It's finally all over for Concord

[@Ken00969]

today is my birthday 23 can i get pin as a gift?🥳

[@HeroHei]

Happy bday!

[@juni1399]

GG Birthday

[@assimilation9]

Happy birthday!

[@vOrbZv]

Happy birthday

[@el8901]

gg birthday

[@TurtleChad1]

All 10 people who wanted Concord back are heartbroken.

[@raidcrhonos]

Overestimating

[@YungMugiwara]

I think you meant all 3 people, Turtle Guy

[@Re-PhantomZero]

When concord was released there was a troon on twitch seething over the fact that no one was playing it. Today that guy will probably need more medication than usual. 😂 Press (S) to spit on grave.

[@disalazarg]

Three people, two cows and five pigs.

[@Unregistered.HyperCam.2]

They were already heartbroken. The only reason they wanted to play is to experience a game as truly miserable as they are.

[@tomasz9429]

"Too good at their jobs to fail." Who's laughing now, talentless freaks?

[@eetukuru787]

Never insult your customers.

[@PumpkinHoard]

"Too good at their jobs to fail." Please tell me one of them said that, I haven't heard that one but it's plausible given the levels of delusion involved here.

[@thedead12]

hahaha

[@akumakurosawa]

@@PumpkinHoard "Ethan Gach, senior reporter at Kotaku, who described a head in the sand mentality carried over from the studio’s Bungie roots. A sense the game would come together because the team was too good to fail."

[@NicholasKretschmer]

Yeah people losing their jobs is so funny right?

[@frozenvoltz6739]

*Concord's studio shuts down* To the surprise of absolutely no one.

[@ComposedSage75]

I am surprised…….. That they survived this long tbh.

[@VARIANT3XR]

was about to say the same as sage lol

[@Ihavethetouch]

How can this be? You mean you have to actually do your job well to continue being employed? This must be news to them.

[@KingBobBobBob]

I'm just surprised it took so long

[@yamibakura8597]

I imagine their Devs were rather surprised. They clearly had no idea what the audience wanted.

[@JohnnyOMalley22]

And remember...Amazon is making a series called 'Secret Level', which will have an episode about 'Concord'...And that episode will happen long after this game has shut down.

[@ricardohoang8452]

And even after Firewalks got shut down too 😂

[@Dragon-Believer]

That should be hilarious. I bet they do nothing but glaze the devs.

[@k_kubes]

That just shows how Sony genuinely believed in the so called "modern audience" and that Concord would be the same realm as GOW and Star Wars

[@Dragon-Believer]

@@k_kubes it is pretty much the same as Star Wars

[@strixt]

Highly doubt they're even going to air the episode, but maybe. We'll find out I guess

[@Dorian_Scott]

_"Certain aspects of Concord [...] didn't land enough players..."_ That's putting it mildly.

[@k_kubes]

Corporate speak for "we fucked everything up, and appealed to no one trying to appel to everyone"

[@Ihavethetouch]

I'm waiting for a list of things that did land.

[@Kiefiron]

Based Arona pfp

[@masteroak9724]

By decree of modern audiences holy book, chapter 3: "Thou shalt not hurt feelings".

[@Mark-tt8oo]

​@@k_kubesThey're trying to appeal to the trans, the fat, and the ugly.

[@Ihavethetouch]

I hope they remember to put Concord to their resumes

[@JustSomeHeeHo]

As people have joked before: "why is there an 8-year-long gap in your resume?"

[@Ihavethetouch]

​@@JustSomeHeeHo *We're you doing nothing during this time? -No, I was working on Concord. *So you were doing nothing

[@markwatson8714]

I suspect a few will add the extra 'e' to the end ...

[@zimriel]

@@markwatson8714 isn't that also dead?

[@nicknevco215]

Require like protective list for children predators

[@OblivionSoldier]

The world's smallest violen plays as these people are given the "firedwalk" of shame.

[@NunamedDragon]

A game so "good" it died twice

[@RAWR26633]

More like a guitar shredding singin "sweet victory" over its corpse

[@r30413]

Coffin dance tons of people cheering...

[@molassesman4066]

No well just play a song in E, now blake, wheres the bloody violin!

[@Drakuba]

And another one gone, and another one gone Another one bites the dust YEAH!

[@SgtLube818]

Hey it's gonna get Bioware too, another one will bite the dust. bump, bump, bump.

[@strijoca]

I was searching for this exact comment or I would've done it myself! Lol Here's my like.

[@Joshua_N-A]

*Epic bass intensifies* Killer Queen has touch Concord!

[@MayanFrighter100000]

The world is definitely healing.

[@willischwabe1324]

Not until the root of all of this is getting weeded out....

[@dra6o0n]

The bleeding is staunched but still there.

[@AngelBlade69]

@@willischwabe1324well to weed it out the normal people need to take “physical”actions 😉

[@YukiPyro]

The Agenda the globalists pushed with this woke virus is slowly fading. The Western Society is massively waking up. This woke stuff ruined alot. From movies, to Anime and cartoons to gaming.

[@MayanFrighter100000]

@@willischwabe1324 agree on that one, once Japan abandoned “modern audience” and we hear news that Dragon Quest 3 remake is canceled and replace with a game that is truly meant for anime fans and gamers, then it’s further proof that the world is clearly recovering.

[@JohnSmith-xq1pz]

I think I can hear CryBaby inc Reeeeeeeing from here lol

[@No_Sleepee]

no, this is exactly what they want: killing games by any means necessary

[@cleanerben9636]

@@No_Sleepee AAA companies collapse, new companies take their place. This is a good thing.

[@Voldrim359]

@@cleanerben9636 Western games collapse, Eastern games growth and western would probably don't want to compete again with them because of DEI But honestly, i think there is a lot more that we still don't know about DEI... But if it doesn't generate revenue necessary, why they are still pushing it? The public already knows

[@mojojojo1529]

@@cleanerben9636 AAA companies seem to have been overtaken completely by the brain rot and they commit suicide one after the other. This is truly what they want, to kill gaming altogether. This is why they are so mad at eastern game devs, over whom they have no control.

[@broden4838]

Unless someone clips Belair, I won't think it's a victory

[@mcbadrobotvoice8155]

“Its going free to play soon, you’ll see! They’re just waiting to bring it back!”

[@Ihavethetouch]

They definitely should try re-releasing it, all 8,5 of modern audience were busy that day

[@MetalHev]

@@Ihavethetouch honestly, if they purged the game of all woke nonsense, and reworked the characters to be nikke levels of booba, they'd have a workable title. Likely mediocre, but workable at least.

[@Ihavethetouch]

​@@MetalHevWestern developers have forgotten how to make attractive characters, they should ask Japan and others for advice.

[@veggsbacon1891]

Concord: "Yoou killed meeeeee..." Gamers: "GOOD!"

[@Leturane]

I can hear CDi Zelda voice reading this lmao

[@BroadFieldGaming]

Gamers: We didn't kill you, we simply didn't save you.

[@dragonreiver8929]

Link: "gee, it sure is cringe around here." Da king: "Mah boi, this piece of shit is what all dei keyboard warriors strive for!" Link; "I just wonder what Concord is up to!" (Swoosh) "Your majesty, Concord is die!" Link: "great!" Da king: "ooohohohohahahaha!!!"

[@MFSCraft]

Lesson learned: There is no modern audience, only gamers.

[@revanlord05]

Bad news for they/them, Good news for gamers.

[@renewagain6956]

🤣

[@t.kersten7695]

their pronouns where changed into "has / been"

[@Wicked_Knight]

You're respecting their pronouns when they couldn't even respect the gamers voicing legitimate criticism? That's a kindness they've not earned.

[@NicholasKretschmer]

This may come as a surprise to you but maybe the ACTUAL reason the game failed was because it was... bad? Shock I know right?

[@derrickmiles5240]

I mean, let's be honest. The people pushing this are like 90% biological she/hers, that are just pissed off that men have standards.

[@Hiken_Bakuzan]

Funnier is that dei-defenders will still tell you that "go woke, go broke" doesnt exist

[@frozenvoltz6739]

They will gladly brag about "wokeness" when the game succeeds, but when it fails it was because of the quality.

[@TrueDokkanGod]

​@frozenvoltz6739 when they do succeed its because the game has some big name attached to it.

[@noonenowhere877]

If wokeness could stop trying to rebel against established design principles that exist for a reason. I feel like that would help their cause. The colour scheme in Concord alone broke every rule in the book.

[@kawaiibats2822]

Why didn't bg3 go broke

[@frozenvoltz6739]

@kawaiibats2822 Too massive to fail.

[@aznravechild6i9]

And nothing of value was lost

[@Alex-um9ec]

Other than 400 million dollars

[@Bohnsaw69]

@@Alex-um9ec no that was lost the moment concord was developed, thats LONGGGGG gone lol

[@Neil.02]

And that’s 8 years down the drain. Remember when they called people, i quote, « talentless freaks »? The irony speaks for itself.

[@siliconhawk]

I am pretty sure that even irony is shocked by how much "iron-ing" we had with this one

[@TurtleShroom3]

@@siliconhawk Ironing?

[@ondururagittandeska2004]

Yes we watched the video

[@burntsausage8777]

400 mill. Too

[@DailyUUOOHHH]

The modern audience will not be happy with these news. Oh wait the don't exist...

[@gamamew]

Well maybe if you count those AI bots on twitter...

[@mojojojo1529]

Blip blop. Me modern audience. Bzzzt. I happy with Concord. I sad now. Blop plip.

[@hokagab]

All 200 of them will cry in twitter

[@ped-away-g1396]

they do exist but none of them is gamer.

[@nowaylater6950]

Overused jokes that was completely false. 'Modern audience' do exist. It's just they hate gamers and games while stay in Twitter 24/7. The term 'Modern Audience' probably made by these activist that hijacking entertainment industry just to look cool.

[@Cie_Kite]

"Oh no! Wha-what happened? What ha-oh no, how terrible! That's just-that's just awful, how terrible oh no!"

[@binnieb20]

"Oh no, anyway!"

[@rustcopperfield9175]

Excellent, a beacon of hope in a sea of darkness...

[@r30413]

we must not rest...yet...

[@leonidasthunderlatte4800]

Remain vigilant, we should

[@ComposedSage75]

Remember, that the game went offline back in September and now Firewalk is officially gone as of today. Great news imo.

[@Voldrim359]

November rain

[@AceofKadeisAoK]

Concord's studio shuts down DCAU Batman: "Cry me a river."

[@mariopenulli1395]

No problem, they can all work on the next Mass Effect at Biowoke.

[@artur6912]

Pretty sure EA will put Bioweird out of its missery fairly soon. They already have 2 flops in a row, and EA shut down studios for less. Failguard NEEDS to make all the money in the world or Bio is cooked.

[@HisuiOgawa]

Ok but "permanently sunset the game" is a pretty poetic way of saying they're pulling the plug 😂 I kinda like it.

[@cocodojo]

Gotta find a way to say it canned nicely to soften the blow to their fragile egos, right?

[@inkermoy]

"Sunset" is the term a lot of companies use for taking a game service offline. I've been through 2 mmo's that sunset, it's not really a new term, and kinda sad for the dedicated playerbase that spent years playing them. That being said, Concord didn't have a playerbase.

[@HisuiOgawa]

@@inkermoy It's my first time seeing it, but then again I don't play online much. Agree that it is sad to see a game you loved go though (one of the reasons I don't do much online gaming). Still, I kinda like the way it's phrased, it gives the feeling of a journey peacefully coming to an end. ...But when it comes to Concord, yeah, there wasn't much of a journey.

[@ped-away-g1396]

yeah. I mean... the game didn't even really have a sunrise yet.

[@PlaystationTaxation69999]

Meanwhile, XENOBLADE CHRONICLES X DE IS GETTING A SWITCH RELEASE. THIS IS A GREAT DAY!!!!

[@HikariLight121]

2 of my friends are over the moon about that.

[@moonwarrior3342]

With the high possibility of being the censored version that was on the Pee-U. Don't forget what happened with the Switch port of Tokyo Mirage Sessions.

[@HikariLight121]

@moonwarrior3342 I don't think my friends will care, they liked the story and combat.

[@jacksonvoet8312]

@@moonwarrior3342 The Wii-U was awesome, it was terribly marketed. Like Transformers ONE. The Wii-U was the last time I was able to play Pokepark 1 and 2, and that memory is sacred to me.

[@moonwarrior3342]

@@jacksonvoet8312 If you think that the era where Nintendo was almost becoming what Playstation has become, while sterilizing Mario, the starting of Pokemon's downward spiral from 2d sprites to 3d models, to heavy censorship, to treating over IPs like dirt in favor of putting out safe titles while sabotaging them in the same time to pander to westsoy Nintendorks then I'd say you have brain damage.

[@Metaknight180]

They said they'll learn from their mistakes, but we know they won't. They're too proud to ever admit what those mistakes were/are in the first place. I have no faith that they'll get better. I expect them to just fail, and fail, and fail, and fail, until they meet their demise. They've been policing games for too long.

[@NaisanSama]

"I'm sorry sir, I'm not Tony Stark."

[@АндрейНеугодников-м6е]

Who let them police games to begin with?

[@nahemahk]

that's why pride is a sin

[@ervingabriel7563]

Omg this is so sad, Alexa play Despacito.

[@sonicextreme3448]

And so Concord died as it was born, a Failure.

[@sewak7142]

Yippee *cat jumping meme*

[@Not_interestEd-]

_elevator music_ Cat: "huh?" _explosion_

[@dantespicysausage9615]

Thanks for the belly laugh Concord

[@MelRetro]

*Leave it to KZbin Notifications to wake me up for work before my alarm* 😆 *And yeah, take this game out back and end it Old Yeller Style already. Geez!*

[@zeroalien3]

good these people deserve to be fired for canceling so many other projects for this ass of a game. No one asked for this and no one wanted this DEI crap in our games.

[@NicholasKretschmer]

Don't know were you got the idea that the studio themselves canceled all those projects.

[@tysonvienneau1830]

Reject Concord Embrace Concordia

[@Kabu_Lordofcinder]

Ladies and gentlemen, it's time to celebrate 🥂

[@ZackarySchejbalCODBO2RGM2]

Ladies and gentlemen. We got em

[@chie970]

Oh no... Moments of silence, guys... Okay, that's enough silence lol

[@Barinthos]

1:15 - If "make a game no one wants to play" was a metric they were trying to achieve, then yes, that aspect was certainly exceptional.

[@DanTheFree]

Concord just made Morbius look like a success.

[@jayhuynh1201]

Big W for the gaming industry. Non-buy-nary for the win!

[@oldsoulbiz3526]

Even though there were rumors that the game was being reworked and something might still come out of it, this was the end result because it probably went something like this: Sony told Firewalk Studios to salvage Concord and try to make something out of it that us gamers would want. They gave them a deadline to do it, and one of those things took place: Either Sony was not satisfied with what Firewalk Studios came up with. or Firewalk Studios said they would need more time/a bigger budget. or Firewalk Studios said "F the gamers." And that's where we are now. Sony said "You're done". I wouldn't be surprised if it was the last one. haha

[@hollywoodmeow]

🦀🦀🦀 firewalk is gone 🦀🦀🦀

[@thebigskip-e]

"We will take the lessons learned from Concord..." What lessons?

[@Ight-ima-go-get-some-breakfast]

The lesson they are taking from this is that they have 98 darts left, and that only one has to hit the bullseye.

[@adiaphoros6842]

Never let DEI decide for you.

[@bluedistortions]

​​@@adiaphoros6842sure, but we want to hear them say it. We know they're never going to admit what the lesson is.

[@drbright6608]

That's a very long Email just to say: "Your fired."

[@Idklmao1502]

*Concord has officially shut down* Me: No surprise. Go woke, Go broke

[@sureberferber9101]

Wake Them, Wake Them, Gotta-Wake-Em-All. Gotta. Wake. Them. All. Wok e' Mon!!!

[@Quadraxis]

Hubris causes fall, humility garners credit. Imagine that.

[@Alliesavenue]

i love this channel, bite sized stuff for my short attention span to watch! :3 keep it up!

[@izzadk86]

At least (for now) they know it was a mistake But will they actually learned from it like they said, we'll have to wait and see

[@jlb9577]

Pride cometh before the fall....

[@LuigiTheMetal64]

Merit should have been the matter. Fans and customers are the ones that should be catered to. Pin, please.

[@jormungand72]

As a game developer, its a shame that some of these devs will inevitably end up finding work at otherwise decent studios.

[@IvagaanimaI]

Insanely great news !!!

[@nufh]

In startups, there’s a saying: 'Detach yourself from your work and fail early.' This means not attaching your ego to your job, which helps prevent your pride from taking over when you receive criticism. It encourages accepting project failure when necessary and moving on to new ideas to avoid wasting time and resources.

[@PaladinfffLeeroy]

o7 for all of the 9 Unknown people in the modern audience who wanted this game to succeed.

[@BigDrewski1000]

Hero Hei out here with the unintentional nostalgia bombs! Me: Sees the Sony Interactive logo and immediately hears the PS1 start up sound in my head.

[@IMGNFUN]

Sony acknowledged that the game would not have survived even as f2p, a rare moment of sanity from Sony as of late.

[@jamesmetcalf5597]

Them getting rid of the entire dev team is also quite surprising since I half expected them to be allowed to move onto something else due to the whole failing upwards mentality that companies seem to have.

[@r3gret2079]

You just can't make this shit up. This is comedy fucking GOLD!

[@jq5249]

"We will take our lessons learned with concord and-" [X] press X to doubt

[@Xamiakass]

what bothers me is that they're hiring the devs and not the people responsible for making artistic and social decisions that made the game flop.

[@NuchiAsaki]

They're firing both, which is great.

[@Xamiakass]

@@NuchiAsaki devs don't make any of the decisions that make games flop. so no... it's not great. devs are doing what they are told. imagine you go to a restaurant. you order a cowboy steak, but the supervisor tells the chef to make you a salad, instead. chef is told by his management to make the salad. he does. it is served to you. you complain. who gets sacked? the chef? WHY?

[@dantealighieri4543]

​@@XamiakassYet in this case some of the devs are responsible for some decisions, everybody is responsible for this game been bad, from the devs to management and many other hire ups in power positions. We seriously have to stop acting as if devs have no say in the development of a game.

[@Xamiakass]

@@dantealighieri4543 so you're saying that if the bottom staff did something, no management reviewed and didn't notice, if they did, doing anything about it? yeah... no.

[@Jack_the_Rizzler69]

@Xamiakass come on do you really think the devs are far left by pure coincidence?

[@ShadowAndRoseS]

I’m only surprised it lived THIS long. Hubris is often the death of many.

[@JustSomeHeeHo]

"Have you ever heard the tragedy of Darth Concord the Woke? I thought not. It's not a story the Gamers would tell you."

[@Logan_Deckard]

Finally some good news!

[@justlolit]

"I want to thank for your hard work, you're all fired btw 😊" Normal Management speak

[@juni1399]

It’s PINally over

[@auraguard0212]

F

[@interrobangings]

ESL?

[@rzr0015]

Pride comes before the fall

[@Arassar]

Oh, no! Anyway...

[@KettleFanDayo]

They/them become was/were an employee HAHA

[@NuchiAsaki]

I am so happy for them! They made their wildly successful game that entertained dozens of modern audience gamers for multiple hours and now they get to move on to new studios to do it again! I hope the next studios they work at produce games just as good as Concord so they can get the fulfillment they deserve!

[@VivAtreyu]

To paraphrase TOp Gear: "It is such a success, they're dropping it".

[@TerraByron]

Let this be a lesson to devs who are pushing DEI garbage into the gaming market. "You lose, now stay out."

[@yukioacumora4430]

THIS IS A TIME FOR CELEBRATION! THE WITCH IS DED!

[@MihzvolWuriar]

This is something that should happen more often, bad game released leads to closing studio, man, so many studios would close if this was the norm, and it would be beneficial for the industry.

[@EuphoricAngel]

Who could've seen this coming!?!? Oh yeah everyone...

[@sword4005]

this is what happen when you make a game for yourself and not the general public

[@hollywoodmeow]

id software made doom for themselves, just like cyan made myst, valve made half-life, tom clancy founded red storm and made rainbow six. the problem is that the 'Modern Audience devs' arent artists making a fun game...they only want to brainwash people.

[@davyjones5361]

The lessons from Concord: -Don’t be the only game in the competition selling for 40$ if all the others are free. -The customers are king i.e. DO NOT insult them -especially in full marketing campaign- -Be humble. Failure is a part of life. Being too big too fail is going the Titanic route. -The product must be interesting to the target audience or no one will buy it. They don’t owe you.

[@axe7665]

Oof

[@RS14988]

In the words of Jeremy Clarkson: "Oh no! Anyway, moving right along..."

[@TommyRayzer]

This might be the most complimentary way I have seen someone tell someone that they failed miserably.

[@elgindor]

They walked right into that fire.

[@Axvil]

I'm shocked, shocked! Ok.. maybe not that shocked..

[@WontStopMeNow]

Herman Hulst: "Concord will be the next Star Wars!" Yeah, Disney Star Wars.

[@bernuollifurmuoli5330]

The world would continue spinning and orbiting around the sun.

[@voidsentoni5977]

Gamers want to play games, want to enjoy hobby! Not following their activism or anything that reek politics. Also not being hold responsible for their incompetence.

[@Bobcat665]

🎼 Ding, dong! The witch is dead! 🎶

[@TheYashakami]

That is CEO speak for "I'm not allowed telling these bastards they wasted our money". Lol

[@AsaelTheBeast]

When you spend 200,000,000+ Dollars, OFC you don't get to keep your job. I'm more suprised it took them *this long* to come to that determination.

[@WolfyFancyLads]

From "Firewatch" to "Firesale". :P

[@juanponcedeleon5192]

Praying the same for BioWare 🙏

[@JoshLitch]

Good news for the industry. This debacle won't be forgotten.

[@Bell-et1lg]

Concord is a lesson in taking your employers shit. Those dev’s tolerated 8 years of toxic positivity for absolutely nothing.

[@Denial204]

Hero Hei be making progress, he's got bandit now

[@Ginsekami]

Firewalk studio news: They/Them.

[@Konz1983]

They/were

[@Lyze]

'We value your creative abilities and skill....now get out.'

[@stanknight9159]

"Unforgettable entertainment experience" -- Yeah, I am not sure this is that unforgettable entertainment, they were talking about lol.

[@Blackoutdmc]

Killer Queen has already touched Firewalk Studios

[@sardaukerlegion]

"Good, Good!" Palpatine

[@nojuanatall3281]

Fire walk with me beeeeeeechh

[@redeye8075]

With all the hell that’s happening in the world this is definitely a win

[@ryelor123]

I thought this was going to be about that fancy jetliner that rich brits used until 1 blew up due to a piece of runway debris.

[@leandrobenitez292]

just a reminder there's still that Amazon anthology series about videogames set to feature Concord in one of it's episodes