Concord's Disastrous Fail 2 Weeks After Release. Sony Removes Game from PS5 and Steam Store

[Music] welcome back to the night stream and finally some some good gaming news um is it good I don't know probably not if if if you enjoyed Concord uh I feel like we all saw this game just tanking before its release but now it's official now it's official PlayStation is killing its newest shooter Concord after two weeks let's get into it uh this is via Rolling Stone trying to mix it up a little you know what do they have to say well we're going to we're going to kind of go over this and see see what's going on uh and uh also check out some of the player reviews and uh critic reviews right in blog spot Sony announced that the game will go offline less than two weeks after launching ooh Concord is officially dead an official statement released today on PlayStation's blog the company has announced that its recently released multiplayer shooter will be taken offline just after 2 weeks of service the decision came after disastrous launch after the game which launch August 23rd on PlayStation 5 and PC to mostly positive reviews really though positive reviews by Gaming journals but middling player account okay on Steam the PC version got a peak all time high of only 697 players I really don't think like how do how are are we being gas lit here are we trying to be convinced that this was actually a really good game when the player count hit an all-time high on Steam for 697 players we're being lied to here continuing a number solo it's dwarfed daily by many games released decades ago H does that not tell you something right statistics don't lie as of reporting there are only 28 players active actively playing the game on Steam with a 24-hour peak of 110 uh let's see here blog post the gamees director Ryan Ellis confirms that Concord will go offline on September 6 you guys if you're into the game you have about after this post a couple more days to play it will no longer be a available to purchase as of today September 3rd I checked CU I was going to buy well I wasn't going to buy I was going to I was going to download it I was going to see if it was like just free for the day but of course too high too high expectations but it's I can't even find it on Steam what does what does the blog post say so we won't have to go through all of this but let's hear what the game director has to say right Concord fans or lack thereof in my opinion we've been listening closely to your feedback since the launch of Concord and PlayStation 5 PC I want to thank everyone who has joined the Journey of board the North Star your support and the passionate community that has grown around the game has meant the world to us however my many qualities of the experience resonated with players all 6 whatever of them on Steam at least we also recognize that the other aspects of the game and our initial launch didn't land the way we intended H therefore at this time we have decided to take the game offline beginning September 6th explore options including those that will better reach our players [Music] M customers who have purchased from other digital storefronts will also return be refunded more information about the refund from Steam and epic can be found below so steam store epic game store uh other retails for customers who have purchased a physical copy by a retailer located location outside of PlayStation directly referred to refund process of the retailer ouch once refunded player will no have no longer access to the game let's go back to the article they say well many qualities of the experience resonated with players we also recognize that other ASP game okay so it's just kind of reviewing what we just went through right no no let's not beat a dead horse right situation is a major blow for Sony who other big multiplayer games from of the Year hell divers 2 which is awesome saw viral success online after releasing in February many had wondered if Concord could live up to the lofty sales of held no there was no way I people we all saw this this game and everyone was like it kind of gives it kind of gives away like how kind of burnt out people are by these hero Shooters at this point um would you call it stagnant maybe uh on creativity but uh developed oh so so this is the kicker uh fire walk Studios Concord was rumored to have been in production for upwards of eight years years wow think about that think about where you were eight years ago where was I8 years ago I wasn't even living in this state that's wild that's a while that's a while so put that in perspective uh decision to pull the plug surprising surprising despite its failure intended as a big franchise for Sony the game was receiving regular updates for its first two weeks including new fully motion captured cinematic cut scenes to be added weekly well it resembles other multiplayers Shooters like OverWatch 2 superficially that's what they basically were everyone was comparing it to the big budget scope I don't even know how I don't even know how OverWatch 2 is doing to be honest and I think when OverWatch 2 was even released people were kind of like uh kind of just mid about it ambitious plans for its future content roll out were unlike anything seen previously in its genre although the game is being pulled from storefronts and the ser are going offline Sony and its developers remain vague about its future K Concord return for another form there's possibly that it could be comeback as a free-to-play game much like bung's Destiny 2 which I heard got really really good but I never got into Destiny to another competitive multiplayer shooter that saw stagnant postlaunch reception but found its audience after being reworked as FTP of 2PM so what do what do what are what are the re what do the reviews say so I don't know if steam likes to do this but some of these are giving positive reviews but being sarcastic at the same time so you have had fun playing positive review 1.4 hours had fun playing it with other three Concord Players I don't know if they're being serious about it or what um here's another positive one this person has 8.2 hours I hold the words can't see it it's explicit game in my steam Li my account has literal history attached to it behold stink Pros trash can robot cons everything else I rate Concord one dead game out of a pile of forgettable trash Concord would be more useful as ammunition for the Pringles can that is called oneoff yeah so it's just saying it's a very generic a very generic game all right it's really getting roasted here though on uh our favorite at least one of mine Metacritic uh the critic reviews are at a 62 and overwhelmingly so it's mixer average and then overwhelmingly dislike uh for user score that's 41 critics versus 787 user ratings which kind of Co coincides with with uh the player base at least on Steam um what do we have uh let's go to let's go to the overwhelmingly dislike like a game with genuinely not one redeeming quality the standout features are the worst art style I've ever seen and forced modernisms o an awful game so funny that the activists were pushing it this so hard the cope is hilarious okay so what do they say go woke go broke I don't I don't I this seems it seems It's pushing some sort of agenda people don't like that in their video games eight years too oh man one more bad one here Concord pronouns was were keep listening to the neutral 60,000 Twitter reviewers that want games for the modern audience they yell loud to you the developer Studios that are on Twitter as well but they won't but they don't buy your games SL movies proof almost any movie slame that came out lately that didn't make you any money these reviewers and or modern audience just want their acceptance everywhere don't listen to it that's all you have to do or else things like this happen and then of course you have the PC critic reviews gaming Nexus uh let's see here what does IG does IGN up here here's IGN Concord isn't the most Innovative or content heavy heavy hero Sho and they gave it a 70 too um you could play but with such fantastic competitive gameplay 16 compelling characters to master in 12 well welld design Maps it's got the makings of something that could go the distance in the months and years to come in fact it's a testament to its FPS chops that even while I don't even want to read this this is all just pandering um Euro gamer Concords Snappy com and colorful character abilities make a perfectly playable shooter but muddled hero designs and unimaginative maps and modes leave it struggling to sand out huh well what do what do you know they said the complete opposite of uh IGN yet they gave it a 60 I think you know where I'm going with this right the game's trash I I mean did we see this coming I when I saw the trailer and I and I saw the character designs and just it it very very much looked way too much like OverWatch 2 and I don't want to just pick on this game I guess steam's coming out with uh a new game too that just looks and again I think we're just kind of burnt out with these hero Shooters maybe there's something else a different gameplay style that we can uh have fun with and develop I mean only time will tell what the what the the the what might be the new thing right cuz I remember when Battle Royale came out man that blew up everything you know I mean who's who's out there playing this game who's disappointed that this game has failed did you know that this game was going to fail right off of rip I don't know no sweat off my back I didn't pay for I don't waste my time with games like this that I know I'm not going to play let me know down in the comments I appreciate you guys I'll talk to you soon [Music]