PlayStation SHUTS DOWN Firewalk - Concord Is DONE!

[@RGT85]

Herman Hulst is TRASH!

[@Nedk82]

Yes Herman has me worried. I thought he was talented but this guy has no clue what he’s doing and should have stayed at guerrilla studios. How does this guy get this job its unreal

[@ahmedp8009]

Actually, he is Dutch.

[@podunk3202]

there goes my wish of having Concord comeback as a strategy RPG game like X-Com. Oh well

[@dogg-paws]

Firewalk had eight years to flex their muscles, and they totally failed; reportedly the culture there was full of "toxic positivity" that prevented them from getting any real feedback before the beta test happened. Not saying Hulst is faultless, but the shutdown was merely the end result of Firewalk's own undoing.

[@ArielCleirigh]

He is, Hulst was the one canceling Days gone 2. Take your L Hermen.

[@TurtleChad1]

All 10 people who wanted Concord back are heartbroken

[@MarquisDeSang]

Can't wait for Turmp to win the election for a 3rd time

[@ErnestGoesToMadeas]

All 10 Spawncast hate listeners will be mad at OJ over this.

[@Setogayamari]

Honestly was a fun game, just was very ugly looking

[@celesgriner2411]

Modern Audience will not be happy about this...watch out

[@dylives7667]

@@celesgriner2411 The Night Of The Locked Accounts.

[@isturbo1984]

There are far more grifters and journos who support this than there are actual people who make up this elusive "modern audience."

[@isturbo1984]

@@dylives7667 Fantastic reference for the few who understood it.

[@ArielCleirigh]

SBI will say its Not owr fault, we are victims, Lol, yeah sure.

[@onefootoutthedoor9937]

Watch out for the dozens and dozens of them

[@McBerts522]

World is healing. Saw this coming.

[@isturbo1984]

The real healing starts next month

[@arcticridge]

yeah and then the zombies come to wipe us out

[@fondofpeace]

Lmao 😂

[@anakinskyguy6582]

I don't wanna be political but I think if Trump becomes president all this woke BS will go away, the spike started when biden became president

[@shatteredsentient5321]

I might have to start voting 😂​@@anakinskyguy6582

[@transfiguration8865]

Oh, the studio that had one of the biggest failures in videogane history shuts down? Let me tell you how shocked I am.

[@davidwhiting1761]

Not just one of the biggest failures, it had THE BIGGEST failure of all time. When your first title is the biggest failure in history there is no recovery; your reputation as a studio is ruined before it is even fully established.

[@Raptorclawz]

Id's say it's behind Skull and bones. Ubisoft lost over 800 million on that game.

[@geminijinxies7258]

Shutting down competent game studios is what the big and greedy game companies do nowadays. Seems it's always the first choice whenever there's a problem.

[@droid4d279]

Bruh this industry is collapsing you cant tell me its not

[@matcam89]

Herman cost Sony $400m dollars and he still has a job? that's impressive

[@mravg79]

We do not know for sure how much it cost but still cost of buying a studio, cost of production. PR nightmare. On top of this Bungie sold themselves and Sony paid top dollar for them (3.6B was it?) but they miss their targets. More live service games in the pipeline. Very interesting…. I’m looking forward to see the next financial report.

[@tinekenagy6376]

Jim Ryan is the one who greenlit it.

[@TimeMakerMan]

And sony went with it.

[@matcam89]

@@TimeMakerMan sure did

[@fredthefreeloader616]

And there are jobs where one's get fired for a pen missing, that's crazy.

[@Qrec12]

I'll drink a beer to this news.

[@xeno4665]

Cheers🎉🎉 ill have a couple with you 🎉 Im soo happy all these DEI games are failing ❤

[@mravg79]

I run out of beer 🙁

[@neonsheep3358]

$400mil with nothing to show for it. Ubisoft dumped almost a billion into Skull and Bones. But don't worry, guys! The industry is fine!

[@matthewlucent7645]

At least you can still play Skull and Bones. I am not sure why anyone would, but at least you can still play it.

[@Supermanohman]

The word sunsetting is for successful games that shined bright before finally laying to rest. Not for this.

[@moedbz]

Agreed

[@deathsyth8888]

It was "euthanized".

[@august3777]

Concord wasn't creative experimentation, it was a rip off of two different IPs: Guardians of the Galaxy and Overwatch

[@Jack_Gates]

Shawn said the quiet part out loud. This team was set up to fail

[@dylives7667]

So it's 100K percent safe to say Concord isn't coming back?

[@matthewlucent7645]

Another studio could still take over, so anything is possible.

[@johnpenguinthe3rd13]

It's 100% NEVER coming back as a game. In the same corporate memo where they announced they were firing the entire studio, they mention that they are PERMANENTLY "sun setting" the game. It's NEVER coming back as a game. Concord will return in a different form this December, but as an animated episode of Amazon's Secret Level animated anthology series (and the reason is they made that episode BEFORE the game was shutdown. The animation studio for that anthology animated series already spent the money on that episode and completed it before the game launched, so they are going to release it when the entire anthology series starts up December). After that, unless Sony decides to release the unreleased cutscenes from the game (apparently they had TONS of them already animated for the game that never saw the light of day since they were being saved for later seasons of the game... which never happened) and they release the cutscenes as a collection of animated shorts, then Amazon's Secret Level animated episode is the last hurrah for Concord. After that's it's most likely never coming back in any form (honestly, there is a 95% chance those cutscenes from the game that were never released will stay in a "digital vault" at Sony headquarters since I'm hearing Sony wants to use the game as a tax write off. Once they do that, they aren't legally allowed to use anything from the game).

[@vincentvega3093]

Hulst cashing out. This needs further investigation

[@emanhero6311]

CEO never take accountability. They just resign and take there payout.

[@-castradomis-1773]

That's exactly what Jim Ryan did. He was a major force in the pivot of Sony studios to these live service dead ends. He resigned and you can bet he got a nice severance and stock options.

[@QuantumChrist]

what do you want? To jail CEO for the company's flop? LOL

[@droid4d279]

I feel bad for the devs they get fired and no payout but the CEOS find work elsewhere and a nice paycheck

[@jairekambui7738]

Take me back to the PS2 glory days please. I can’t bear to see the state of modern gaming anymore man.

[@droid4d279]

We should just make games like the ps1 games we dont need these high fidelity games

[@kirby21-xz4rx]

​@@droid4d279have you played rift apart? That game seems like the old day games alot so fun

[@anon1692]

@@kirby21-xz4rx minus the content lol

[@etesansfin1327]

🎉🎉🎉🎉 the dev that called us "talentless freak" is now jobless 💪😂🎉🎉🎉

[@anon1692]

bought by Sony for $400 million, doesn't matter if they're jobless they won the lottery lol

[@SharifSourour]

Good news is the culture seems like it’s beginning to pendulum swing back to the other direction of the diarrhea mountain that we’ve experienced over the last couple of decades.

[@Grant-wy4uu]

It does appear that way.

[@evacody1249]

Do you people just ignore the facts as to why it failed, which has nothing to do with culture war BS. Or is everything part of some culture war?

[@MedalionDS9]

Shocking... ok, not that shocking... and Concord is not coming back... it's all sunsetted

[@TheMasterGamer94Meck]

Oh no! "The professor" is no more lmao

[@ShadowWolfQc]

Hope that teaches "her" a lesson 😂

[@antnuh765]

I mean, Herman Holst is most famous for the Killzone and Horizon games. Him seeing an incredibly derivative game like Concord and thinking "this is amazing!" isn't a shocker.

[@Unknownplayer31305]

And nothing of value was lost besides a possible $400,000,000 million...

[@kpsk8031]

I hope Sony deleted all game files, destroyed the hard drives, demolished the Firewalk offices and set up a warning sign "Danger: Toxic Positivity!".

[@itsdemetri4282]

They need to dig up E.T from the landfill and replace it with this

[@addajjalsonofallah6217]

Ahhh a remake of the ET game from back in the day That would be nice but that's not happening

[@itsdemetri4282]

@@addajjalsonofallah6217 anything from the old days ported, remaster and remade would be good right about now

[@NostalgiaNet8]

Not surprised.

[@xlbthedemigod5662]

No studio is safe if being bought by big companies

[@rick_oshea]

You thought Jim Ryan was bad, Herman Hulst "hold my beer"

[@patrickcollier7090]

While I didn't think they would bring Concord back I didn't really think they fully nuke Firewalk. Crazy man.

[@heylilg6070]

RGT85 need to start his own video game company

[@LouzWate]

Bro, please bring back the Stevie Richards intro... #RGTBringItBack

[@relevanttangent8442]

You guys do know that Herman Hulst played the game's alpha and saw potential in that right? The characters and art direction did not exist during the alpha and were created after Firewalk was purchased. The gameplay of Concord was fine but its art direction, which Firewalk created on its own, killed the game.

[@MurrayNJ08]

They are in the talks of letting Herman go and replacing him with Tommy Tallarico

[@pepperoni6816]

I'm surprised Sony took longer to shut down the studio than it did the game.

[@Vajrubaj]

This is one for the history books or horror ones hehehe, players and customers keep winning love to see this.

[@spankrocketgaming294]

Concord also proved that once again the fanboys don't play exclusives 😂

[@elmasheavy89]

Sweet Baby Inc has done it again, Concord got the kiss of death from Sweet Baby Inc.

[@smgofdvld]

More like top Sony executives I don’t feel too bad for them because there was pushback but ultimately this was Sonys Star Wars moment whatever that means I guessing they wanted to end up like them ?

[@chrisstyles4630]

Herman holst seal of approval he should be fired not promoted

[@ccricers]

Hey now, don't give them THAT much credit. But then again, I'm not a culture war chud that goes tilting at windmills. I still got tons of good games to play! Just to be clear, the game's bad for having pretty weak content and being a cookie cutter service game that lacks the content to be fun. Sweetbaby wasn't consulted on that portion.

[@dewinter1411]

@@ccricersdon’t pretend the DEI and woke bullcrap didn’t contribute. 🤦‍♂️

[@StarTraffic-z1o]

Trump supporters are turning video games into culture wars but it is failing in politics. People are tired of these MAGA idiots.

[@matcam89]

$400m probably could have made a Socom , Killzone and Resistance game

[@SaltyNewf]

Would love to see a return of the Socom series

[@matcam89]

@SaltyNewf even if they remastered the first 3 games I'd take that for now

[@kenshin391]

$400 Million down the drain and yet we have no first party games. I don't know about you guys but I love the smell of a corporation burning from their own stupidity. 😁 I play on Playstation and I'm saying this.

[@th00perman_]

1) Buy company making bad game 2) Release bad game 3) Refund bad game 4) Close down company

[@spankrocketgaming294]

Remember Sony lost 400 million dollers on concord 😂😂

[@MrPrincepop]

Accountability is a rare commodity.

[@chunkie3056]

Good!!!! We are slowly winning guys!!!

[@God_Shen]

Let the studios shut down... the world is healing

[@Gellus-C]

Even if it was a 1 Billion dollar loss it’s nothing to sony. They have Multi Billions spread out. 🤮

[@shinra2755]

Dragon Age is next.

[@chadmax4087]

Sucks to suck

[@Likwidfox]

They should just release the source code and let modders take control of it.

[@Charlesdayis]

This!!!! Cuz is could be a good game

[@matthewlucent7645]

Lol that's the Bethesda strategy.

[@JulioCezarMari]

Herman Hults and anyone who thinks there’s a “modern audience” need to be fired

[@hanzo90]

And yet they will continue to be completely out of touch with their audience

[@Shimmed]

Sony gave Firewalk the samurai sword of JUSTICE!

[@SnakeVenom3000]

Just a sign of why devs need to stop working with Sweet Baby Inc.

[@evacody1249]

🤦‍♂️ just a sign not to make a hero shooter for a genre that is no longer popular. There, I fixed it for you.

[@170AndBeyond]

2:03 The “Firework” misspeak cracked me up in the best way, but have a somewhat warped sense of humor.

[@elmasheavy89]

Herman gotta get the boot too.

[@partyjams]

We've talked about the impending crash for a while, but this month had a lot of successful games. So there's hope left

[@johnphillips1242]

“Toxic positivity” I like it. You will like this product or else! These corporations need to learn.

[@HellMaker1991]

100 bucks that Herman Hulst will get an executive bonus this year.

[@omegaman2767]

That is a CRAZY story! Seem like the former employees should have a lawsuit somewhere!

[@nsgames24]

This reminds me of when Sony did something similar to SuperBot Entertainment. They made a game that didn't pop off immediately after release and while the company had plans to support said game with DLC, Sony cut ties with SuperBot and killed the game that the company was formed to make in the first place.

[@Psmgamer]

Firework got burned after Concord failed.

[@KamenRiderBlackSun]

Investors got scammed

[@tinekenagy6376]

The biggest L in gaming history. No Pony going to convince me otherwise.

[@davidludwig7501]

They should have made a Days Gone 2 with the $$$ wasted on Concord. What a waste.

[@AP90x]

No resistance reboot

[@davidludwig7501]

@AP90x yes or that. Or Bloodborne remake/remaster. Or infamous. Or anything good besides Concord live service shovelware crap.

[@cs8712]

syphon filter or socom trilogy remake

[@davidludwig7501]

@cs8712 Yes, those too!

[@j.m.a6045]

They should've made anything but 'Concord', honestly.

[@dzill95]

Sony is in trouble with Herman Hulst

[@ging3rbreadtiger618]

BRO MY SHIRT IS GOING TO BE HERE BEFORE HALLOWEEN!!!!! LETS GOOOOO!!!! also my autograph book too!

[@robsan52]

(1968) "Oh WOW man!! What a downer!! You have to keep your centre centred man! Really far out working in a gig with positive energy all the time!! Well, anyway, have a great 'whatever' man!

[@EmaCr_]

I agree with you but you are giving the developers way to much credit man, they also turned againts players when they were critiziced so i feel they are all responsible as well. Bad decisions everywhere.

[@lucho3410]

I'm just waiting for metal gear Delta and wolverine. And as I always say, thank the good Lord for the backlog of retro gaming 🙏

[@brettwalsh2847]

Another scapegoat for the executive level.

[@themadmoderator8465]

such a shame for the professor hope she enjoys making coffee in starbucks

[@freddied8479]

And yet Sony still wants to make stupid live service games.. 🙄 They haven't learned anything

[@karemali6941]

I’m not condoning layoffs but they reap what they sowed they made a garbage product nobody wanted and their developers were trashing their consumers so I don’t feel remorse.

[@PathOfRage]

Diplomatic way of saying, for costing us 400M...YOOOOUUUURRRR FIIIIIIRED 😂😂!!!

[@mrturbo84]

A Happy Day!

[@isturbo1984]

Bioware is next!

[@redcronojm]

You do a Concord edit farewell goodbye. Lol Concord 2024-2024

[@andrewdowell6474]

I look at layoffs in the videogame industry as chemotherapy.

[@wheskeraustere5642]

I don't get shutting down the studio. Concord the game looks great and you invested so much I really think a quick pivot to an RPG gameplay format with some quick level builds and a story/cutscenes. You could still pull a pretty penny back with minimal effort.

[@intersexcryptid]

I can't believe they said they're going to make more live service games. That is the dumbest thing ever. They really are determined to blow up the whole games industry, aren't they?

[@IaconDawnshire]

HAHAHAHA what a waste of money! Good riddance

[@puekawNEpuyrruh]

The Golden Rule… He with the Most Gold makes the Rules Mr Herman calling Mr Hetman

[@glasssawsslipperstraws7410]

When a disaster like Concord comes out its clearly and issue with leadership and not those under them, but the exact opposite gets the blame, its so frustrating.

[@SM-nz9ff]

Firewalks pronouns are Was/Were

[@simfora8053]

Ayo two in one day

[@mrturbo84]

What else?

[@greg3118]

I could not agree more. The leaders who made the poor call to keep wasting time and money developing this game should lose their job. It won't mean much to them because they'll have a golden parachute and continue to fail upwards at some other company, but at least Sony would minimize the potential for more poor future decisions from these idiots. It's immoral that the paycheck to paycheck workers who were told to continue developing this game lost their jobs through no fault of their own.

[@AlphariousOmegon-d5d]

This is fantastic news

[@zforce4399]

Modern game studios have the Lego movie theme song on loop.

[@Daniel-xo6nh]

Brotha. I can't stop laughing at that Summerslam fact. I think it's their 1st time in the U.K.?.

[@paullansville]

RGT85 you have the best video so far regarding how bad this generation has been and not alot got the guts to speak the truth.#Right On brother.👍🏼

[@AnimeLingri]

"I know it's not easy to hear" That's some big fat delusion

[@jtshett81]

RGT- Why don’t you call him Double H? Like Triple H 😂😊

[@metpach]

Next up, BioWare. Don't disappoint me.

[@RedDragon-yp3tg]

Both sides f'd up. Sony for buying, and Fire Walk for selling.

[@foxreno956]

People don't know that Playstation has serious financial problems and they'll have to face the fiscal report....

[@droid4d279]

Sony has always been in debt since the ps3 days of the great breach I'm sure they still haven't recovered

[@JoeRadOfficial]

They don't take accountability. They will just take the tax write-off and increase their prices on other products to cover their losses. The players always lose no matter what with these companies.

[@js83]

The players can make them pay by simply not spending money on crap. This is not a win win situation for Sony.

[@jimcarrey2866]

The whole live service thing was Jim Ryan's. He took the fall even before these games came out. Hermen Hulst didn't direct this game, he didn't model the characters, he wasn't the art lead, he didn't program this game. The studio did it to itself. If anything PS was...grifted...by Firewallk and ProbablyMonsters. After PSs decisions since 2020 PS also got their perfect match.

[@Grant-wy4uu]

I do agree with you about mostly everything. Sony has some serious course correction to do. Modern trends are garbage. But none of these things indicate a crash, this is a company shutting down a studio because they swung way too hard and nobody had even pitched the ball.

[@Tylerstoessel]

Have you thought about it. Maybe it was Jim Ryan that push for this game in the background?

[@ultramariox74]

Opps 😂

[@MadaoAU]

Hallelujah, Xenoblade Chronicles X and Firewalk takes the walk ? Wohooo

[@infernaltim]

This ain't it, man.

[@ShadowWolfQc]

It's a good day, fire the woke incompetent policy pushing "devs" out of this industry.

[@baconpancake1]

Sucks for the people involved who didnt want to make this, 8 years.. $400 million dollars to make a generic game for modern audience that no one wanted. RIP indeed.

[@Ian.Kushner]

I can't help but wonder... Will the "modern day" Bioware follow suit 😈

[@Uzukii]

I can only think of three words to describe how most of us must be feeling about this news. Surprised Pikachu face.