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JoMiran, 3 godziny temu do games w "Concord servers are now offline. Thank you to all the freegunners who have joined us in the Concord galaxy"

Lawbreakers was an excellent game that was killed by executive stupidity.

ampersandrew, 3 godziny temu

I thought it was killed by having stupid design around game objectives and not letting you tweak those rules yourself.

JoMiran, 3 godziny temu

Don’t forget the fact that is was a free-to-play game with a $30 price-tag.

houseofkeb, 2 godziny temu

That’s what killed it for me. I really enjoyed the Lawbreakers beta, but paying $30 for a game that would either die at a fixed price or quickly shift to F2P made no sense.

helenslunch, 2 godziny temu

How does a f2p game cost $30?

JoMiran, godzinę temu

Executive said, “Fuck it, we’re charging $30”. He thought people would pay that even though its main competitors were f2p.

helenslunch, godzinę temu

So it’s not f2p then?

JoMiran, godzinę temu

Ultimately, no. It was going to be at first but prior to release, it changed models and ultimately stayed at $30 until it died.

helenslunch, godzinę temu

You know what f2p means to me? It means you can play the game for free but the experience is guaranteed to be miserable because you’re going to have relentless ads crammed down your throat for skins and other bullshit I couldn’t give a single fuck about, and no matter how much you pay it never stops.

So if it’s between that and just paying $30 for the game, I’ll take the $30 every time. I avoid f2p games like the plague.

JoMiran, 56 minut temu

I agree with you. The market didn’t.

ampersandrew, 45 minut temu

Free to play games have to reach a much larger audience to break even, so chances are it was just as doomed if it was free.

altima_neo, 9 minut temu

Yeah, but the barrier to entry is much lower when the games are free.

Gradually_Adjusting, 3 godziny temu do games w Spooky Games

Funny answer: Nightmare Kart. It’s Bloodborne Mario Kart with Sega Saturn graphics. Delightfully postmodern, spooky, and free.

If you need a break from genuinely scary and just want thematically spooky fun, it’s Crypt of the Necrodancer and Darkest Dungeon.

If you have a reasonably strong machine, try emulating Call of Cthulhu, Dark Corners of the Earth. It’s genuinely scary a lot of the time.

Phegan, 3 godziny temu do games w "Concord servers are now offline. Thank you to all the freegunners who have joined us in the Concord galaxy"

Honestly. I kinda would have liked to try concord, but I sure as shit wasn’t going to pay to try it.

bionicjoey, 2 godziny temu do games w "Concord servers are now offline. Thank you to all the freegunners who have joined us in the Concord galaxy"

So funny when a corpo is forced to seem positive about something where there is absolutely no positive way of spinning it. It has this surreal energy where the person doing PR seems almost uncanny, like some kind of lizard person.

Gradually_Adjusting, 2 godziny temu do games w "Concord servers are now offline. Thank you to all the freegunners who have joined us in the Concord galaxy"

Freegunners never die, hell yeah 😎 fucking cool tweet

arudesalad, 2 godziny temu do games w "Concord servers are now offline. Thank you to all the freegunners who have joined us in the Concord galaxy"

I love how it’s worded like concord is a beloved game that is shutting down after a decade

SouravSatvaya, 2 godziny temu do games w "Concord servers are now offline. Thank you to all the freegunners who have joined us in the Concord galaxy"

Spawn killed

helenslunch, 2 godziny temu do games w "Concord servers are now offline. Thank you to all the freegunners who have joined us in the Concord galaxy"

Is this the fastest video game death of all time?

It’s a live service game. Any other game they’d say “Well most of the work is done already” but in this case it requires regular ongoing investment.

ilinamorato, 2 godziny temu do games w "Concord servers are now offline. Thank you to all the freegunners who have joined us in the Concord galaxy"

I’m not entirely oblivious to gaming news, but the literal first I had ever heard of this game was when they announced that it was being shut down. Methinks after eight years of development it could’ve had a few more dollars tossed into the marketing budget.

Fiivemacs, 2 godziny temu

Word of mouth of something great/fun and exciting should be all the marketing a company really needs. I personally don’t trust or listen to any ads. They are cancer to the brain and eyes/ears because it’s typically lies or false claims…or they make cinematic trailers which don’t even represent the game at all because… cinematic.

See stardew valley for a prime example.

Kowowow, godzinę temu

That can even be a guide to many things like tools, if it’s pricy but has good word of mouth and not heavily advertised (sometimes the biggest expense) then it might just be worth the cash

ilinamorato, godzinę temu

I’m not saying that would be a better experience for players, just that if they wanted it to succeed they should probably have done more marketing.

collapse_already, 46 minut temu

I don’t think this game even lasted long enough for word of mouth to have popularized it. I didn’t hear about it until it was dead. I am wondering how many players Helldivers 2 had at 11 days (not a great example because it was an existing IP with existing fans). Could they have made it if the game had actually been good? I am not sure. Shutting down super fast got them more publicity than anything else they did.

magic_lobster_party, 2 godziny temu

It was featured in a PlayStation showcase last year. The most notable part of the trailer was a burger. I’m not kidding.

ilinamorato, godzinę temu

That’s…remarkable.

altima_neo, 12 minut temu

Yeah, they definitely didn’t market it very well, at least to the PC crowd. It seems the PlayStation version is doing much better, with advertisements in the PSN store.

AFC1886VCC, 2 godziny temu do games w "Concord servers are now offline. Thank you to all the freegunners who have joined us in the Concord galaxy"

Anyone who paid any more for this game should get their money back immediately.

kaitco, 2 godziny temu

They are. The makers announced refunds along with the cancellation.

Voyajer, 2 godziny temu do games w "Concord servers are now offline. Thank you to all the freegunners who have joined us in the Concord galaxy"

So did anyone manage to platinum it?

garretble, godzinę temu

I heard from someone on Discord that there are 7 platinums.

Not sure if that’s wholly factual, but if so those are the rarest plats…ever?

linkhidalgogato, 2 godziny temu do gaming w The hubris of AAA publishing in three panels.

itsnt it some generic looking shooter stuffed with micro-transactions? I really cant fathom why people even care when yet another live service “AAA” “game” gets shat out.

chameleon, godzinę temu do games w "Concord servers are now offline. Thank you to all the freegunners who have joined us in the Concord galaxy"

Aside from all of the problems with the game itself, I think they must've had one of the most unfortunate launch moments. Hero shooters had been pretty much on the downturn and then just before they launched, Deadlock went public and suckered quite a lot of the hero shooter audience into playing a full-on MOBA/FPS hybrid. And Deadlock is very quietly breaking all kinds of silly records for what's technically an invite-only alpha (currently #8 on Steam's most played with 137k concurrent players).

boaratio, godzinę temu do games w Is Elder Scrolls 6 doomed to fail? I can't see how it will work

I like starfield.

affiliate, godzinę temu do games w "Concord servers are now offline. Thank you to all the freegunners who have joined us in the Concord galaxy"

it really lasted less time than liz truss

scrubbles, 2 minuty temu

I’m really happy that the one time I got to visit the UK was during Liz Truss’ time in office. It was wild seeing the protestors, and when I landed back at home I heard she was gone.