Concord: 8 years to make 8 Days to D.E.I │Explained in Autistic Detail

[@ItsAGundam]

The Video boomer remover didnt want you to see!

[@e69alpha]

i love your artistic detials

[@FLABrowncoat]

Please, it's pronounced "commie cough"

[@TheDailyMemesShow]

Have you seen the Concord dildo controller, Gundam?

[@DisposableExtraNumber1138]

They absolutely didn't want me to watch, they don't even send me a notification til days later after your videos drop. I caught this video super early by random chance.

[@TheDailyMemesShow]

The YT Gestapo Police is keeping tabs on me - where's my original comment? 😆

[@Lord_Deimos]

Concord, a game so fugly that it defeated rule 34... Concord, a game that accurately represents everything that is wrong with the modern entertainment industry.

[@awfulolaf]

There are currently 42 pictures for Concord on R34. Most of them being the purple-haired alien.

[@koweedate]

There would R18, R18G (guro) that is.

[@damian_cross]

@@awfulolaf It doesn't matter. Even if there's pictures on the site, the actual rule is "If it exists there is porn of it" and Concord NO LONGER EXISTS.

[@johntan4997]

It's really ugly, not even talking the characters. The maps looked so bland; I swear it's 1996 Quake.

[@Dan-qy6zv]

​@@awfulolafhow many of those are AI though?

[@IVIaskerade]

What blew my mind was the dev saying "you can't get a sense of their personality from just a 10 minute trailer" when Valve's 'meet the team' shorts did that within 30 seconds for each of the classes.

[@alexvesper7820]

If you can't give a sense of a character's personality in ten minutes, it doesn't mean the character is deep. It means the writer is bad at writing. Ten minutes is an eternity.

[@Mereologist]

To be fair, I have met human beings from whom I was able to detect no personality after ten minutes.

[@thespectator5259]

There is something to be said about *adding* to a character after their surface level personality is established (Which is what they "probably" meant by that 10 minute statement.) Of course, such only matters if people are interested enough to you know....*stick around and find out.* Obviously, they failed to follow through. Womp womp.

[@samzilla567]

One of the few positive things I'll say about Overwatch is it's character designs. You can look at characters like Tracer, Widowmaker, and Winston for example, and instantly understand what their character personality and traits are solely based on their looks and poses. Not a single thing stood out from the cast of Concord and that killed the game.

[@alephniguroth7105]

@@samzilla567 the OW corn kept the franchise alive.

[@SatyamSingh-pt7wl]

Watched XQC play this on Kick and oh boy am I glad I didn’t purchase this XD To put things into perspective: Concord's death was the equivalent of walking to the bus stop and all of the sudden seeing a well dressed trapeze artist hit the pavement. I never even knew he was up there, I only ever noticed the spat.

[@GregoryMcadams-m4b]

Well put! XD

[@LaiHoaMy]

Concord is one of those games i would not put on my CW, even though i had been working on it for 8 years XD

[@SaronNgocHan]

Outlived by a lettuce in my fridge.

[@LaÁiQuỳnh]

Biggest flop in modern gaming history

[@NguyenThienGam]

Game designers was probably forced to follow instructions, i doubt they had a good time at work :p

[@capincrunch1184]

I don’t have enough money to buy good games let alone S*** ones

[@matthiasblum6555]

More like time, tons of good old games out there for a couple of bucks, but almost no one has so much time...

[@DiogenesDworkinson]

I work 20 hrs a week at minimum wage while paying for myself... I have money for games. What are people doing in their budgets?

[@azm3949]

​@@DiogenesDworkinsonbills, rent, car payments, gas, groceries. You can pay that on 20h minimum wage??? Highly doubtful

[@iwrotewords510]

@@DiogenesDworkinson no way you can afford rent, travel, food, clothes, mobile, internet and bills (gas, electricity, water) on 20 hours a week with minimum wage let alone games. lol

[@DarthZ01]

​@@DiogenesDworkinson20 hours on min wage, assuming you either live with relatives for free, or were given a free place to live. rent is about a third my income. electricity, insurance, wifi, phone, food and gas are another 3rd, leaving about 400/month for extras and unexpected payments. but i get 30-40 hours, at double min wage

[@Raptor091288]

"This game isn't for you, gamers (derogatory)." "Why are those horrible gamers (derogatory) not buying our game that isn't for them?!"

[@stellviahohenheim]

The funny thing is they wasted 4 years of their life and when they're looking for a job They either say they worked on concord or say they didn't work for 4 years

[@blickedxb]

​@@stellviahohenheim 8 years

[@DavefromWork]

*sees a game obviously not for them* "I wont buy that, it's clearly not for me." Them: "damn right-wing trolls sabotaging our game!"

[@rushpatriot2866]

​@DavefromWork yeah it's crazy how unintelligent they are it has to be a coping mechanism

[@senormarston]

The logic went out of the window years ago with these freaks

[@rwberger6]

This game showed us exactly how large the "modern audience" actually is. Even when given free access to the beta, only 1.2k players turned out. And in terms of paying customers it was even worse. That was the return on a $400million investment.

[@RRRRRRRRR33]

@@rwberger6 At the moment you do a basic search, data suggesting Twitter has only 300 million active accounts (globally), its obvious a bubble on a small platform like this one is something insignificant. It's laughable how a "twitt" goes viral if it reaches like 50k "retweet" or whatever the name... Dude, the US alone has more than 300 million inhabitants, Brazil has 200 million, etc.. 50k is a ridiculous number, a grain of sand affects society in any shape or form? What is this insanity of giving attention to the mentally ill, the delusional needs of the few outweighs the needs of the many, this makes no logical sense whatsoever

[@bararobberbaron859]

Well yeah :P Because even if you're a black trans person that likes inclusion, what matters more if you're a gamer is the gameplay. If you tell me 'It is battlefield 2 but a lot more dull, but you can be a dumpy robot', I don't care about having a character that looks like me.

[@edgaraf9411]

Wrong. It wasn't gonna do well either way. Also cyberpunk, bg3, valorant, Overwatch and more prove it's not DEI ruining ganes

[@RRRRRRRRR33]

@@edgaraf9411 Did you really mentioned Overwatch as something positive? Cyberpunk have some small influences here and there (after all, transhumanism, it's the core of the genre) and BG3 have "pansexual" characters to a point of zoophilia. I honestly don't think "inclusion" is necessarily a bad thing, it becomes a bad thing when it's either forced in a unnatural way (like Venture in Overwatch, maybe the most hideous design in the whole game. Tracer and Soldier were gay all along, etc) or when they use established names to send "messages" like Suicide Squad, Dragon Age and so on. If it's something brand new, a creation of their own like Life is Strange or Dustborne, ok, that's fine

[@generalmarkmilleyisbenedic8895]

@@bararobberbaron859stop it bot

[@beepboopbot]

You know what's the worst part? Before financing Concord back in 2016, Sony turned down an Infamous/Prototype crossover cause they thought they could create a new Star Wars type of game. ;-;

[@crawlingboy]

Every time I get reminded infamous and prototype were gonna have a crossover I get upset

[@beepboopbot]

These are the same corporate suits who turned down a Sly Cooper movie for the Emoji Movie so that's twice the emotional damage.

[@captc0ck5lap60]

Now I'm glad Sony lost money. What an absolute fumble to turn down that idea and run with trash instead.

[@tlovi7342]

Well...that is beyond upsetting.

[@judgem0rt1s23]

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! DAMN! I loved both of those games! This hurts my soul, man T__T

[@ImaRHINOgrunt]

They gave this game a 7/10 and the Golem game a 6.2/10 and the gaming “journalists” had the CHUTZPAH to give Space Marine 2 a 6/10. Gaming “journalism” has been dead for the better part of a decade and the corpse is just exploding from the decay at this point.

[@divineboi97]

Never listen to gaming journalists just watch a walkthrough and make your own decision on if you like it or not to buy it

[@Rydondo_Smooth]

Just like the state of all journalism, unfortunately.

[@misterchangoleon8967]

Don't forget that IGN gave The First Descendant got a 5

[@occorner2502]

Would you trust doctor who never studied his medical field? So why would anyone listen to gaming 'journalist', who isn't even a gamer...

[@StonersRadio]

They're paid shills now. Half of them have probably never played a video game in their lives. No different than the paid shills... I mean "critics" who rate movies and shows.

[@TheIndulgers]

To be fair, I’ve got more entertainment value out of Concord than most AAA releases lately. Watching it crash and burn and the plethora of KZbin videos dunking on it has been extremely entertaining.

[@TUXmint]

Like Fallout 76, it has given me many hours of entertainment. None of them playing the game.

[@jonbikaku6133]

🤣🤣🤣

[@brayenmorrison3199]

8 years wasted on a DOA flop. So much money that could've been used to bring back Original IPs that Sony forgot or believed never existed.

[@FLABrowncoat]

Because why sell games to people when you can get easy grant/award money from BlackRock, the killer of market forces.

[@whotfisadxm20]

*COUGHS IN INFAMOUSXPROTOTYPE IDEA THAT GOT SCRAPPED*

[@anonony9081]

Sequels are a problem in the industry as well, though. People are just begging for sequels at this point, and it's because new IP suck, but that doesn't mean they have to. How about we ask for some new IPs that aren't political bullshit?

[@theknifesong]

DEI slop? DOA flop.

[@godoftwinkies574]

8 years of salaries isn't a fail for the developers. It's a waste.

[@Soup-man]

Hey, they got what they wanted. It was inclusive, everyone got along and was equal. They all hated it.

[@leohanrush]

When everyone is equal, no one feels special. Every app, website, and entertainment industry is about making people feel special. It's just the human condition.

[@terrylandess6072]

Before it launched SONY thought everyone would 'follow the crowd' to play it. Now they say 'Don't follow the crowd'. They think for some reason the majority of gamers have become the minority. They can enjoy it. Cost me nothing.

[@shuraamano]

​@@terrylandess6072Modern audience too busy visiting therapist to afford AAA games.

[@stephenthomas1492]

That's the result of everything that tries to be so broad. Exclusive is the key word for a good product.

[@fuzzlewuzzle9388]

You know you fucked up your character design, when I can see 80% of your roster in Walmart. 😂

[@AnneHathawayRules]

Bro 😂🤣💀⚰️🪦

[@FrandrickoftheAzureFlame]

I was just thinking about this. I live in Portland, Oregon, and walk a block downtown, and you see everything but the fish girl.

[@fuzzlewuzzle9388]

@@FrandrickoftheAzureFlame LOL 😆

[@BlueJerry2]

None of these devs take responsibility, blame the consumer for not buying their trash game, then launch a massive gaslighting campaign. Yeah no we're saying NOOOO

[@aahzmandiaz2767]

Gaslighting does not work on Gamers. It is a lesson all publishers need to learn fast.

[@r3dr4te963]

@@aahzmandiaz2767 tbf, it works on their working environment/ social community. Those people bully and gaslight each other in their own echo chamber, never knew how "normal" gamer (or even normal people) usually act

[@ancientslav4863]

Concord. Dustborn. Sw outlaws. Now dragon age 4 veil guard is woke. Ac shadows is supposed to be scared of ghost of yotei. Really? Isn't yoteis main character a girl? It'll be woke in a way definitely. A shadows without a black Sasuke (yasuke)

[@americanbadass88]

theres a reason gamers are mostly playing older games. They can gaslight all they want. trashing the consumers NEVER works. WOKEbusters 2016 should have taught these people that.....

[@headlessfool7050]

@@aahzmandiaz2767 Well, over the past years, they have been pretty slow on the uptake . But we're getting there...

[@XyTeRx]

8 years to take a dump? they should consult their doctor.

[@uraccountcrashed8845]

Don't you mean their professor?

[@jimjamauto]

They learned nothing from Elvis Presley

[@xxskizzumxx]

Consultants caused all the problems in the first place

[@ByteDeity]

​@@jimjamauto And why would they? He was a rich white male.

[@anon_laughing_man]

🤣🤣🤣

[@Fresh_Baklava]

“Ahhh, Christ. I was using my brain again. I was being bigoted.” I laughed so hard I sprained my ankle. You’re outta control!!!

[@ortuhs]

No you didn’t

[@genocyber4842]

What?

[@shelby-r1e]

it gives you a lot of information about the nature of the female thing when using the truth is considered sexist.

[@adrian-dragosbalaban6401]

I laughed so hard I fell on a moving train

[@jasonlee186]

My favorite part of the story is how the Concord team was saying “we did it” and “we’re so proud” only to have their game crash and burn almost immediately. “You get what you f*cking deserve”

[@randylahey1232]

Well said

[@ancientslav4863]

Boycott ac shadows, Concord, sw outlaws, dragon age 4 veil guard, and upcoming ghost of yotei ONLY if the game is woke. The main character is a woman. Nothing against women, but so far is seems like a shadows without yasuke. We will see. Remember, it's Sony. So yotei is done by Concord and Ps5 pro guys kinda.

[@alvianekka80]

"We did it, Patrick. We saved the town."

[@ned5231]

I like the fact all the actual coding work got outsourced to third parties cause the ones working on Concord where so incompetent and clearly all they knew how to do was design ugly characters and shitty back stories for them

[@bluedistortions]

Yeah and it's even more disgusting when those people taking credit and saying "we did it" were basically replaced for 200 million with independent contractors that weren't DEI hires, to do what they themselves had no hope of finishing with another 8 years.

[@Dracounguis]

More people watched this video in 2 hours than played Concord in 8 days. 😆

[@dennisburdick682]

Observant. 🙂👍

[@yourtags4876]

this video didnt cost 40 bucks to watch 😂

[@Sentinel82]

​@@yourtags4876 It also didn't charge $40 to then be delisted in less than 2 weeks either. 🤣

[@vault1549]

Perfect comment

[@williansnobre]

​@@Sentinel82and it didn't take 8 years to make nor cost 400 million robux

[@VueiyVisarelli]

I bet the majority of that $400M went to *DEI "experts."* I would bet _money_ on it...but not $400M.

[@johnwinters2815]

Of course. DEI spells money laundering.

[@jamesbyrd3740]

the source of that figure is trust me bro squared. basically worthless.

[@stellviahohenheim]

​@@jamesbyrd3740Shut up you know these corporations don't care what you think right?

[@Serif77-uf5pr]

DEI Experts. Experts at Middle Manning and Gate Keeping and Fudging the Books.

[@Valenknives]

if you need to consult a dei "expert" you should not be creating something. you dont represent people by tokenizing and box checking, you create actual characters who just are that thing

[@TheWarmachine375]

Concord: "STOP MOCKING ME! WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?!" Everybody: "Because it's easy and it does a lot of damage."

[@NeoakiraIV]

Super easy barley an inconvenience

[@trashfire9641]

​@@NeoakiraIV barley, lol

[@LopsidedMoz]

Low risk, high reward scenario

[@Aging_Casually_Late_Gamer]

Unlike any of their characters.

[@Stephfven]

I'm so happy someone referenced Happy Souls. I feel like a schizo when I quote it.

[@supershadey09]

Imagine calling your game's detractors "talentless freaks" when your "talent", or lack of it, is part of the reason the game bombed so hard. Must not have a single mirror in their apartment.

[@aahzmandiaz2767]

It's always projection with them.

[@soukenmarufwt5224]

Accountability is cryptonite to these people.

[@TransformersBoss]

Oh, there’s a mirror. Plenty of mirrors, but, as the Doobie Brothers said: “what a fool believes, he sees. No wise man has the power to reason away what seems to be.”

[@Calvinosaur]

@@TransformersBoss That's not quite the right parsing because it's an incomplete quotation of the chorus, but it's pretty close: "What a fool believes he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away. What seems to be, is always better than nothing, nothing at all."

[@termnus77]

Hopefully this taught them restraint and that at the end of the day, you're just a dev and it's just a job producing a product. Nothing more.

[@kyriss12]

Make no mistake the reason Sony is offering full refunds and yoinking the digital download from peoples play stations isn’t out of a sense of shame, or concern for the customer. It’s because they didn’t realize until it was to late how much of a money sink this game was going to be and now their only hope of making even a fraction of the money they put into it is to make next to zero profit and claim a tax write off.

[@jonbaxter2254]

It is fascinating talentless people get millions, fail horribly and just keep going on. I miss talent.

[@robertharper3114]

I haven't played a game where I cared to know who the director was in YEARS!

[@mysteryguitarhaziq]

Google Tim Follin

[@kyleadelaide]

Failing upwards is the new meta

[@penguinjay]

whole nation staffed by the unremarkables

[@VertietRyper]

​​@@robertharper3114 There's been a few games but I'm sure you already know those directors' names. No new blood worth mentioning though 😂

[@grundged]

There are sex games on steam that has had more players than Concord. 🤣

[@RipRLeeErmey]

Sex with Hitler had more concurrent players than Concord had within the first week of launch 😭

[@shemhazaithewhisperer2061]

@@RipRLeeErmey I am genuinely surprised you didn't get Shadow Realmed there. Please teach me how to please the Algorithm Gods.

[@RipRLeeErmey]

@@shemhazaithewhisperer2061 The algorithm be a tricky beast, laddie. Sometimes it smiles down upon you, other times it doesn't. It all depends how funny the algorithm thinks your comment is. (That and probably because "Sex with Hitler" is a real video game)

[@herpderp9108]

Being a DIK, go! Actual really good story. Not even kidding.

[@BatkoNashBandera774]

@@RipRLeeErmey if this is not poetic justice at its finest, I don't know what is.

[@spartanhawk7637]

“We’re ready for the game to be in people’s hands and the IP to be in people’s minds.” *one finger of the monkey’s paw curls shut*

[@notchs0son]

Internet propaganda*

[@TheWarmachine375]

Concord: *exists* Everyone: "I don't even know who you are."

[@NeoakiraIV]

Pronouns was/here

[@johnnaylor7031]

That's what's really damning for Sony and the developers about all of this, though. Almost everyone in the gaming community knew of Concord thanks to all of the marketing and spotlights Sony gave it... and it still only maxed out at 700 concurrent players at its peak. This wasn't some indie game nobody's ever heard of with a shoestring budget; this was a major "AAA" release which cost anywhere from 100 to 400 million U.S. dollars to make. There has never been a failure of this magnitude in the entire history of the industry. Books should be written and college classes should be structured examining everything surrounding this game, from conception to death, so that future generations of gamers and developers can look at it and think "Wow, at least at I didn't screw up THAT bad!"

[@ThortheGodly]

Concord: *exists* Everyone: No you don't.

[@kambandi1788]

I remember seeing an article headline describing that it's a game that people don't realize that they "need." Games should never be related to the category of "need". Games are a want, and the majority of gamers didn't want this game.

[@vault1549]

I'm 42 years old, and I'm STILL waiting for my white privilege to actually do something that benefits me.

[@CJS3637_MforAone]

It does benefit you Brotha! Your the minority that doesn't spend most of his time in a jail cell cause you don't think everything is entitled to you cause of the color of your skin!

[@edgaraf9411]

You don't get treated as bad as minorities and white sounding names do better on job applications. As a minority it's insane when you guys say you don't have white privilege, it has and always will be blatantly obvious to us

[@s3.14dervision]

I've been waiting on that bus myself! Interesting...

[@Meilk27]

pass me some if you have extra

[@s3.14dervision]

@Meilk27 Yeah, when is that "white privilege" kickin' in? Maybe if we start endlessly complaining and refuse to be happy maybe our voices will finally be heard! Gotta go...there's a mom-and-pop convenience store I have to go vandalize and rob because I have to work at Jack-in-the-Crack and mop floors and that pisses me off. I identify as rich, now where's my damn white privilege?!?!!!!!

[@Neil.02]

8 years and $400 million utterly wasted. Remember when they called people, i quote, « talentless freaks »? The irony speaks for itself.

[@georgeray1906]

Talk about biting the hand that feeds.

[@deezeemb]

It's called projecting.

[@boogerhead199]

@@deezeemb its like the dunning kruger effect but worse

[@deezeemb]

@@boogerhead199 Oh yeah.

[@overlord1676]

Don't cry because it happened, smile because it's over. Fleekazoid And laugh damn hard because it failed. Me

[@seb2750]

YES SIR!!!!

[@danielmorgan508]

HELL YEAH PIMP!!

[@cptrelentless80085]

Budget cuts

[@elduquecaradura1468]

I discovered Fleekazoid for a Space Marine II video and I hadn't laughed that much ever since I sae that Fallout New Vegas video of the dude that in the intro compared it with Wild Wild West,one of my bests discoveries in 2024 so fr

[@andrewminter3450]

YES SIR!!! ALL HAIL THE PIMPROR

[@hassathunter2464]

"We want to destroy gaming" - SBI This is their wet dream.

[@TyeDPod]

I don't understand what went wrong. The "Modern Audience" that they have been courting showed up for them. All 697 of them. That is a massive number. It's Sony's fault that they couldn't keep them entertained enough.

[@TyeDPod]

Joke

[@OGBrotatoChip]

Wait I thought they were the majority????

[@deviousdelibird]

To be fair, they get offended for entertainment so in a way...

[@demoncet1998]

An F35A fighter jet costs $100 million btw. Sony could have bought 4 with the money this game cost.

[@KCrucis]

And that is a very inflated price for the jet too

[@samzilla567]

I feel like it would've been cheaper for Sony to invest in some hand me down jets, battleships, and mercs and just create their own private army instead of wasting it on DOA live service trash.

[@LordEha]

Now That would be a ps5 pro i would buy! Lmao

[@LordEha]

PS F35 pro haha

[@guycopenstein1385]

lmao

[@SquallLionhart409]

As of now, there are currently 22096 players on the Korean server for Starcraft Broodwar. That is 31.7 times the highest concurrent players Concord reached.

[@FredRated1967]

Remember kids, you can't spell ignorant without IGN.

[@Garrus1995]

I used to kind of roll my eyes whenever people said that back in the day. But time and again that burn has become less of a burn and just more statement of fact.

[@Sevensliders]

19 years and that joke never really lost its shine!

I doubt any at IGN could even spell Ignorant.

[@captc0ck5lap60]

The seething, coping and dilating from journos about this was funny enough, but the addition of Based Chad Space Marine 2 being so successful has been almost _too glorious._

[@xxskizzumxx]

I came with self-righteousness

[@zeronos2844]

As if the God Emperor himself smited the unholy vermin.

[@DarthBop]

Not to be nit-picky, but the statement "Fans loved the game," has too many S's in it. It should read, "Fan loved the game."

[@xxihategunsxx]

That's just the way they talk... It sounds like steam escaping...🤭🤭🤭

[@nosajnieraldezurc]

and then there is " Space Marine 2 " which wiped their face on the floor with very simple story telling and non pandering to a certain marginal group of people that will never buy your product

[@theALTF4]

keep the rainbows with aids away and VOILÁ! your game succeeds

[@MarvinT0606]

A reminder that pandering to freaks and letting freaks create your product is never profitable

[@rinaldo7618]

FOR EMPEROR AND FACK EREBUS

[@paulseed1065]

And it only has 6 classes and 3 multiplayer maps. :)

[@AnneHathawayRules]

Unsuccessful American dei game: YOU'RE A BIGOT FOR NOT PLAYING OUR GAME Successful Chinese video game: lol, monke.

[@LostGeburah]

this game made duke nukem forever look like a great success.

[@qu1253]

George Broussard can rest easy knowing that Duke Nukem Forever has been one upped by an even bigger train wreck.

[@SpartanArmy117]

Oh its not even close. At least that game tried to be entertaining. At least when media used to be bad it was usually funny in how bad it was. Now I can't even laugh at this stuff because of how evil the ideology behind it is.

[@mightypancake2211]

a better success, since it can still be played.

[@ashurad_fox5991]

yeah screw my old comment back then that I'd rather fight 2 g rank lvl 140 expedition apex rajang in 4u without armor and a basic iron charge blade... rather than playing forsaken. I'd rather play forsaken and dmc reboot at the same time on max volume than play concord.

[@AnneHathawayRules]

I bought and liked Duke Nukem forever tho

[@nicowokeuplikethis9145]

Concord felt like a game that NPC would play in a cutscene

[@CarbonBallas]

15:17 I'm sorry.... 12 maps and 16 characters..... In 8 years??

[@boogerhead199]

400 million dollars too. skill issue on every level of development, one cant just blame the higher ups for this slop

[@johnwinters2815]

I'm not an expert, but, couldn't they have easily made much more?

[@boogerhead199]

@@johnwinters2815 no they couldnt because they werent experts either

[@johnwinters2815]

@@boogerhead199 Apparently.

[@gagamba9198]

In-house struggle sessions take up much of the work day.

[@crawlingboy]

Will keep on bringing it up that we lost gravity rush and lost japan studios cause of this game

[@Sir_Newkirk]

Sony moving their HQ was one of the biggest L's in history

[@Genethagenius]

Are you serious? I would have much preferred another “Gravity Rush” game!

[@zachgrim7416]

The people who made Gravity Rush just made Astro Bot….. so they may not be Japan Studio but they’re still making amazing games.

[@Crazieyboy15]

Wait, WHAT?!!

[@AnimeFun4Every1]

Bloodborne as well.

[@TheAdditionalPylons]

"talentless freaks" is massive projection, wowzers. And who are they calling talentless freaks exactly? The whole world? Because that's who didn't play this game - the whole world.

[@javonyounger5107]

The culture of toxic positive makes the idea they put this out, thinking it would do good, make much more sense; I've seen many cases where a group is allowed to feed off of each other's bullshit with no counter opinion between them. But it's still a bit baffling.

[@SpartanArmy117]

It's literally the perfect term. How have I never heard this before? It encompasses exactly what's going on with pretty much everything.

[@armouredjester1622]

I prefer "yassslighting" Much more derogatory as it combines two of their favorite terms.

[@kotzpenner]

It’s simply the reveal that the emperor has no clothes

[@OGBrotatoChip]

No negativity allowed!!!

[@foobloo101]

I don't have social media. When people started yelling "Concords servers were shut down" I was like "....the air plane?"

[@dizzystateofbliss]

😅

[@0LT4R]

In that case, talking about a fire-wall would have been more on-point 😏

[@defoley5]

Concord, a battle that turned into a bloodbath, Concord, a state of the art plane that burned upon takeoff, Concord a game that took 8 years to make and 8 days to die….you know, it fits

[@LibraritheWizardOfficial]

​@@defoley5 Costa Concordia, a cruise ship that suffered a devastating sinking due to incompetence among the crew

[@RamblesBrambles]

Renaults /AMC Concord car was the nail in the coffin for the French to produce Cars for the American market and they sold up and left town.

[@J0hnzie]

The most frustrating part of Concord is that shareholders and CEOs are going to learn the exact opposite lessons from this that they should. Concord is a brand new IP, by a team with no experience working together prior, releasing with decent marketing and a big budget. What Concord primarily failed in, was a mixture of incredibly poor direction, a lacking identity, bad inspirations, and last but not least, ugly and uninspired characters. The people with the money behind all this will read this as a failure in creating a new IP. Prepare for their next attempt to keyjangle marvel or star wars or something else they can get a safe paycheck from through the whales.

[@poisitive]

Honestly, it's not (just) the woke stuff injected into videogames. It's also the anti consumer practices, the worker unfriendly environments, the general triple & quadruple A slop, the gaslighting. The fallout surrounding the fails of big companies is of their own making and more entertaining then most of their releases.

[@flatterkatz]

I long for a day when DRM-free is the norm and client-side-anticheats are just in PvP games again. A day where content creators will call out such stuff the same they do with wokery now, instead of never even mentioning it. Oh how I long for that magical time that will never come.

[@RafaelSantos-pi8py]

The scary part is that if the games were actually good and fun to play their agenda would be more easily accepted by the players. We're lucky they suck at this.

[@DrLicuid]

@@RafaelSantos-pi8py if we are to face evil, it is better for it to be braindead and disconnected. Else they may very well succeed.

[@musicninja98]

​@@RafaelSantos-pi8py Yep, it was bound to happen when education went from valuing merit and hard work to ideological conformity and activism.

[@JohnBeattie_]

That and the woke stuff. I won’t buy anything if there’s pronouns and transgenders in the game. It’s all made up nonsense that I refuse to support.

[@ababcb3005]

The diversity was no doubt a contributing factor to the toxic positivity as well. There's absolutely no way anyone wanting to improve the designs would voice their opinion when they know that any criticism will be interpreted as a political attack.

[@meloelebi1996]

The culture of fear behind the scenes.

[@majesticfool]

It's crazy how similar this environment sounds to some communist council

[@AnonymousVenator]

​@@majesticfoolThey basically are cultural marxists

[@Animal_lives_matter]

Ooh "toxic positivity" I'm remembering that one, thanks. In return I give you "gender conversion therapy"

[@stellviahohenheim]

​@@majesticfoolAnd fascist governments. Universities have done a good job brainwashing the next generation

[@JJsiN84]

They keep telling us that "these games aren't made for gamers anymore." So I just stopped buying them, that's what they wanted right?

[@ashleybrooke2087]

It's part of this odd delusion in the media & among some who produce it that there's some hidden audience that will replace the existing mainstream audience that simply hasn't been appealed to before now but time & again, they keep proving this to be false. Social media echo chambers certainly amplify this conceit as well, encouraging it until enough real money is lost & the folks actually running things get tired of it.

[@garrettgoss2691]

Imagine having the amount of franchises that Sony does, especially ones that people are eager to get back (like Sly Cooper, Infamous, Prototype, Killzone, etc.) and you blow millions on this

[@twiceremoved7339]

"Gamers aren't qualified to speak on the gaming industry." They are infinitely more qualified than literally any other group of people.

[@michaelwilliams7011]

Women aren’t qualified to speak on the makeup industry

[@whiterspon573]

esspecialy Buyers and not only on gaming industry but elswhere too like steam YT etc...

[@zawarudo1041]

Especially infinitely more competent that esg-aligned social rot raised on Twitter/TikTok

[@runningwithflair]

The average lifespan of a fly: 14 days Concord: 8 Let that sink in

[@Ultrox007]

Just wanted to say, it started as ESG, became DEI, they briefly tried DEIA, but now they're just calling it BRIDGE.

[@thebluehat6814]

what do any of these stand for? genuine question

[@evangel1460]

@@thebluehat6814 Environmental, Social, and Governance. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility. Bench marking Race, Inclusion and Diversity in Global Engagement.

[@thebluehat6814]

@@evangel1460 thank you

[@BatkoNashBandera774]

@@evangel1460 omfg it's an actual acronym of retardation, lord Sauron help us.

[@codyraugh6599]

​@@thebluehat6814 the same thing most scams mean. Empty buzzwords meant to sound good and get you to give them money but of course Dr. Frank's miracle cure is just water and urine.

[@thewatcher5079]

Cant forget 400 million to produce and 1 hour long credits of people of who not to hire.

[@Zarreth]

That list was the only positive thing to come out of it

[@Barwasser]

Not gonna defend the game, but the 400 million is an unconfirmed rumor and the credits were 30min long (a video at 0,5x speed was uploaded) The disaster of Concord is bad enough even without overstating it.

[@thewatcher5079]

@@Barwasser 400 million is just what ive been hearing time and time again, so there has to be some validity of truth to it. As for the credits it is an hour long link as proof kzbin.info/www/bejne/kJfFpmN6mpWieLc

[@thewatcher5079]

@@Zarreth agreed. the credits were the game.

[@Barwasser]

@@thewatcher5079 I know, I've heard the same information. But it's still not official. And yeah that is exactly the 0,5x speed video I was referring to.

[@wethepeople1489]

We play games for entertainment and escapism, not to get spoon fed identity politics. That’s a 400 million dollar lesson for you Sony.

[@lucalone]

yes, but a shame that the nex ps5 pro comes with a 200 $ Concord tax...

[@malzo1701]

"modern audience" 500ish people. They ruined several franchise for them....

[@55Andy555]

They're hoping to mold the next generation into this modern audience.

[@gtmaniacmda]

they didn't make it for a modern audience. they made it for themselves. maybe sony should have a little more scrutiny and look into studios before they start handing out 9-figure checks (11-figures if the checks are in yen!)

[@OCTO358]

​@@gtmaniacmda the didn't even make it for themselves. They made it for BlackRock.

[@DavefromWork]

more like the modern gaggle of select few. And I'm pretty sure the steam player count is global count? I might be wrong, but that's like.. nothing.

[@Shinobubu]

They're trying to groom the modern audience.

[@mephistopheles4910]

12:09 I had a professor like this in my undergrad. She got her Ph.D and demanded everyone call her doctor. It got so bad that she tried to make it an issue at a faculty meeting trying to force students to call her Doctor and everyone in the faculty meeting responded by walking out of the meeting mid question. People like that are so insecure and insufferable. I feel bad for their coworkers.

[@brodel20]

The best people with Ph.Ds I have worked with simply go by Will, Peter, and Jen.

[@LonelyGod64]

​@@brodel20 Because they have a PHD in something that actually takes effort, instead of gender studies.

[@DonVigaDeFierro]

Oh, that's very funny because apparently this "professor" literally just _identified_ as one. "They" have no actual academic credentials.

[@cheesecurdinator4010]

I had a history teacher who had a PhD and demanded all students call him Dr. He taught at a community College which was funny to me and why I thought he took his title too seriously. To be fair though he was an amazing teacher and I actually enjoyed his class quite a bit. Very intelligent and made history extremely fun to learn about.

[@amandanowicki5294]

I had a history professor who told a student to call him Dr. X when the student said Mr. X. A current education professor said that students should call him doctor because he worked hard to turn his M into a D. Both are awesome professors.

[@LoneWolf_Cub_Ogami_Itto]

Nobody said Silent Hill² Angela had to be sexy, just mildly feminine and not obese. Simple As, simple as Original SH2

[@reddeaddude2187]

James Concord: No Time To D.E.I

[@miraclechao]

James Concord: Gold-D.E.I

[@joesomebody3365]

"Do you expect me to make money?" "No, I expect you to go bankrupt. Goodbye Mr. Concord."

[@DawnOfTheOzz]

I wanted to explode with laughter but then I remembered I live in an apartment complex and I didn't want to wake my neighbours.

[@Snakedude4life]

Eight years, $400+ million, several canceled projects… All for a game designed to sell five dollar skins that are a DIFFERENT shade of puke green. 🎩 🐍 no step on snek!🇺🇸🇭🇰

[@mawnkey]

If you consider the reported $200mn-ish cost for Sony to acquire the studio it's probably more like $600mn. I can't imagine a more fitting failure.

[@Snakedude4life]

@@mawnkey You know what, you’re right. Added a plus to that $400 million.

[@RafaelSantos-pi8py]

On cancelled projects, remember, there is money for this but not a cent for Days Gone 2. That just pisses me off.

[@johnnyringo35]

Days Gone....a good solid game. That had the makings of an even better sequel

[@Alonne1]

you could have used the money they wasted to finance the addcitions of some hard methheads and you could have ended with a better project than concord

[@JohnnyTwoDucks]

Best part of the Target store interaction is that the guy IMMEDIATELY tries to one up her. 3:10

[@DarthChrisB]

Her? You mean "him". That's not a woman.

[@DioOdinson]

That's a man, baby. Yeah 😅

[@Pokejirafan2004]

Concord has such *forced* character diversity that it should be considered SA.

[@matchalatte5415]

Instead of investing $400 million in a woke Guardians of the Galaxy knockoff hero shooter, Sony could have created multiple smaller games with the financial potential of Astro Bot. I’m glad the game flopped. DEI kills art indeed.

[@ashurad_fox5991]

the price is likely higher since they bought the studio too... Just imagine that amount could've been bloodborne remake for pc or even socom... or even any other IP they had... And it would definitely sell great, yet we get Concord.

[@jukesy1992]

With the irony being that Astro Bot launched on the day Concord was shut down! Look, Astro Bot sadly doesn't have any accessibility features for the blind, but the let's plays and stuff have actually made my time enjoyable so much so I may actually get a sighted person to help me play through some of it, plus, I'd really like to get the soundtrack for that thing, it's awesome.

[@GreyDez88]

Yeah I'll call him Prof. Aggot

[@marcogenovesi8570]

that's a woman btw, like all the ""non-binary""

[@GreyDez88]

​@marcogenovesi8570 my statement still stands. Cry about it

[@Trohl-]

​@@marcogenovesi8570 homoUnusuals

[@psytrancedj]

"Paging Dr. 🇬🇧🚬!"

[@ariochiv]

To paraphrase Hans Gruber, "If you lose $100 dollars, you can just disappear... but if you lose $400 million, they will find you..."

[@762Super]

True, but Hans was an EXCEPTIONAL thief. 😅

[@FlickTheGoat]

5:07 - she says that in a few years time there won't be anything to play, yet I can just play any one of my old PlayStation 2 games or whatever flavour of the month indie game comes out on Steam. To say people are going to run out of games is to have a hilarious lack of self awareness. I am going to have games to play, they're just not going to be Concord.

[@BlackCroft666]

As long as korea exists, we won't run out of new games, too. But when hard times come, we have emulators, retro consoles, the seven seas ...

[@NvdVeen]

I'm big on owning things, so I still have a functional ps2, ps3, gameboy, nintendo ds, and my husband has his xbox 360 and gamecube. We both saved all of our games and took care of our stuff. People should always try to buy psychical copies of games and movies if you can. Really a worth while investment!

[@bararobberbaron859]

There's people playing OSRS, an 11 year old reboot of a 25 year old browser clicking game. I don't think without Concord there's no gaming lol.

[@mystikaltread5199]

These people are truly delusional, no we'll just buy games from Eastern & European devs who aren't infected with your DEI nonsense, no one cares about your agenda, I don't play games to be preached to, you're job is to produce entertainment primarily, I'd suggest you remember that before you don't have a studio anymore, the people have spoken.

[@notchs0son]

You can also play like multiple hundreds of games that aren’t online games have progression based on completion of the game.

[@AlexanderEVtrainer]

Some people will pay you to make porn for Overwatch characters. Most people will pay you to NOT make porn for Concord characters.

[@howard5755]

Artists raking the money in finally lol

[@ashurad_fox5991]

the rule states that it exist, theres pron of it... But concord has very low numbers, that it became non-existent lol

[@Trid3nt861]

Concord: "Prepared to be disappointed" Lawbreakers: "Ooof you failed faster than me" *Concord has left the chat*

[@steelshanks1265]

Not only just the $400 Million, Sony acquired the Studio, and the Personnel, Plus they were going to be working on Concord for "years", now they have nothing too do... So Sony bought a Studio that will effectively be liquidated LOL... This fiasco is well above $400 Million at this point... They fecked up BAD... Hilarious.

[@forrestdorman4870]

Whoever bought this is looking for a new job as we speak

[@armouredjester1622]

Tbf, Sony is such a big company that they can eat this as a tax write off and barely blink

[@ashurad_fox5991]

​@@armouredjester1622or milk their audience to compensate for the losses. (Looks at Ps5 pro price and laugh at anyone who will buy it)

[@defeqel6537]

@@armouredjester1622 Sony isn't that big

[@infamousthethird]

. Ki k lol​@@forrestdorman4870

[@bonkers_dave]

Stop making games for people that don't play games. Stop making movies for people that don't buy movie tickets. They are too busy blocking intersections, throwing paint on art, and finding ways to make themselves unemployable.

[@alchemystudiosink1894]

Problem is that their Ego makes them think that even if you the gamer, doesn't want their game, that you should still play and like it anyways because their immutable traits (race, sexual preferences, gender) gives them super powers that make anything they touch a bazillion times better.

[@SurnaturalM]

​@@alchemystudiosink1894I call it "the tyranny of the minorities" and the fact that they use the huge power they now have like this speak a lot about their characters.

[@whiterspon573]

@@SurnaturalM like someone on 1945

[@treyondaren3542]

Check the latest news.... The amount of people who worked in concord was almost 1900 people... and almost all of them were people with no experience or any credits to their name and the only thing they worked was on concord... And those who had worked in other things made "Games" That a 15 years old kid can make during the weekend.

[@Arassar]

"It didn't fail because woke, it failed because it's boring" "Woke" MAKES THINGS BORING! "Woke" INTENTIONALLY restricts the kinds of storytelling you're allowed to do. That's why we can so often predict the woke nonsense that comes up in these games - THEY'RE ALL THE SAME.

In the wise words of Heelsvsbabyface "ITS SO FKN BORING!"

[@tkraid2575]

Doesn't help that most of it is painfully self-insert characters.

[@codyraugh6599]

​@@tkraid2575which is the biggest trademark of Woke. I mean it's like the wheelchairs in DnD, the Woke can't possibly imagine that a wheelchair bound person would want to play a game where they're NOT stuck in a wheelchair.

[@eVuLeX]

woke woke , wokywokewoke in short: i am ignorant

[@codyraugh6599]

@@eVuLeX yes that is what Woke is shorthand for, considering that all the most ignorant and racist people all tend to come from the crowd who once proudly called themselves Woke, until the Internet turned the mirror back on their behaviours.

[@predrenwalker2401]

Why would I play this ass game when I can play Team Fortress 2.

[@qu1253]

Can you play TF2? Last I heard, it was infested with bots.

[@predrenwalker2401]

@@qu1253 Not anymore

[@EripmavsDYraid]

​@@qu1253 bots have been gone since June.

[@NameIsDoc]

@@qu1253they cleared out the bots a few months ago

[@MarvinPowell1]

Why would I pay money for this game when my anus can produce the same thing every 36 hours?

[@beegchunguz7425]

Honest opinion. This concord situation, based on the length of time, and hundreds of millions spent on it, leads me to believe, this was a corrupt and utter scam. And someone needs sued hard.

[@hiroshima19]

I will play RPGmaker games like Fear and Hunger, fk the industry

[@thecheeseblock9880]

indie is the way

[@edudmodnar4661]

Indie and old games are almost the only options on the menu

[@zachary3367]

Lisa is great too. Even has a lot of emotional resonance

[@JeffHikari]

Void Stranger is strangely emotional for a puzzle game. What the hell is it with the Finnish and making deceptively deep games?

[@copperhead5304]

In this house we play Levi

[@polskasausage762]

Ultimately the devs have offered a poor product that no one wanted to buy or use. That's called the free market and no amount of moaning or complaining that rhe customers are wrong will change that fact

[@kambandi1788]

How could someone blame the majority of the consumers? If the majority didn't buy it, they should realize they are in the wrong and should take accountability.

[@MarvinPowell1]

@@kambandi1788 You're trying to use rationale and common sense to insane, talentless, narcissistic woke people. That's your first mistake.

[@DezaltOfTheDreg]

​@@kambandi1788There's no point to reason with the unreasonables.

[@TrashK1ngg]

​@@kambandi1788they're just idiots who are too busy huffing their own farts lol. Let them seeth over their flop, good chance a lot of them are never gonna work again at least I hope so

[@Mereologist]

Ran into a socialist author once who was FURIOUS that people were all permitted to choose the books they wanted to buy. He thought every book should have the same amount of copies published and a random one sent to anyone who wanted a book. Needless to say, nobody anywhere wanted anything HE wrote...

[@jasonwarren9279]

It's something to see how many people are willing to sell their souls for so little.

[@Ancientreapers]

1:52 "Guardians of the Dollar Store Galaxy" 🤣

[@leohanrush]

Guardians of the Dollar General.

[@NameIsDoc]

Guardians of the Google pixel

[@MarvinPowell1]

I like "The Guardians of Temu" better.

[@jeffcook1054]

Guardians of the Galaxy from Temu

[@piranhapout]

We have Guardian's Galaxy at home, kids.

[@igodreamer7096]

"The Future is Dead. And Toxic Positivity Killed It" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@skave7228]

30:45 It was a reimagination of some dude on the internet (he did a video to say it was his after the theft, he also have a video of hime doing it), not an official artwork. You should edit this part not ot get criticizme on the rest of the video because of this tiny error.

[@MaztRPwn]

All that money burned for the sake of DEI yet the same clowns who tout DEI got upset at Papa Elon for buying Twitter.

[@SterileNeutrino]

If you replace "The game Concord" with "The book Das Kapital" the atmosphere is the same

[@christianherbst674]

So much entertainment - for free!

[@Dayz3O6]

Remember when these sub IQ said Elon could have cure hunger when he launch that fake car into space, yeah now they are all quite on Snoy wasting 400mil on their DEI slop.

[@ricksanchez8723]

Funny how Elon trolled Newsom lolololol, Gavin is a bum

[@UltimusMagus]

Of course they got upset. They knew their days of online bullying without consequences were over 😂

[@JoseHernandez-Mendez]

Imagine being outlived by a housefly

[@ducttapestuff-jonathan9571]

Ho-ly cow, that is hands down the most brutal way of looking at this mess I've read yet.

[@Maxsmack]

400 million for the life span of a house fly, you would expect something like a nuclear bomb

[@oxydoxxo]

Well in a certain sense that's what they made

[@joshuapatrick682]

18:25 how can you look at that individual and not immediately think they have some deep psychological issues they’re working through? I am sure we all do but it manifests differently. That is a person that is hiding from something or someone in plain sight.

[@nexeye1]

I think they've forgotten they aren't entitled to our money, but are supposed to convince us that the product is worth the money we would spend.

[@jackrogers5712]

It's not about money to the activist types. They're happy to fly a company into the ground if it means forcing their ideology on unwilling people.

[@boobah5643]

@@jackrogers5712 The problem is that 'money' is a proxy for 'people playing the game.' And if they don't play the game, you can't use the game to subject them to your ideology.

[@____uncompetative]

Okay, I am going to reveal something crazy about _CONCORD._ _CONCORD_ had a Campaign, but it was cancelled because Firewalk Studios "failed to find the fun". This also happened with PROJECT TITAN. PROJECT TITAN was a Superhero PvE MMO where you had an ordinary job by day and fought crime at night. Sounds cool, right? Well the devs spent a ton of money on it and then told management that they "failed to find the fun", so they were told to salvage something from its carcass so the cost of its development wasn't a complete waste, and they took some of the characters and added a couple more, and scaled back to a taut Arena, not the big city they had as they didn't think they would have the server population for their MMO, but because there was no city there was no crime to fight, so this meant it had to go from PvE to PvP, and then as all the characters were different they had to ensure it was balanced regardless of who you picked so they worked on that, although it was a bit weird as your team of unique characters wasn't unique, as you could have two of the same in a game as the same character could be on the enemy team, and then they realised that they needed new lore so you cared about the characters as there wasn't this city you were trying to protect anymore, and to tell this lore they had to find even more money to make high quality cut-scenes about all characters and make them charming and funny so players would like playing these Superheros in this PvP Arena shooter, and so after $133 million (not including marketing), and nine years of development time, PROJECT TITAN turned into _OVERWATCH._ We will find out that the same thing happened to PROJECT CHAOS which was an interstellar MMO PvE shooter where a group of Mercenaries take on a variety of contracts for what are procedurally generated missions set on various exotic locations within its galaxy, some planets, some moons and some space stations. These missions varied in length from quick smash & grab thefts, to hostage extractions, and extermination of laboratory leaks (which got cut during the pandemic for obvious reasons), to escorting diplomats through dangerous regions of space whilst defending them from pirates who could board your ship (which was another location you could fight in), all of which had elimination rules so every character had one life during the mission and it was essential to bring a healer with your team and a tank to focus enemy fire on a resistant team mate. This was also where the idea of changing the map with walls came from, however it also had the ability to place teleports which could be used by either side Also the reason why there was a Galactic Map in _CONCORD_ was because you used it to choose where to fly the Northstar to, like _STARFIELD,_ where you have Hyperspace routes you have to follow so it becomes something of a network. However, unlike _STARFIELD_ you didn't land anywhere and walk around bored out of your mind, but auto land at where the mission had contracted you to arrive, although some planets had more than one landing location for the dropship animation to deploy you and your team mates. Sony executives thought this could compete with _Destiny_ and _OVERWATCH_ and that it had transmedia potential with them making tentative plans for a movie from Columbia Pictures, as well as a deal with AMAZON to include their characters within a standalone episode of their new mini-series _Secret Level._ This is why management thought they had the next _Guardians of the Galaxy_ or _Star Wars._ The money being spent on the IP was excused because it was seen as an investment in a PvE MMO which would have a lifetime of 10 years, and at minimum a trilogy of sci-fi movies and a potential for a spin-off TV series on AMAZON if it proved to be a success. One upper management person who has since been fired suggested that in terms of how much revenue it would make them it could be their next _Spider-Man._ The reasons it failed were that almost every good idea got cut along with the scope reduction from PvE MMO to PvP Arena shooter, the initial character designs by the Bungie artists were deemed to "embody the male gaze" by the team lead who insisted that everyone call them "The Professor" even though they had no such academic qualification. An infestation by HR led to an atmosphere of "toxic positivity" which prevented internal criticism improving the game for the gamer at the cost of hurting some staff's abnormally sensitive feelings. There were many sick days as some of them were taking substantial time off to undergo surgical transition and then not returning as expected from that surgery as there had been some bad complications which needed correction with additional surgeries. In one instance one of these individuals who was away on sick leave for this reason was the only person who knew Erlang, which meant the code for the multiplayer servers could not be changed as it was written in the same telecommunications language that _Call of Duty_ uses. The artstyle for the characters was reworked twice during its eight years in development, and as the original artist left due to the poor management making it apparent that the game was doomed years out from its release, those far less talented hangers on wanted to make a contribution and change what didn't need changing, such as the character models, and this is why they all ended up punchably smug. The pronoun thing would be tolerable if you didn't feel it in your bones that 80% of the characters ought to be villains, not heroes, and personality aside the appearance and silhouettes of the characters in _Dustborn_ actually ended up less repulsive and ambiguous. Finally, it didn't help that Bungie were involved as most of their real talent had left years earlier because they detested Jason Jones' sole interest in making money. They did a very good job of the "gun feel" and ensured the dynamical space of possibilities which were constrained by _CONCORD's_ orthogonal game mechanics (which were somewhat similar to _Halo 3_ in terms of its deployable traps), did mean that aside from all the "politics" and "LGBTQ+" stuff (which a Firewalk marketing employee unilaterally decided to make the two top tags for the game on Steam), it was a fun Arena shooter - even if it was very derivative of the original and sadly no longer available _OVERWATCH._ This was because the original _Halo_ (later renamed _Halo: Combat Evolved_ by Microsoft when they bought Bungie) took eight years to develop as they initially planned it to be a top-down RTS and then a 3rd Person Squad Shooter and then because of the difficulty in getting the chase cam to work inside installations, even though they tried making the ceiling higher as if the Forerunners were really tall, they still had an annoying clipping issue, so they tried putting the camera inside the helmet of the primary member of the Squad, and that is where the character of the Master Chief came from (camera issues). All of these abortive attempts to make it other genres persisted into the eventual game, with even some semblance of an RPG mechanic in evidence on the _Assault on the Control Room_ level, as you can have a UNSC Marine ride in the passenger seat of the Warthog you are driving who has a Sniper rifle, and if they survive you will see that they become more proficient over the course of the level, so it adds an extra tactical dimension to the gameplay so that you try to keep your Marines alive so that they become better shots who can really help you out later on. Consequently, this huge success off a project which had run for eight years, and the similar breaking of multiple final deadlines that _Destiny_ went through, when it was initially a sword and sorcery 3rd person action adventure set in a shared online world, with dungeons which had bosses similar to _Dark Souls_ and in which you had the ability to camp anywhere in the wilderness and go to sleep in your multicoloured Medieval style tent protected whilst you slept by your pet Siberian tiger, well that PROJECT TIGER got fully developed and then upper management got cold feet about it and ended up switching focus back to what most of the staff didn't want to be doing yet again, which was an FPS. And vestiges of the spells and 3rd person attacks are in evidence in the Supercharged abilities which are showcased in the far future post-apocalyptic sci-fi game which underwent this complete identity crisis mid development and cost the same studio as PROJECT TITAN a ton of money. This culture of tolerating extreme financial profligacy, and changes of genre mid development (which is HUGELY EXPENSIVE), has meant that ACTIVISION BLIZZARD KING infected those who worked on PROJECT TITAN and PROJECT TIGER and indirectly, through the Bungie connection: PROJECT CHAOS. You only have to see the ViDoc that Bungie put out to see that their staff are all about pandering to people's preferred pronouns and wearing prominent Trans Flag pins. The core talent of Jaime Griesemer and his repeated cycle of "30 seconds of fun" have long since left. Joseph Staten left _Destiny_ after they scrapped his linear story because Jason Jones thought he could make more money out of breaking it up into boss battles in dungeons similar to _Diablo III_ and then put aggressive Microtransactions into it through the Eververse, and deal with Mark Noseworthy dumbing down the gameplay in an attempt to appeal to a broader market of Free2Play gamers. All of which I purposely mention as I have severe doubts about Bungie's _MARATHON_ being any better than _CONCORD._

[@deezeemb]

How long did you spend typing this?

[@sukhoifockewulf]

Pretty good read

[@DonVigaDeFierro]

Wew. So, it was the usual: The "woke" are too incompetent at management and end up driving away the talent. $400M was not enough money lost.

[@Sorain1]

That is a disturbingly complete three examples of this happening in a single short essay.

[@zoompt-lm5xw]

Thanks

[@AG-ld6rv]

I seriously do not understand the fixation of modern, live service games with heroes having stories. I used to play DotA 2. The being you could choose from were all so different that a story would just feel unnatural. I think there was one. But why the hell would I care to read a book about DotA 2 heroes? I think Valorant and Overwatch also write out stories for their characters. Are people not just loading in to play a quick, competitive game? Imagine if there were a story for each piece in your chess set. Or a story for the people in Counterstrike... "You are John Connor, special forces unit 6." Who the hell cares? I don't know what these kids are getting into these days though. Maybe, every successful hero shooter has a vast collection of lore. Or... maybe people just jump in, know the name of the hero, know what the hero does, and just plays a brief, competitive bout to see if they can win. Am I the crazy one here? I find Concord boasting its lore to be the icing on the ridiculous cake. That they would have those weekly vignettes. Pure madness. And that's not mentioning the awful character design, US$40 entry price in a field of free-to-play games, the hero-shooter genre being on life support (with fans of that genre likely already having one they enjoy and know), and the allegedly bad gameplay... that no one will even ever know since the servers shut down in a matter of days. Welp, a 200 to 400 million USD loss for Sony. I wish they just made games from IP they already own that has a fanbase. Or maybe, try to make a standalone game with new IP -- something modeling Space Marine 2 in terms of being quick, complete, and fun. Yeah SP2 has the benefit of depicting Warhammer 40k, but you get what I mean. Concord felt like a high school band paid for an entire stadium for their debut. No one is going to show up, because no one knows them or their music. Companies need to make tinier games to explore new universes if their goal is making cool, new IP. And then, if it resonates with people, ramp up production on more expensive titles from that universe.

[@Hoparistic]

Editing this took longer than the game was live

[@solomani-42]

27:01 why do all game devs sound like toddlers “but I worked hard!” Do I have to repeat myself - no one cares how the cake is made they only care how the cake tastes 🎂

[@meloelebi1996]

They're fine with taking advantage of people not caring how they make it when they benefit tho. 🎉

[@Sorain1]

People like Honey. Most people will be disgusted by how it's made. The point tracks.

[@headp3]

3:00 They cared so little about "Her" representation, she had to go to Target to get her own copies??? Instead of having any promotional material and games from the company and your contract for apparently using your likeness in a game???

[@SilentNight115]

A prototype sequel wouldve been better than Concord even if it sucked. 400mil on what? 😂🎉

[@DanteCrowlley]

Dumb ways to DEI

[@yunusgokcen174]

I will never buy a PS5 pro in my life. That's a promise. Let them lose money.

[@thatguywesmaranan]

"the eagerness to grave dance on unpopular games has become a bad habit..." - pc gamer, 2024 - "do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?!?" - papa gundam, 200Mya -

[@sclarin2]

the eagerness comes from the devs insulting the players and then acting like it's our moral responsibility to buy their games no matter how much trash they talk about us

[@55Andy555]

One more bad habbit to add to the list. Oh well.

[@terrylandess6072]

One side doesn't open relations with another side, invite them to sit down and partake of their offerings without a clue of what the others do or don't like. It's bad diplomacy.

[@Mereologist]

They have NO idea how much I would PREFER that there were NO bad games whose graves I could dance upon.

[@hassathunter2464]

Must be self-projection. Except Hogwarts and Stellar Blade sold well. You know they wanted...

[@RogueFox2185]

Concord -400 million down the drain -Deleted in eight days -Rule 34 didn’t even want to touch it An E:T level crash for the modern audience.

[@dondaketype8811]

Nah man even ET wasn't this bad. This makes ET look like a roaring success

[@tedtheodore5715]

Who the hell would wanna see r34 on lgbtq unless they have some sort of attraction to pdfiles 😭 date EDP while your at it if thats the case my guy/girl/NA lmfao

[@55Andy555]

Makes you wonder where all that money went...

[@BungieStudios]

ET was made in 5 months by a solo dev to meet the Christmas rush. ET sold over a million copies. The leadership produced more copies of ET than there were Atari consoles, in their infinite retardation.

[@YoutubeIsRetarded689]

I'm willing to bet ET sold more copies, and I don't think Atari ever had to give back the money they got for it either.

[@reasesoffice]

I got a simple rule. If they tell me it's not made for me or to just not buy it, then I take them at their word and just don't buy it or care about the thing anymore. If it succeeds, nice. Good job. If it fails, I'll maybe watch a video or two about why it failed. I got like a thousand other games, anime, movies, books, and other stuff that I can watch/read/play that I don't really want to deal with things that weren't made for me.

[@breeze2082]

“Don’t follow the crowd” doesn’t work when it’s a multiplayer game where you need the crowd to even play it

[@thomasace2547]

Overwatch is gay enough for me And I haven’t played it in years

[@ashurad_fox5991]

Overwatch was carried by the "Pron"... Yet this game was so bad that there was practically less than 20 artworks on a certain site the first week of launch. (and months from it's announcement) It was doomed even before the start

[@PassionataDance]

They need to make TF3

[@dickfacepeterson]

@@PassionataDancesay this all the time. And not apex garbage

[@FH4Player6397]

@@PassionataDance Valve can't count to three.

[@quanlinglingdingle6122]

Overlook has gay couples in it but its subtle and the characters are hot at least

[@michaeltorres1263]

I have a feeling these ex call of duty and Bungie devs were not the leading types in those companies. But we're actually the delinquent minority that didn't do much of any worth in the development of those games. These were probably the ones making the game stupid! It's probably better for those companies that these devs left there to fail on their own.

[@Zenmaster_0-0_]

It still blows my mind that Sony thought this was going to be successful. They're so disconnected it's hilarious. 😂

[@sclarin2]

It's hard to see the little people from their ivory tower

[@55Andy555]

How can they not just grab some people off the street and talk to them.

[@soukenmarufwt5224]

Remember Sony bought Bungie thinking they would get the rights to Halo. Despite Microsoft and 343i (they still suck) owns Halo and Bungie had nothing to do with Halo for over a decade. That showed how disconnected Sony actually is, which forced them to invest in Destiny 2 and failed

[@antiseize11]

So pretentious 😂