When will they learn? When will they learn, that their actions have consequences?

For those out the loop (probably everyone since no one plays this game it seems) this is Concord by Sony, which after years of dev hell launched two days ago as an online game, but has yet to break 700 players online at a time SteamDB Source. In contrast the four year old, often called abandoned, Red Dead Online has more players during off-peak SteamDB Source

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In contrast, the super secret Deadlock has 36k players at this time, with a 64k all-time peak, in the same week that Wukong was released. Something tells me this super secret totally restricted early access might have been a 4D chess marketing move.

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- Got an invite to the playtest from a friend recently.
  
  I should not have accepted it. This game is going to consume my soul
  
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- They did the same with Dota 2. If you wanted a key, you could just ask Valve directly and get one (if none of your friends had a spare), it was not an exclusive club house for the cool kids.
  
  I don't think it's 4D-marketing chess, it's more like people who've already shown enough interest to ask for an invite are more likely to leave feedback when they find something off with it.
  
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For the record the devs said this game took eight years to make, and might've been pitched even earlier than that. I can't imagine working on a project for a decade and releasing to... This.

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- Red Dead 2 took 8 years to make. I bet my soul on that Concord was quickly thrown together in the last couple years by temp diversity hires and 3rd party contractors, or at least the version of Concord that we got now. I love that one of the devs said that "a lot of talented people worked on it". If it really took them 8 years to make that is the oppsotite of talent. In 8 years I could probably get get a double masters in programming and game development and make a better game myself.
  
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Genuinely thank you for the context.

So many times I read gaming news on forums such as this and reddit where the discussions just assume you know what people are talking about, and as a guy in his mid thirties who has completely disconnected from online gaming but is on the lookout for a good game or two, I would like at least some context!

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shooters peaked at titanfall and it's all been downhill from there.

I don't want a fucking 'hero' character unless it's a PVE game with an actual GODS DAMNED STORY.

Fuck this shit.

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Spec ops: The Line, perfect example of an actual 'hero' character shooter with a story.

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Yea originally I hoped all the Overwatch shorts were building to something.

But no, the overwatch "plot" is just random erratic threads going all over the place. Fuck that.

Every other hero shooter has been similar, and most don't even get close to having unique enough characters or an interesting setting to care. Concord at least have the character part it seems,but the gameplay and well, everything else is just meh.

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- that was the plan for overwatch, but they massively fucked it up on several fronts. game's still fun though imo
  
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God damned right. Yes, Apex Legends was/is great. Sure. But I'd rather have had more Titanfall. 10000 times over more Titanfall.

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even then we already have the ideal PVE shooter: deep rock galactic

the only hero we need is someone to arrest driller for his numerous warcrimes

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As someone who actually bought this game, I can confirm that it's not good. The main issue is that there's not nearly enough content to be worth the $40 price tag. It just has a few PvP game modes and that's it. It's basically like paying $40 just to play the PvP portion of Destiny, except worse because you don't get to build your own character.

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I'd love to find a $40 PVP FPS. That has split-screen and lets me host my own server. Tuned to work with small groups and large groups. This one is just tied to a server that I don't control and will inevitably die a painful death.

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Man. When will someone make a good singleplayer/coop Arma competitor?

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To some degree that's what STALKER is. Hopefully STALKER 2 will be good.

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I wish Squad had a campaign

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- Squad has such fun gameplay and feels so good to play, it sucks that its only multiplayer. Squad on like an Altus sized map with map editor and a zues would be so freakin awesome.
  
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Does anyone play splitgate? Has anyone played the splitgate 2 alpha? Jesus, it's this. Whoever made that game missed the boat big time. Splitgate is a simple arena shooter with portals sprinkled in to make it interesting. No loadouts or "heros" to memorize, no points and weapon upgrades to keep track of. Just fast paced point and shoot. Splitgate 2 is everything I hate in video games currently.

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Honestly if they get rid of the loadout system and weapon mods the game would be a very good upgrade to the og. Doubt they would do that but who knows

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It makes Suicide Squad and Redfall in retrospect not look as sad with their launch day player counts.

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Is this Deadlock?

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It's Concord, but I wonder if it could apply to Deadlock after the honeymoon phase wears off?

I never really play this genre anyway. 🤷🏻

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