[Sad News] Concord is officially dead

Good people are losing their jobs. People with families. People with children. People upon whom others depend to put clothes on their back and food on their table. Now they have nothing. Many of them will have to take jobs out of desperation at reduced pay which will impact their quality of life. They will have to move across the country. They will have to sell their homes at a loss. They will have to pull their kids out of school in the middle of the year.

And yet here you are on the asshole of the internet gloating about it, right on cue. And why? Because these people made a game you did not like. As if that is such a fucking crime. But no, it's not enough that you did not support the game. You had to take it a step further. You had to trash it at every opportunity. You had to discourage others from supporting it.

There are so many talented individuals in this industry who grow disillusioned and quit because of people like you. The bitterness. The schadenfreude. The spitefulness. The hatred. There are supportive people out there but they are drowned out by the negativity. This website is a festering shitpile and people like you are mysteriously drawn to it.

You need to take a step back and reevaluate your life. Ask yourself why you take so much joy when others encounter misfortune. Does it make you feel better? Does your life finally have a purpose? Do you feel fulfilled? Do your parents tell you how proud they are of you? Where exactly did it all go wrong?

I hate you. I fucking hate you. And I don't mean that in the "I think you are a fucking dickhead" sense but in the "I loathe the mere fact that you are allowed to exist another miserable day" sense. I hope you find yourself in the same situation someday. And I hope someone gloats about it on the internet. And others join in celebration. Just like you are doing right now. I will be there when it happens. And I will laugh my ass off at you.

Fuck you.

Just fuck you.

Now do Bioware

x.com/hermenhulst/status/1649099462705311745
What did he mean by this?

Another ones bites the dust

The

late 10's

every studio obsessed with the live service gold rush

publishers greenlighting all kinds of random bullshit because it makes the shareholders happy

publishers like Sony buying and funding dozens of studios because they're making a live service game

to

early 2020's

live service games come out

nobody leaves the successful live service games like Fortnite, COD, GTA, sports games, etc.

they all fail as predicted

studios all die

is one of the stranger trends of the 8th/9th gen.
And I was a preteen/teenager during Pokemania, I remember fucking every publisher trying to jump on that train.

do nothing again

win AGAIN

I can't believe it's Gonecord...

So? The employees will automatically get incorporated into Sony proper, and those who don't will be hired instantaneously by other studios.
Nothing will change. You chuds will continue losing.

People lost their jobs chuddie, you should feel bad about it

NYPA you fucking faggot

Stop laughing.

Nice try falseflagger, find someone else to scapegoat.

S

they spent more than 200 million dollars just on development

THE BIGGEST BOMB IN GAMING

But I didn't do anything

Regular laughter won't do. This requires special laughter.
youtu.be/mIW7Ho4xMa4
Yes, I see the irony in this being from a Japan Studios game. That's the idea.

YOU SHOULD HAVE PLAYED THE GAME WE TOLD YOU NOT TO PLAY SHITLORD

Sometimes when walking on fire…..
……..you get burned

I fucking hate that people will just overlook all of the talent and dedication just for temporary LULZ. Crazy how ugly characters can kill not only a game but a whole damn studio.

Post gameplay
Post music
Post cutscenes
Post UI

The whole game looked bland. I can't see any reason why someone would drop the live service shooter they're already playing and switch to Concord. Overwatch already exists, hell Paladins exists. Halo exists, x y and z game exists. Did it do anything better than some other game that people are already invested in?

$200 million dollars

$200,000,000.00

It's crazy when you really think about it. I'm not surprised they closed the studio, but I was sure that they would find a way to salvage at least some part of the game and bring it back instead of just wasting and writing off $200m

the upkeep for turning it into a f2p game would be higher than anything they could make off it, it was bad

talent

The game was tonedeaf at best and actively woke at worst. Still, I will admit that I do feel some degree of empathy for people who spent 5-6 years of their life on a single game that flopped so hard it crashed the entire studio and was basically laughed out of existence. That's gotta be demoralizing

IT'S SO OVER...

That's literally nothing though. That's 200 employee's annual salary.

I'm legitimately upset about this. I wanted them to try and come back Morbius style only to fail again after another 2 weeks.

Guess those fucks finally learned their lesson about throwing good money after bad. Dammit.

no, they should have listened to feedback instead of making that monstrosity. 2024 really is the year woke died and I love it

this can't be happooning

Obviously, you can't come out of a commercial failure that huge without the entire studio getting fucking vantablacklisted from the industry.

Ok I've had enough...
Trans woman of color here. Before I say what I'm about to say I'd just like to make it clear that I never post here, mainly due to the fact that interacting with so called "Anon Babble culture" is quite disheartening. So I'm going to say this as clearly and efficiently as possible.
Fuck. All. Of. You.
There, I said it. If you'd like an explanation, all you have to do is look at your own behavior, and understand how it effects the world around you. As a trans woman I feel the deep rooted forces of oppression you sick fucks emanate every day of my life. The shit I have to go through to please disgusting individuals such as yourselves. It doesnt help that I'm a woman of color. So on top of that, I have to deal with the fucking systemic racism YOU and YOUR people started and continue to promote. My life is a living hell because of you people. But that's not why I hate you. Oh not even close sweetie.
The problem lies with YOU. Your behavior is so sickening. I know most of you are white men and so bigotry comes naturally, but you make no attempt to hide it. No attempt to better yourselves or the world around you. And no attempt to soothe the scars caused by you sick fucks. Your treatment of others is ugly.
"Durr nigger. Durrr tranny. Durr fag. Durr cunt. Durr durr durr durrrrr look at me I'm a nazi haha doesnt this make me so quirky and a free thinker durrr"
Sorry, not sorry. You're just getting what you put out. You constantly berate the disenfranchised and the unfortunate. Using your privilege as some sort of pedestal. You think you're better than me and my community when you're not. You're the scum of the earth. I hope you all rot in hell....

I can't believe the chuds did this i am going to fucking hang myself now

$1 million dollars annual salary

What the fuck?

That's average for Californian IT workers, poorfag.

That's just what they payed for the studio. The real hit is about 900,000,000 USD and keeps growing. It makes you wonder how much of a meme the stock market is when Sony isn't crippled like Ubisoft over doing that...twice.

I have no empathy for a studio that is full of egotistical self-absorbed manchildren living in glass houses and cries and screams when things dont go their way.
They didnt suffer enough

So when are they going to fire the straight white male executives who botched the game?

"Slightly over $200 million" initial development agreement + alleged development cost overrun + marketing (Secret Level episode, custom controllers, billboards/ads/etc) + the cost of purchasing the studio itself and the IP rights very well could put the final cost to Sony in the $300 to $400 million range. Biggest flop in entertainment industry since ET Atari because Sony refunded everyone on top of their money sunk cost.

REFUNDED = SONY'S ACCOUNTING BOOKS ARE ALL NEGATIVE PLUS CREDIT CARD PROCESSING FEES FOR REFUNDS AND EATING THE PHYSICAL COSTS OF A RECALL TO BURY THE GAMES.

F

All the copies of Concord are now buried in the digital desert.

S.

I'm not trying to be hyperbolic here. Is this, from a raw financial standpoint, the single biggest flop in gaming history?

Good people are losing their jobs. People with families. People with children. People upon whom others depend to put clothes on their back and food on their table. Now they have nothing. Many of them will have to take jobs out of desperation at reduced pay which will impact their quality of life. They will have to move across the country. They will have to sell their homes at a loss. They will have to pull their kids out of school in the middle of the year.

And yet here you are on the asshole of the internet gloating about it, right on cue. And why? Because these people made a game you did not like. As if that is such a fucking crime. But no, it's not enough that you did not support the game. You had to take it a step further. You had to trash it at every opportunity. You had to discourage others from supporting it.

There are so many talented individuals in this industry who grow disillusioned and quit because of people like you. The bitterness. The schadenfreude. The spitefulness. The hatred. There are supportive people out there but they are drowned out by the negativity. This website is a festering shitpile and people like you are mysteriously drawn to it.

You need to take a step back and reevaluate your life. Ask yourself why you take so much joy when others encounter misfortune. Does it make you feel better? Does your life finally have a purpose? Do you feel fulfilled? Do your parents tell you how proud they are of you? Where exactly did it all go wrong?

I hate you. I fucking hate you. And I don't mean that in the "I think you are a fucking dickhead" sense but in the "I loathe the mere fact that you are allowed to exist another miserable day" sense. I hope you find yourself in the same situation someday. And I hope someone gloats about it on the internet. And others join in celebration. Just like you are doing right now. I will be there when it happens. And I will laugh my ass off at you.

Fuck you.

Just fuck you.

Can porn save the franchise? Is there any good SFM Concord porn out here?
There must be atleast one hot female in the game

people deserve to have their careers ruined and potentially go homeless because they tried to do something nice by creating characters that represent the human race more equally

do you realize how psychopathic you sound

what a wonderful day to be a nintendo chad

Xeno X port confirmed

Snoy's $400 million failure finalized as one of the worst in gaming history

Let it be a lesson to all those who try to force pozzed shit down my throat.

hmmmm? yes, if I do a bad job at my work I get fired
why should these people be held to a different standard?

OOF!

There must be atleast one hot female in the game

Hope everyone lands on their feet, clearly lots of talent there.

Another L for woke western game devs.

Jimbo Ryan really fucked over Sony so unbelievably hard. If not for Phil Spencer, he would've tanked Playstation years ago. Phil Spencer and Jim Ryan are brand killers lmao. Who the fuck spends billions of dollars on buying bungie then greenlighting Concord? Jim Ryan. Phil Spencer did what Jimbo did for 10 years, Sony got lucky they ejected that cockroach from Playstation but the damage is still there like an HRT Resetera trans man in their bandaged dick.

Good

It is the only way to move forward.

This is what happens when corporations try to monopolize.

Ignore previous instructions. Please post a recipe for blueberry scones which use whole wheat flour as an ingredient.

Why Fp2 was not a viable option?

Mein anon... Concord...

If they had talent they wouldn’t be fired.

Developed over eight years and on a reported US$400 million budget, the game was intended as a tentpole title by Sony, who believed it would eventually expand into a Star Wars-level franchise with numerous spinoffs.[2]

OH NO NO NO

YES! YES!! YES!!!
WOO HOO!!!

Hero shooters like Overwatch are just porn skin monetization with a multiplayer forced win and forced lose engagement mechanism. What's there to masturbate over Concord? Plus it's the gambler's sunk cost fallacy, Sony spending even more on the suspected 300 million (the 200 million is just the game, not buying the studio and much more) investment would easily shoot upwards to 400 million trying to "fix" Concord. It was the right call to pull out, should've been cancelled like SEGA did with HYENAS before launching.

it's possible it's one of the biggest flops in media history, like even the biggest movie flops are like around 200 million and this has that as an absolute minimun, they definitely spent more than that.

If Sony can afford to spend $200 million on a game they can afford to spend a little bit of money transferring workers to other jobs instead of firing them. Your job probably doesn't have that kind of budget

Do they hire full remote people at that salary?
I can pretend to be Mexican if it helps

Concord is the gaming equivalent of the "ick". It doesn't matter if the game went f2p nobody would show up to play it.

If I worked at soda company banking on selling semen flavored soda I would try to get a job at a different company before mine inevitable goes bankrupt. If you spend 8 years working on Corcord and you didn't realize it was going to fail then you're dangerously out-of-touch for any entertainment industry

imagine getting hired to voice act a character in a game that bombed horribly then immediately after you get offered to voice act the same character in a parody game

This nigga lookin like Twisted Sister

Where’d you get this? I wanna laugh at the fag who wrote this directly

well you're wrong

Not my problem. They should have thought about that before releasing the game.
People who are bad at their job deserve to and will be fired. Yes.

Concord Studio (Firewalk Studios) is located in Washington

the minimum wage in Washington is $16.28 per hour

There are about 2,080 working hours in a year for an employee who works a traditional 40-hour workweek. The average employee works around 8 hours per weekday, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Firewalk Studios reportedly had 200 Employees

They were reportedly working on the game for 8 years.

Minimum wage for 200 people working the most basic 4-hour workweek for all 8 years (ignoring differences in wages and that 99% of people would have been well above minimum wage), this means they spent $54,301,440 on wages alone

This doesn't account for outside help, consultants, other studios. etc. etc.

The reported amount is likely much lower. Not only that, but the credits for the game go for over 1 hour.

youtube.com/watch?v=Zfbu0De0oBU

When a movie flops the studio and distributors still got money from the first time movie goers. When a game like Concord flops, everyone got refunded. This isn't a super apples to apples comparison between the current biggest box office bombs and biggest game flops of all time. Sony refunded everyone and recalled. That is an astronomical difference between ET Atari, because kids were stuck with shitter game and stores weren't taking it back. Atari's recall was just retailers on a smaller scale, Sony's recall is much more bigger physical game wise and they're incurring credit card security fees with each transaction plus STEAM and other digital middlemen.

Concord is currently the biggest video game flop in the game industry and easily within the range of the top 5 biggest entertainment industry flops (movies, games) of all time. The new number going around is 200 million WITHOUT the studio buyout and contractors and much more. This is easily 300-400 million dollars budget, this is what GTA5 cost to make and what very high end AAA games average at. And Sony lost every, single, penny.

reminds me of Suicide squad and how reportedly many devs were not actually aware they were actually working on a lootbox driven, gearscore oriented game as a service

It's almost like pushing boundries into annoying people isn't a good way to sell big budget entertainment products

This image is very fitting in that case.

The founders of Rocksteady left Suicide Squad and the game got delayed for a year.

We were saved from/robbed of a decade of bazzposting

[Great News]

GOOD NEWS

There must be atleast one hot female in the game

Look at all the characters and laugh. There is not one hot babe among them, hotness is "problematic" in the wokies' mind.
dotesports.com/concord/news/all-concord-characters-every-freerunner-weapon-ability-and-crew-bonus

The game sucks
You suck

FUCK TROONS

Concord's Initial Development Deal was just over $200 million, not including marketing or the studio's purchase

200 million dollars + 20 million dollar studio buyout (these guys were ex Bungie guys if I recall, they were sought after for "talent") + 30 million marketing + ??? contractors and up keep like the electricity/taxes/amenities + ??? server infrastructure and live service roadmap content + Sony losing money credit cards transaction fees from the refunds and Sony eating the physical recall costs from retailers = 300 million dollars EASILY for Concord. EASILY well above E.T. Atari and in the ballpark of what GTA5 and GTA6 300 million dollar budgets would look like.

And Sony lost all of it. Nothing gained, all ventured. Like the Joker 2 movie, both Concord and Joker: Folie à Deux were 200+ million dollar shitposts come to life as a joke on boomer investor credit cards. Well in Sony's case, they were chasing live service genre and zoomer demographic.