"Wokeness killed this game"

[Umbojug]

No chuds, the price tag killed this game. The lack of advertising killed this game. The fact that its a hero shooter killed this game. The talking point is always "Go woke go broke" if its a bad game, and then ignore it if its a good game. Nobody liked this game from the start from any audience. Progressive people hated this game because its more multiplayer live-service slop. Chuds hate this game because they can't jerk off to it.

[Das Apple]

Cope

[Marzoval]

The characters are also repulsively smug and unlikable. Literally Guardians of the Galaxy at home.

[RebelStorm]

I wouldn't have tried it even if it was free. The lead designer being a racist piece of trash who hates white people is enough to turn potential players away.

[Asher Vicious]

Sony knew what this game was and why they couldn't advertise it. They would have been torn to pieces and Sony would have been brought to their senses.

Instead? 100m down with a projected 200m loss?

Concord layoffs are coming, if they haven't already happened.

[DeerTrivia]

Originally posted by Umbojug:

No chuds, the price tag killed this game. The lack of advertising killed this game. The fact that its a hero shooter killed this game. The talking point is always "Go woke go broke" if its a bad game, and then ignore it if its a good game.

Agreed. The "Go woke, go broke!" crowd tends to ignore all the successes like The Last of Us 2, Horizon: Zero Dawn/Forbidden West, Forza Horizon 5, Starfield, Baldurs Gate 3, Saints Row 4, and a whole raft of successful indie games like Sunless Sea, Temtem, Pyre, and Monster Prom. Not to mention Barbie being the highest grossing movie of 2023, and Inside Out 2 being the highest grossing movie of 2024 (so far).

Concord failed because it's a game no one was asking for in an overcrowded market at a ridiculous pricepoint.

[Umbojug]

Originally posted by DeerTrivia:

Originally posted by Umbojug:

No chuds, the price tag killed this game. The lack of advertising killed this game. The fact that its a hero shooter killed this game. The talking point is always "Go woke go broke" if its a bad game, and then ignore it if its a good game.

Agreed. The "Go woke, go broke!" crowd tends to ignore all the successes like The Last of Us 2, Horizon: Zero Dawn/Forbidden West, Forza Horizon 5, Starfield, Baldurs Gate 3, Saints Row 4, and a whole raft of successful indie games like Sunless Sea, Temtem, Pyre, and Monster Prom. Not to mention Barbie being the highest grossing movie of 2023, and Inside Out 2 being the highest grossing movie of 2024 (so far).

Concord failed because it's a game no one was asking for in an overcrowded market at a ridiculous pricepoint.

Exactly. They will use every small point that aligns with their world view, and then ignore everything that goes against it.

[Shirayuki Mizore]

Ugly characters (DEI) as well as lack of characters "representing" the vast majority of the gaming community which are white straight males (again, DEI) is what killed this game. We can also add uninspiring gameplay that doesn't do anything new that other game didn't do already, but that alone wouldn't be enough, people don't have problems with playing copy pasted games.


Price tag is absolutely not a problem, gamers don't have problems with wasting hundreds of dollars for call of duty, fifa, gacha and other microtransactions in many other games. So if the game was actually fun/interesting, they would pay (maybe complain on reddit or twitter a bit about the price but still pay)

[Kanvi]

Sure lets ignore the following

-Requires PSN
-Bland everything, dialogue, characters maps, gunplay
-Performance, Lots complains about input lag
-Progression??? Story??? cosmetics??? - There is no quality control everything is done with minimal effort.
-Main Developer ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on the consumers of his product and cry about poor sales. (Shocker!!!)
-Incompetent Dev team (Took them 8 years, Witcher 3 took 3 and half years in comparison)
-Buying the game now is a gamble as publisher/devs do not communicate with playerbase about its future. - For all we know Sony can pull plug on it the next month
-5 to 10 min loading time to be matched against sweatmaxing tryhard.
-The laziness, lack of gaming sharpness. edge, excessive positivity bias, and ♥♥♥♥ ugly characters seem to be common practice in the gaming industry people do not wish to support.

and worst of all.
NO TITTIES, NO ASS, NO ABUSIVE GOTH GF MATERIAL!

[Umbojug]

Originally posted by Shirayuki Mizore:

Ugly characters (DEI) as well as lack of characters "representing" the vast majority of the gaming community which are white straight males (again, DEI) is what killed this game. We can also add uninspiring gameplay that doesn't do anything new that other game didn't do already, but that alone wouldn't be enough, people don't have problems with playing copy pasted games.


Price tag is absolutely not a problem, gamers don't have problems with wasting hundreds of dollars for call of duty, fifa, gacha and other microtransactions in many other games. So if the game was actually fun/interesting, they would pay (maybe complain on reddit or twitter a bit about the price but still pay)

DEI is not making characters ugly. DEI stands for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. None of those words means ugly. The people who designed the characters in this game just did not do a good job at making them look interesting. Chuds though, will see this as an opportunity to spread their hatred and vileness and blame DEI. The price tag is absolutely a problem. COD and FIFA are established franchises. People have no problem buying their 10th COD game because they've spent a decade playing them. Concord is a new IP that has a $40 barrier of entry. It makes no sense for anyone to buy it. Don't use your stupid talking points when there are logical explanations. Be normal.

[Umbojug]

Originally posted by Kanvi:

Sure lets ignore the following

-Requires PSN
-Bland everything, dialogue, characters maps, gunplay
-Performance, Lots complains about input lag
-Progression??? Story??? cosmetics??? - There is no quality control everything is done with minimal effort.
-Main Developer ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on the consumers of his product and cry about poor sales. (Shocker!!!)
-Incompetent Dev team (Took them 8 years, Witcher 3 took 3 and half years in comparison)
-Buying the game now is a gamble as publisher/devs do not communicate with playerbase about its future. - For all we know Sony can pull plug on it the next month
-5 to 10 min loading time to be matched against sweatmaxing tryhard.

and worst of all.
NO TITTIES, NO ASS, NO ABUSIVE GOTH GF MATERIAL!

All of those but the last line are valid points and explain why this game is doing so terribly.

[id795078477]

"Other games with woke had massive successes"

- because those games were that good. They were good enough to afford being worsened by the agendas and still succeed. Never forget that. Never fall into a delusion that if something with woke in it succeeds, then it's because of that woke. No. It's simply because gamers are willing to tolerate the woke stuff since the game still has enough to offer outside of it. All of the games that succeeded despite the woke would've been so much more successful if they didn't have identity crap and pandering in them.

Concord is a prime example of devs losing the plot and thinking they can have a terrible game and then add woke into it. There's nothing to look into in Concord when you look past its woke. The agendas are part of the game's identity. Ugly characters is pandering. Bland designs are propaganda. Entire roster is DEI. So, big surprise - there's nothing in the game that makes it deserving forgiveness from gamers and tolerance for the woke nonsense.

[Shirayuki Mizore]

Originally posted by DeerTrivia:

Originally posted by Umbojug:

No chuds, the price tag killed this game. The lack of advertising killed this game. The fact that its a hero shooter killed this game. The talking point is always "Go woke go broke" if its a bad game, and then ignore it if its a good game.

Agreed. The "Go woke, go broke!" crowd tends to ignore all the successes like The Last of Us 2, Horizon: Zero Dawn/Forbidden West, Forza Horizon 5, Starfield, Baldurs Gate 3, Saints Row 4, and a whole raft of successful indie games like Sunless Sea, Temtem, Pyre, and Monster Prom. Not to mention Barbie being the highest grossing movie of 2023, and Inside Out 2 being the highest grossing movie of 2024 (so far).

Concord failed because it's a game no one was asking for in an overcrowded market at a ridiculous pricepoint.

There is a big difference when a game just has some DEI elements baked into it here and there as a "decoration" (such as BG3) and when a game was literally molded in DEI. Where DEI is number one priority and everything else is secondary (Concord).


People hate DEI but DEI alone is not enough to discourage them from not playing the game (providing it is not too excessive) if the game itself is actually fun. Concord doesn't have anything to offer outside of DEI. There is no grand story here, memorable characters or breathtaking gameplay. Everything is low quality, ugly or mediocre at the very best. And it is new IP so not even name can save it.

Overwhelming majority of games have DEI elements in them, trying to not play any of them is like trying to buy electronic that don't have components "Made in China" inside of them. Good luck with that.

[Umbojug]

Originally posted by id795078477:

"Other games with woke had massive successes"

- because those games were that good. They were good enough to afford being worsened by the agendas and still succeed. Never forget that. Never fall into a delusion that if something with woke in it succeeds, then it's because of that woke. No. It's simply because gamers are willing to tolerate the woke stuff since the game still has enough to offer outside of it. All of the games that succeeded despite the woke would've been so much more successful if they didn't have identity crap and pandering in them.

Concord is a prime example of devs losing the plot and thinking they can have a terrible game and then add woke into it. There's nothing to look into in Concord when you look past its woke. The agendas are part of the game's identity. Ugly characters is pandering. Bland designs are propaganda. Entire roster is DEI. So, big surprise - there's nothing in the game that makes it deserving forgiveness from gamers and tolerance for the woke nonsense.

You're ignoring the obvious point here. Its not good games with woke are ignored, and bad games with woke are bad. Good games are just good, and bad games are bad. Nobody except you chuds knows about "woke" or "DEI" and nobody gives a ♥♥♥♥. For some reason you people are obssessed with woke when nobody else cares. Woke is just everything you can't jerk off to. People play good games and don't play bad games. Woke or not woke has nothing to do with it.

[Randy]

Well let's hope whoever put millions of dollars in this woke trash garbage game agrees with you and keeps burning money on pushing 'the message™️'.

[Umbojug]

Originally posted by Randy:

Well let's hope whoever put millions of money in this woke trash garbage game agrees with you and keeps burning money on pushing 'the message™️'.

Theres no message being pushed. Theres no agenda. Theres no hidden mind control. Its just a game that losers like you are obsessed with.