What happened to this game seems like such a tragedy

[TheHeeHomie]

Before anyone says anything, I have not touched a single Sony console since the PS2 days; dropping $500+ on a movie player just seems crazy to me at the moment. I'd rather just play whatever console is dropping all the great JRPGs, notably SMT.

Anyways, from what I'm seeing, this game has suffered from one of the worst releases the gaming industry has seen in a long time. However, as someone with mostly surface-level knowledge of the matter, it really seems like it really didn't deserve this fate.

Really the only interaction that I've had with this game was watching one of my favorite streamers on Twitch who has been playing hero shooters for a while. He mentioned that this is probably one of the best hero shooters in a long time and looked like he was having a lot of fun with the game. Despite not being super experienced with the hero shooter genre at all, I could just tell there was a lot of effort put into this game when they were explaining a very cool interaction one of the playable characters can have with their unique dodge (basically having insane damage reduction for a few frames during their dodge to survive an otherwise unwinnable interaction).

Obviously, the $40 price for a game in a genre that is generally F2P is one of the major factors in the horrible release. However, it really seems like the big reasons this game failed is that:

1) first impressions mean a lot to people
2) a bunch of people who can't form their own opinion eager to jump on a bandwagon rather than actually give the game a chance

[Velber]

people are generally tired of these fps "hero" shooters, so many have come out in the past year its become obvious most are cashgrabs, look at overwatch 2's reviews and youll see its even worse rated than this

[H.Honor]

What happened is simple:
Devs panders to the modern audiences
And it turns out that the modern audiences are such small speck in the gaming community
that it didn't sell enough copies to keep the 200m$ live service alive

[Aerooooooo]

"Before anyone says anything, I have not touched a single Sony console since the PS2 days."

Finally, someone with some actual sense.

[Nicodemous52]

I think people went a bit too far. Don't get me wrong, I made several posts, and commented on many more. I dropped both serious opinions and jokes. But I did it for a couple days and moved on. This has been going on for two whole weeks. It didn't go too far, but it went on for far too long.

Oh well, I don't have too many tears to shed for Sony.

I do think the one developer, Gunnar or whatever, got done slightly dirty. Yeah, the talantless freaks line is not a good look. But he said that as a passing comment in a reply to a supporter. He didn't say that directly to a detractor. And it's worth noting that by that point, the game had been under fire for around a whole month because it started before it was released. I feel most bad for him to be honest. I'd feel differently if he said that in an interview or responded to a critic that way.

[台灣中國一邊一國]

Originally posted by Nicodemous52:

I think people went a bit too far. Don't get me wrong, I made several posts, and commented on many more. I dropped both serious opinions and jokes. But I did it for a couple days and moved on. This has been going on for two whole weeks. It didn't go too far, but it went on for far too long.

Oh well, I don't have too many tears to shed for Sony.

I do think the one developer, Gunnar or whatever, got done slightly dirty. Yeah, the talantless freaks line is not a good look. But he said that as a passing comment in a reply to a supporter. He didn't say that directly to a detractor. And it's worth noting that by that point, the game had been under fire for around a whole month because it started before it was released. I feel most bad for him to be honest. I'd feel differently if he said that in an interview or responded to a critic that way.

What are you talking about? People have every right to criticize your work. And you should never attack critics personally.
When you make a really bad game, no criticism is too far.
If you think this game isn't actually that bad, I respect your subjective opinion.
But the results of people voting with their wallets are already in, right?

[More Dakka]

The second point doesn't make sense and is just pure cope.

In this age of youtube and twitch, it has never been easier to get actual footage of gameplay and make your own decision based on it. We are no longer in the pre-internet days of relying on physical game magazines to inform us.

If the so called "bandwagon" were that powerful and influential, then most games would have failed because even the most popular games have their own set of "haters". Call of duty being a case in point. Practically all of its modern releases have a very high number of negative steam reviews yet it still has such a large playerbase and is still making activision so much money. That's because the game is fundamentally able to attract players and most of its target audience likes it despite the amount of negativity.

The cold hard truth is that concord is simply too mediocre to even pique people's interest to try it out.

[lam.singsing]

its not a tragedy

its a comedy