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The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
Concord’s Director Has Reportedly Stepped Down (archive)
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Lets google this guy so we know more..

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Firewalk Studios was founded in 2018 with Hsu as the studio head. Ryan Ellis, the former creative director at Bungie, is the game director for Firewalk, and Elena Siegman (who’s been at studios like Harmonix, Irrational Games, and Bungie) is the executive producer.

When Sony signed the deal, it wanted the Firewalk Studios team to operate separately from the others. And so Ryan obliged by building a 1,500 square-foot building. That helped create a secure space at the beginning for the team to operate privately.

“At my core, I’m a builder,” he said. “I like building teams. I like building buildings. And companies that last.”

The team now has more than 100 people and it includes a roster of seasoned developers who have helped deliver top-selling, culturally impactful titles. This collective expertise helps this team focus on delivering a rich multiplayer game experience with great gameplay and art.

Ryan’s central business team focuses on leadership mentoring, funding, publishing negotiations, staffing, administration, and technology for every studio. That leaves the studios free to focus on their games, culture, and their people, Ryan said. Studios get creative and financial freedom, and so they should have control over their funding. Sony’s Hermen Hulst, head of PlayStation Studios at Sony Interactive Entertainment, said in a statement that Firewalk has an extraordinary team and its original multiplayer game will be an exciting addition to its portfolio.

Ryan said his company has been hiring from all over, including internationally. In the post-COVID future, the hope is to bring people together physically in the Seattle area. Hsu said in a recent blog post that the company’s goal is to give gamers moments when they’re surprised and delighted at what unfolds before them in a game.
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The Doom Slayer said:
Lmao, holy shit

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Considering the last minute marketing they dumped into it, presumably paying amazon partly to make an episode for a show, merch, etc. and god knows whatever else they had planned(they were going to be releasing additional animated shorts and shit?), that isn't surprising. Sony spent 100 million for the shit, and that was after the previous production house they were under had supposedly secured up to 200 million in funding for it over the course of a few years. And I wouldn't doubt that Sony had more marketing deals lined up for it post launch as well.

For Sony wanting this to be their next big IP in gaming, they sure fucked up by making sure no one knew it existed until a month prior to release.

What's actually funny about this, is people call it the modern ET of the game industry. That's actually way off. ET sold 2.5 million copies or so, and only had 700k returned from retail in the initial bubble burst, and still only eventually had 3.5 out of 4.something million copies returned supposedly. That means that ET still sold a half million copies to consumers, while this shit show sold an estimated 25-35k.

In other words, ET still likely did 20 times better than this crap.
 
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p1138 said:
What's actually funny about this, is people call it the modern ET of the game industry. That's actually way off. ET sold 2.5 million copies or so, and only had 700k returned from retail in the initial bubble burst, and still only eventually had 3.5 out of 4.something million copies returned supposedly. That means that ET still sold a half million copies to consumers, while this shit show sold an estimated 25-35k.

In other words, ET still likely did 20 times better than this crap.
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Consider also the difference in market size between 1980s and now. Via both Steam and PS5, there's simply a much wider audience that Concord could reach than ET ever could then. This is just a fucking embarrassment for Soyny.
 
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The Doom Slayer said:
Lmao, holy shit

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This kinda reminds me No Man Sky. Up to the launch of that, Sony didn't buy the studio of 10 people but they did help fund the marketing for the game which resulted in the buggy mess on launch. It could be they saw Concord in development, jumped in and bought the studio like they did Bungie and then had a turd that only entered Alpha early 2023.

A 400 million dollar loss isn't a bomb, it isn't even an atomic bomb. It's a DAW-level sized hole as he jumped off the ship in orbit and slammed right into the surface of the planet.
 
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Kane Lives said:
Consider also the difference in market size between 1980s and now. Via both Steam and PS5, there's simply a much wider audience that Concord could reach than ET ever could then. This is just a fucking embarrassment for Soyny.
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Absolutely. But it also keeps getting worse. With that ps5 pro announcement, all they had to show was old bullshit claiming it would run with a bit more detail. With concord being the obvious fail that it was so quickly, you know they had to cut shit out of that announcement video for the ps5 pro. They also already released their TGS schedule.
A whole 2 demo stations for the ps5 pro, and 40 for monster hunter wilds? A bet a portion of the floor space they're renting was going to be dedicated to concord. And a 40 minute live stream scheduled for Astro bot? Come on. There's been some last second content shuffling happening there.
 
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The Doom Slayer said:
Lmao, holy shit

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He said 18 months before release the game was in a terrible shape and some very imporant things haven't been worked on forcing Sony to spend another 200 million dollars to outsource the work.

WHAT THE FUCK DID THESE FUCKING DEI FUCKERS DO FOR 6+ FUCKING YEARS?? Where did the money go?? This has to be a part of a scam.

The giant asshole of a game director is proud of what? He didn't do shit for 6+ years. He probably wasted the money on himself and his woke buddies. If I was a suit at Sony I would look into how the money was spend.

Tin foil hat time:
The "toxic positivity" that has been talked about was created on purpose. If no one is allowed to talk about the game in a negative way, then you can't call out the people who should work on the game but don't. So what was really going on? What did they do instead of working on the game?
 
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Rockzo said:
This kinda reminds me No Man Sky. Up to the launch of that, Sony didn't buy the studio of 10 people but they did help fund the marketing for the game which resulted in the buggy mess on launch.
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Those guys were literally rushed to shit by Sony, if I recall; all the hype surrounding that game before release, and the fact they picked the WRONG PERSON in the team to do PR shit with, didn't help matters either. At the very least that lead to one of the more impressive cases of a "redemption arc" I've seen in this industry.
 
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AnOminous said:
We need to keep shitting on this game until we have more pages than the game ever had users.
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We're already pretty close to more messages than users, we just need to do this 19 more times.
 
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The Doom Slayer said:
Lmao, holy shit

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God bless Colin Moriarty. He seems to be one of the few people in the games industry who gives a damn despite not technically being a journalist before.

So, it’s actually worse than we made it out? $400 million, Jesus. How could you even fund a game like this that much with no fanfare to justify it? It seems like Laura Fryer was also right about the company culture.
 
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Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed said:
God bless Colin Moriarty. He seems to be one of the few people in the games industry who gives a damn despite not technically being a journalist before.

So, it’s actually worse than we made it out? $400 million, Jesus. How could you even fund a game like this that much with no fanfare to justify it? It seems like Laura Fryer was also right about the company culture.
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The 150-300 million figure was an estimate guess with marketing included.

The 400 million figure is just pure development. No marketing, nor the buyout for Firewalk. It's much, much worse.
 
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The Doom Slayer said:
Lmao, holy shit

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Trans Fat 41g said:
"Star Wars-like potential"

Could they pick a worse fucking jinx than that holy shit.
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Lmao serves them right for trying to ride the coattails of capeshit and Star Wars. It’s like they wanted Concord to be as generically unappealing as possible. They wanted an excuse to play game dev for 6-8 years without worrying about the “treadmill work” that comes with upkeep post-launch.
 
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