Concord 25k Sales Disaster, Loses 92% of Players 1 Week After Launch!

Intro + Sony Failures I believe a lot of the frustration that Gamers have with PlayStation's new hero shooter Concord is well what's happened the last couple of years at Sony they infamously in 2021 shut down the Japan studio uh developer behind a lot of iconic maybe smaller PlayStation experiences at the time the reasoning why they were shutting it down was to further strengthen business operations it was an embarrassment for Sony at the time and they faced a lot of heat for the decision and now you look at what's come in the last couple of years because it's quite clear that Jim Ryan what his administration what his team wanted to be a focus for PlayStation moving forward was on live service entries earlier on this year we had hell divers 2 that had immediate success but it has fallen quite badly lately Last of Us online spent years in development ended up falling apart and then we have this project which eight years of development on a hero shooter and it looks like a giant flop and it's quite clear that this development began because of OverWatch the success that blizzard had with that game and for some reason during that span of time nobody thought that they needed to differentiate themselves from blizzard and the many other you know hero Shooters on the market I mean this year you can look alone you have deadlock which has already had immediate success Marvel's Rivals is quickly approaching OverWatch is still doing pretty decent uh paladins has been around for a while and there's a number of other hero Shooters on the market along with new and thriving multiplayer experiences that are set to arrive in the coming weeks all of which will take attention and players away from uh well Concord which really doesn't have any players as we'll explore in this video but it is 100 Million Cost, Expensive Cinematics important to understand that this project was expensive they had to have spent over $100 million on this a simple breakdown of it is just the fact that the studio is based out of Washington everybody's probably making six figures well over a 100 developers and this project has probably been in development full development full production for at least 5 years so yes they had to have invested over100 million which a lot of people again believe that they should have invested maybe on you know their Japan Studio keeping that going and they probably would have had a lot more success than what's going to happen with here with Concord which really does not have a path forward and by no means I don't think the game is terrible I think the Gunplay is actually pretty darn enjoyable but it has no distinct identity uh the maps are okay the Cosmetics though the character design is abysmal I would actually say the Cosmetics are ugly you know you have this major selling point you get $40 and you don't have to worry about a battle pass or anything along those lines but then the actual unlock for the characters are horrifically they're they're ugly they're downright ugly I mean who wants a different colored blue suit that's pretty much what a lot of these Cosmetics are there's like one distinct change from what the characters look like and it's just I I don't feel like that's even a purpose to continue playing the game there's nothing about these characters that is enjoyable and that is supposed to be one of the major selling points for a hero shooter like this and that's why when the open Beta happened earlier this Summer that should have been put off major red flags for Sony with the fact that there just wasn't any interest even with that I think it may have broken like a thousand or two players that is horrible for a hero shooter like this that I'm sure Sony's initial expectations was that it would probably be having at least 5 to 10,000 players on Steam and probably much more on PlayStation and it looks like it's never even going to reach those Heights even if it goes free to play so yeah they they had to have spent a [ __ ] ton of money on this and then we have the cinematics this is probably where all the money was spent whenever you enter into a match there's like a short little video that shows the ship entering into orbit of whatever planet that you're supposed to be playing the match on it actually looks very cool very detailed and I guess that's what's supposed to set this game apart from the other hero Shooters have no idea why they thought this was going to be a selling point and yeah yeah every week there's supposed to be new cinematics this was something that Jee Park brought up on Twitter because people were arguing this isn't what they promised they didn't say this they never even really communicated it and as Jean says here the Concord gameplay reveal kicked off the Sony state of play in weekly cinematics was a lead feature people either forgot or were so apathetic the information didn't stick and I think it's pretty much this it's it's the ladder and if you actually check this article coming from PlayStation this was just days ago in which they said during our first week and every week after we'll be premiering our weekly cinematic viets in game these brief cinematics expand upon the characters in the universe of Concord that nobody gives a [ __ ] about we can't wait for you to learn more about the crew of the North Star their journey and of course their tidy ship in the coming weeks and we actually just got week two of these cinematics and here's my reaction to I guess the selling point of Concord love to see how this is fleshing out the universe its characters making people actually care about it they had to have spent hundreds of Millions on this oh we have received a message from the free Gunner crew dark cutter is an intimidating name there's knockoff draas demands that we turn around apparently they are after the same bounty on glance it's going to be a real bad day for them perhaps we need a more intimidating name the hollow Mirage dark cutter was the crew that warned us about the guild checkpoint and now they are threatening us yeah that's how it goes free Gunner codes says we share the stars but once we're Planet Side it's every crew for themselves oh my how dramatic what if we were the omen Riders so the dark cutter crew they are our enemy or a friend yeah both I find the in congruity thrilling hey it's just boring I mean a successful mission on glance come on let's do this people you got it captain that was baffling watch your backs this is supposed to flush out the universe make you interested and it just doesn't and your name does not intimidate us well that's the new weekly cinematic I suppose Jesus and another takeaway to The Roadmap have with those cinematics is that they were extremely expensive and it had to have taken them years to make I mean they look good and I'm sure that they have dozens of them ready to go for the coming weeks to to be but I don't even know if we'll actually ever see all of them release uh this is some of the plans that they have coming up concord's next free Gunner has a gap to fill in the hero shooter Concord may be struggling on Steam with a lower player count but future post-launch seasons are confirmed we'll see about that hopefully these updates address the need for more healers in Concord again there's issues with the actual gameplay of Concord it is not perfect I think it's enjoyable enough but yes there are problems and things that they need to fix with these characters especially with some of the design choices that they made with them and uh yeah this is the over map this is the uh the road map that they have and they they promise new free Gunner new map new variants quality of life updates new cosmetics and rewards new viets this is all supposed to be happening in October and then we also have the fact that they are promising they're like yeah we're strapped in ready to go to push it for years to come and I just these developers are going to be devastated when they get that shutdown notification in a couple of weeks because it's coming and the reviews for Negative Reviews, Bad Sales & Playerbase Tanks Concord have not gotten better as you can see it has a 65 on open critic that's terrible it's weak as it says in the score only 23% of critics are recommending this experience while I do enjoy the Gunplay again the characters it's not even just their designs that there's problems with it's really how they function and how the gameplay comes together and uh yeah all the review everything about this has been getting worse Euro gamer saying well they gave it a three out of five Concord Snappy combat and colorful character abilities make it a perfectly playable Shooters I don't even know if that's a compliment but muddled hero designs and unimaginative maps and modes leave it struggling to stand out I'd actually say I kind of like some of the maps but that that's just me taking a look at steam user reviews for Concord in one week after launch there's not even 500 of them and of the 477 that are here only 2/3 of that's positive and it is important to remember that Playstation network account requirements which became a mandate earlier on this year tons of controversy obviously with hell divers 2 that that's here with Concord what that means is well there's a hundred over a 100 countries territories that don't even have the option to play or buy this game right now feel like PlayStation shooting themsel in the foot with that decision um we did also see some of the Articles coming from games media is rather baffling IGN saying Concord is another high-profile victim of aaa's painful long development time if this game released maybe let's just say 5 years ago I still don't think would have been successful there's so many issues with the design of this game that it may it's baffling that they contined down this path for so long and even if this went free to play I genuinely don't think there would be interest here because of how unappealing it is in terms of it its design and also the fact that the characters everything there the Cosmetics that have been made for it it is downright ugly PC Gamers shared a similar opinion saying the eagerness to grave dance on unpopular games has become a bad habit concord's low turnout has led to the usual Jubilation or the prospect of seeing a big game game fail you know the AAA games industry the last couple of years has become very predictable with its live service slop they just love chasing stupid ass Trends and in 2016 some of the developers at firewalk Sony whoever funded this thought wow OverWatch is doing really good let's make our own and they pretty much produced an OverWatch reskin with nothing unique about it ugly characters ugly cosmetics and they thought that this was going to be successful so no PC Gamer I'm going to continue to jump on these these live service disasters this live service slop that failure was so obvious I guess not to the PlayStation Executives but everybody else we knew that this was coming more articles the gamer let's give Concord a chance baffling this is also the same outlet that went after Hogwarts Legacy last year find this so funny Concord may have had a rocky start but its unique gameplay Styles and diverse characters make it a fun shooter the weekly story updates are turning the tide for Concord for who for the 10 players that are playing this offering more depth to its characters and setting it apart I have absolutely no idea anything about these characters because the cinematics are so [ __ ] boring and they they do nothing for me and I don't think anybody actually cares about this universe of the characters uh it is funny though PC Gamer they also gave the game a 45 concord's Third Rate Heroes aren't up to the competition yeah I'd agree with that and I do love how you can contrast Third Rate Heroes and they're calling them here what was it diverse characters nobody cares about this lineup of characters they're terrible they're ugly uh we did see also the fact that this game continues to Tumble when I mean tumble it is collapsing I didn't think it was possible when you have 600 players at launch but say what you will concord's surprising me Concord is already hitting double digigit player numbers on Steam and as some people have been pointing out the game has lost over 85% of its player base after launch and if you actually go to steamdb it's worse than that uh as you can see it has 130 players right now it's a Friday night you would think that this game would have a lot more it would have had a boost let me actually reload the page and we'll see hey it gained three players but this is very much the case the game began Let's see we can do this last Friday night it was 697 uh Saturday 473 Sunday 400 Monday 276 Tuesday it was what 241 um Wednesday it was about 198 Thursday it was 178 and today it has so far gotten about 130 and the lowest point that this game has reached is actually 54 players I saw that this was last night or early morning for 54 players that is the low point that this game is hit over 90% of the players are gone and within a week or two that there's very likely there's going to be a dozen or two players left playing this experience and ultimately if you look at all the other metrics it continues to be God awful black myth Wukong obliterates Concord with unreal debate Blackmouth Wukong has debuted with 183% more players than Concord from our respective sample with no one collecting Concord trophies on PSN firewalks first PS5 game is in 147th Place in our popularity chart ouch and uh yeah the metrics continue to be more negative as time has gone on sub2 200 steam players 56th in PlayStation sales right now again that is right now week of launch that is horrific this is probably the biggest PlayStation flop maybe in history next though we have this article coming from IGN which puts the the failure of this game in even more perspective con estimated to have sold only 25,000 units again this game probably cost with the lifespan you know all the developers working on this probably north of $100 million 25,000 units probably means this game has made around $1 million that is a historic flop and they asked analyst this is actually what I'm interested in analyst talking about the game is Concord actually selling that badly yeah yeah Liam Dean principal Analyst at omia said uh the steam numbers are so bad that even without the exact data on the PS5 side we can be pretty certain that the game is doing very badly on Monday August 26 Concord ranked 147th on us PS5 daily active players across all titles with fewer than 0.2% of Monday's active PS5 players playing the game analyst Simon Carles who authors gamec discover.co newsletter estimated that concord's total sales are sitting around 10,000 units on Steam and around 15,000 on Playstation ouch now why isn't conquor selling I think we already know why but they say conquer suffered from poor marketing a higher price point and most critically a lack of differentiation and an oversaturated genre one of the analysts saying that i' suffered from low awareness and purchase intent among video game players I mean whenever they marketed the game it was pretty pretty obvious how The Gaming Community reacted to it and it was just they just scoffed at it because it looked terrible it looked ugly uh he indicated that cir's player pulse was showing that as of July only a very small percentage of players were even aware conqur existed to begin with and then here are the obvious conclusions that I don't think you need analyst to know but Concord should have launched freeo play or at least as part of PS Plus's subscription to have a fighting chance and overcrowded genre it is not too late for this to happen of course but the damage might have already been done it has First Impressions matter every analyst I spoke to also hammered home that uh what may be conquer's biggest problem lack of differentiation and then they mention again the obvious Point since then since the game you know began development around the time OverWatch began um since then we've had a few more big budget hero Shooters come to Market Apex Legends valerant OverWatch 2 deadlock just released Marvel Rivals soon each with their own unique gameplay attributes all three of these games are played by millions of Gamers every month and dominate this category and again the thing about Concord it does absolutely nothing unique it is it fills a void that doesn't exist if you've played Concord or seen gameplay of it I mean it looks like it's Destiny meets OverWatch meets valerant but I think a lot of people come to the same conclusion is why not I just just play those games instead of this pile of garbage that also cost $40 and those games don't and other PlayStation Studios Try Saving + Reactions & Lies individuals have pointed out the issues actually with the gameplay experience uh somebody's saying my problem with the characters designs and why they Impact gameplay and this is actually minus you know the Cosmetic side of it there's actual gameplay problems with this some of the design choices are absolutely baffling you can't blame this on the anti-woke stuff look at dah he is a support yes he's supposed to be midline throwing down heels and mitigating damage yes why is he fat with a huge hitbox he's supposed to encourage group play so he can maximize the number of people he gets with his Pad but if people are group around him his huge ass hit Box means he's going to take damage on every single AOE How fat you are should be directly proportional to how well you can take a hit Amari can take lots of hits she's fat no worries do do can't take hits men he's not supposed to so why is he like this um we also see other individuals pointing out that matchmaking after launch weekend just waited 8 minutes for matchmaking I actually did play this game last night I tried recording gameplay I think I have more time sitting in matchmaking than actually playing The Experience because there was multiple time so You' be sitting there for 5 minutes still waiting for a match to hit and it's only going to get worse as time goes on as people just realize that this is this isn't worth it and there's better options on the table um other individuals have been pointing out that PlayStation Studios definitely are going all out to get people to play the game and there could be an argument that PlayStation studios are making up most of the player base at this point we had Naughty Dog calling all freeg Gunners Ben Studio Insomniac Su Sucker Punch they're going other way they're trying to help their sister Studio but it ain't going to help and it isn't working um Tom Warren also pointed out that last year's major disaster flop Gollum actually had a higher Peak than Concord which again multiplayer versus single player that's just insane to me um another individual pointing out that somebody said that they dropped a 20 bomb in the game bro killed over 3% of the game's concurrent player base in one match that that's actually it's facts it's true another individual saying the game Concord actually has a few animated shorts where all of the world is done in this cell-shaded look and honestly it looks like it looked if it looked like this I genuinely believed it could have been received way better and I think it would have more players I actually think that this design is a lot more inspired than what they did here another individual pointing out that IGN a journalist um says you're a bad human being if you don't like the game conquer really is scratching that multiplayer shooter itch it's not too late to delete this not too late to become a decent human being what does that have to do with anything with a game and then we do have other users on Twitter defending this game too many bugs at launch Elder ring was such a buggy mess at launch just to get a stable frame rate you needed to play the PlayStation 4 version on PS5 game reviews need standards so I guess this individual didn't like Elden Rings reviews but for some reason they are Shilling going out of their way to praise this game in this screenshot right here they say that it's number four in the PlayStation Store but they sorted it to new games so it didn't show that it's actually you know like in the 30 40s 50s actually on the store and then of course they just have tons of praise for Concord so uh rather interesting that there's just more Defenders for this game on social media than actually in game well it appears that Reddit found my last video and uh you can make an argument that it looks like this subreddit has more fans of Concord than those actually playing the game how dare they attackers says recurring lying okay well let's see what they're bringing up here my video the devs attack Gamers well that that that happened uh the devs says haters talentless freaks that is exactly what that developer who worked on Concord said Concord tanks hard that is exactly what happened and then it cuts off right here but that says as less than 700 players at launch all just straight up facts now though to the comment section Gamers deserve to be attacked well that sums up grit for you pretty much ultimately at this point Concord looks 19:59 Bungie's Marathon Chaos + Conclusion & Outro like probably the biggest flop in 2024 maybe the biggest embarrassment for PlayStation in years and the path forward for Concord there doesn't at all seem to be one they can go free to play but I don't think that there's going to be interest at all in this experience and ultimately I just feel like in a couple months this game could be shutting down maybe there'll be refunds probably not but this looks like a giant misfire from PlayStation and an age where they just cannot get this live service right because they continue to chase Trends while they should have concentrated on what worked for them during the PlayStation 4 era which was doubling down on these fantastic single player experiences but unfortunately feels like we have more failures like this to come in the future because this is what they've been investing in as of late oh and it's definitely encouraging that their next multiplayer offering their next big multiplayer project that I can think of hasn't been embroiled in controver oh yeah well I don't know what son's going to do anyway what do you make of what's going on with Concord let me know down in the comment section below but thank you for watching make sure to leave a like if you did enjoy this video if you found any informative value and consider subscribing for more videos like this in the future and I'll see you later