1 year a go today, Concord was released.

https://steamdb.info/app/2443720/charts/#max

What a wild week that was

Uh that is brutal. Not even a thousand players.
Went down quicker than the Paris Concord. It's incredibly ironic using a name that's tied to disaster and then trying to one-up it's disastrousness.

Such a comprehensive example of poor decision making at so many levels. From the decision to charge for a PvP hero shooter in a saturated market of free PvP hero shooters, to spending what appeared to be tens of millions on marketing, PR, and CGI cut scenes, to the worst character designs in living memory. It’s clear they did zero focus group testing on those characters, or if they did, they ignored all feedback. As is so common now, everyone involved in the fiasco is going to be integrated into future projects and destroy them too. They’ll learn nothing and keep doing it.

"Am I so out of touch? No, it's the kids who are wrong."
Where has the marketing budget gone into? Because I literally never heard of this game until a Penguinz0 on Youtube made a video about it
- That's me too - never heard about it until I started seeing news about how it failed
- Where had the marketing budget gone, the game was shut down like a week after launch
  There was a big run-up in the prior months
There's a pretty long video about why this sort of thing happens. Basically this sort of game is relatively cheap to make and investors think they have a chance of recreating the success of Overwatch or Fortnite or smth
The character design was derivative but they weren't awful, come on now. Absolutely true about the rest
- I struggle to think of worse examples in the AAA space. The colours weren’t just badly complemented, but intentionally violated colour theory. Their skills had nothing to do with their aesthetic or stories. They were just kind of thrown together without any care. Why was Baz, the bulky man, given ninja-like skills? None of the characters were attractive. One was morbidly obese. Almost all of them were gender non-conforming. And the biggest sin of all: none of them were cool. They were all lame as shit. You must know all of this if you’ve been following the story and criticism. It’s fine to disagree and in many instances there is room for subjectivity, but this was one of those rare examples where we can all come together to objectively declare these characters a train wreck.

One of the games ever made.

Gonna post again in a week "today concord was cancelled"? Lol

See you in a few days for the anniversary of its shutdown

Never forget.

Cuz that shit was funny AF.

I watched the Secret Level ep on that the other day. Me and my buddies were like, "Wow what a cool universe we should play that game!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmArJ8kt5TI
Yeah if that scene represented the game it would have been a cool game
- They should've just made that into a movie, id watch a fun sci-fi heist film
That may have been the best episode of the series, the disappointment on finding out it was concord was immense.
- Me and the boys were absolutely about the warhammer one and I'm pretty sure once it gets on a good sale we're co-oping the recent one.
That is why we shouldn't trust marketing.