Show some empathy to the concord devs

[Clint NoNerdyW✪✪D]

Do you even think before you post, how stupid this failure makes them feel and look?
They poured their hard work into this product for eight years, and instead of being celebrated for their virtue, they are mocked for being disingenuous? Do you have any idea how it might feel to question your entire worldview, that instead of fighting for justice all these years, they might just have been pandering to a minority of non-gamer histrionic twitter users? And maybe even resorted to prejudice of their own? Do you think about how silly that might make someone feel? How it might feel to have the worst flop in gaming history on your CV?

To the developers I want to say stay strong. Have you lost the financial battle? Sure. But have you lost the moral battle? Arguably, yes to that as well. But you´ve had an amazing journey full of experiences that have taught you a lot, and no one can take that away from you as long as you live and learn.
Hopefully you can return in a F2P model in a comeback for the ages.

[我爱习近平多汁大肉棒]

The best outcome for these people is to be fired. They are unlikely to change their stance, so they need to be removed.

[Ralin]

Originally posted by Clint NoNerdyW✪✪D:

Do you even think before you post, how stupid this failure makes them feel and look?
They poured their hard work into this product for eight years, and instead of being celebrated for their virtue, they are mocked for being disingenuous? Do you have any idea how it might feel to question your entire worldview, that instead of fighting for justice all these years, they might just have been pandering to a minority of non-gamer histrionic twitter users? And maybe even resorted to prejudice of their own? Do you think about how silly that might make someone feel? How it might feel to have the worst flop in gaming history on your CV?

To the developers I want to say stay strong. Have you lost the financial battle? Sure. But have you lost the moral battle? Arguably, yes to that as well. But you´ve had an amazing journey full of experiences that have taught you a lot, and no one can take that away from you as long as you live and learn.
Hopefully you can return in a F2P model in a comeback for the ages.

You took the time to type all that, and only got one single jester.

Try harder, point farmer

[Sparhawk122]

The developers were calling gamers "talentless weirdos".

[NickelToe]

They are going to try to asset flip it with no connection to the Concord "brand" and make some money back with one or more low end flips of games.

I doubt any progressive characters will be associated.

If they want to print money they would go back and make a single player out of these assets where the enemies/bosses are these characters in a physics driven engine allowing the 93% to destroy them in interesting ways leading to a final boss being HQ California for Sony.

The end game screen, after hours of Carnage, would say...

"You have saved this Japanese company from its worst decision in history by defeating the Californians that impersonated it."

[Maria]

I'm wondering, was it actually the devs who decided this game needed to be DEI and have ugly characters, or was it Sony? I mean if Sony insisted the game had to be DEI, I doubt there would be much the devs could do about it. Not suggesting its one or there other, genuinely curious about it.

[id795078477]

Originally posted by Mariella:

I'm wondering, was it actually the devs who decided this game needed to be DEI and have ugly characters, or was it Sony? I mean if Sony insisted the game had to be DEI, I doubt there would be much the devs could do about it. Not suggesting its one or there other, genuinely curious about it.

Sony acquired Firewalk which was working on Concord for some time at that moment. So both are culpable. Firewalk for conceiving this nonsense and Sony for deciding this is going to be their next IP and green-lighting the M&A based off this only game (it's the only one Firewalk has ever made) as well as funding production and release.

[R34.Angryi]

lmao no

[IcedLance]

Maybe they should've filled those Gameplay Designer and Level Designer positions before launching the game. AI may be great at drawing skyboxes, but not so much at level design.

[𝕙𝕖𝕒𝕕𝕕𝕚𝕔𝕜]

I'm not ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ supporting devs who call others "talentless freaks" simply because they're not interested in their product.

[Vaxen]

I do definitely feel sympathy for the honest devs that merely did what they were tasked to do that investors, higher-ups and the likes of Blackrock and co. forced the game to turn the way it is, which will hurt their career.

Do I feel bad for any of the higher-ups and devs who were in on the racist, bigoted crap they said and did to many of us, gamers? No. You get what you deserve.

[Kitt 🌟 Stargazer]

I hope they take the time to view this failure of theirs and learn from it, in the off chance anyone is willing to allow them to make another game again that is.

They definitely need to understand the market better. As well as just market the product they want to make so that people grow interest on it and pick it up.

[katchoo]

Originally posted by Clint NoNerdyW✪✪D:

How it might feel to have the worst flop in gaming history on your CV?

Spoken like someone who has never made a thing or been in a position to fill anything resembling a CV with any achievements.

A failed product that made it to market is still good on a CV and is still more than what most defending the game can ever say.

[Amvorn]

I am feel sorry for the people in the homeless camps that might have some new neighbors soon...

[Dragon Master]

The same developers who said to "ignore the white noise" before the game released when they were being told what gamers had issue with and after the release called gamers "talentless freaks"?

No. They showed no empathy or humility leading to the game's launch and after it, they deserve none for they showed none.

[Sir Cornelius Fights-ALOT]

Well, I didn't even know the game existed until it flopped, but to my knowledge it was based on alot of things. I'm glad they were able to complete a game, truly I applaud them. But now they are known for making one of the worst launched games of all times which on one note sucks, but on another completely different one they should've had the encite to prevent this. They lost 200m, that's a pretty extraordinary screw up. So the faces being frowned at them makes sense, it may not be to your liking and I respect you for voicing your opinion. But making posts like this is doing nothing, the game is gone, their jobs are definitely going to be strained after this, your condolences so little more then remind people that "oh yeah, they did bad." This is just something best to let die out.