The REAL Reason Why This Game is Failing

[cJ]

...is because Concord was not made to entertain anybody. Concord was made to steal profits from Blizzard and direct them to Sony. It was conceived as an Overwatch clone. There is no creative vision. There never was. It's the video game form of pure soulless corporate greed. The opportunistic devs decided to use it as a vessel to push their politics, but that is not the main reason why the game is failing. This is why.

[Das Apple]

Nah, it's the ugliest character cast ever.. Also because it's like overwatch from temu, which is itself an insult to temu.

[Kokonattsu]

Supposedly the game started development 8 years ago which would’ve been a few months after OW’s launch. The fact that they actually followed through on this instead of just canceling it like so many other Sony projects is baffling. We had a new Twisted Metal game cancelled, but they kept this one.

[aaronmcquaid]

It failed because its woke trash and there are not enough it/cousin it or they/them to buy anything at scale.

[cJ]

Originally posted by Das Apple:

Nah, it's the ugliest character cast ever.. Also because it's like overwatch from temu, which is itself an insult to temu.

Yes, that's what I said... it's an Overwatch clone. That's all it was ever supposed to be. A way for Sony to take Blizzard's audience and profits.

Originally posted by Professor Pineapple:

Supposedly the game started development 8 years ago which would’ve been a few months after OW’s launch. The fact that they actually followed through on this instead of just canceling it like so many other Sony projects is baffling. We had a new Twisted Metal game cancelled, but they kept this one.

I don't understand how this game took 8 years to make, but that is beside the point. This is the most damning evidence - the game was *literally* conceived right after Overwatch's success.

[truthgoddess]

So insightful. You have some real inside access there. Thanks for enlightening us.

[cJ]

Originally posted by truthgoddess:

So insightful. You have some real inside access there. Thanks for enlightening us.

Glad to have helped.

[Elsa]

Ask you to pay 40 dollars for their ugliest characters,and command you shall be grateful for that condescendingly.

[Diminutive]

Sounds about right, when production started overwatch was hot.

Since then it kinda went to crap with valorant taking top spot while being f2p.

This is what happens when they steer the ship blind, top down management that didn't bother to check the market to see if a pay to play hero shooter would work.

Nevermind the esg/dei, players will still play and buy stuff with it, but when something else better is already out and comes at the price of free, they are criminally negligent to their investors at this point.

[DeerTrivia]

Originally posted by seee J:

...is because Concord was not made to entertain anybody. Concord was made to steal profits from Blizzard and direct them to Sony. It was conceived as an Overwatch clone. There is no creative vision. There never was. It's the video game form of pure soulless corporate greed. The opportunistic devs decided to use it as a vessel to push their politics, but that is not the main reason why the game is failing. This is why.

Oh my God, it's a miracle. Someone actually understands what happened here.

It's the same as the Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. It's not an example of "Go Woke, Go Broke" - it's an example of trend-chasing executives trying to jump on every possible bandwagon. They had the developers of some of the most revered narrative-based single-player games in generations at their fingertips, and they said "We want an open-world live-service looter shooter with season passes and microtransactions." It was built to be exactly what the executives wanted, and exactly what gamers *didn't* want.

[interrobangings]

Originally posted by DeerTrivia:

Originally posted by seee J:

...is because Concord was not made to entertain anybody. Concord was made to steal profits from Blizzard and direct them to Sony. It was conceived as an Overwatch clone. There is no creative vision. There never was. It's the video game form of pure soulless corporate greed. The opportunistic devs decided to use it as a vessel to push their politics, but that is not the main reason why the game is failing. This is why.

Oh my God, it's a miracle. Someone actually understands what happened here.

It's the same as the Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. It's not an example of "Go Woke, Go Broke" - it's an example of trend-chasing executives trying to jump on every possible bandwagon. They had the developers of some of the most revered narrative-based single-player games in generations at their fingertips, and they said "We want an open-world live-service looter shooter with season passes and microtransactions." It was built to be exactly what the executives wanted, and exactly what gamers *didn't* want.

You dense dunce, we KNOW that, but you're the scatbrained cockhead that came in and insisted everyone who dislikes the game was an alt-right "get woke go broke" chud. And THEN doubled down to two LGBT people who didn't like the performative activism they used to sell the game.

[DeerTrivia]

Originally posted by interrobangings:

You dense dunce, we KNOW that,

Having seen the contents of this forum today, anyone who knows this is clearly the minority.

but you're the scatbrained cockhead that came in and insisted everyone who dislikes the game was an alt-right "get woke go broke" chud.

My dude: I laid out very specific reasons for why I think this game is bad. Anyone who dislikes Concord for any number of reasons is perfectly justified for doing so. It's just the people hating it for incredibly stupid reasons that I'm calling out.

and THEN doubled down to two LGBT people who didn't like the performative activism they used to sell the game.

To be clear, what I "doubled down" on was their argument that anything was being shoved down our throats. It wasn't then, and it still isn't now.

[Izeyash]

Imagine looking at this game and going "it only failed cause oversaturated market" and not "characters look ♥♥♥♥ and theres an obvious agenda here".

Even if it were the first game to do an arena hero shooter it would've failed cause frankly we're sick and tired of this shoehorned diversity

[Bowser]

Gaming isn't failing, western developers are. Plenty of good games coming from Japan and the rest of asia. I wonder why *cough* no twisted ideology *cough*

[revenant_k]

If it's a product of pure greed, they would try to take us money by making what we want, not by shoving unpopular propaganda down our throats. More like a product of pure hubris and insanity.

[Diminutive]

Originally posted by interrobangings:

Originally posted by DeerTrivia:

Oh my God, it's a miracle. Someone actually understands what happened here.

It's the same as the Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. It's not an example of "Go Woke, Go Broke" - it's an example of trend-chasing executives trying to jump on every possible bandwagon. They had the developers of some of the most revered narrative-based single-player games in generations at their fingertips, and they said "We want an open-world live-service looter shooter with season passes and microtransactions." It was built to be exactly what the executives wanted, and exactly what gamers *didn't* want.

You dense dunce, we KNOW that, but you're the scatbrained cockhead that came in and insisted everyone who dislikes the game was an alt-right "get woke go broke" chud. And THEN doubled down to two LGBT people who didn't like the performative activism they used to sell the game.

Think the majority here beating this dead horse just wants to dance on its grave.

We don't want forced/artificial dei in our games and we will continue to push this message until executives finally realize that we aren't the problem why the games with it aren't selling.

Then we'll come back to beat the horse some more as a victory lap.