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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 92 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] breakcore@discuss.tchncs.de 38 points 2 months ago

Uh that is brutal. Not even a thousand players.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 11 points 2 months ago

Went down quicker than the Paris Concord. It's incredibly ironic using a name that's tied to disaster and then trying to one-up it's disastrousness.

[–] JasSmith@sh.itjust.works 91 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Such a comprehensive example of poor decision making at so many levels. From the decision to charge for a PvP hero shooter in a saturated market of free PvP hero shooters, to spending what appeared to be tens of millions on marketing, PR, and CGI cut scenes, to the worst character designs in living memory. It’s clear they did zero focus group testing on those characters, or if they did, they ignored all feedback. As is so common now, everyone involved in the fiasco is going to be integrated into future projects and destroy them too. They’ll learn nothing and keep doing it.

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 44 points 2 months ago

"Am I so out of touch? No, it's the kids who are wrong."

[–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 29 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Where has the marketing budget gone into? Because I literally never heard of this game until a Penguinz0 on Youtube made a video about it

[–] makyo@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

That's me too - never heard about it until I started seeing news about how it failed

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Where had the marketing budget gone, the game was shut down like a week after launch

There was a big run-up in the prior months

[–] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

There's a pretty long video about why this sort of thing happens. Basically this sort of game is relatively cheap to make and investors think they have a chance of recreating the success of Overwatch or Fortnite or smth

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (25 children)

The character design was derivative but they weren't awful, come on now. Absolutely true about the rest

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[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 72 points 2 months ago

One of the games ever made.

[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 54 points 2 months ago

Gonna post again in a week "today concord was cancelled"? Lol

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 42 points 2 months ago

See you in a few days for the anniversary of its shutdown

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 26 points 2 months ago

Never forget.

Cuz that shit was funny AF.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I watched the Secret Level ep on that the other day. Me and my buddies were like, "Wow what a cool universe we should play that game!"

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmArJ8kt5TI

Yeah if that scene represented the game it would have been a cool game

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

They should've just made that into a movie, id watch a fun sci-fi heist film

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That may have been the best episode of the series, the disappointment on finding out it was concord was immense.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Me and the boys were absolutely about the warhammer one and I'm pretty sure once it gets on a good sale we're co-oping the recent one.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

Warhammer games tend to be pretty solid, I've enjoyed every one I've bought so far. If anything that episode undersold the power of space marines.

[–] kratoz29@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago

That is why we shouldn't trust marketing.

[–] Crampi@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 12 points 2 months ago

I am pretty sure this is fake news. There never was such a thing.

[–] simple@piefed.social 6 points 2 months ago
[–] sirico@feddit.uk 4 points 2 months ago

Concord Pickering!

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There's probably an angle where that pose looks dynamic.

It's not this one.

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I really love goofy and weird characters. I have no idea how they managed to look everyone off

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Right? Overwatch has the fat dwarf engineer, the chubby ice girl, the scrungly paraplegic pyromaniac, six distinct lesbians, and a gorilla. Wild variety of costume design and body type. It is almost impressive how every single character in Concord is... askew. They look like cheap cosplays of themselves.

[–] Tracaine@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago
[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Just in time for Sony to release another Overwatch-like destined for the scrap heap

[–] vane@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And people still buy it from auctions

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 2 points 2 months ago

People buy McDonald's menus for pokemon cards and throw the food away.

People also buy Pokémon cards.

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