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What’s Concord? I’ve literally never heard of this before
Spoiler: if you don’t advertise at all, people won’t play your game
Spoiler: if you don’t advertise at all, people won’t play your game
Also:
Its an enormously overproduced Overwatch clone with zany characters that seem to be going for Guardians of the Galaxy, an art style that is basically just bizarre, and gameplay from a decade ago.
Sony wanted their own Overwatch, after seeing its success, then spent a huge amount of time and money developing it, and this is what they came up with.
Oh, right, it isn’t free to play, costs 40 bucks, and then also has an astounding amount of microtransactions.
EDIT: Based off of current active player count, Concord has cost approximately $200,000 dollars per active player to produce.
Better hope they are all omega class hyper whale spenders, I guess.
Yeah, hadn’t heard about it until today either. But Steam also kind of torpedoed their launch by lifting their NDA for Deadlock on the same day. Not sure how similar they are, but that’ll grab most of the attention from gamers right now.
Both have heroes and are shooters, but the similarities end here, but you’re overall right. From what I’ve seen of concord, it’s just valorant with a mediocre twist, whereas deadlock has been my go-to game for the last week.
Concord is nothing like Valorant. The gameplay isn’t even remotely similar.
It’s a new game in which you play two folk musicians from New Zealand. You start off in a small NY apartment trying to get gigs and establish a relationship with an official at the local New Zealand consulate who later becomes your band manager.
It cost $4-billion dollars to develop, utilizes the F-14 Tomcat game engine from GameBoy Advance, and is expected to generate tens of dollars of revenue for Sony Corp.
Yep, first I’ve heard of it
I’ve seen ads on random apps. But the logo looks like a '90s PC software logo. And nothing showed what the game actually looked like.
The clips they’ve shown look like the fake video games that you see in an advertisement for a specialized university.
The marketing has been appalling. They’ve mainly focussed their intentions on PS5, but why release a game on a platform but not advertise it for that platform?
Maybe word-of-mouth about the game and some discounts might improve things over the coming months, but Sony have made a bit of a mess with the PC side of this.
they showed it off at the May 30th state of play, and thats about it for advertising. if you were a pc player and didnt watch sonys presentation, you likely would have never known
What is a “state of play”? When googling a 2009 movie of that name seems to feature prominently on the results page.
state of play is sony’s counterpart to “Nintendo Direct”. With the death of E3, all major companies have their own showcase of shows digitally, while some of them will just announce it in the general show (Geoff’s Summer Game fest, the “generic e3 show”)
basically Sony if showing off their own games, has 2 shows:
State of Play is sonys version of, includes 3rd party companies producing content on playstation
Sony also has a different showcase called “Playstation Showcase” thats directed specifically to 1st party stuff
just for completion sake, Microsoft’s game info show is called “Xbox Game Showcase”
I only ever saw one ad for the game, on my PlayStation, the day before it came out and even then I couldn’t tell what it was. Is this a game? A movie? A TV show? The trailer fucking sucked at actually advertising what it was. No gameplay, no mention that it even was a game. It just seemed like a scene from an animated show for tweens.
I saw a few adverts for it on Facebook sp they definitely did advertise but people where turned off as soon as they found put it was a FPS
There are too many games of this sort. Nobody wants to play them because you have to devote your life to grinding and getting good if you want to be play well.
We need some new ideas and you don’t need to bet the company on every game. Instead of pouring millions of dollars into a clone of existing games, develop several smaller more innovative games and see which ones succeed. For every Concord there is a Stardew Valley, Vampire Survivors, or Among Us.
I was watching a livestream of this game’s reveal trailer. The chat was excited at first during the cinematic trailer. Sure, it looked like a Malt-O-Meal Guardians of the Galaxy, but it still looked like it could be fun. Then as soon as they said “5 v 5 live service game” there was a giant, collective “oh nevermind lol” from the chat.
here’s Jesse Cox going through the exact process except he predicts it too: https://youtube.com/shorts/l8kq4rIc10g
never heard of it. also I don’t have a PlayStation account and I’m not willing to make one to play one game.
Like the Borderlands movie I’m not really sure who this game is for with the price tag they are asking for it with the f2p options available.
The price tag is likely to try to slow the bleeding when the writing was on the wall.
Sony’s executives thought it was a great idea to buy this studio when they first saw the game as it was reported last year. I don’t know if the character designs were mandated to be this way because Sony executives demanded it, or if the devs designed them the way they are. Did they want to chase the blue hair vocal minority xitter that complain about games not being diverse enough, then don’t buy the games with these incredibly diverse, brave and quirky character designs anyway? On top of that a $40 price tag is enough to make a dead on arrival game among other issues like a forced PSN account and no Steam Deck support.
I just don’t understand the insistence on targeting the woke demographic instead of core gamers. They’ve repeatedly shown that they are masters in the complaining department, but when it comes to buying diversity-infused games, they are a no-show.
I’m seeing all of these down votes but no one has been able to refute this point.
Plenty of people have refuted the point.
But please, keep embarrassing yourself, incel.
I’ve been playing on PS5, getting games quickly and having a lot of fun with it.
If it doesn’t last long, I’ll still get my £35 worth.
As expected. The fact that this game wasn’t marketed well or even that it is a hero shooter are not its only problems. Game has other issues and that’s why people don’t play it.
