I mean, I did not even know a game called Concord exists.
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dormedas@lemmy.dormedas.com 3 weeks ago
There may be more people watching Deadlock than there are watching and playing Concord today based on available data and reasonable extrapolation.
Carighan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
ngwoo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s likely that Concord’s lifetime peak will be lower than Deadlock’s closed beta peak
simple@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Concord is dead on arrival. Kind of a shame, the game looked a bit interesting but being $40 and looking very generic this was bound to happen. Deadlock is in a whole other league.
Phegan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Agreed. Why would they force you to pay 40 in a genre already overpopulated and most of them are free.
Katana314@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s basically impossible to increase the price tag on a game like that, and if you go free, the design pivots to a lot of abusive monetization systems. People run into that at the 10th hour of any free game.
It might be failing for a lot of reasons - I don’t think that one is necessarily their mistake though.
ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Honestly, paying for a (primarily) multiplayer game isn’t a problem for me. I actually might prefer it when you look at Overwatch vs Overwatch 2. But I wasn’t about to sign up for a playstation account to play my Steam game.
sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
You’re talking like ow2 isn’t literally the same game. I paid for ow1 and can’t go back to it.
ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I think that’s what makes it such a good point of comparison though. It’s titled differently and we were promised it would be different, but all that really happened was they changed their monetization tactics. And maybe it’s just nostalgia, but I remember liking Overwatch when it came out, but now I have almost zero interest in playing Overwatch 2, even though I’ve gone back to it a few times just to give it a try.