Concord Is Officially Dead - Luke Reacts

[@quantum9964]

"Oh no, not concord!" - said no one ever

[@mynameisdozzer]

A skippable Ad lasted longer than Concord

[@kraosdadafusfus8034]

A lettuce lasted longer than Concord.

[@TommyCrosby]

Current state of gaming: 1. Developers/artists creates games that the big wigs wants. 2. Game fails, big wig complains and or make ChatGPT apology, still get his bonus. 3. Developers/artists loose their jobs.

[@mfntonberry]

Everybody in life gambles when they choose a company they work for. The writing was on the wall before the game even released.

[@bojcio]

They're in it for the money, they couldn't give two shits about gaming.

[@JBrandonMercer123]

Loose is what your teeth are when they're about to fall out. Developers lose their jobs. It's impossible to loose a job. And no, it wasn't a typo.

[@govrict952]

That ceo was high as hell

[@daurinalvarez5302]

Or was he gaslighted by the studio for a unique experience, I see people blame always or playstation or xbox, when are the studio liable?

[@thermicterror2951]

@@govrict952 the game was being made way before sony bought them

[@Nick-ht5yi]

@@daurinalvarez5302 its one thing to make a game thats doomed to fail, its a whole nother L to willingly invest $400 million into a game thats doomed to fail

[@ArielCleirigh]

People say No to drugs

[@ScottyDo3sntKnow]

@@daurinalvarez5302I think in this case both can be to blame for the same reasons, it really wouldn’t have taken much market research to determine people don’t want more of these type of games, and they certainly don’t want to have to pay for it

[@PomaReign]

Remember people complaining that Sony should had let it run for 6 months with no one playing, that crowd does not represent the real gamers crowd.

[@someguy4096]

I wonder how many of those people even bought the game.

[@TyrantsRuin]

I feel as if Concord should be made as an EXAMPLE (publicly humiliated) like the olden days of, if you do THIS, THIS will happen to you, and nobody wants THIS to happen to them. But the corporations made it a "fashion".

[@eurothejii7328]

Yes and also i hope until dawn remake get same treatment as concord. Until dawn remake has less players than concord.until dawn remake is sony's biggest flop so far.

[@Odog78]

It definitely will. Anything that succeeds or fails in life always serves as an example to subsequent efforts.

[@Chasm9]

You can't pull out the in-built SSD in PS5 because it's literally few NVMe chips soldered on to the main board, with a custom SSD controller nearby. It's not the regular M.2 drive that you can buy and replace at will.

[@realtalkrealthingsent.8024]

But if you put it on the extra slot they give you, don’t you put in a regular nvme drive? I haven’t done it

[@0x8badbeef]

You have the option to install and run your games from the M.2.

[@Im_helpless]

imagine using the built in ssd when you can just add your own, i store basically everything on the extra ssd slot

[@MrSupersonic2012]

If you put an M.2 SSD into the expansion slot, you could probably transfer the game to the extra drive and put it in your PC to transfer the files.

[@0x8badbeef]

@@MrSupersonic2012 I doubt Sony would make it that easy. It would be safer to buy another M.2 SSD.

[@ArcangelGamingEntertainment]

Having a PS5 with Concord on it will be like having an iPhone with flappy bird on it

[@ArielCleirigh]

This is the moment we all Laugh, and play the small violin for Concord.

[@winnietheping]

and then pay Concord TAX in tears...

[@AVWUVU]

The only thing I'm playing for concord is another laugh track.

[@SenorPoncedeLeon]

The fact the 2nd Eulogy ended part way into it, is 100% fitting for Concord

[@tdotsmooth]

I thought they would turn the studio into a support studio for the rest of their intellectual properties. Apparently things were far worse than I thought because they can't even be salvaged as a support Studio.😅

[@Amadeus_A]

"Seven out of ten"- IGN

[@GothPaoki]

That's Luke's score as well...

[@andrew8168]

​@@GothPaoki shill score confirmed.

[@ArielCleirigh]

IGN argued that Concord does not have gay romance so, Lol.

[@jdizzy192]

@@andrew8168 Its cuz the game wasnt bad. It was competent just with really terrible character design. Problem was that the game was MID, not good enough to pull people away from other games and def not worth 40 dollars. 7/10 seems fair from Luke at least, IGN we just ignore their reviews

[@OZYMANDI4S]

​@@jdizzy192 Exactly. It was just a mediocre game that wasn't worth all the hype. If this game came out years ago it could have succeed but there was just too many better hero shooters at this point.

[@BlizzardAcolyte]

Hope this leads, in the very distant future, to the game’s source code somehow escaping Sony’s clutches and floating about in the Internet void for future generations to experience the emulated horror, like a modern successor to Tattoo Assassins

[@kraosdadafusfus8034]

Seen that happen before. I know an RTS that was gonna have a PS1 port, but it got cancelled before even being announced. Nearly 20 years later, the port builds and THE FULL SOURCE CODE of the game were found in a lot sale from Climax Group. The game was Urban Assault, from 1998.

[@sillysiji5257]

Hey Luke how is nobody making the Bungie connection when it comes to Concord. Originally Bungie was a baking a "hero shooter" back in like 2017-2018 time frame. Bungie gets brought into Sony to also consult the live service direction. Under their specific direction they said TLOU Live Service game is "not ready" Shortly thereafter the game is canceled. I would not be shocked if Bungie was helping axe competition. Meanwhile their own game is flailing. Concord fails after being stopped in my opinion at Bungie. Which causes ex-Bungie devs to found Firewalk and continue Concord. These are just my speculations.

[@awakencodm]

Concord just got concord

[@Necropheliac]

Herman Hulst is the kid who writes his first song and thinks its going to be a billboard top 40 hit.

[@shiteyanyo1111]

He's like the game-industry nepo-baby. He's getting by on "I worked at a succesful studio" but like... what did he do there

[@aidang217]

Its all the same with these CEO types. They're the ones in the board rooms throwing OTHER people under the bus so they can continue failing upwards. And Horizon is the most astroturfed IP I've ever seen. Aloy has negative charisma.

[@markling5058]

I think the horizon games gameplay is great but story lacks but it definitely not should be the mascot and we all no why they trying to push that strong female with no charisma

[@shiteyanyo1111]

​@@markling5058I mean... Ellie is right there. She's phenomenal (and strong female)

[@blakecampbell-taylor2865]

@1:00 I bet Muta would know how to do this

[@marcelfab7551]

I think what hapenned with the updates on steam was sony asking them to save the invesment! But after they audiance tested it internally, the garbage was the only direction for it!

[@SomnusLucisCaelum]

I wonder how many minutes or hours of animations they had ready to roll out since story was supposed to drop on a weekly basis and that sort of animation can't be made every few days. As a media preservation enthusiast, I'm kind of bummed by the fact it's already lost. Existing in some drives, but lost to the public and who knows if it'll even survive the next frw months or be disposed of now that the studio has closed :/

[@JoseJimenez-fc6pu]

Sony learned nothing, history will repeat, and my money stays in pocket. The end.

[@luckyducky7819]

There's a lot you can do with the Concord files you still have. Including implausable things like emulating the servers so people can play Concord again. I don't know how that'd work on the playstation, and I'm not saying anyone can just do it over night like its easy, but it IS possible.

[@williamsullivan4640]

Someone said a block of cheese you bought from the store would last longer than Concord was out and playable. That analogy is surprisingly apt.

[@jonathansnyder9848]

Gamers won!!

[@sambradley1256]

Won what?

[@Bucketus.Lord.of.Buckets]

The biggest video game failure in history

[@lukasevans8265]

Sony has put the nail on the coffin.

[@anthonytigris2049]

I hope bioware is next.

[@XerrolAvengerII]

it offends me that the captain gets a golden life raft and the crew go down with the ship. Shameful.

[@Naxiwuno]

Well, all joke a side, if you watch a concepts of the world of Concord, it's had actual nice potential, they really aimed for "new Star Wars". But i think Live Services was bad medium for "telling stories" and of course, not great handeled designs of characters into 3D.

[@prezzeruk4054]

It was hulst that said concord was the future of ps? Now thats worrying!!

[@dowaray8718]

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness." Oscar Wilde. We must give the dev an award as they have fallen beyond mediocre. Because Firewalk just Imitated two great games, Team Fortress 2 and Overwatch. They made such a shoddy imitation that flop so hard it broke the floorboard into the pit of hell. Especially the dev that calls the player "Talentless Hack" deserves to receive such an award.

[@froz3nmindz124]

Concord is just the cherry on top of the pile of shit that is the gaming industry today.

[@jokerledger5400]

So Sony west fucked up so badly they brought down the wrath of god :D

[@walalon8719]

Im glad someone talks about the topic "multibillionare brands are not your friend." When fanboys are going to open their eyes... Idk and idc at this point 🤷🏻

[@tommacleod9840]

It was never alive!

[@willneet2636]

I don't understand how Herman Hulst got promoted to begin with. Killzone wasn't some juggernaut IP. It was just another Sony brand shooter that did serviceable numbers. It's not until Guerilla made Horizon that they popped off. So it's ironic Herman was promoted to find the next live service game when it was a single player game that got him his promotion.

[@plebtile3347]

I dunno, don't really feel sad about this one.

[@Sikkne0n]

shouldve gave us a game with an actual campaign if you wanted to try and come up with the next star wars. throwing us a only multiplayer live service game with little to no detail on the "franchise" and its lore and characters was INCREDIBILY bold. so many more questions still to ask this team on all the decision making.

[@SilverSpectre266]

Execs so quick to say single player games are too volatile, but lose millions on games like this constantly. And the worst part is, live service games live and die by their community, and a lot of them die within weeks of release, but they keep trying

[@Odog78]

This is a failure of leadership at the top. The project never should have gotten as far as it did. Hopefully it will be a case study of how to do everything wrong in game development.

[@pixels_per_minute]

You can always try and jailbreak your PS5, dump, and then back up the contents of your drive.

[@winnietheping]

Yes, Concord is dead, BUT Sony fans and PS gamers still have to pay Concord TAX in the future. LOL

[@flamingburitto]

There has to be someone who was either fired or demoted because they pointed out the idiocy with concord.

[@ariyanadumon4549]

Horizon is like Fetch, it's never happening...

[@palehorseriderx]

Now hear me out You can extract the contents as an image format via 'dd' command or something similar, and just keep the image that way. The ssd just needs to be recognized by the device manager. You don't have to be able to view/browse its contents via file managers. dd would still work.

[@TheForever206]

Do not fret Concordians!!! They may take your game, give back your money (unless you bought a CD key or something LMAAAOO), dangle the possibility of a re-release, delete the game from your PS5, and shutdown the studio.....BUT THEY WILL NOT TAKE AWAY YOUR MEMORIES!!!!! (All 12 days of it 🤣)

[@JimBz84]

Lmao 🤣

[@audaciousjones]

it was a damn good 12 days

[@oscaroska7613]

It's one of the best games i ever played. Game of the year contender.

[@ryanmorley2504]

So you don't understand console fanboys? Welcome to the club.

[@desmondsparrs]

its encrypted. the game. but still, it could potentially be reverse engineered or more like hacked to decrypt the files.

[@Odog78]

"Just because you can, doesn't mean you should."

[@Wiwcharizard]

Sony needs to entirely pull out of California and put the headquarters back in Japan.

[@SuperSikarlo]

Got the same score as sparking zero. Wild.

[@AlexiaHoardwing]

The files can be moved, and the game could be modified to spoof servers. However that would take knowledge on how to do so and effort and time to put that knowledge to use.

[@Captain_Neckbeard]

Herman said no more new ip. These moroms always take the wrong lessons. We want good, new ip. Not new terrible ip like Cocord. Putting their heads in the sand is not the way to go.

[@Jaklas1979]

Gave it the right name as it vanished as fast as the jet could fly to America from uk

[@whalewaffle2771]

I legit thought that they will try to rerelease it as a F2P right after their episode in that videogames episode LMAO. I wonder what are they gonna do with that episode though.

[@aaront8609]

This only makes me more excited/cautious about fairgame$

[@InglesSpanishConversation]

...yeah, modders, the community could fix that game, and make it a success pretty easily

[@Onedepressedgamer]

This makes me happy I don’t know why

[@paulconnolly4483]

3:42 yet he gets to keep his job after green lighting this disaster 😊

[@emperornike]

aint no way sony is letting ubisoft make better live service games than them 😭😭

[@alu161]

at this point sony literally needs to clean out all the positions of leadership in their company and replace them with new people

[@FaizalKuntz]

Wait it's not dead along time ago?

[@5p0ngy]

10:30 yellow on a white background is a horrible choice

[@riptmangleshank4286]

Isolate the PS5. Never plug it into the internet again. Box it up and store it carefully. Wait for emulation to catch up.

[@Captain_Neckbeard]

They're out of touch. They're outta time.

[@Microwave414]

You can bet your ass that Jim Ryan was chased out and Sony is now not letting playstation run itself, the next step if this continues will likely be Playstation HQ heading back to japan and replacing every western suite with one from japan and if that doesn't work or if Sony decides to jump to the final conclusion Playstation might be split off from Sony and allowed to die by itself or sold off. Honestly The playstation brand probably has 4-5 years to change course back into being profitable and I mean actually profitable and not barely profitable where a change in the wind can put it in the red and it's gonna be tight I think, they still have too many live service games that they are really betting the farm on and it will be like year 4's game that seals playstation's fate. In my opinion they'd do best to quit porting their games to PC and double down on console exclusives. They need to believe in console exclusives again. They also need to sunset the playstation 4, this long term support they've seriously have given this console is pure insanity and they need to take a page from nintendo when it comes to ending support at a reasonable timeframe within a year to a year and a half after new hardware is released. That is plenty of a grace period to grant the customer to buy the new console. Lastly, I'd axe funding for the live service games in development, They're too volatile to bet your future on, as if alone concord was not proof enough to that and jump back to making good games with a start and a finish and a solid multiplayer that will naturally want people to come back because it's fun. Nobody actually cares about horizon but Killzone has a following still and you need to start pumping out your own FPS games because your sacred cow got bought out by Microsoft.... Lastly, "the message"'s volume is at a 8 right now in Sony games and they need to tone that down at the very least a 3. If the normal people can notice the message without thinking about it then you've done it wrong and I know blackrock wants their ESG scores high for funding but maybe blackrock needs to understand they're request are insanity.

[@TheBsmith97]

LUKE MAKE AN IMAGE OF THE DRIVE

[@Watheverable]

FFS Luke if you want to preserve the game just get a physical copy...

[@INFPeace-]

A prime example of truly innovative storytelling in live service games is Genshin Impact. It has some pretty insane main story quests and all of the characters are so well written! In the latest main story quest, we experienced a truly insane and dark all out war with a crazy finale that’s both epic and cinematic. Also every character in that game is so special! They’re all memorable and very well written with amazing voice acting! And the best part of all this is that it’s a free game! There are in game purchases but they’re completely optional and you don’t need to spend any money on the game to experience all that the game has to offer! Free game! 😊

[@bhaveshramdaursingh4325]

I thought genshin was pay to win and they encouraged you to buy stuff so that you could progress through the game. Is that not the case then?

[@plvto1]

​@@bhaveshramdaursingh4325 it's not true at all. everything in the game can be cleared without paying a dime. just need some patience and intelligence.

[@bhaveshramdaursingh4325]

@@plvto1 oh cool then. Might give it a shot

[@headbreakable]

dirty bomb at it's end has more player than concord.

[@acomatosemob]

Are the same people who bashed Microsoft for closing studios going to criticize Sony now? Execs are failing upwards while hundreds of people were laid off...

[@markling5058]

Yes it is horrible what is happening to let these bigwigs keep their jobs but I still put the blame on Xbox for starting this purchase war cos they just kept buying studios left and right so made Sony panic and do the same

[@bhaveshramdaursingh4325]

Of course they are? Why wouldn't they?

[@redtheyiffer]

Good

[@daurinalvarez5302]

I see people blame always or PlayStation or Xbox, when are the studios liable for lacking in creativity?

[@bhaveshramdaursingh4325]

Yeah the lead game designer is also to blame for the debacle

[@thatsityou]

It's really dumb to make a studio director to a whole ps big CEO because the game of his studio was a big success(horizon) that's dumb 🙄🙄

[@pintas77]

my eyes no using dark mode

[@TriforcePlayer2]

Make JAK 4

[@RichmenInc]

Keep saying. Game never asked for. As if companies make games we ask for. Like we asked for elden ring or cyberpunk. They make stuff they think is cool. And it is up to us if we accept it. And in this case we definitely didn't. But that something totally different. Jeez. Entitled mfs

[@ChaseSchleich]

Sony is such a badly run company. They have these huge year + gaps in their first party release schedule. Having more studios, making more games, fixes that issue. Firewalk seemed like a very talented studio. They were just 5 years too late to the party. Let them make something else, preferably not live service, and then judge their future. Closing a studio you literally just bought when they need more studios in order to get out more content. It's like chopping off your foot because you stubbed your toe really badly. You need that foot.

[@nicekix3038]

Yeah Sony is such a badly run company, yet they have released more exclusive games than Xbox, and Nintendo has in 2024 🤡

[@Nico78Not]

​@@nicekix3038exclusives are bad...

[@LateNightCaveman]

lol "I should protect the data and all...' Yeah, it's called physical media ownership. Back when the game was on a disk or cartridge. You keep championing all these digital store fronts then wonder why you don't own your games. Maybe you're the problem.

[@plvto1]

and you think acting like this will help?

[@NiceDiggz]

Dead Playerbase Dead Game Sony PlayStation deserves what they did too singleplayer games.. And yes They didn't need to bury it in a landfill like the ET Game.. BOOM Mic Drop 🎤

[@gleyno]

This is what they get for chasing the live service trend , no wonder the Playstation doesn’t have games but just remakes of old ips

[@callistomoon461]

You called Starfield a big achievement. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@Elayaass]

Man, i liked Horizon zero down, a lot. But come on, Alloy is NOT your charismatic mascot character bro. Shes a good character in her game, but she's the stern, stoic heroine, not the smiley Mario dude. Kratos is far better and far more recognizable with the PS brand than any horizon could ever do

[@nsp477]

Makes sense. Evil executive puts a gun to the head of innocent game developers and forces them to take several hundred million dollars to develop a game for nearly a decade. Same executive forces the studio to design mediocre characters, and inject identity politics into what little story the game has. Poor little game developers.

[@GothPaoki]

Casual reminder luke gave this garbage a 7. I still can't believe it..

[@JRRR92]

So? It's an opinion. Don't be an asshole. Did you even play it?

[@sc2335]

Pronouns are was/were. Kekw

[@jonathansoko1085]

Does luke have an actual real job or does he just sit in his room and give mild takes all day?

[@TheNightman.]

This had nowhere near "hundreds of thousands", just hundreds. It was also 400m+, not 200m

[@mordant221]

Can Japan just take back Sony pls? Plsss?

[@qwertymesa]

fr fr