Concord - robots with pronouns

[30+GameOvers]

I think it's fear, if you speak out too much you can even get your bank account compromised.
But maybe this will change, a few years ago I don't think a normie movie reviewer like Jeramy Jahns would ever touch something like that new Matt Walsh movie, and that is a thousand times more controversial than shitting on Concord.

If he's doubling down and telling people to "debate him" in his discord I think he's too far gone.
I doubt anybody is going to get their bank account frozen over shitting on Concord, lmfao. If they do start getting compromised for whatever reason, well, maybe it's time to drop PayPal as they are the ones most egregious about this shit.

 

[FieldPiece]

I have to wonder how the fuck did they have 2000 people work on this? Even if a lot of them were contractors. It doesn't have a campaign, there's only 12 maps, only 6 modes, and 16 characters. It can't be from the animation and graphics, Hellblade 2 was worked on by about 60 people and has better animation and graphics. It can't have been the gameplay because it literally just looks like a reskin of Destiny's shitty PVP. This shit reeks of money laundering.

 

[Hucklejo]

I imagine the IRS will be saying the same, because the only way I can see that figure being official is if Sony are stuffing whatever bullshit they can in as a write-off, like including the cost of producing the now completely pointless Amazon TV show episode.

My question is: how? The usual answers are scope creep or indecisive management, but given that nothing in Concord was pushing the envelope (except maybe the cinematics which I'm pretty sure were outsourced) how could a team of industry 'veterans' struggle so hard to put out something so mediocre?

I used to enjoy them as background noise but they always felt very surface level, and the noir detective schtick is super gay. Another YouTuber I like(d), Beige Frequency, pulled a similar stunt in his recent review of Joe Rogan's latest stand-up abortion, saying depictions like Norman Bates and Buffallo Bill were responsible for troons being regarded as violent sex pests, as opposed to the fact 99.9% of irl troons are violent sex pests.

I'd prefer they not address this stuff at all rather than give the most retarded hot takes possible.

As for the how, a lot of slacking and not taking things seriously. No accountability, particularly using WFH during covid.

From my understanding, this company will be one of those that is used to show other companies that WFH doesn't work. They'll use it to justify their RTO demands.

 

[TheHarbinger]

This shit reeks of money laundering.

Every department has its own DEI unit working full time. Each of those has a separate executive overseeing everything. Then you add in the modern perks of working in the gaming industry like daily catered meals, massage therapists, staff psychiatrists, and how these offices are like theme parks that the CEOs want their employees to live in. Then you have employee bonuses like house or car payments or outright purchases to "attract the best candidates".

A $200 million game might have $90 million spent on actually making it. The rest goes into rewarding DEI employees with new cars. Huge stock deals for executive level positions. Purchasing some goodwill from people in the gaming media or social media to promote your game as the 'next Star Wars franchise'. Or licensing some pop song for the trailers at $3 million a piece instead of making a thematic song in house.

 

[Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed]

I see people in the "gaming press" attempting to tie the failure of Concord to a "reactionary rejection of games with minorities" or some such garbage.

People dislike games like Concord and Dustborn and other overhyped failures because they are made for no one. They are made because professionally annoying people convinced big companies and governments to invest in trash games with all possible edges sanded off and characters talking like corporate HR drones.

You know they can’t do that when Deadlock exists and it’s not even in its beta stage yet.

It has minorities and even a they/them (in the form of Pocket, but Valve was clever and creative enough to make his cost and I think his satchel sentient, making them three individuals).

 

[AnOminous]

Every department has its own DEI unit working full time. Each of those has a separate executive overseeing everything.

Imagine spending so much money for half your staff or more to be completely useless parasites who do nothing but harass and disrupt the work of the people actually working, when they aren't on social media telling your potential customers they're Nazis.

 

[moocow]

when they aren't on social media telling your potential customers they're Nazis.

I'll never get tired of watching companies blow their own feet off by telling their customers to fuck off.

 

[Celso Bin Portiolli]

I'll never get tired of watching companies blow their own feet off by telling their customers to fuck off.

I mean, if someone asked me to "diversify" my games I'd tell them to fuck off, but that's because I'm shooing the outlier, not the core customer.

 

[AnOminous]

I mean, if someone asked me to "diversify" my games I'd tell them to fuck off, but that's because I'm shooing the outlier, not the core customer.

One way to diversify your games, in the actual human sense of the word, is not to spend $200 on a shitty hero shooter years after the market was oversaturated by much better variants of the genre. That has as much and possibly more to do with the game's abject failure as even the wokeshit.

 

[The Last Stand]

I love seeing commercial flops of this magnitude. It shows the untapped power a consumer has with their purchasing power. Now, how the company responds will be the deciding factor. If they continue down this road, they shouldn't be surprised of the impeding result.

 

[Leaf Wage Slave Jr]

Now, how the company responds will be the deciding factor. If they continue down this road, they shouldn't be surprised of the impeding result.

I think the real question is “How much more is there like Concord in the pipeline?”

With how long Game Dev takes at the AAA Level these days, you know there’s got to be a deluge of stuff coming down the pipe from the days of Peak Woke, and now that we’re at a point people are sick of it it’s going to be incredibly dated at best, and sales poison at worst. How many First Party Bombs can Sony realistically tank, considering the amount invested, before Playstation gets a management reshuffle at the most optimistic?

 

[Raikiri]

I think the real question is “How much more is there like Concord in the pipeline?”

With how long Game Dev takes at the AAA Level these days, you know there’s got to be a deluge of stuff coming down the pipe from the days of Peak Woke, and now that we’re at a point people are sick of it it’s going to be incredibly dated at best, and sales poison at worst. How many First Party Bombs can Sony realistically tank, considering the amount invested, before Playstation gets a management reshuffle at the most optimistic?

At least this was "new" IP, Spooderfag 3 and Wokerine will infuriate fans like me way more by the looks of the leaks and Insomniac devs on Twitter.

 

[moocow]

I think the real question is “How much more is there like Concord in the pipeline?”

A lot. This stuff takes years to crank out. There are probably dozens of projects in the oven at a variety of mid-to-large-sized companies who are staffed and led by people who've wallowed and marinated for nearly a decade in the woke soup that's contaminated an overwhelming number of developers and publishers in the industry. They're either true believers or heads-down-collect-the-paycheck types, and the "toxic positivity" culture the Concord devs allegedly had internally is undoubtedly widespread within the industry as a result.

Corporations are not nimble. They're slow and stupid. So is their leadership and their internal culture. Even if there are people at the top (either in the boardroom or at the shareholder meetings) screaming that they need a course correction, all these projects are years in, and practically nobody has the balls to kill a project that's getting close to launch. Shareholders hate seeing money spent on a project only to see it strangled in the crib. It was a very big deal when Sega just straight up said "yeah, Hyenas isn't gonna work, we're killing it a few months from launch, sorry." That shook the industry pretty hard because nobody really ever does that.

That and thanks to the corporate culture shift in the past ten years, woketards have heavily infiltrated it and wield disproportionate political power within these companies and on social media. Journalists suck their cocks and will lap up any rumor or leak and report it as gospel, which can cause major problems for companies. Not to mention none of these retards have any ethics or morals and won't hesitate to leak everything they have if their pet project gets killed, especially if it means they get laid off as their project shuts down.

It's going to take at least 5 years for the worst of this dogshit to "shake out" of the pipeline and another five after that for retarded woke culture to finally wither and die as it becomes undeniable even to the dullest of executives and investors that this shit, whatever they thought it was, and for better or worse, just doesn't work. It used to be that "unprofitable" was enough to kill off a corporate philosophy, but with shitheads like Fink deciding to just keep cash rolling endlessly to spread a "message" that became a lifeline. Now even that's falling apart and it's a double whammy for companies who are losing money (angers the investors) and losing face (by pissing off practically everyone outside their bubble).

We're in for a hysterical few years. The industry isn't going to "crash" like it did in the 80's (there's just too many developers out there now and the barrier to entry in game development is miniscule now compared to when Atari was king), but we're going to see a lot of high profile projects (that nobody wants) produced by arrogant assholes (that nobody respects) fall flat on their face. Each time, the developers will call people names on social media pre-launch then fall silent as the game's actual quality and performance speaks for itself. Then they'll lock their accounts, everyone will point and laugh, journalists will call people names and (hopefully) the studio will be killed as the publisher "reorganizes."

 

[Mike Matei's Penis]

Who is this smelly jeet Sungrand Studios faggot and why won't his dogwater videos about a game that's been dead for weeks stop being recommended? Does he know Neil Mohan?

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

If he's doubling down and telling people to "debate him" in his discord I think he's too far gone.
I doubt anybody is going to get their bank account frozen over shitting on Concord, lmfao. If they do start getting compromised for whatever reason, well, maybe it's time to drop PayPal as they are the ones most egregious about this shit.

I got rid of PayPal because they kept changing their TOS. Once I heard from Vee that they could charge me $2500 if they don't like what I do, I cancelled my account without even checking if its true because it might be possible in the future because of their constantly changing TOS.

 

[Burt Ryan]

With how long Game Dev takes at the AAA Level these days, you know there’s got to be a deluge of stuff coming down the pipe from the days of Peak Woke, and now that we’re at a point people are sick of it it’s going to be incredibly dated at best, and sales poison at worst. How many First Party Bombs can Sony realistically tank, considering the amount invested, before Playstation gets a management reshuffle at the most optimistic?

Fairgame$ is the next one on the chopping block. That Payday-like black female MC "Eat the rich" game that sells you a Battle Pass and MTX coming out in 2025 is gonna drop dead.

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

I hate the fact that people like the arshole Concord lead can just step down without any consequences even tho he too is responsible for the 400 million dollar disaster. Allegedly important features hadn't been worked on at all and the game was unplayable, that's why Sony had to outsource the work. Are there no repercussions for him? Is Sony just shrugging it off?

 

[Here to Gawk]

Who is this smelly jeet Sungrand Studios faggot and why won't his dogwater videos about a game that's been dead for weeks stop being recommended? Does he know Neil Mohan?

I like his simple style—put on a suit and call out the BS plaguing the gaming industry in a calm and professional manner. I'm not surprised that the woke activists are trying to cancel him; he's effective at what he does.

 

[Total Troons Death]

Regarding 400M budget, i think it's plausible that this game cost that much. Most sony first party title has bloated budget especially the one released post covid.

Spiderman 1 budget was 89M and yet somehow spiderman 2 budget was 280M. The game content isn't 3 times bigger than the first game. Horizon zero dawn only cost 50M and yet the sequel cost 212M. That's more than 5 times the budget of the first game and once again, the game isn't 5 times bigger than the first game.

Can't wait for Fairgame$ to eventually bomb like concord.

 

[Foltest]

I have a feeling that game journalists will refuse to speak on these points because it was their hated outcast Colin Moriarty who got the scoop.

Colin may be a bit of a Sony fanboy and can be full of himself, but he often know what he talks about when it comes to video games.