They Got Shutdown

[@StriderPF]

Sony we were all just really busy for those two weeks, we’re ready to play Concord now please rerelease it

[@anonony9081]

Lol, let's see if we can morbius them and make them think it could be popular if they just release it again

[@cryslic]

WSG strider

[@mcordonhouston]

@@OVOJacob2don’t think we care

[@TheRealVarentix]

@@OVOJacob2 bro thinks he's cool

[@cultoosk]

LOL

[@CSLucasEpic]

I wrote a letter the week after Concord closed down to the Museum of Failure (which is a real thing that exists) asking them if they were planning on having the game on their museum. And they said yes. That is how much of a flop Concord was.

[@kazuma7232]

It's in there!

[@Floris_VI]

Is it a physical museum?

[@Zhao328]

That's HILARIOUS & extremely fitting!

[@kazuma7232]

@@Floris_VI Yes.

[@MisterVercetti]

They'd be insane not to. After all, if the alleged $400 million price tag is true, it would make Concord the biggest failure _in the history of entertainment._

[@sonoftanavast1197]

Concord was an HR production, they said so themselves. If anyone spoke up with a contradicting idea they were given a taking too and/or fired

[@RedwindAndBeyond]

@@sonoftanavast1197 that explains the toxic positivity attitude they have. They full on ignored any semblance of negative feedback. How can they function as a company if they ignore criticism.

[@long_dennis]

@@RedwindAndBeyondthey can’t And as a result, they don’t

[@danielbrower3895]

It was all Concording to plan

[@CaribeguyYT]

That was so terrible I can’t help but like that

[@458italiap]

🤣🤣 on your way to become a father lol

[@anneshepard]

Hehehe

[@KwassaKwassa_]

Goated comment

[@JackCarsonite]

Rimshot*

[@GoodNight0wl]

So to sum up the statement at 4:20, "We are a bunch of idiots who learned nothing from this disaster, and are eager to buy another studio to see another flop happen. Thank you for reading"

[@AidricCarlson]

You just summed up every single large multimillion dollar company

[@TomJakobW]

they do be blazing, indeed

[@josep754]

Theyll shut down studios even if the games suceed

[@RLeezyDeezy]

He basically says that right after he read it

[@ReduckYT_]

Of course it was at 4:20 because they were getting high off their supply over there

[@zenro7291]

Someone said it looks like a game you'd see someone playing in a movie

[@soundwaveravagesuperior]

Underrated but so true.

[@commanderbeepo8066]

Kek, that's heinous. True tho

[@MrConredsX]

CHarlie didn't say it because he is a safe fencesitter, but a huge part of why its failed was because of the woke character design and ugly women. Charlie and many people are COPING if they thought Concord would fail if all characters looked like Eve from Stellar Blade, because there a lot of people who would play generic team shooter if it was a porn version of Overwatch

[@DhavalShukla]

Damn. The ultimate insult.

[@claudius_drusus_]

@@MrConredsX for real. Dude still glazes Mr beast

[@vitortrevisan336]

"So what's your previous job experiences?" Concord designers: "I was in jail, lost those 8 entire years, please don't look up my job history"

[@Lawrence_Talbot]

Unfortunately failing upwards is pretty common in the video game industry so I’m sure many will unfortunately find work ruining other games

[@warlordofbritannia]

@@Lawrence_Talbot Only if you’re a CEO. Devs are treated as utterly replaceable.

[@dr_diddy]

​@@warlordofbritannia >be dev >create multi award winning game >doesn't sell 5 million copies >sacked >be CEO >bankrupt 5th studio >lay of 300 people >7.5 million pay package >mfw you can just keep getting away with it 😊

[@Felipe_0liveir41]

​@@Lawrence_TalbotWhile it's true for CEOs and shit, it's completely opposite to the working people, they just get fucked in the ass and that's it.

[@demosneokleous4877]

Wasn't Concord made by ex Halo and Battlefield devs?

[@neuroticmuffin8791]

Any executive who greenlit Concord should be on a "no hire" list for life.

[@kyledodson2992]

People shouldn’t starve because they green lit an potential project that didn’t work out. Calm down, Mao

[@neuroticmuffin8791]

@kyledodson2992 I'm not talking about suffering. Just find work in a new field. Clearly, this wasn't the one. This project that everyone said from the start was a bad idea and not to do was doomed. At this point, it's definitely justified justice.

[@lighthawkgames5805]

The guy pushing it is at the top and is the current head of Sony Interactive Entertainment of America.

[@thatpunkkid5297]

@@kyledodson2992 so if you bring your car to a mechanic and you get it back but it’s leaking, barely running, and has no brakes you just let that mechanic keep working on your car? Please please be careful in your life, you’re going to need all the luck you can get with logic like that….

[@neuroticmuffin8791]

@lighthawkgames5805 Got anything to back that up?

[@Offroader210]

As the Heavy says, "You are dead, not big surprise."

[@VinnieTheStickman]

and as Kiro would say "Vinnie...The fuck is this shit"

[@Oblivionblade25]

They didn't last long at all.

[@Kulkogo]

A fitting character to laugh at Concord

[@dylanj950]

monster hunter fan in the wild

[@HahaYes-bl5xb]

As the Spy says, “Well, off to hang myself. Watch and learn!”

[@MrBelles104]

A neutron star cigarette has a longer lifespan than Concord 💀

[@Your_uncle320]

Can i try a neutron star cigarette?

[@bluefase5810]

👍

[@Skarrier]

The Firewalk studio made a deal with the wrong person (their headquarters erupt into flames)

[@k0mmand]

Vanadium-48's half-life is longer than Concord's entire fucking lifespan

[@infinity_sh4816]

damn

[@DawnOfTheOzz]

James May: Bad news. That studio that created Concord. It's been shut down. Jeremy Clarkson: Oh no! Anyway...

[@ironsam2381]

Concord is the Dacia Sandero of games

[@samaelnoir]

concord before release: 📉 concord after release: 📉 concord after rumours of re-release: 📉

[@omarabdul2864]

Lololol

[@dramatically-dies]

Incorrect, the graph was never that high.

[@Eternal_Nox]

I still can’t wrap my head around why they chose this over Bloodborne.

[@Nicomode7563]

It can’t go down since it was already at the bottom

[@HeronimusBilly]

sony : my moneyy

[@nmang0407]

Who could’ve predicted this?!?

[@TheKing60210]

WE USED TO PRAY FOR TIMES LIKE THESE🎉🎉🎉

[@calebwatkins9534]

YOU DIDNT EVEN WATCH THE VIDEO YET😭😭😭

[@Sirdilophosaurusthethird2.0]

A time traveler

[@Lion09887]

Why am I not surprised

[@jeffrrey6791]

Next time on Dragon Ball Z

[@seangiglio]

Neon Koi was probably working on a Concord mobile game because they were so confident it would be a massive hit and become a huge franchise

[@MrSpartan993]

What a bunch of stupid losers if so.

[@nahuelkid]

Likely. Sony was pushing Concord to hell and back, giving it the spotlight of the event it was shown and letting Secret Level make an episode on it alongside GoW and GoT, instead of God knows how many other IPs that deserved it more.

[@ilikebananas-ml6ux]

​@@nahuelkidtrue, the first thing that comes to mind is bloodborne. They own the IP but are ignoring it despite so many people asking for it. I think Sony must really hate fromsoft or Miyazaki.

[@dudebruh8534]

Omg I was just thinking that! After all we do know they thought it was going to be the next Star Wars and they got a deal with that Amazon show to create that animated short. It actually wouldn't be a far stretch to assume this mobile game studio was making the framework of a Concord mobile game.

[@freaktime-u5w]

@@ilikebananas-ml6ux I still cant even imagine why they ignore bloodeborne so much. surely for a company like sony it wouldnt be hard to remaster or at least port it to pc

[@yongjeonsa5906]

Problem with concord was: 1. Gameplay was never a priority. 2. Generic copy paste gameplay that entered the competition way too late.

[@Hardystone-t2y]

And also announcing the game way too early compared to when It released, which means that by the time it actually released we already lost interest.

[@anri_szyrykowski]

3. DEI to the detriment of the game itself.

[@ryanhodin5014]

​​@@anri_szyrykowskiNah. The game died because other games full of "woke" and "dei" already filled its niche with better gameplay for cheaper, and Concord had nothing to offer for why anyone should pay to choose it over them. The character designs sucked, but they sucked entirely independently of "dei" - They would have been garbage regardless of what sort of characters they were planned to be, because the concepts were simply executed horribly.

[@sexhaverhassex165]

​@ryanhodin5014 There's no need being rational, they just wanted to boast about being ignorant

[@anri_szyrykowski]

@@ryanhodin5014 well, you do have a point

[@mathaijacob1345]

Imagine being a former firewalk dev trying to get a new job at a studio. "Do you have any previous experience?"

[@unkindled6410]

The designers are the ones who might get problems, coders and other types of devs can still get backlog value for other hires as the skills for what they did with the game are more objective and the fact the game was bad doesnt really determine their specific skill unless it was a buggy mess or something but that wasnt the what made it garbo.

[@mexcore14]

​@@unkindled6410 Yeah, allegedly, gameplay was really the only thing working, but story and design were awful.

[@froggycolouring]

You’d have a better chance saying you’ve never seen a video game in your life than saying you worked on concord

[@NarbsTheGreat]

Its worse if its their first gig too, hey a job is a job

[@KenjaTimu]

I was in prison for embezzlement. I didn't work on Concord. Don't worry.

[@crypticallee]

They're only shutting down Concord to make room for CONCORD 2 BAYBEEEEEEE HERE COMES THE MONEY

[@guts1952]

They need to start advertising a pve mode for 30 dollars which is 2 hours long and just the same gameplay loop then completely shut down all further pve projects

[@C4xR34]

I love hearing Charlie reacting or commenting about absurd stuff like this, dude can string up sentences like no other. The whole section around 8:25 about the statement was glorious "The only thing more popular than multiplayer gaming is maybe getting the common cold" lol

[@Zxnightmare898]

The studio got shut down?! Man I was excited for Concord 2: Reconquered. 😔

[@evo4gplus]

Release Concord 2 with 4v4

[@jonathans.8537]

Well instead we got Unconquered😂

[@alargefarva4274]

Or Concord 3: The Unconquering

[@TakaVA_19]

Especially the massive PvE campaign they had planned, rip.

[@p3mcthedoor32]

Can't wait for Condord 4: Divide and Concer

[@josiahralya2160]

1:47 you can try but once that breakdown comes along you just explode like a gunshot.

[@Cold_Aspect]

real

[@tylersteward8917]

It’s kinda lame you pay for this content

[@ianstuart371]

​@@tylersteward8917oh yeah for sure. I couldn't imagine being a channel member or 'donating' to a patreon or anything like that. for the same stuff you get for free

[@primefischer6336]

​@@tylersteward8917 you're such a hater you're acting like a fan.

[@railroadforest30]

@Nlgga231i asked

[@kans4629]

1:50 yeah me too charlie, that sleep token is baby making music fs

[@KaseyBosell]

Bro i cackled when I first heard that

[@holdmacat9932]

I wish my partnered thought the same. He loves the music but wouldn't segz me to it 😢

[@Heroo01]

fuck yes, eargasms for days. i've never been so thoroughly captured by a band before (although 1:44 would be a better timestamp)

[@Heroo01]

@@holdmacat9932 WHAT is wrong with him?? not even aqua regia?! hell, you could go hard as fuck during the first 2/3 of the summoning, then absolutely vibe the hell out during the deconstructed jazz

[@projectvalkyrie4536]

Alkaline my beloved

[@Astartes-6969]

What's funny is that the upcoming series, Secret Level, which is an Anthology Series that tells different stories set in different Video Game Universes, is gonna have a Concord Episode. Even after the game is Delisted and the studio shut down. 😂😂😂😂

[@CeHee123]

That reminds me of how there was a Mario and Sonic Olympics game made in anticipation for the 2020 Olympics. Which never happened because Covid.

[@jfkwatchparty3644]

​@Nlgga231what are u, 12? The n word hasn't been funny since bo2, drop it kid

[@brianwalsh1339]

That’s the legacy of Concord: failed ideas and failed marketing.

[@amf9797]

@@CeHee123 I think you are talking about the one for the 2024 Olympic. Because the 2020 Mario and Sonic Olympics is available on the Switch.

[@andrebenoit404]

I'll be surprised if it still releases Hahaha I want to see that.

[@vixter1_]

1:47 Charlie throwing in a Sleep Token reference was infinitely more unpredictable than Firewalk shutting down

[@ABR48YT]

Every day the man finds a way to impress me more and more

[@TheSpirit242]

Had to do a double take 💀

[@TheSaiderRiscam]

Well we do worship him. Charlie is Vessel???

[@Viracocha08]

@@TheSpirit242I did the same thing, shit came at me like a fanaf jump scare

[@jammyjammich]

I shouldn't have read the comments first 😢

[@Deja117]

To give an example, Apex Legends and Fortnite (Battle Royale) are essentially the same concept. You survive as the last team, you drop from a ship in the sky, and you get chased by a storm that's closing in on you, starting with nothing and needing to pick up loot on the way. They have their key differences which makes them a vastly different experience though, like one has building, the other has heroes with abilities, and there are a bunch more things that separate them too. Concord just saw Overwatch and done the laziest most half-baked copy and paste they could. Then put a $40 price tag on it. I'm not surprised it failed, I am surprised it didn't go free and have a battle pass though, that would arguably of been the smart move.

[@shaansingh6048]

For real, Counter-Strike went free as soon as they saw it was the new business model. Clearly it's a possibility to just make your game free and add skins.

[@TurtleChad1]

All the 10 people who wanted Concord back are heartbroken.

[@leoscrymgeour5881]

Bot

[@nitstupid]

Bot

[@anonony9081]

It's funny I saw more than one person defending the game on message boards, but also admitting that they never played the game when had no intention to play the game.

[@boladenon]

My studio came out as closed.

[@TeamBobbo6326]

I honestly kinda regret not buying it. would've gotten a refund so it could have been kinda fun

[@coldcircuit99]

While I am not a game dev, I work in a sayin sibling field also as a dev and let me say that every single competent person in that dev team probably screamed while holding obvious signs on to that higher ups faces for at least 60% of the development time for that project. But as the experience taught me, you can say the most realistic and honest of feedbacks and obvious truths to some managers/ceo's etc. and they will go into nothing of a statement for some 10 min and then smile and says smth in line of "So we will proceed with the original direction because we see it as the best course of actions as of today." and you are left with "wtf" in your brain for the rest of the project and just roll with whatever stupidity they will add into it.

[@mdb45424]

then you are put on the troublesome person "list"

[@brunosouza3326]

idk man, looking at what some of the developers were saying on twitter...

[@3rdBalance]

@@brunosouza3326 heard some and rest from reports did say it was a bad idea

[@angel_of_rust]

i find it funny that people try to spin the narrative that no one in the dev team of Concord wanted this to happen. Bro it literally took 8 fucking years to make Concord. they had the chance to back out. and if one of the dev accounts on twitter calling others "talentless freaks" is anything to go by, the devs are as shit as the alleged higher ups. developers and """competent people""" can be shit people too

[@anonanon3112]

The character designers were proud of what they made, can't blame this one all on the higher ups lmao

[@Thepowerki]

1:50 love the Sleep Token reference

[@unit5263]

my life is complete

[@AwfulWeather5684]

Ikr that caught me off guard

[@MrPrototype150]

You just know they will fire all the developers and not a single manager who actually makes decisions

[@n7x]

@Nlgga231shut the fuck up bot. You are a disgrace on humanity, every time I mess up I think I’m at a low point, then I remember that there are people like you.

[@angel_of_rust]

the devs and artists actually are shitty though. no sane person would work on a project like that.

[@toomanyaccounts]

the devs were the managers. learn who the Professor was

[@Shelleton.]

​@@angel_of_rust one answer to that problem Money and needs

[@grantkeller4634]

Good riddance to the devs. They collected checks for eight years and put out garbage.

[@AndrewJaques-vo8sw]

The only Exceptional thing about Concord Is How hard it Flopped

[@cggc5871]

@@AndrewJaques-vo8sw lil sneako victim's gf left for being a woke sellout😂✌️ not mentioning concord is a DEI-fest as the main gimmick💀

[@Soren59]

turtle chad ahh comment

[@Finalras]

kinda pathetic that they can't even admit the game was horrible trash when they literally have to erase it from existence including it's whole studio, like a game can't get worse than that.

[@crossroads3]

1:45 Charlie being a Sleep Token fan wasn't on my 2024 bingo card but he's so real for that

[@seanrookee]

He's a metal head, why is that surprising?

[@oddec6142]

2:08 interesting part about Neon Koi is it apparently never put out anything, they assembled it to work on some action mobile game that never got announced and now never will. Even if it’s mobile imagine getting hired on a team to work on something for two years, only to not only get it cancelled but for it to never be announced and no one know the work you did with it. Kind of sad

[@toomanyaccounts]

the studio was just a bunch of people fapping around and getting a paycheck to drink soy lattes

[@neonhalos]

someone else mentioned that maybe it was a mobile version of concord, like trying to mimic what fortnite has with the mobile and PC/console versions

[@snaifhassnan6348]

⁠​⁠@@neonhalos13^ and 1-43

[@genderaxio7433]

I mean, no one makes a mobile game for artistic value, I doubt someone cries because no one saw their cashgrabbing mobile game with addicting design

[@neonhalos]

@@genderaxio7433 that's not even true lmao there are plenty of games out there on mobile that have artistic value. unless you quantify something having "artistic value" as "lets me play it for free with no ads or compensation given to devs", in which case any game on any platform is totally devoid of "artistic value."

[@bauregard2171]

Imagine failing so hard you take another studio down with you

[@lucaspsm125]

the problem with Concord is that it was way ahead of its time, the world isn't ready to understand the concept of multiplayer gaming yet 😔

[@maxlimited]

Working in a company isn't to bad, what's bad is working under someone who doesn't take criticism as NOT personally.

[@Legoguy9875]

4:00 I think the answer's simple: Concord started around 2018, when Overwatch was new and very popular. Sony likely saw the success of that game, saw that Concord was similar in gameplay, and snatched it up thinking that it would be a slam dunk. They just failed to account for how long it would take for the game to be made, as well as the shift in interests during that time, and did nothing to change it up.

[@zen_7748]

But Sony didn't acquire Firewalk Studios until April 2023, WELL after hero shooters became an oversaturated genre. Overwatch 2 had already axed the one thing people wanted most out of it (the PvE), so it's not like the genre's golden child was the in the healthiest state back when Sony bought Firewalk. It's a baffling business decision. It's like buying a Nokia 3310 in 2024 to unironically use it: it just makes zero sense.

[@Melody-to8wg]

2 years old isn't new.

[@JackCarsonite]

"They just?..." Nobody's playin it regardless. You must be a Firewok Exec 😂

[@DopinSmoke]

Yeah it had nothing to do with the thinly veiled propaganda in every design choice.

[@haley746]

@@zen_7748don’t you dare insult the 3310 like that. People who want a reliable and cheap phone to only call people with exist. People who want burner phones exist. People who want to play Concord don’t.

[@andrewmazzarini2742]

And there goes Concord's chances of getting No Man's Sky'd

[@Nahifegggfegggfwe]

1:44 that was quite the comparison💀

[@atheistpriest6665]

It is SleepToken

[@HourRomanticist]

​@atheistpriest6665 I had no idea he liked them.

[@roryasrorri701]

​@@HourRomanticistreally? it's *moist* critikal we're talking here

[@orangejews150]

​@@HourRomanticist I mean he makes metal music

[@tanner157]

@@orangejews150 that is a bit of a stretch

[@DOOMStudios]

What’s funny about this is that Sony just potentially threw $400 Million Dollars down the drain lmao.

[@OsirusHandle]

with that money they could have bred a new miracle crop and fed millions of people

[@soapa4279]

Well, $400M is long gone. No need to spend any more on the failure.

[@angel_of_rust]

potentially? you mean definitely

[@tony9146]

Would have been really dumb to continue to try to salvage it. Sunk cost 101 - it’s like the first thing you learn in business school.

[@epicgamner1139]

imagine spending $400 million dollars on concord instead of like food think of all the costco pizzas you could buy with that kind of money

[@DX-RAGNAROK]

The uncooked noodles in my kitchen have lasted longer then ConCord.

[@aTalkingPizza]

I was really hoping concord would get the Morbius treatment and come back only to fail again, feels bad man

[@spyr0guy]

Concord did *one* unique thing: making a first-person shooter with the controls of a walking sim. Revolutionary genre-blending right there.

[@12white1]

And gay

[@RedwindAndBeyond]

@@12white1 and lame.

[@isuckatusernames4297]

what dies that mean exactly?

[@kninzotagoni3635]

Funny how he didn't talks about that point. It's agenda was a big part of why it also failed. It being in your face. Guess Charly trying to be careful. xD

[@RedwindAndBeyond]

@ he’s treading lightly.

[@CarolinaSportz]

Concord could (COULD!) have made a good single player game, BUT they had to go the live service route.

[@Naim11443]

5:18 exactly remember that Sony could have done a bloodborne pc port, bloodborne remaster or bloodborne 2 (Sony owns bloodborne ip) but instead Sony invested 300-400 million dollars on the masterpiece that is concord bravo Sony 👏👏👏

[@NTAD]

Oh no...that's terrible. **sip**

[@freakoffer]

"that is a truely terrible and heartbreaking story... so anyways" havnt seen much top gear but my lord

[@ShadowSkyX]

"Oh bless their heart," 😂

[@kylespevak6781]

It's crazy how we got a million team shooters and battle royale games within a year of them getting popular, but there's like 3 platform fighters and only 1.5 are good

[@batttttttttttttt]

I am NOT suprised.

[@mikewazooski5010]

Yeah you are

[@Zuberm1]

penguinz0 early comments are so ass

[@draculastraphouse7863]

You and everyone else kiddo

[@HourRomanticist]

I'm suprise

[@Zuberm1]

Early penguinz0 comments are so trash

[@CeHee123]

I think the sad thing is we've become so used to Sony's incompetence this year that we believed there was a chance they would be dumb enough to revive it. I'm not surprised, but I also wouldn't have been shocked if they tried to revive this corpse of a game in a desperate bid to try and make something off it. Still, I feel awful for the devs that wasted a near decade on a game that died within half a month.

[@Femtoisbackandbetter-g1b]

The devs got what they wanted 😂 the people they hate did not buy the game

[@VoidedLynx]

It wasn't even alive enough to die. It was a corpse from launch. They didn't even have enough sales to cover the cost of electricity for a year.

[@joaopaulofigueiredo7444]

Thinking the same thing, you give yourself to this job ONLY for it to be ran through the mud with the direction some execs thought after a coke line. And the only people that lost with this was the people actually working on it

[@terrestrialtoker]

Just this year?

[@marccastillo965]

@@Femtoisbackandbetter-g1bbrother you and the schizos yapping about woke nonsense don’t matter, this game failed cause it’s bad that’s it.

[@LaughingSkull451]

Gotta remember, Firewalk Studios wasn't bought by Sony until later on in Concord's development, so this isn't all on Sony. Firewalk WANTED to make Concord like how it was.

[@maddoxrandall7078]

That Sleep Token reference went crazy btw! Love to hear that you love them too!

[@caljeet4002]

Concord was my childhood 😞

[@TheProphegy]

Hey, a newborn infant.

[@polzy5035]

Concorde, the greatest ever, sadly it didn't last as much as it should have.

[@JalenJennings-it4xd]

Stop joking

[@walnzell9328]

@@polzy5035 I agree that it didn't last as long as it should have. It should've had an even shorter lifespan.

[@angel_of_rust]

istg people that will grow up playing Banban will grow up better than the few people that played Concord

[@ExactlySandwich]

Concord is the video game equivalent of watching someone make the whole room laugh, so you just parrot the punchline 40 seconds later expecting everyone to laugh again

[@RyderPlatinumWarpstar]

Sony could have invested that money into a teleportation for Cecil.

[@ClockFink]

“We will continue to advance our live service capabilities to deliver future growth” Oh thank God, despite everything that was lost, their live service aspirations aren’t at an end. We can all breathe a sigh of relief. Like it’s sad and all, but that’s what we were TRULY scared of, was that you’d give up on live service and we’d be denied the wonderful future of designing games around the “we want another live service game chasing the latest trend, so put a team on that” model. Like god forbid we be left with games whose development be started from things like creativity or passion rather than a business model.

[@LuznoLindo]

Goes to show they're still missing the forest for the trees.

[@nicholasvaccaro4826]

Live service is a necessary thing for stability with how high these game budgets are like u think concord was expensive I would be surprised if naughty dogs next single player game is 500 million it’s not a sustainable business model just making good single player games anymore especially if it’s gonna take like 6 years of no revenue in between pretty much every AAA studio at PlayStation has to sell like 10 million copies to break even these days like sm2 had to sell 7.7 to break even and it’s just gonna keep getting worse so they need a solution and I guess they believe it’s live service

[@blakksheep736]

​​@@nicholasvaccaro4826 I beg to differ. We have been getting plenty of excellent single player games both from large studios and indies as of recent. Black Myth Wukong, Astrobot, Frostpunk 2, all the Nintendo games, etc, plus how many indie titles. Maybe they should stop burning money pouring polygons into sweat beads and actually focus on the part of games people genuinely care about.

[@nicholasvaccaro4826]

@@blakksheep736 if Astrobot sells aswell as their other large AAA games maybe they will but their fanbase is telling them no. Wukong is also a bad example as it’s very graphically expensive but was cheaper to produce due to their location being in china only way to lower the budget for them is outsourcing more work which they said they were looking into at the start of the year u have to remember most of Sony studios r located in Washington and California which are literally the most expensive places in the world to make games

[@ClockFink]

@@nicholasvaccaro4826 Ahhh yeah, I’ll admit it, you got a damned good point. I mean if I had to name a single biggest mistake they made with Concord, it was that it wasn’t just FTP (which only woulda been plausible as live service). I mean I think the smart call is the “Shorter games with worse graphics”, lowering their overhead by focusing on good writing or tight gameplay loops and letting the bells and whistles slide… take the Devolver Digital route and bankroll small teams with passion rather than commission huge projects a marketing team have a profitable conceptual foundation… but you’re right, I’m being unrealistic in my expectations. There remains a market for big, flashy, high polish titles even if I’m not part of it, and the way forward for that is indeed live service cause you’re correct that the model is becoming unsustainable on a “pay upfront” basis. Still. While my sarcasm is deflated a bit by this fair point, I assume you get my meaning… for “Don’t worry, our live service pipeline is undaunted” to be one of the first things out of their lips communicates a sort of misplaced priorities. Like… GAMES. Players wanna know that you’re going to redouble your efforts and apply wisdom from mistakes to making better GAMES. “We’ll figure this distribution model out better next time” may reassure stockholders, but for the consumers it emphasizes the impression your priorities aren’t on improving your product.

[@potato1341]

Just a reminder that for the cost of Concord, the collective budget of the game could've funded (an estimate) of 7,843 Undertales. Nearly 8,000 full development cycles of a game that's still talked about nearly 10 years after development.

[@imze6620]

2:30 what if neon koi was doing concord mobile 😂

[@flowerhana__1]

Would've been better compared to on steam 😂😂

[@Drawing_Lines]

The fact it got resurrected just to get immediately backshoted into the netherrealm is so good 😂

[@TheProphegy]

Wanted to make sure it ran a little better before sending it off to the shadow realm.

[@Mowdown]

just for future reference it's not shoted, it's shot

[@alimations5226]

​@@Mowdown mans saw the backshot joke and just HAD to correct the grammar

[@Monkeybeam]

@@Mowdown how you get ratioed too 😭😭💀

[@lightswitch2622]

@@alimations5226 What joke? Backshot doesn't even make sense in this context.

[@coltonwhite2518]

I've seen this pattern where game companies prioritize making something that's this huge new, genre changing thing and utterly forget the fact that they're either too late or completely missed what made that "new" thing great to begin with. If you look at games like Metal Gear or Devil May Cry it's not that they were trying to be the next big thing in their respective genres, they were simply trying to excel in what was already there. Stealth games existed before MGS, action hack n slash games existed before DMC. They weren't trying to break any proverbial glass ceilings, they just wanted to be great within their respective medians and now they've come a long way to defining them. It also helped they weren't made by a bunch of hacks focusing on superfluous things that don't correlate into being good for games in general, let alone the genre they're trying to reinvent.

[@DeepHumor]

It was only a matter of time

[@WhiteGlint871]

Yoooo DeepHumor

[@TeamBobbo6326]

ain't it funny that the guy known for calling out comment bots gets comment botted. Congrats on 100k btw. fyi bot is a racist so report the channel if you are ready to navigate a buncha hate speech.

[@somethin.6366]

​@@TeamBobbo6326and these bots are just getting worse and worse. look at them. That's LITERALLY THE N WORD as their username

[@gcSNO]

deep humor!

[@NeonBeeCat]

Hey it's my favorite Turkish street interview channel!

[@undyingstar]

You should talk about how sony is pulling the plug out of the littlebigplanet franchise in the most disrespectful way possible

[@BigOwl51]

Who cares? The series has been going since most of Charlie’s viewers were in diapers. It had to end eventually. The last one barely even turned a profit. If little big planet fans want the series to continue, maybe they shouldn’t let the games flop.

[@shadowhawk1416]

​@@BigOwl51No it wasnt just the series ending. Sony has permanently shut down the servers for lbp as well as remove any listing of lbp and its dlc. They fully buried the game and shot it in the head you cant even go to purchase it digitally if you missed out on it.

[@gnotgnelf3738]

​@@shadowhawk1416it's a dogsh!t kids game, who cares bro

[@gman8D1]

Astrobot walking on sony mass grave

[@SandraG-e7f]

Cry me a river😂

[@BeefyMatt]

1:50 SLEEP TOKEN MENTIONED 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥

[@xnotnoahx_08]

YES

[@xnotnoahx_08]

Was just coming to say that😭

[@Uhreally1121]

I literally opened the comments and as I read this he said it

[@mahlondiamond1782]

Sleep token more like stupid token

[@Xerodm]

Never heard of them till my gf got me into them. Now they're everywhere.

[@SuperLazer64]

I think we owe ET an apology

[@toomanyaccounts]

ET sold millions of copies

[@yuvalambalo4590]

ET had a better reputation than concord is something I never thought I’d say

[@ObsceneSuperMatt]

@@toomanyaccounts Only because people didn't know how bad it was until they played it. Then it lead to hundreds of thousands of copies being buried in the desert, and lead to a 5 year dark age of gaming.

[@almightynoob1631]

What's the full name?

[@BBoySnakeDogG]

​@@almightynoob1631ET on Atari 2600, caused the big video game crash of the 80s.

[@Bunkatron]

1:58 THEY DID WHAT?!?! WHAT DID THEY!?!?

[@Keychaine]

You bet they did.

[@GravitasZero]

You know, concord could have been a major success very easily. All they needed was to design every single character differently than they did and change the gameplay

[@jasmin_vsk]

You mean make every single character white and the female characters look like AI porn models right?

[@vincentthemasterofshadows5743]

4:43 they haven't learned the lesson.

[@thatonedudeyousawb4]

Literally in the same sentence as we learned the lesson is the words live service, they straight up fucking ignored the lesson

[@yesmansam6686]

The greatest value Concord has is as a talking point on where you could go wrong. Like, a whole ecosystem of youtube videos picking apart and analyzing everything wrong with Concord from gameplay feel to character design rose up over night. I, legitimately, learned a lot on just the character design point.

[@nahuelkid]

Its like the Oceangate of games LOL

[@LuznoLindo]

You do know most of those people were armchair-types that made those videos because Concord was trending, right?

[@tuskactu4820]

​@@LuznoLindoWelcome to the internet bucko Everyone is an armchair something, been that way since the beginning

[@jozefcyran2589]

True, I also learned a lot of techniques from those videos. And the comparison of "Oceangate of Videogames" is true - I also learned alot about submarine design from the failure

[@jozefcyran2589]

​@@LuznoLindono they were not. Or.maybe we are talking about different videos, I'm sure some people wanted to surf the hype

[@Frost-dd4it]

1:46 BEST BAND MENTIONED

[@TheRealVarentix]

this shit's like Morbius, it did so bad they took it down, then tried to bring it back, but unlike morbius it just stayed dead at this point. One of Sony's biggest fumbles

[@gabemyers4516]

@Nlgga231 Joker isn’t trans

[@Rextympanorum]

1:42 bro I was not ready for this 😭😭

[@Anti_Matter]

I was half asleep and was like "wah- wut?" And woke uo fully

[@Harakatheboye]

​@@Anti_Matter SAME

[@wyattkoon370]

I still have the concord beta shortcut saved to my desktop. a piece of history

[@amirabaskarimi2390]

6:00 🗣🔥walking point🔥

[@minzy421]

Congratulations ... you just got Concorded

[@Yama_44]

Concord is the game you see your Sims playing on the computer.

[@beccatears]

1:22 WHAT 😦

[@DieselD7101]

And nothing of value was lost.

[@z3v..]

this is my favorite phrase i swear

[@villain9482]

1:48 had a heart attack when I heard that. SLEEP TOKEN MENTIONED 🗣️🗣️🗣️

[@KTDOOM]

Never would have suspected that💀

[@gwynbleidd968]

There was no word for this Situation until now This is what people will call the ConcordEffect

[@mrgrimrjs]

that one developer who really believed in the game watching this 😭

[@TheProphegy]

They pulled the concord. Rip.

[@theblacknaruto]

This whole situation is crazy

[@PeterGriffin70]

This is the greatest This whole situation is crazy of all time.

[@ChrisHansen6900]

I was one of the main devs behind Concord that was responsible for a lot of the decisions made in it. The boss ran over my cat 5 years ago so that is why I hyped Concord up so his career was fkd up afterwards while I had a backup job ready to go. My cat has been avenged.

[@atlascove1810]

That's bullshit, but I believe it.

[@Pinknin123]

9:25 ACE ATTORNEY MENTIONED

[@mcordonhouston]

Not predicting concord getting shut down is like not predicting humans will go extinct

[@happycryingcat3101]

the thing that sucks with multi-billion-dollar companies right now is that they have this constant desire to tap into every conceivable market known to man. This causes a dilution in those markets and ultimately (as we can see here) lower quality. Industries should stop focusing on trying to make a game that has the same basic formula as every single other game and for once make something UNIQUE like Helldivers 2 or Lethal company, or even phasmaphobia

[@Blub_525]

Dammit Sony we where so close to P̶e̶r̶f̶e̶c̶t̶i̶o̶n̶,A̶ g̶o̶o̶d̶ g̶a̶m̶e̶, a̶n̶ o̶k̶a̶y̶ g̶a̶m̶e̶, a̶ g̶a̶m̶e̶ we where close to something.

[@FavvvvazM]

2:58 the only thing exceptional about concord is its own failure 😂

[@filipwarpechowski6681]

As the saying goes, the fish rots from the head. It's not like a single programmer or artist is responsible for this, it's just a overall lack of direction, probably caused by the people at the top of corporate food chain. Make a game for everyone and you make a game for no one. I don't want to defend this game but from what I saw, besides movement being very slow for this type of game, it looked fine, didn't have any major glitches and overall run good performance wise. I even had some fun watching Charlie play it. It tells me that it's not a bad dev team that tried to sell people an asset flip but something else...

[@OldManAlex719]

Let us not forget that Concord's devs once pulled a Wall Street Bro and bragged that they were too big to fail. Oh well...

[@DeaconFrost-p1f]

Calling it a studio is a bit of a stretch, more of a repurposed hotdog kiosk.

[@Lunar_WaveYT]

Concord looks like something you’d see on TV in GTA

[@rabidcheesemonkey1092]

...and not a single fuck was given that day.

[@Kvvz_]

1:44 Sleep Token mentioned

[@lsd_trip4377]

100% the other studio was working on a concord mobile spinoff 😂

[@jakespacepiratee3740]

This is so sad. Desposito, play Country Roads.

[@blakksheep736]

Take me hooooome Country Roooooads To the plaaaaaace Where I belooooong!

[@pixavier9746]

Dont you mean Despacito?

[@BrockNewton-c3d]

1:44 BRO😭🙏

[@RomWatt]

"Concord" is now joining the list of names that will forever be associated with failure, along with "Titanic"

[@AJThomas-ec9hu]

NO WAY THIS WAS SO UNPREDICTABLE

[@Virgosantanaaa]

Oh Charles how I yearned for a new KZbin video my dearest

[@Jaaz7]

Bot

[@Cye_Pie]

@@OVOJacob2 Your name is Josh dude don't tell people what to do

[@jourdanbetsch5073]

@@Jaaz7 ur moms a bot

[@Dan_Diaconescu]

The fact that a episode of secret level will be wasted on Concord is the most infuriating thing from this situation

[@Thethommywhisperer]

Oil up Charlie