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Concord: 8 Years of Development Hell (why IMO, this game was doomed to die)
While I have to admit it takes next level dedication to continue to develop this game, it was also a monumentally stupid decision to do so. Here are my, non-player, observations as to why in order:

1) Developer haemorrhaging: self explanatory, it took 8 years to develop, meaning that developers would come on board or leave, resulting in a constant brain drain that would cripple the games development cycle resulting in the awful product that was shat out onto the market, as those experienced with the vision left due to being unable to keep up with the changing situation whilst newbies who in theory should know what they're doing, but have the task of actually transferring all the code and assets to a new updated engine/new engine resulting in further delays and more Developers leaving and then coming on.

2) Feature/Technological Creep: What do I mean by that? Well glad you asked hypothetical person, what I mean by feature and Technological creep, due to how long this game has been cooking, the market changed over the years whilst Concord Languished in development hell, games such as Overwatch, Battleborn, Lawbreakers and a dozen others came and went, whilst the graphic card, processor, political and commercial environment changed, resulting in Concord having to play catch up in order to not feel outdated on launch, which resulted in above mentioned Developer Haemorrhaging, perpetuating a negative feed back loop.

3) The Estimated 250 Million Dollar Budget AKA Snoy: Yes this a massive reason for its resulting death, too put it into perspective of movie terms, this would put it alongside movies like Fast and Furious 7 and 8, according to Wikipedia, now unsurprising to all thats a crap ton of money, which mean's Snoy, wanted their money back by any means, putting the developers under pressure to accept certain demands such as...

4) DEI and Sweet Baby Inc: Yeah these bundles of Backwards Ideas and Neanderthals played the part of the third biggest killer after Snoy and Firewalk Studios themselves, whatever original vision that remained is gone, in favour of the pandering nonsense message we got, all the old models and art? Gone reworked into the slop we got, developers who refused to back down? fired and replaced with unskilled sycophants, all in the name of that sweet sweet DEI money from Blackrock and Vanguard in order to push a message towards an audience that won't buy their game.

5) Public Perception or Lack Thereof: Face it Concord's developers, or those that replaced them, hated us from the start, making it clear we were not their target audience, instead hoping that the mythical ''Modern Audience'' would appear, which it did not obviously, and bail them out of the pit their snarky Twatter Comments put them in, after alienating all but the most devout Snoy Fanboys and foolish of fools, resulting in awful sales, low player numbers and the subsequent mercy killing that Snoy did to Concord, even Game Urinelists couldn't run damage control for this games, resulting in this games guaranteed euthanization and the firing of the mongoloids at Firewalk Studios and its inevitable closure

TLDR: Snoy, SBI, DEI and Firewalk Studios are the ones to blame for this, and those dumb enough to have pre-ordered this game should feel absurdly lucky they got their damned money back, Rest in Piss Concord, you deserved this fate.
Date Posted: Sep 6, 2024 @ 9:20pm
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