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08-22-2024, 04:22 AM
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Concord Has Been in Development for Around 8 Years
JLMFAO
I hope everyone involved with these decisions has been fired.
That’s according to lead character designer Jon Weisnewski, who joined the development team at Sony-owned Firewalk Studios five years ago to work on the game.
Weisnewski tweeted to celebrate this week’s launch of Concord (it’s available to play now across PlayStation 5 and PC for Digital Deluxe Edition owners, but its full release is set for tomorrow, August 23).
“The game has been in development for around eight years and I’ve been there for almost five of them,” Weisnewski said. “We don’t get a lot of Launch Days in our careers so today is special for a ton of reasons. Oblige me some good vibes today.”
Concord is a 5v5 first-person shooter that follows Sony’s strategy with the phenomenally successful Helldivers 2 by launching on PS5 and PC at the same time and with a cheaper price. However, early indications are that Concord is set to endure a tough time on PC, with extremely low Steam concurrent player numbers for pre-launch betas. Sony does not make PlayStation player numbers publicly available.
And so, there is a degree of concern about Concord as a viable live service as the game launches. But, according to Weisnewski: “we’re strapped in and ready to push it for years to come.”
Concord’s eight-year development suggests a significant investment from Sony and a degree of pressure on the game to perform. Indeed, Concord has one of the 15 animated shorts that make up Amazon’s recently announced anthology Secret Level.
But Concord is perhaps also yet another triple-A video game that has taken years to make and launches into an already crowded market drowning in live service shooters. The most high-profile casualty of this live service push in recent years is Rocksteady’s much-maligned Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, which flopped to the tune of $200 million for publisher Warner Bros.
Sony itself has scaled back its live service ambitions following big investment. In November last year, Sony president Hiroki Totoki said the company was reviewing the 12 live service PlayStation games it had in the works, and committed to launching only six of them by the end of financial year 2025. The following month, in December 2023, Naughty Dog announced the cancellation of The Last of Us Online, its troubled attempt to create a live service version of its hugely popular franchise.
Then, in February this year, Sony announced a significant round of layoffs affecting around 900 staff at its global PlayStation workforce. The layoffs hit a number of PlayStation studios, including Insomniac, Naughty Dog, Guerrilla, Firesprite, and, most significantly, PlayStation's London studio, which closed down. Alongside the layoffs, a number of in-development games were canceled. Last month, Sony-owned Bungie, maker of the Destiny series, suffered devastating cuts, with its PvP-focused extraction shooter Marathon still in the works.
Amid ballooning development costs and protracted development periods, the video game industry is enduring the toughest time in recent memory, with tens of thousands laid off, multiple studio closures, and various games canceled.
As for Concord, fans are already pointing out that if development on the game began around eight years, then that lines up with when Blizzard's hero shooter Overwatch blew up.
Weisnewski tweeted to celebrate this week’s launch of Concord (it’s available to play now across PlayStation 5 and PC for Digital Deluxe Edition owners, but its full release is set for tomorrow, August 23).
“The game has been in development for around eight years and I’ve been there for almost five of them,” Weisnewski said. “We don’t get a lot of Launch Days in our careers so today is special for a ton of reasons. Oblige me some good vibes today.”
Concord is a 5v5 first-person shooter that follows Sony’s strategy with the phenomenally successful Helldivers 2 by launching on PS5 and PC at the same time and with a cheaper price. However, early indications are that Concord is set to endure a tough time on PC, with extremely low Steam concurrent player numbers for pre-launch betas. Sony does not make PlayStation player numbers publicly available.
And so, there is a degree of concern about Concord as a viable live service as the game launches. But, according to Weisnewski: “we’re strapped in and ready to push it for years to come.”
Concord’s eight-year development suggests a significant investment from Sony and a degree of pressure on the game to perform. Indeed, Concord has one of the 15 animated shorts that make up Amazon’s recently announced anthology Secret Level.
But Concord is perhaps also yet another triple-A video game that has taken years to make and launches into an already crowded market drowning in live service shooters. The most high-profile casualty of this live service push in recent years is Rocksteady’s much-maligned Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, which flopped to the tune of $200 million for publisher Warner Bros.
Sony itself has scaled back its live service ambitions following big investment. In November last year, Sony president Hiroki Totoki said the company was reviewing the 12 live service PlayStation games it had in the works, and committed to launching only six of them by the end of financial year 2025. The following month, in December 2023, Naughty Dog announced the cancellation of The Last of Us Online, its troubled attempt to create a live service version of its hugely popular franchise.
Then, in February this year, Sony announced a significant round of layoffs affecting around 900 staff at its global PlayStation workforce. The layoffs hit a number of PlayStation studios, including Insomniac, Naughty Dog, Guerrilla, Firesprite, and, most significantly, PlayStation's London studio, which closed down. Alongside the layoffs, a number of in-development games were canceled. Last month, Sony-owned Bungie, maker of the Destiny series, suffered devastating cuts, with its PvP-focused extraction shooter Marathon still in the works.
Amid ballooning development costs and protracted development periods, the video game industry is enduring the toughest time in recent memory, with tens of thousands laid off, multiple studio closures, and various games canceled.
As for Concord, fans are already pointing out that if development on the game began around eight years, then that lines up with when Blizzard's hero shooter Overwatch blew up.
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08-22-2024, 04:54 AM
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Going to flop so hard
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08-22-2024, 06:24 AM
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Imagine canceling Factions 2 and letting this slop proceed without question.
Big miss on Sony's end. Luckily Xbox is self-destructing so it doesn't matter.
Big miss on Sony's end. Luckily Xbox is self-destructing so it doesn't matter.
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08-22-2024, 07:16 AM
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Originally Posted By BearyManilowe⏩
Meanwhile PS5 has no games. Only nerds care about it anymore.
Imagine canceling Factions 2 and letting this slop proceed without question.
Big miss on Sony's end. Luckily Xbox is self-destructing so it doesn't matter.
Big miss on Sony's end. Luckily Xbox is self-destructing so it doesn't matter.
08-22-2024, 07:32 AM
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Luckily Xbox going third party will provide PS5 with enough games
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08-22-2024, 08:14 AM
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Originally Posted By JayJ350⏩
Sure man. You can say that the sky is red while you're at it if you'd like.
Meanwhile PS5 has no games. Only nerds care about it anymore.
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08-22-2024, 09:55 AM
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Originally Posted By BearyManilowe⏩
It's gonna be so joyous watching Concord flop.
Imagine canceling Factions 2 and letting this slop proceed without question.
Big miss on Sony's end. Luckily Xbox is self-destructing so it doesn't matter.
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08-22-2024, 02:15 PM
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“The game has been in development for around eight years and I’ve been there for almost five of them,” Weisnewski said. “We don’t get a lot of Launch Days in our careers so today is special for a ton of reasons. Oblige me some good vibes today.”
The feeling that these imbeciles are feeling should rightfully be feeling is shame .
8 years for that schit heap isn't something to be proud of.
Also the problem with the lack of bullying. People should be flooding this asshat's inbox with reminders that him and his team are an embarrassment who should stick to screwing up strangers' coffees.
Concord is a 5v5 first-person shooter that
follows Sony’s strategy with the phenomenally successful Helldivers 2
by
launching on PS5 and PC at the same time and with a cheaper
price.
However, early indications are that Concord is set to endure a tough time on PC, with extremely low Steam concurrent player numbers for pre-launch betas. Sony does not make PlayStation player numbers publicly available.
What "market" of gay and retarded people does Sony think this is going to hit to justify not taking it behind the shed? Just how deep was the budget for this garbage if it took them 8 years?!?
And so, there is a degree of concern about Concord as a viable live service as the game launches. But, according to Weisnewski: “we’re strapped in and ready to push it for years to come.”
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08-23-2024, 10:37 AM
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imagine making a pronoun shooter for 8 entire years only for it to be DEAD ON RELEASE
meanwhile you got people begging for something good to play… ps5 xbox series x generation has been a complete JOKE.
Nintendo is the only one continually pumping out great software. straight up showing how its done.
meanwhile you got people begging for something good to play… ps5 xbox series x generation has been a complete JOKE.
Nintendo is the only one continually pumping out great software. straight up showing how its done.
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08-23-2024, 10:46 AM
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Originally Posted By rocketfish⏩
going to have to agree with this, except the problem with Nintendo is their console is utter garbage…it's a fukking tablet. Nintendo has been ass ever since the Wii.
imagine making a pronoun shooter for 8 entire years only for it to be DEAD ON RELEASE
meanwhile you got people begging for something good to play… ps5 xbox series x generation has been a complete JOKE.
Nintendo is the only one continually pumping out great software. straight up showing how its done .
meanwhile you got people begging for something good to play… ps5 xbox series x generation has been a complete JOKE.
Nintendo is the only one continually pumping out great software. straight up showing how its done .
Also you're correct about PS/XBOX
nothing good since the 360.
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08-23-2024, 10:48 AM
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Originally Posted By ****inator⏩
What a brutal way of life for the Pony that has to rely on the company they cry about every day to make games for their poverty box. This is what "real gaming" looks like.
Luckily Xbox going third party will provide PS5 with enough games
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08-24-2024, 06:23 PM
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hopefully this is the catalyst for no more woke games
wouldn't that be nice?
wouldn't that be nice?
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08-24-2024, 06:31 PM
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Originally Posted By yabbayabba⏩
Yup, the "real gamers" lmao. They stick to their one chosen console like everything depends upon it, depriving themselves of everything anything else could offer, just to celebrate the prospect of a company they have routinely hated on maybe releasing more stuff on their chosen platform. What a bunch of idiots.
What a brutal way of life for the Pony that has to rely on the company they cry about every day to make games for their poverty box. This is what "real gaming" looks like.
08-24-2024, 06:35 PM
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Originally Posted By SirFapsAIot⏩
Yeah Nintendo's problem is how desperately they could use a new console. I picked up an OLED a while ago and honestly, it's pretty underwhelming considering the hype and praise it got. Still obvious how old the hardware is and how much they need a real performance upgrade.
going to have to agree with this, except the problem with Nintendo is their console is utter garbage…it's a fukking tablet. Nintendo has been ass ever since the Wii.
Also you're correct about PS/XBOX
nothing good since the 360.
Also you're correct about PS/XBOX
nothing good since the 360.
08-24-2024, 07:07 PM
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Hopefully the success of Concord can funnel profits into the creation of new single player games.
Thanks Sony.
Thanks Sony.
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