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.
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.
Can’t imagine convincing a group of c suite folks of that.
Never heard of it. That could be a part of the reason.
Sony did a good job of killing PC players tolerance of their bullshit with the helldiver controversy.
Isn’t that one of the most popular games right now on PC?
Back in mar-may it was. Then it was getting 300k users daily with 450k peak players. Now it gets under 30k daily users and ranked 45 on daily players according to steamdb
Ah. I never played it or even looked at it. My new love right now is Disco Elysium.
Sony force PlayStation accounts for Helldivers. And it dropped support for like 130 other countries. So the player base tanked. It wasn’t people leaving. It was people soft locked out of the game.
I never heard of it and searching for it on Steam doesn’t give any results so I’m guessing it’s not even available here.
Did you try using the search term “concord”? It’s the first game to pop up when you do.
Yea, that’s what I did and mean by searching Steam. It’s probably not available in Estonia like every other Sony game.
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never heard of it. also I don’t have a PlayStation account and I’m not willing to make one to play one game.
The only ads I saw suggested it was PS5 exclusive lmao. amazing job Sony
PlayStation what? Did they announce this thing at the last state of play?
I always watch those, but I’m pretty sure I’ve never heard of this…
It’s dead, Jim.
looks it up They want you to pay to play a hero shooter?
Well Overwatch was a paid game for a long time It’s not unheard of
When was that game released?
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.
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 on 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.
Yeah, the “diversity” (aliens and shit, really? You want to tell me they’re targeting the “diversity” crowd with non-humans?) is not the reason for this failing. It’s a generic $40 live-service game. That market is far too over saturated. Plenty of people like and buy games with diversity, although they have to be good games first and foremost. It’s just a way to help your game appeal to a larger audience, but it has to appeal to anyone first. This doesn’t.
What planet do you live on?
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.
Who the fuck is avoiding buying games because they aren’t “woke” or “diverse” enough?
Buying forced diversity bug studio shlop you mean. Plenty of tiny diverse indie games that do well for themselves out there.
I’m seeing all of these down votes but no one has been able to refute this point.
What fucking point? That you virgin loses can’t stand reality and hate diversity and women being represented at all? You troglodytes are living way way in the past and convincing yourselves you’re just like everyone else. You’re not. It’s not the norm to be like you.
It’s really hard to refute willful stupidity. You can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into.
Plenty of people have refuted the point.
But please, keep embarrassing yourself, incel.
