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JackDark, do games w An important update on Concord - Being taken offline September 6th, refunds to be issued

I didn’t realize that there was a physical release for this game. I just bought myself a copy to keep sealed in my collection.

A_Union_of_Kobolds,

It’s tempting lol

Sunny,

May I ask why? Genuinly curious.

JackDark,

I’m a collector, and this is a game that may have a high value in the future due to being rare. If it was literally only available for 2 weeks and they pulled all the remaining copies and refunded people, there’s not going to be many, and I will have a sealed copy. Of course, it’s possible that they may re-release it in the future if they decide it’s worth the money to tweak it, but I honestly kind of doubt it. You may be wondering why it matters if it literally can’t be played and who would want it, and that’s absolutely a fair question, but in the end, the answer is collectors.

Feathercrown,

Don’t think of it as a pyramid scheme, think of it as a pyramid team!

ChapulinColorado,

Have noticed any trend in how “collectible” something is with the introduction of “online/periodic patches”. I always wondered since there seems to be a lot of software at different versions gluing everything together vs what used to be the standard before (console software was for the most part finalized at launch).

JackDark,

I haven’t really noticed anything in that regard. I’ve also been curious about the collectibility of physical copies of online only games. If the game is no longer playable, is there actually any value? I feel like things are a little too early to say at this point, but given how rare this title will seemingly be, I’m hedging my bets.

fubarx, do gaming w Concord is shutting down on September 6.

Let’s hope no single person worked on that thing for the full 8 years under development. Would be crushed.

moreeni,

Where did you find the info that it was 8 years under development? Wikipedia’s sources for the game page say that the studio behind Concord has only been around for ~6 years

fubarx,

arstechnica.com/…/two-weeks-after-launch-sony-sho…

“Team-based shooter eight years in the making had just 25,000 estimated sales.”

moreeni,

Jesus. Yeah, I too hope nobody was really excited about the game, that would be heart breaking :(

Thcdenton, do games w An important update on Concord - Being taken offline September 6th, refunds to be issued

Get fucked

windowsphoneguy, do games w An important update on Concord - Being taken offline September 6th, refunds to be issued
@windowsphoneguy@feddit.org avatar

Could have been a cool single player game

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

Could have been a cool split screen and LAN game.

ngwoo,

People can barely find anyone to play with globally over the internet. It wouldn’t work as a lan game.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

Any game works as a LAN game. That’s the advantage of being a LAN game. Of course, when you build a game like that, you know not to assume that you’ll always have 10 players in a match, and you build it to scale to that. If they released it with LAN and a deathmatch mode for any number of players, even if they did no rebalancing on the character designs to account for it and the there were obvious top tiers and low tiers, I’d still buy it.

ngwoo,

I’m saying that if there aren’t enough players to sustain a multiplayer game globally you’re not going to find people to play with locally.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

And I’m saying that if you throw in a quick deathmatch mode, it’s playable with only one friend. And when a game has LAN, that means that you can play with a gaming VPN regardless of the presence of official servers.

radix,
@radix@lemmy.world avatar

Gameboy Advance had single-pak link (buy one copy, play with up to 4 linked devices) 20 years ago.

Greed has defeated the technology, though.

GuerillaGorillas,

That’s what I thought it was going to be from the initial trailer, but then seeing it was yet another hero shooter made me lose all interest.

B312, do gaming w Concord is shutting down on September 6.

I knew since that first reveal trailer

magnetosphere, do gaming w Concord is shutting down on September 6.
@magnetosphere@fedia.io avatar

Damn that was quick.

Mercuri, do games w An important update on Concord - Being taken offline September 6th, refunds to be issued

Remember when Sony laid off a ton of Bungie employees? Talk about a series of bad decisions.

At least they’re giving refunds.

Sinuousity,

Just saw a Bungie job listing on LinkedIn too. Make it make sense. I did apply though

Stovetop,

They want to pay less than they were to whoever was in that spot before.

That or it’s one of the essential positions they didn’t want to downsize but the previous person left for other reasons.

jordanlund, do gaming w Concord is shutting down on September 6.
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

TWO WEEKS! I figured it had 6 to 9 months… but man… + refunds? This is a “sorry, we don’t know why we released this…”

L0rdMathias, do games w An important update on Concord - Being taken offline September 6th, refunds to be issued

Kekw

zante,

I can never tell if it’s new gen z word or a spasm of some sort

L0rdMathias,

?

yeather,

Kekw is deeper internet slang than most people are willing to discover. Kek is like a giggle or snort, not a full laugh but a chuckle. The w modifier means this is a win for them, so kekw is a chuckle about a good situation. If you want more info you can ask someone on 4chan, they are super helpful and nice to new members of the community.

L0rdMathias,

Yeah, they’re very helpful over there. You can learn a lot from them. But also:

Being young enough to believe that kekw is just some 4chan tier slang.

It seems all knowledge shall become lost in the eternal shadow of an aging timeline.

yeather,

Ik it’s not, but the only place you see it regularly is 4chan.

bungle_in_the_jungle, do games w An important update on Concord - Being taken offline September 6th, refunds to be issued

Can’t help but wonder if this would have been a hit if it was F2P rather?

learningduck,

With the amount of marketing it received, I think people would still stick to Valorent or Overwatch 2. I only see videos and posts about Concord being a flop, than promoting it.

Blackmist, do games w An important update on Concord - Being taken offline September 6th, refunds to be issued

Oof. Pivoting to free to play then, or at least a PSPlus relaunch.

UngodlyAudrey, do gaming w Concord is going offline beginning September 6th
!deleted4132 avatar

Wow, this is absolutely wild. From launch to delisting in two weeks. Yeah, there’s a good chance that this is temporary while they pivot to a free-to-play model, but holy crap. Guess the PS5 player count must not be substantially higher than the abysmal Steam player count.

sp3tr4l,

The estimates I’ve seen from people going off of PS achievements for the game put total PS sales at about 15,000 compared to about 10,000 on Steam.

So that would equate to roughly an all time PSN concurrent player count high of 1,000.

UngodlyAudrey,
!deleted4132 avatar

oof. Yeah, they did the right thing pulling the plug on this for now. You’d probably spend more time waiting for a match to queue up than actually playing the game.

sp3tr4l,

Yeah it hit that point a few days ago.

If I had to guess, they started the process of pulling the plug when sales/players didn’t pick up on Labor Day, a holiday that normally sees increased player numbers.

elgordino, do games w An important update on Concord - Being taken offline September 6th, refunds to be issued

Remove from sale. Add more monetisation features. Rerelease as F2P. Cross fingers and hope for best.

snooggums,
@snooggums@midwest.social avatar

The Multiversus approach!

332, do games w An important update on Concord - Being taken offline September 6th, refunds to be issued
@332@feddit.nu avatar

Jesus christ

zipzoopaboop, do gaming w Concord is going offline beginning September 6th

Stop making live service games, especially when you have no fucking clue where your audience is

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