Is this the fastest video game death of all time? Not even Lawbreakers died this fast.
Did this post receive more engagement than the game itself?..
"Concord servers are now offline. Thank you to all the freegunners who have joined us in the Concord galaxy"
Submitted 3 months ago by simple@lemm.ee to games@lemmy.world
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Eric_Pollock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 months ago
Even if it’s an absolute shit game.
This game could be a great resource about what not to do.
ExFed@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Didn’t they give out refunds? That seems like the right thing to do when a massively multiplayer game is dead on arrival.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 months ago
Yeah, they did handle it correctly. All things considered. Even in an utopian future where the stopkillinggames.com campaign is successful. Personally I would still prefer to keep all games alive.
yamanii@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Doesn’t change the fact that the few fans it had can’t play it ever again, game is still killed because it had no support for community servers, just matchmaking.
I for sure would prefer to host my own The Crew and not getting a refund.
Maven@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
It’s definitely not the fastest but it’s really close.
The fastest full shutdown currently belongs to The Culling 2 which only lasted 2 days between launch and being closed completely.
The Day Before is another big example of a game that lasted an incredibly short time but despite that game lasting 4 days before no longer being sold, the games servers stayed on much longer than that meaning that it was shut down after Concord despite being cancelled before it.
lambda@programming.dev 3 months ago
Why did culling 2 fail? Wasn’t the first game pretty big?
Maven@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Including joke reviews, the game had a 16% rating and was so poorly made that within those 2 days it liked the popularity of both Culling games extremely quickly.
The first game was popular because it was a twist on the genre while the 2nd one was a quickly thrown together (almost exact) clone of DayZ.
The word scam was thrown around a lot in those 2 days.
TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 3 months ago
Is this the fastest video game death of all time? Not even Lawbreakers died this fast.
The Day Before only made it 4 days.
On 11 December, four days after The Day Before launched to widespread criticism, Fntastic announced their closure, stating that as their game had “failed financially” they could not afford to continue operating. The Day Before was removed from sale on Steam later that day.
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 3 months ago
It remained online for six weeks, though.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
And they didn’t have quite the same budget
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Day Before was basically a scam though, and they kept the servers up for a few weeks.
By all accounts this was a real game. It’s just that nobody wanted to play it.
In the last 2 years we’ve seen these live-service games fail at launch time and time and time again. The execs need to just accept that Fortnite already exists and you can’t force that kind of success.
Maven@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
The Culling 2 shut down completely in just 2 days
Etterra@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Exec 1: Should we do research into what gamers want to play?
Exec 2: Nah, just smush together whatever everybody else is doing, slap on a new coat of paint, and then ship that shit. The idiots will eat it up and we’ll be rich.
Gamers: Who asked for this? I didn’t ask for this. I don’t want to play this shit. I’ve got better shit that I can play for free.
Exec 1 & 2:
Katana314@lemmy.world 3 months ago
There have definitely been times that copying other people worked out well.
Fortnite and Apex copied the BR trend when PUBG wasn’t satisfying everyone’s needs. The former even lazily reskinned a zombie defense game for the battle royale approach. Lots of games reskin the theme of Dark Souls and do okay.
Even if it’s lazy or uninventive, once in a while one of those reskins has a particular element of the concept it reinvents in a much better way. Seems Concord never came up with any such ideas, which could have been great since many people are currently tired of Overwatch specifically.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Those aren’t re-skins though, they just used the battle royals game type as their main game type.
I can’t really think of a similar game to fortnite before it in regards to the combination of building and competitive shooter, although I’m sure someone can point out an early example, and Apex is smashing together counterstrike and maybe overwatch or something similar for the gameplay.
Personally I don’t think apex would have worked if it just looked like a re-skin but its got a lot of great artwork and the level designs are interesting at least to me.
Also fortnite has become the everything game, they have Lego and rocket racing and a guitar hero minigame, its sort of gone wild IMO.
lowleveldata@programming.dev 3 months ago
Is this about researching? I feel like the game would have done better if it was free to play
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Considering they are refunding all purchases, it definitely would have but they rolled the dice and this is what they got.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
So funny when a corpo is forced to seem positive about something where there is absolutely no positive way of spinning it. It has this surreal energy where the person doing PR seems almost uncanny, like some kind of lizard person.
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’m not entirely oblivious to gaming news, but the literal first I had ever heard of this game was when they announced that it was being shut down. Methinks after eight years of development it could’ve had a few more dollars tossed into the marketing budget.
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Word of mouth of something great/fun and exciting should be all the marketing a company really needs. I personally don’t trust or listen to any ads. They are cancer to the brain and eyes/ears because it’s typically lies or false claims…or they make cinematic trailers which don’t even represent the game at all because… cinematic.
See stardew valley for a prime example.
morrowind@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
I’m not against basic advertising, it fulfills a very useful role, letting you know a product exists, with what functionality and pricing and so on. Of course that’s a minority of advertising these days
collapse_already@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
I don’t think this game even lasted long enough for word of mouth to have popularized it. I didn’t hear about it until it was dead. I am wondering how many players Helldivers 2 had at 11 days (not a great example because it was an existing IP with existing fans). Could they have made it if the game had actually been good? I am not sure. Shutting down super fast got them more publicity than anything else they did.
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’m not saying that would be a better experience for players, just that if they wanted it to succeed they should probably have done more marketing.
Kowowow@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
That can even be a guide to many things like tools, if it’s pricy but has good word of mouth and not heavily advertised (sometimes the biggest expense) then it might just be worth the cash
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Yeah, they definitely didn’t market it very well, at least to the PC crowd. It seems the PlayStation version is doing much better, with advertisements in the PSN store.
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 3 months ago
I keep seeing character trailer on youtube but it doesn’t really intrigue me as it looks like another hero shooter.
affiliate@lemmy.world 3 months ago
it really lasted less time than liz truss
pyre@lemmy.world 3 months ago
i think it’s exactly 1 scaramucci
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 months ago
I’m really happy that the one time I got to visit the UK was during Liz Truss’ time in office. It was wild seeing the protestors, and when I landed back at home I heard she was gone.
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It’s like the UK decided to be welcoming by putting up a whole Chaotic Prime Minister just for the benefit of your visit.
scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
All 15 of them
NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Being a little generous there, bud
arudesalad@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I love how it’s worded like concord is a beloved game that is shutting down after a decade
Katana314@lemmy.world 3 months ago
To the people that worked on it, even when the result kinda sucks, there’s some level of attachment. They spent literal years of their life investing into it. That might be where the tone is coming from.
Dagnet@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Imagine working years on something and every time leadership has a meeting they keep asking you to add even more bullshit or change some stupid stuff. Must suck to be a game dev, I feel for them.
sleepmode@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I didn’t know it existed until a popular streamer begrudgingly “reviewed” it at the last minute. Found it strange that there was zero marketing for such an expensive and long developed investment.
calcopiritus@lemmy.world 3 months ago
My guess is that they knew it was going to be a shit game, but realized too deep in the development phase. So they just released it as soon as possible and didn’t waste more money on it (marketing). My guess is that the released it instead of cancel just in case they were wrong and people actually liked it.
Rakonat@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The only reason I can think to release it as it was, was for tax write odd purposes with how much money it was going to lose.
hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Honestly this reeks of corporate politics. I’m willing to bet at some point in development there was a regime change, and current management pushed this out the door just to clear the board.
Everything I heard about this came seems to indicate that it isn’t terrible by any means, just mediocre and overpriced in an absolutely oversaturated genre. If management was invested in it, they probably could have spent a ton on marketing, achieved middling numbers, and then used those middling numbers to justify continued development for another few months.
I’m confident in saying that because there are a handful of shitty live service games being operated at a loss for no real reason other than shutting them down would mean management would have to actually admit they fucked up.
ramsgrl909@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It’s a shame. This was exactly the game my husband was looking for - Overwatch minus Blizzard
aphonefriend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Have him try deadlock. Valve is a much better option.
sunbytes@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Oh don’t worry, there’s going to be more.
A lot of companies are working on live service games in hope of being the next overwatch/destiny.
Some even have multiple (like Sony) in the hope that even one of them takes off.
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Holy hell that was quick from the announcement to shut down. Did they have a 2 week free trial on the servers so they had to get out today?
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Lawbreakers was an excellent game that was killed by executive stupidity.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I thought it was killed by having stupid design around game objectives and not letting you tweak those rules yourself.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Don’t forget the fact that is was a free-to-play fame with a $30 price-tag.
SouravSatvaya@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Spawn killed
AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It’s okay. They’ll try again.
Phegan@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Honestly. I kinda would have liked to try concord, but I sure as shit wasn’t going to pay to try it.
yamanii@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The game had an open beta and only 2 thousand people played it, no one cared.
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Seems like they should change their now-impossible username.
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Freegunners never die, hell yeah 😎 fucking cool tweet
devilish666@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Voyajer@lemmy.world 3 months ago
So did anyone manage to platinum it?
garretble@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I heard from someone on Discord that there are 7 platinums.
Not sure if that’s wholly factual, but if so those are the rarest plats…ever?
Silic0n_Alph4@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Looks like 17. Doubt they had much fun at the end.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 3 months ago
Is this the fastest video game death of all time?
It’s a live service game. Any other game they’d say “Well most of the work is done already” but in this case it requires regular ongoing investment.
AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 3 months ago
Anyone who paid any more for this game should get their money back immediately.
kaitco@lemmy.world 3 months ago
They are. The makers announced refunds along with the cancellation.
qarbone@lemmy.world 3 months ago
What about Anthem?
yamanii@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Anthem kept the servers going longer, it got some updates and EA even promised an entire rework akin to No Man’s Sky, but EA being EA they never delivered it and just cancelled everything lol.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
TLDR; EA executives did not see the monetization return (microtransactions) of investing additional funds into Anthem via a free update.
beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 3 months ago
360 noscope tool-assisted speedrun
Aeri@lemmy.world 3 months ago
All ten of them
yesman@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Every game executive and investor wants a Fortnight. That’s why no matter how many times gamers reject it live service games will continue to be developed. Because AAA games are made for investors not players.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Problem with trying to get a Fortnite was that Epic was wanting to get it’s own PUBG after realizing that trying to get their own Minecraft was a failed endeavor. They quickly pivoted the game formula from a Minecraft type tower defense to a battle royale game.
Concord should have seen the writing on the wall early on and pivoted it’s game into something else thats flavor of the month.
Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Wait wasn’t the original concept for fortnite actually a wave based tower defence game? I remember being excited for that and then matte royal happened and I lost all interest.
saltesc@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You just made me realise I’m a gamer, not a Fortniter. But I probably should’ve realised that based on my Steam "years of service* and disgustingly large catalogue.
ExFed@lemm.ee 3 months ago
The challenge is that requires creativity. Creativity isn’t a stable investment.
Viva La indie game studio!