Wrong time, 5 years too late
Wrong price, $40 too much
High friction, PSN account required
Nothing new, no new mechanic or feature or playstyle…
From all accounts the game is fine, but nothing makes it stand out enough, against ANY OF THE FREE GAMES: overwatch, planetside, warframe, halo infiniate, tf2!, apex, finals, destiny2, pubg, valorant, cs (not really hero, but close enough), cod warzone, fortnight, and deadlock…
So you have 6 buddies want to play a game… which one are you going to pick?
Yeah everything about this is wrong.
They could have had this golden opportunity if this came out the very week OW1 went OW2 and pissed everybody off. Even with the pay-once price and all that.
But now, it’s much much much too late.
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Also, people underestimate just how much art style makes or breaks these games. Concord has some neat hero designs, cool ability sets and smart ideas, but it looks so utterly generic. The heroes are somewhat okay even though they really need an art style that doesn’t look like a leftover CoD asset, but wow the levels and gameplay and weapons and all all look like asset flips.
Artists, Sony. Hire some. Your AI cannot save you, as should be evident at this point. Stop paying the corporate accountant to design level art.
Lawbreakers came out ~7 years ago and it was too late to get in on the genre then.
Relevant video:
https://steamdb.info/app/218230/charts/
https://activeplayer.io/planetside-2/
Yup, and 1,355 people are enjoying it right now!
Wow is that like one server?
I loved PS1, played a bunch of PS2. Game is good but it really suffers when the population of a server is localized. Probably not as big a problem these days I guess
I don’t think anybody is upset about Concord failing. At all. I think there are people who are genuinely sad for all of the workers of Concord, in the games industry having a good game on your resume is important. There’s probably more than a few completely new employees, first job out of school, spent 7 years, and now they have nothing to show for it. It’s not great
So I think we can be empathetic to the people who wasted their lives on this poorly concepted project.
But I haven’t seen a single Concord fan out there, I don’t see anybody arguing that we should be playing it, nobody’s defending it. Hell even Sony is just cutting their losses, they didn’t do any real advertising, just slipped it out there
Good. Live Service needs to die almost as much as GATCHA and p2w.
Games as a service is a scam designed to milk players for every cent.
Jet user mentioned some titles, certainly one of those must be decent right? :(
(I haven’t played any).
The character roster for this game looks so generic and boring.
You have the choice of:
-Cylindrical yellow robot (arguably this is the most original and interesting design)
-Woman with puffy sleeves
-Woman with box on head
-Man with goggles and winter jacket
-Old Woman
-Woman with pauldrons
-Generic Woman
-Green woman with ears
-Man with hat
-Pink robot
-Mushroom
-Green man with shit on arms
-Woman with sphere on head
-Blue and Red man
-Generic Man
-Generic Woman 2
Like, I’ve hardly played overwatch but at least I can tell from afar what most of the characters do from looking at them. Clearly, in overwatch, Giant knight with hammer is a melee tank, clearly the ninja guy with the sword is mobile and and has some melee ability, clearly the lady with the sniper rifle is a sniper, clearly the angel is a healer, clearly, the lady with the jetpack can fly and is support, etc.
Applying this logic to concord, the BEST I can guess is that Woman with pauldrons is a tank, otherwise the design is so ass, I really can’t even tell.
Get a design department and/or let them do their job Sony.
All the complaints are valid, but I don’t see the relevance in talking steam stats on what is primarily a Playstation game.
Still, when the servers are inevitably shut down in 6 to 9 months, I’m sure both players will be very upset.
I saw it on the shelf at a store, Googled it and was like “Live service? NOPE!”