Posting before the servers inevitably close or at best the game fades into irrelevancy at about 20 average players.
People are quick to compare this game to Concord. What you have to keep in mind that Concord's budget was likely much higher and I'm almost certain Sony had a billion million pajeets working on the game for like 7 fucking years, and they released it with extremely delusional hopes for its success, which makes the flop all the more funnier and I won't lie... Satisfying
Highguard was obviously somewhat less high production, but not insignificant. Games like this take a lot of money and resources to make and people are saying it was meant to be shadow dropped to the tune of a sad wet fart because good lord this game did not have to be made. People only knew about it because of the Game Awards and the trailer alone had people groaning so I guess this already cemented its doom. It screams generic slop shooter and will be regarded as such by 99% of people as nothing more than "it looks like a fake game in a movie". Judging by the trailers and gameplay footage, it
really does.
This is the comparison to Concord. It's a generic, directionless game that has no real identity and it'll likely meet the same fate as Concord because that's what people will best compare it to. Concord's monumental failure is still fresh enough in the minds of people that they will naturally look at Highguard as the 'next Concord' and probably laugh at its failure. The only way it would escape that fate and btfo the haters would be for it to be an actually good game because to be honest the character design isn't nearly as terrible.
From what I've seen though, the game comes out with a single game mode where the mechanics don't mesh and whatever semi original ideas they have for it is for naught anyway because the core game is flawed with design issues and horrendous performance problems. That's probably worse for them than if they didn't try to reinvent the wheel and instead just copy Overwatch or Apex or whatever the fuck hero shooter game is most popular right now.
Point is, people are fatigued with this type of game, it has very little staying power because it's so bland, and when you really think about how many games of this nature are shat out and instantly forgotten about, you'd think that the suits who make the decisions would have figured out that the market has very much changed, or more importantly realize the products they're making are dogshit and stop doing the same thing over and over again.
But like always they're at least 5 years out of touch with what people are thinking so it'll probably take a few more Concord style flops for there to be a little bit more self awareness.
And that's Highguard's fate. To be another example of what 'not' to do.
Back to the character roster. Where Concord had a roster of utterly dysgenic looking wretches that don't even look like they belong to the same game, Highguard's characters aren't
terrible per say but the game unfortunately makes the sin of having the characters and setting be the most generic and corporately sanitized thing one can conceive of. And that's enough for it to go down the shitter especially after having its mobile game looking ass shown to everyone back at the Game Awards in the first place.
People very much DO judge a book by its cover, but as a F2P game people will likely try it out of curiosity and so it'll have semi decent metrics to begin with. But if the developers behind it see that as success they're in for a shock.
Sloptubers get their licks in and everyone will forget about it before the end of February most likely.
Until then, enjoy the shitshow that's to come!
EDIT: You know whatever bullshit you're about to download is going to run like hot steaming ass when they hit you with the
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