amazon back in early 2020 that was aborted before it was released out of open beta
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Hyenas by Sega - closed beta in 2022 and it too was aborted later that year before it came out.
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DOA

The most insane part is that the last game on your list is exactly what this new game is minus some of the scifi elements! (It was the one with the drag queen troon that used the power of sass, "oh no you didn't"~ style, to deflect bullets etc)

They can't be this retarded can they?!

 

[vanta pilled]

It looks like Concord is getting a sequel:

Boy are people excited for it

Playing as niggos robbing and committing crime helps with immersion, doing it for non-selfish reasons ruins the immersion.

 

[30+GameOvers]

They can't be this retarded can they?!

With Soyny, sky is the limit. You don't shutter the entire Japanese wing of your Japanese company and make sure to actively ignore everything that made your previous systems great without being competitively retarded.

 

[Kiwi Andy]

Speaking of gay hero shooters, is Deadlock any good or are people just playing it because it's Valve?

 

[Brave Sir Robin]

Speaking of gay hero shooters, is Deadlock any good or are people just playing it because it's Valve?

Deadlock is quite fun, I've been playing it recently and it's not too bad!

 

[SpiderBitch]

Its also just absolutely insane, that in a cast of 16 characters, a whopping 3-4 of them were black-looking female (or 'female') characters.
If I were to guess what demographic plays the least videogames, it would be black women.

 

[pikachudidnothingwrong]

The true screeching, excuses, coping, gaslighting and narrative spinning by the media has begun:

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Concord’s Death Offers a Bleak Look at Gaming’s Future​

After eight years of development, Sony pulled the plug on Concord today after just two weeks. Fans loved it, but seemingly not enough. Is the future of the industry blockbuster-or-bust?

Earlier this week, after warping across the galaxy for 90 hours in a sentient spacecraft, Twitch streamer John Wissmiller realized that Concord was the best first-person shooter he’d played in a decade.

“The gunplay was crunchy, the movement was smooth, and the progression felt rewarding,” he says. “I was even more enthralled by the world the developers had created when I looked into the lore.”

He wasn’t alone. “One of the biggest perks about the game was the absence of toxicity within the player community,” says Kelle Dees, a content creator at KDeesGamez. “Everything about the game was positive and inclusive.”

Those aren't select quotes, that is the actual beginning of the article. lol

They downplay just how uninterested people were. That the game could barely manage a little over half a thousand people at its best and likely didn't even manage to come close to 100K in total sales. As a AAA game worth ~200 mil + marketing + the ongoing cost of servers and support.

The super hit or bust trend, thanks to market and business nonsense, is a real issue.. but this ain't it.

Also ROFLMAO @ the "2020s golden age of gaming" stuff... YIKES


Lolygon has an article that's titled something like "Why a good game isn’t good enough anymore" or something.

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Found this image while looking around the net about this. (don't know if it's been posted yet) It really explains what happened with the character designs in this.. Since i still see people around places pretending to not notice and jump into attack mode to defend the "artistic integrity" when you point it out as political.



This is all on them.. It didn't have to be this way. And no cope about how the characters were designed by committee can make up for it. They should be blamed for creating them that way too if anything.

 

[Lucas Silva #4903141]

The true screeching, excuses, coping, gaslighting and narrative spinning by the media has begun:

A few things. First, the author is named Adam Morgan, which is amusing to me, as someone who watched X-Play many years ago. Adam Sessler? Morgan Webb? Oh, right, they both went their separate ways. Adam has a thread here.

Second, there's a lot to pick apart but I will choose this:

Concord may have gotten off to a slow start with gamers (most of whom hadn’t heard of it yet) and critics (who didn’t love the initial character designs), but the same could be said of Elder Scrolls Online, which has since made more than $2 billion, or the Destiny franchise, which celebrates its 10-year anniversary this year, or No Man’s Sky, which has become a cult classic.

I mean, when your game costs so much, and most gamers didn't hear about it yet...your marketing fucking sucked, and already, your game is on very shaky ground. Critics were mostly nice to Concord, iirc. Anyways, the examples later picked much better moments to come out. No Man's Sky was shit at launch, but got improved massively upon, and iirc, sold well despite the issues.

Concord was dead on arrival. You can say what you want about the quality of the game itself, but come on. $40 USD when its competition is free to play? With those character designs? With 0 reason to pick this game over the other hero shooters? Fire everyone involved with those decisions. If some can't be fired, they should quit their job. Fuck 'em.

Anyways, Youtubers are still having fun with this: The Act Man, Luke Stephens, Jeff Gerstmann, Kyle Bosman, etc.

 

[MetokurGroomedMe]

DOA

there is a 0% chance this game even arrives to be seen as dead. this is going to get canceled the same way hyenas did, unless sony is legitimately run by the dumbest niggers to ever ook.

Found this image while looking around the net about this.

this sucks. not the art, the art is actually good. it sucks that this actually cool character was ruined because they wanted to make her a fat nigger instead of a shockingly nicely designed big weapons lady.

 

[Deepland Bystander]

Secondly, this is your resident enby. Makes sense, they’re fully covered, you can’t really tell if it’s a man or a woman based on their physique and if you listen to their voice in game you could guess either way. Some hear a woman, some hear a man, in fact majority of players hear a man, which is interesting considering… the VA is a woman.

Late - but isn't Bloodhound voiced by a troon - an MtF? So It's been troon-infested from the day one.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

The media can screech all they want about the aftermath but they're looking at the smoke, not the fire.

Load up any live-chat from the reveal of concord and it's optimism, praising the graphics and enjoying the dialogue between characters, right up until they say "hero shooter". The audience turns on them immediately. That's when the game died, right there, in a Ralph Wiggum-esque "you can see the moment his heart breaks" kind of way.

 

[User names must be unique]

Found this image while looking around the net about this. (don't know if it's been posted yet) It really explains what happened with the character designs in this.. Since i still see people around places pretending to not notice and jump into attack mode to defend the "artistic integrity" when you point it out.

fairly sure I saw the left picture as an anti-fan made edit

this one is the actual concept art, while nothing amazing it's still leagues better than the end product..

 

[Snekposter]

unless sony is legitimately run by the dumbest niggers to ever ook.

I don't think we can dismiss this as a possibility. After all, they looked at what Firewalk was making and decided to buy the entire company since they had such a winner on their hands.

 

[Gamepads]

there is a 0% chance this game even arrives to be seen as dead. this is going to get canceled the same way hyenas did, unless sony is legitimately run by the dumbest niggers to ever ook.

Haven Studios have been adding new hires as of last week, so it'll need some sort of beta like Hyenas or else they'll double down on it.

 

[eDove]

How does one decline so badly? How do you go from drawing pretty decent fanart of appealing character designs to fucking Concord? These were all from last year!
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I'll answer for you: none of those designs were her original designs.

Fan-artists and fan-fiction writers (who exclusively do those things) have been a blight on the industry. They need to stop being hired if their portfolio barely contains original work, period.

 

[FILTH Tourist]

Haven Studios have been adding new hires as of last week, so it'll need some sort of beta like Hyenas or else they'll double down on it.

I doubt Fairgame would be as much of a trashfire as Hyenas or Concord. Everything about those games from their lore, characters, visuals, and gameplay is an abomination. With Fairgame, it has DEI aids, but it isn't terminal like the other games as it is just diverse millennials instead of a troon clown show (also executives mignt ask them to turn it down further) and the "eat the rich" plot is annoying, but plot isnt a big deal for online games. If it is free to play and has solid gameplay I can see it finding an an actual audience, especially since payday 3 is still floundering.